Stanford Center for Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies

08/25/2025

CREEES, in collaboration with the Center for East Asian Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, and Stanford Global Studies, all of which are designated as National Resource Centers (NRCs) by the U.S. Department of Education and supported by funding under Title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965, offers a a broader set of community college outreach initiatives, of which the EPIC Fellowship Program is the cornerstone.

To learn more, read the full Stanford Report article:

Stanford Global Studies programs partner with public two-year institutions across the country to support student career paths and faculty professional development.

07/03/2025

CREEES alum Jake Zawlacki (‘19), who wrote his capstone thesis on Kazakh folktales across adaptations, is now working on an English translation of the Kazakh classic "Mosquito," a collection of 36 Poems by Ahmet Baitursynuly. To support his project, click below:

The complete 36 poem collection translated in its entirety for the first time in English

01/07/2025

Friday, January 10, 2025 at 12:00pm PT

"Vladimir Putin as Paranoid Leader — What Do We Really Know about the President of Russia?" with Mikhail Rubin, Russian journalist

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The personality of Russian President Vladimir Putin has intrigued the world for years. But how much do we actually know about him, and do we know anything at all? Putin goes to great lengths to keep every aspect of his life hidden. However, investigative journalism over the past decade has shed new....

12/03/2024

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has launched its Russia Abroad Digital Collection (RADC), an online, open access platform that provides a global gateway to digitized newspapers of the Russian diaspora between 1917-1992.

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives team invites students, scholars, and anyone interested in modern world history to explore the RADC here: https://bit.ly/4gghUcu

11/14/2024

Monday, November 18, 2024 at 6:00pm PT

Join us for a conversation with Croatian author Maša Kolanović and her translator, Ena Selimović, for a conversation about her 2008 novel Underground Barbie (Sloboština Barbie)

Read more and RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3UUj1pT

Co-sponsored with Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages

11/12/2024

Call for proposals: Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC) at Lexington, KY

Deadline: November 15, 2024

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We are excited to share the call for papers for the 2025 edition of the Kentucky Foreign Language Conference!Abstract submission portal opens July 15th, 2024 and will remain open until (update) 11:59pm EST November 1st, 2024. See instructions here for submitting paper abstracts and panel proposals....

11/12/2024

Friday, November 15, 2024 at 12:00pm

"Feminist Repatriation to Soviet Armenia in 1947? A History of Communist Armenian Women in France"
with Lerna Ekmekcioglu, MIT

Co-sponsored with Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford

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Armenian women immigrants, many of them survivors of the Armenian Genocide, participated in the French Resistance against the N***s during WWII. In 1942, they founded the Union des femmes arméniennes in Paris which remained an underground organization until liberation. After the war’s conclusion ...

11/11/2024

Check out the following two events from The Ukraine Support Alliance at Stanford (USAS) at Stanford this week:

11/14 @ 10am — Ukrainian Culture During Full-Scale Invasion Panel: https://bit.ly/3Z49X4p

11/14 @ 12pm --Culture and War: Ukrainian Perspective -- Concert of Gratitude: https://bit.ly/40HN4oj

Ukraine Support Alliance at Stanford is proud to host Cultural Forces, the cultural arm of the Armed Forces of Ukraine that includes seven world class artists, professional musicians before the war, now active-duty soldiers. The group is composed of two bandura (Ukrainian national string instrument)...

11/11/2024

Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 4:00pm PT

"Is Civilization a Eurocentric Term?" with Prof. Alessandro Stanziani, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

This is a hybrid event. Read more here:

This talk with discuss how the identification of civilization reflects the interconnection between the social politics of knowledge and epistemological boundaries between history writing, philosophy, and social sciences. The writing of history in its relationship with social sciences is reflected in...

11/06/2024

Friday, November 8, 2024 at 12:00pm PT

"Ukraine Between Empire and Nation, 1772-1917: Lessons for Today" with Serhiy Bilenky, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Alberta

Co-sponsored with Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Read more and RSVP here: https://bit.ly/3UFNnMB