University of Michigan Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

04/29/2026

Check it out: the CCPS Year in Review Photo Book is here—highlights from 2025–26! https://myumi.ch/QM7wX

04/28/2026

WCEE Year in Review Photo Book: revisit highlights from 2025–26! https://myumi.ch/E79r6

04/23/2026

Don’t miss it! This Saturday, April 25, at 7:00 PM, the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus of North America will perform at First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor.
We were also honored to host them in 2023, when Alexander Vindman was our distinguished guest.

04/01/2026

Don’t miss this screening! Tuesday, April 7 at 7:00 PM!
"lL bell’Antonio" (Mauro Bolognini, 1960). North Quad, Space 2435.
In Catania, Sicily, Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) is famed as a great lover—until his marriage to the beautiful Barbara (Claudia Cardinale) exposes a humiliating secret and scandal erupts across the town.
FREE and open to the public. In Italian with English subtitles.
https://myumi.ch/pVeeX

03/27/2026

Don't miss it! VR Premiere at the Ann Arbor Film Festival!!!
Joseph Sywenky’s VR project, "Is the War Close?", will be viewable in VR headsets at the Michigan Theater as part of the Off Screen section of the Ann Arbor Film Festival:

Saturday, March 28: 11:00 AM–3:00 PM
Sunday, March 29: 12:00 PM–4:00 PM

"Is the War Close?" is an immersive, room-scale virtual reality documentary experience that places you inside a Ukrainian home at night during a large Russian drone and missile attack. Built with gaming technology and spatial audio, the experience allows you to move freely in six degrees of freedom, as if you’re truly there. Based on real-life events. Running time: ~10 minutes.
Joseph Sywenky began this project during his dual Knight-Wallace Fellowship and WCEE Distinguished Fellowship at the University of Michigan and has continued it as the Howard R. Marsh Visiting Professor of Journalism, alongside a small and incredible team of U-M professors and graduate students.
Wallace House Center for Journalists, University of Michigan International Institute, The Michigan & State Theaters - Marquee Arts,

11/23/2025

ASEEES 2025 in Washington, D.C.! The conference has been a great success for the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia and its affiliated centers, CREES and CCPS!

11/19/2025

CCPS Widzinski Fellow Magdalena Zdrodowska co-organizes and moderates unique d/Deaf Cinema Program at the 32nd Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival. Read more @ https://myumi.ch/P3ZRg
Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival
Michigan Deaf Association
AADHH
Bloomfield Hills Schools Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program
Michigan School for the Deaf
DEAF CAN

11/13/2025

The next information about "Masters in the Midwest," including the MIRS-REEES program here at the University of Michigan is today at 11 AM EST - join us!

Please join representatives of interdisciplinary graduate programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities to find which program is best for you. Each institution will give a brief introduction of their programs and specialties, and attendees will be able to join br...

10/22/2025

CREES is participating in this Fall's “Masters in the Midwest” Information Sessions on interdisciplinary graduate programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities. The first session will be held TODAY, Wednesday, October 22 from 4:30-5:30 PM EST. Please see full details as well as the next session dates in the link.

Please join representatives of interdisciplinary graduate programs in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Midwestern Universities to find which program is best for you. Each institution will give a brief introduction of their programs and specialties, and attendees will be able to join br...