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Videos

Videos will be posted during the academic year. The scheduled list of expected brownbags is listed below, and can be found also at the Brown Bag, Conferences and Calendar pages.

August 20 First Day of Classes
August 25 No Brownbag--REES MA/FLAS Orientation
September 1 "Poland and the Outbreak of World War II: Could War Have Been Avoided?" Anna Cienciala, Professor Emerita History
September 8 "Kazakhstan on the Verge of the 2010 OSCE Chairmanship: Observations from the Field," Cristin Burke, Geography
September 15

"UN Observer Mission in Georgia, 2008," Major Scott McIntosh, Instructor, Dept. of Intl. Security and Military Studies, Air Command and Staff College, 12-1pm, Bailey 318 

September 22

"The Russian Civil War and the Creation of the USSR," Ron Francisco, Political Science

September 29 "Defending the Periphery: Tsarist Management of Buddhism," Helen Hundley, History, Wichita State University 
October 6

"Aging and Community Development in Eastern Europe," Laszlo Kulcsar, Sociology, Kansas State University

October 13 "Strategy, Operational Art and Stalin: The Srechin Connection,” Jacob Kipp, History 
October 20 Title TBA, Stella Rock, History, University of Sussex 
October 27 "America as Seen by Russian Writers," Gerald Mikkelson, REES
November 3

"Polish-Jewish Relations in Warsaw during the First World War," Robert Blobaum, History, West Virginia University

November 10 "Campaigns Against Human Trafficking in Contemporary Russia and Ukraine,” Nadia Shapkina, Sociology, KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
November 17 "Communication for Development:  Impacting Health, Business and Policy in Uzbekistan," Rustam Hydarov, Muskie Fellow, KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
November 24

TBA, 12-1pm, Bailey 318

December 1 "Al-Farabi Kazakh National University: Now Training Serious Economists Instead of the Cheerleaders Produced by Orthodox Schools on Both Sides of the Ideological Divide," Mohamed El-Hodiri, Economics