All Brown Bags meet from 12:00pm-1:00pm on Tuesdays in 318 Bailey.
| Spring 2008 | |
| January 29 | "The Soviet Massacre of Polish POWs in Spring 1940: Motives, Timing, and a Half Century of Lies." Anna Cienciala, Professor Emerita, History, KU. |
| February 5 | "The Role of European Mediators during the Orange Revolution." Steven Pifer, Former Ambassador to Ukraine and Special Assistant to the President and National Security Council Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. |
| February 12 | "Modern Social and Political Stereotypes in the Ukrainian Mentality." Anatoliy Khudoliy, Associate Professor, National University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine. |
| February 19 | "Varlam Shalamov and the Soviet Gulag." Jerry Mikkelson, REES, KU. |
| February 26 | "What's Wrong with this Picture? Analyzing Russia via Blogs." Ray Finch, Assistant Director, CREES, KU. |
| March 4 | "Russia's Counterterrorism Policy: Variations on an Imperial Theme." Mariya Omelicheva, Pol-Sci, KU. |
| March 11 | CREES Brownbag: "Does Better Environmental Performance Affect Revenues, Costs, or Both? Evidence from a Transition Economy." Dietrich Earnhart, Economics, KU." |
| March 25 | Three Library Tools to Make Life Easier." Geoff Husic, Slavic Library, KU. |
| April 1 | CREES Brownbag: “Turkmenistan-Ground-Level Perspective.” Matthew Stein, former Peace Corps and REES MA Candidate. |
| April 15 | "Internationalizing Higher Education in Russia." Andrey Bobylo, Director of the Foreign Affairs Department at Far-Eastern National Technical University, Vladivostok, Russia. |
| April 22 | "A Kansas Apocalypse." Eve Levin, History, KU. |
| April 29 | "The Progressive Communist Community: The Kansas Russian Commune." Norman Saul, History, KU. |
| May 6 | Laird Essay Winner. "Slovakia's Gypsies: Centuries of Problems, Few New Solutions." Brett Chloupek, Ph.D. Candidate, Geography. |
| Fall 2007 | |
| August 21 | REES MA Student Orientation. |
| August 28 | CREES Brownbag: "The Orange, post-Orange, and post-post-Orange battle goes on: Ukraine - Summer '07." Alex Tsiovkh, CREES, KU. |
| September 4 | CREES Brownbag: "Charles Crane, American Globalist and 'Foremost Russophile." Norman Saul, History, KU. |
| September 11 | CREES Brownbag: "Aga, Ust-Orda and the Republic of Buriatia: the Buriats across the Borders." Margarita Karnysheva, KU PhD Candidate, History. |
| September | CREES Brownbag: "What's in a Story?: Memory, History, and Research Methodologies." Dr. Margaret Paxson, Senior Associate, Kennan Institute. |
| September 25 | CREES Brownbag: "Early Cold War broadcast propaganda: RFE and VOA in the 1950s. U.S. policy and objectives, and audience perception behind the iron curtain." Ms. Barbara Masin, Independent Author. |
| October 2 | CREES Brownbag: "Spatial Patterns of Public Concerns and Political Opinion in Azerbaijan." Shannon O'Lear, Geography, KU. |
| October 9 | Fall Break |
| October 16 | CREES Brownbag: "Soviet Propaganda and Disinformation in the Late Cold War Era." Jeff Moore, Independent Expert. |
| October 23 | CREES Brownbag: "Boris Pasternak and Doctor Zhivago: Fifty Years Since the Nobel Award." Jerry Mikkelson, CREES, KU. |
