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    Upcoming Events at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

    CREES NEWS
    (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Center for Russian and East
    European Studies)
    Winter 2005

    From the Director, Barbara A. Anderson (excerpted)

    ... Our Brown Bag Series is diverse and compelling with lectures as well
    as musical performances. Presentations cover a variety of fields and
    locales, ranging from Albanian literature to democracy in Armenia and
    Russia, Islam in Chechnya, the Russian monarchy during World War I, and
    politics in early Soviet Turkestan.

    CREES faculty continue to be recognized for their accomplishments.
    Katherine Verdery is the current American Association for the
    Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) president, and Ron Suny, who is a
    visiting professor at U-M this year but returning to a tenured
    professorship next year, is president-elect ...


    CALENDAR OF EVENTS (All events are in 1636 International Institute, 1080
    S. University Ave., unless otherwise noted):

    -- Wednesday, February 9, 2005 (Noon)
    Noon Concert. Piano concert by CREES visiting scholars Milica Skaric and
    Vahe Sahakyan. Ms. Skaric, docent in piano education at the Faculty of
    Pedagogy in Stip, Macedonia, and Mr. Sahakyan, assistant professor of
    sociology at Yerevan State University, will perform Macedonian and
    Armenian folk music as well as works from the classical repertoire.

    -- Wednesday, March 9, 2005 (Noon)
    Brown Bag Lecture. "The Making of Islam and Inherent Rebelliousness in
    Chechnya." Presentation by Georgi Derluguian, assistant professor of
    sociology, Northwestern University.

    -- Wednesday, March 16, 2005 (Noon)
    Brown Bag Lecture. "Democratization in Armenia: A Sociological
    Analysis." Presentation by Vahe Sahakyan, assistant professor of
    sociology and deputy head, Department of Sociology, Yerevan State
    University, and U-M visiting scholar through American Council's Junior
    Faculty Development Program. This lecture is co-sponsored by the
    Armenian Studies Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.


    NEW COURSE FOR WINTER 2005 SEMESTER AT UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

    -- "Readings in the History of the Third Armenian Republic, 1991 to the
    Present"
    Course: History 302.004, 3 credits.
    Instructor: Gerard Libaridian, Alex Manoogian Visiting Professor of
    Armenian Studies.
    Synopsis: A seminar / discussion course on major original and analytical
    texts dealing with Armenia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The
    readings will relate conflicts within the new republic to opposing views
    of the purpose of independence, the role of the Diaspora, as well as to
    the rise of a new nation-state in the age of globalization.

    Email: [email protected]
    URL: www.umich.edu/~iinet/crees
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