CREECA at UW-Madison

CREECA at UW-Madison The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center.

The Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) is a U. It was established in 1993 to unite the efforts of two longstanding University programs--Russian and East European Studies and Central Asian Studies. With core faculty members at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and affiliated members at other campuses of the University of Wisconsin System as well as private colleges and univ

ersities in Wisconsin and Minnesota, CREECA consists of over 100 members who are nationally and internationally recognized experts in their fields. Since 1996, CREECA has been a member program of UW-Madison’s International Institute. Today CREECA offers graduate certificates, an interdisciplinary Master of Arts degree, and undergraduate certificates in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies (REECAS) to dozens of students on the UW campus. Furthermore, through Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships, CREECA supports graduate students in departments across the humanities and social sciences, as well as professional students in law, medicine, and engineering. Our alumni bring their knowledge of these critical world regions to the fields of education, private industry, the military, non-governmental organizations, and local, state, and national government.

Did you miss out on celebrating Vyshyvanka Day on the third Thursday of May? Fear not, because community organization Fr...
05/22/2026

Did you miss out on celebrating Vyshyvanka Day on the third Thursday of May? Fear not, because community organization Friends of Ukraine - Madison is holding a special event to celebrate the vyshyvanka and Ukrainian culture on Saturday, May 30 from 2-5 pm at 326 S. Segoe Rd.

📣 K-14 educators are invited to apply for a Blavatnik Archive Curriculum Writing Teacher Fellowship. The theme of this f...
05/19/2026

📣 K-14 educators are invited to apply for a Blavatnik Archive Curriculum Writing Teacher Fellowship. The theme of this fellowship is “Reading Visual Propaganda.”

In partnership with CREECA, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and other education outreach partners, this free, hands-on program invites educators to explore powerful visual propaganda from the twentieth century and transform what they learn into dynamic classroom curriculum. Participants will engage with a diverse set of primary sources drawn from the Blavatnik Archive, as well as guidance from subject-matter experts, to support the development of a unit plan tailored to their classroom needs.

⏰ Deadline: June 1, 2026
🔦 Learn more and apply: https://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/blavatnik-archive-curriculum-writing-teacher-fellowship

⏰ Save the dates for this free workshop series open to the public courtesy of the American Research Institute of the Sou...
05/19/2026

⏰ Save the dates for this free workshop series open to the public courtesy of the American Research Institute of the South Caucasus - ARISC.

Join our workshop series!

Research Resources Workshops for the South Caucasus

Librarians and researchers will hold a series of online sessions presenting information on South Caucasus library collections, resources, and archival sources, with an emphasis on information that can be accessed remotely.

Register for each sessions separately. Links are in the first comment.

Armenia
Thursday, May 21, 2026, at 4pm eastern
Dr. Houri Berberian, Chancellor's Professor of History & Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies, University of California, Irvine, Moderator
Dr. Aram Ghoogasian, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles
Dr. Liladhar Pendse, Librarian, the University of California at Berkeley Library

Azerbaijan
Friday, May 22, 2026, at 11am eastern
Dr. Heather DeHaan, Associate Professor of History, Binghamton University
Dr. Michael Erdman, Head, Middle Eastern and Central Asian Collections, The British Library
Michael Ernst, PhD Candidate in Art History, Temple University
Dr. Irina Levin, Lecturer in Anthropology, Princeton University
Dr. Kelsey Rice, Assistant Professor of History, Berry College, Moderator

Georgia
Monday, June 8, 2026, at 1:30pm eastern
Dr. Görkem Aydemir-Kundakci, FWO Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology, KU Leuven
Dr. Timothy Blauvelt, Research Professor of Russia and Eurasia Studies, U.S. Army War College
Dr. Kit Condill, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Molly Walker, PhD Candidate, Harvard University
Harrison King, PhD Candidate, University of California at Berkeley, Moderator

The event is free and open to the public.

This semester’s Nauryz Eurasian Spring Festival provided a dynamic showcase of Kazakh culture. CREECA is grateful to the...
05/14/2026

This semester’s Nauryz Eurasian Spring Festival provided a dynamic showcase of Kazakh culture. CREECA is grateful to the organizers and hosts including UW-Madison Kazakh senior lecturer Gulnara Glowacki, former Russian Flagship Coordinator Jacob Aehl, UW-Madison students Sam Ahlquist and Phillip Abramowitz, and Nursultan Azhimuratov. Рақмет to all involved!

Madison Commons has additional coverage here: https://madisoncommons.org/even-in-the-american-midwest-the-language-of-spring-still-arrives-in-kazakh/

Listen again to this panel of scholars speak on, "Russia’s War on Ukraine, Four Years In” from the March 5th CREECA Roun...
05/12/2026

Listen again to this panel of scholars speak on, "Russia’s War on Ukraine, Four Years In” from the March 5th CREECA Roundtable Discussion as part of the spring lecture series. This lecture is now available on our Youtube:

CREECA lecture, recorded on March 5, 2026: "Russia’s War on Ukraine, Four Years In," a Roundtable Discussion with speakers Mark Copelovitch (Professor of Pol...

05/12/2026

Get ready for your summer at WISLI! Maryanna recommends immersing yourself in the language you’re learning as much as possible.



Listen again to Jesse Kruschke's lecture, "From Hughes to Baldwin: How Soviet Critics Read Black American Literature,” f...
05/06/2026

Listen again to Jesse Kruschke's lecture, "From Hughes to Baldwin: How Soviet Critics Read Black American Literature,” from the CREECA spring lecture series. This lecture is now available on our Youtube:

CREECA Lecture: "From Hughes to Baldwin" by Jesse Kruschke

Listen again to Professor Kirill Ospovat's lecture, "A 'Total Revolution?' The Pugachev Rebellion: Between Indigenous Re...
05/01/2026

Listen again to Professor Kirill Ospovat's lecture, "A 'Total Revolution?' The Pugachev Rebellion: Between Indigenous Republicanism and the Radical Enlightenment” from the CREECA spring lecture series. This lecture is now available on our Youtube:

1 like. "CREECA Lecture: "A Total Revolution" by Kirill Ospovat"

⏰ DEADLINE EXTENDED: High school and community college educators are invited to apply by April 30 for the 2026-2027 Enga...
04/21/2026

⏰ DEADLINE EXTENDED: High school and community college educators are invited to apply by April 30 for the 2026-2027 Engaging Eurasia Teacher Fellowship!

📣 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 2026-2027 Engaging Eurasia Teacher Fellowship

The EETF is a 9-month fellowship for high school and community college educators. Fellows participate in 8 content webinars, hearing from scholars with expertise on the fellowship topic: Science, Health, and Medicine in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Each fellow will complete a final project by the end of the program.

For more information and to apply by April 17, see https://tinyurl.com/432ck9wz

Many thanks to Friends of Ukraine - Madison and the UW Center for European Studies for co-sponsoring the screening of th...
04/20/2026

Many thanks to Friends of Ukraine - Madison and the UW Center for European Studies for co-sponsoring the screening of the documentary film “War on Education” (2024). The film was an investigation into the current state of education in Ukraine, showing what people can do if united to change things.

Another thank you to film director Stefan di Pietro for joining us by Zoom after the screening for an enlightening Q&A.

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