| October 30 | CREES Brownbag: "Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft Leavenworth - Background, Mission, and Way Ahead." Major Kevin Thompson, Mr. Rob Kurz and 1LT Chuck Bartles, FMSO, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. |
| November 6 | CREES Brownbag: "The Revitalization of Jewish culture in Post-Communist Poland." Dr. Shana Penn, Visiting Scholar, Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union. |
| November 13 | CREES Brownbag: "Nuggets from the Archive: A Different Perspective on the July Crisis of 1914." Bruce Menning, Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth. |
| November 20 | Thanksgiving Break |
| November 27 | CREES Brownbag: "Prometheus' Daughter: Women among the Ruins of the North Caucasus." Gisela Erbsloeh, Freelance Radio Journalist, Baden-Baden. |
| December 4 | CREES Brownbag: "What's Wrong with this Picture? Analyzing Russia via Blogs." Ray Finch, Assistant Director, CREES, KU. |
| Spring 2007 | |
| January 30 | Brownbag: "A Conversation with Balkans Expert, Ales Debeljak." Ales Debeljak University of Ljubljana. |
| February 6 | Brownbag: "Formula for Failure: Russian Planning for War, 1914." Dr. Bruce Menning, Combat Studies Institute, Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. |
| February 13 | Brownbag: "Income Distribution and Redistribution in Ukraine." Nazar Kholod, Fulbright-Kennan Institute Research Scholar, Ivan Franko National University, L’viv Ukraine. |
| February 20 | Brownbag: "Territorial Cohesion in Kazakhstan." Cristin Burke, PhD Candidate, Geography, KU. |
| February 27 | Brownbag: "Common ground and conflict in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization following the Colored Revolutions." Nathan Gerth, REES MA Candidate, KU. |
| March 6 | Brownbag: "Belarus: Transition, Independence and Challenges." Svetlana Deplazes PhD Candidate, Education, KU and Dr. Nadia Kardash, Center for Economic Education, KU. |
| March 13 | Brownbag: "Putin's Regional Activism and Its Implications." Gene Fishel, Special Advisor to the Vice President, National Security Affairs. |
| March 27 | Brownbag: "More Than They Could Consume Locally:History in the Balkans." Stephen Dickey, SLL, KU. |
| April 3 | Brownbag: "The EU Illusion: A Critical Analysis of Slovene Membership." Darrell Kendall, REES MA Candidate, KU. |
| April 10 | Brownbag: "Dissing Empire: Ottomanist Thoughts on American Disasters in the Balkans and the Middle East." Cornell Fleischer, Kanuni Süleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies, The University of Chicago. |
| April 17 | Brownbag: "Valentin Rasputin at 70." Jerry Mikkelson, CREES, KU.. |
| April 24 | Brownbag: "Music of the Altai Region of Siberia." John Van Orman, REES MA Candidate, KU. |
| May 1 | Brownbag: "Meaning of ‘Europe and European Choice’ for Ukraine and Russia." Alex Tsiovkh, CREES, KU. |
| May 8 | Brownbag: "Professor Roy Laird Essay Winner" |
| Fall 2006 | |
| August 29 | Brownbag: "The Program that Ended the Cold War: The Negotiation of the Soviet-American Cultural and Student Exchanges (the Lacy-Zarubin or Eisenhower-Khrushchev Agreement of 1958)." Norman Saul, History, KU. |
| September 5 | Brownbag: "Summer Study Abroad in Russia - Impressions" Laura Chaney, Nathan Gerth, and Danielle Schlesinger, KU REES MA candidates. |
| September 12 | Brownbag: "." Alex TsiovkhCivil Society in Ukraine: Teething Problems? Summer 2006 |
| September 19 | Brownbag: "St. Petersburg, Russia, Media Update: Building Communities." Tom Volek, Journalism, KU. |
| September 26 | Brownbag: "East Central European Avant Garde, 1910-1930." Marci Shore, Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies (2006-2007), Assistant Professor of History, Yale University |
| October 3 | Brownbag: "Deciphering the Khodorkovsky Case." Ray Finch, REES |
| October 10 | Brownbag: TBA |
| October 17 | Brownbag: "Zurab Tsereteli's 9/11 Monument and Russian-U.S. Relations." Stephen Woodburn |
| October 24 | Brownbag: "Cigarettes and Soviets: A History of Tobacco Use in Twentieth-Century Russia" Tricia Starks, Assistant Professor of History, University of Arkansas |
| October 31 | Brownbag: TBA |
| November 7 | Brownbag: Dennis Karney |
| November 14 | Brownbag: TBA |
| November 28 | Brownbag: Gisela Erbsloeh (Chechnya) |
| December 5 | Brownbag: "The Khrushchev Attack on the Stalin Cult, Revolt in Poland and Revolution in Hungary, 1956" Dr. Cienciala |
| Spring 2006 | |
| January 31 | "The Road to Kittery and the End of the Russo-Japanese War." Dr. Norman Saul, KU, History. |
| February 7 | "Survival Strategies in Contemporary Russia: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Households." Dr. Eric Hanley, Sociology, KU. |
| February 14 | "Grassroots Russian Media: It's Working." Dr. Tom Volek, Journalism, KU. |
| February 21 | "Rediscovering the Missing Neighbors." Dr. Piotr Wrobel, Associate Professor and Konstanty Reynert Chair of Polish History, University of Toronto, History Department |
| February 28 | "Anglo-American Assessments of the Red Army in World War II." Dr. Ted Wilson, History, KU. |
| March 7 | "Life in Provincial Russia and Its 'Near Abroad' in Autumn 2005: Tomsk, Perm', Ekaterinburg, Riga". Dr. Gerald Mikkelson, REES, KU. |
| March 14 | "Chernobyl-20th Anniversary." Taras Senyuta, Muskie PhD Fellow, Political Science, KU. |
| March 21 | no brownbag (Spring break) |
| March 28 | "Hadji-Murad: From Russian to Western to World Literature." Dr. John Burt Foster Jr., George Washington Univ. |
| Fall 2005 | |
| August 30 | "Ukraine: Post-Orange Revolution, Summer 2005." Dr. Alexander Tsiovkh, CREES, KU. |
| September 6 | "Expeditsy-Musical Folklore of Halychyna." Ms. Michi Regier, Independent Performing Artist and Ukrainian Music Specialist. |
| September 13 | "Georgian-Abkhaz conflict and the Role of UNOMIG." Major Ray Hackler, Special Forces, 2005-06 REES MA Candidate. |
| September 20 | "Navigating the U.S. Government's Employment System." Ms. Wanda Culbertson, Civilian Personnel Specialist, Fort Leavenworth Kansas. (This presentation is part of the Fall 05 International Employment Seminar.) |
| September 27 | "The Russo-Japanese War: 100 Years of Analysis." Dr. Bruce Menning, Combat Studies Institute, Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth Kansas. |
| October 4 | "Zvezdny Gorodok: My Travels to Stellar Town." Phil Gallagher, Asst Professor, Health, Sports and Exercise, University of Kansas. |
| October 11 | Fall Break |
| October 18 | "Ukraine's Changing International Position." Dr. Volodymyr Dubovyk, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Institute of Social Sciences, Odesa National University, Ukraine |
| October 25 | "President Putin-Up Close and Personal."
Dr. Jacob Kipp, Director, Foreign Military Studies Office and Joint Reserve Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. |
| November 1 | "Stream Assessment in Mongolia-a 24 Day Camping Adventure." Debbie Baker, Central Plains Center for BioAssessment. |
| November 8 | "Victory in Europe, May 1945: Different Interpretations by Russians, Poles and Baltic Peoples." Dr. Anna Cienciala, Professor Emerita, History, KU. |
| November 15 | "Survival Strategies in Contemporary Russia: A Comparison of Urban and Rural Households." Dr. Eric Hanley, KU. |
| November 22 | Thanksgiving Break |
| November 29 | "The Development of the Uzbek Armed Forces." Major Joe Gross, Foreign Area Officer, US Army, REES MA Student. |
| December 6 | "Ukraine's Orange Revolution: One Year After." Dr. Paul D'Anieri, Associate Dean, CLAS, KU. |
| Spring 2005 | |
| January 25 | Ray Finch, KU-CREES, Beslan: Anatomy of a Disaster |
| February 1 | Maj. Richard Spencer, KU REES MA candidate, NATO-Russia Joint Operations in Kosovo: Observations of a Former US Liaison Officer to the 13th Tactical Group |
| February 8 | Alex Tsiovkh, KU-CREES, Ukraine's New President: Great Victory and Challenges Ahead |
| February 15 | Ibrahim Murtuzayev, PhD, Inst. of Mineral Resources, Azerbaijan Republic, Largest Non-fuel Deposits of Azerbaijan: Basic Information for Potential Investors |
| February 22 | Prof. Diana Carlin, Dean, KU-Graduate School and Int'l Programs, Political Debates in Moldova: A Primer |
| March 1 | Prof. Urs Heftrich, Slavic, Heidelberg Univ, Germany, The Role of Rumor in Nikolay Gogol's "Dead Souls:" A Five-Act Drama |
| March 8 | Prof. Slavisa Orlovic, Belgrade Univ., Serbia, Challenges for Serbia Today |
| March 15 | Maj. Matt Dimmick, KU-REES MA candidate, Instability in the Fergana Valley |
| March 22 | Spring Break: No Lecture |
| March 29 | Prof. Gerald Mikkelson, KU-REES, Whodunit? The Mystery of Pushkin's Death |
| April 5 | Prof. Norman Saul, KU-History; Liuba Ginzberg, KU-Comm Studies, Jazz, East and West: Influences and Borrowings |
| April 12 | Prof. Marie Alice L'Heureux, KU-Architecture, The Politics of the Built Environment |
| April 19 | Geoff Husic, Holly Mercer, Richard Fyfte, KU, Digital Initiatives: KU's E-archives |
| April 26 | Prof. Kemal Babajanov, Turkmen State University, Central Asia in International Relations |
| May 3 | Prof. emerita Anna Cienciala, KU-History, Defeat in Victory: Poland at the end of WWII |
| May 10 | Laird Essay Winner and Presentation, more information TBA |
| Fall 2004 | |
| August 31 | Prof. Norm Saul, KU-History, Stalin's American Engineers |
| September 7 | Prof. Les Dienes, KU-Geography, Russian Oil Prospects and Siberia: Old Themes and New Realities |
| September 14 | Bruce Menning, PhD, Gen Command & Staff College, Ft. Leavenworth, Additional Thoughts on Military Intelligence: The Russo-Japanese Situation in Centenary Perspective |
| September 21 | Prof. John Alexander, KU-History, The Adventures of a Russian-American Citizen of the Universe, Fedor Karzhavin (1745-1812) |
| September 28 | Yaroslava Tsiovkh, PhD, KU-Slav Lang & Lits, Nuggets of Ukrainian Folk Art |
| October 5 | Asst Prof. Viktor Susak, Chair-History and Theory of Sociology, Ivan Franko National Univ of L'viv, Ukraine, On the Upcoming Presidential Elections in Ukraine |
| October 12 | Andrew Moulton, KU REES MA candidate, Observations on Russian Orthodoxy Today |
| October 19 | Adj. Prof. Jacob Kipp, PhD, Director, Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, Breaking the Spine of Japan: US-Soviet Negotiations and the Soviet Entry into the Pacific War |
| October 26 | Cornell H Fleischer, Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies, Univ. of Chicago, Three Seasons in post-war Bosnia, or an Ottomanist Supervises Elections |
| November 2 | Michael Palij, PhD, KU-Libraries (ret), The Allies and the Russian Civil War, 1917-1921 |
| November 9 | Prof. Gerald Mikkelson, KU-Slavic, Survival of the Literary Fittest: Valentin Rasputin in the 21st Century |
| November 16 | Asst Prof Doulatbek Khidirbekughli, Kazakh Univ of Int'l Relations and World Languages, New Geopolitics Around Kazakhstan |
