Spring/Summer

The Ellison Center frequently sponsors or co-sponsors lectures, conferences and symposia related to the REECAS region.  It is our pleasure to make a selection of video and audio recordings of recent lectures available online as part of the REECAS Newsletter:

Lara Iglitzin

Global Focus Lecture Series: Challenges and Opportunities for Human Rights in Russia
May 18, 2010
University of Washington

Click here to watch the lecture on Vimeo!

by Steve Effron

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In most of the former Soviet Union, May 9 still marks Victory Day, a holiday commemorating the capitulation of the Nazis to the Soviet Union in World War II. Since the fall of the USSR, this holiday has been adapted to align symbolically with new national holidays in many of the former Soviet republics. In Lutsk, a city of about 206,000 in Volynska Oblast in western Ukraine, Victory Day both venerates the city's triumph over the Fascist occupation in World War II and also celebrates the country's independent status.

by Mary Childs¹

Since 1994, the Ellison Center has published the Treadgold Papers, a series of occasional short monographs on topics related to the REECA region.  This series is now published in conjunction with University of Washington Press.

The Legacy of Tolstoy: Alexandra Tolstoy and the Soviet Regime in the 1920s

by Robert Croskey (2009)

The Ellison Center is pleased to present a selection of the most recent additions to our outreach materials collection. Films, teaching guides, educational software packages, reference texts and other resources are available for two-week checkout to students, faculty, staff and K-12 teachers. For more information, including a complete listing of available materials, visit the Ellison Center in 203B Thomson Hall, University of Washington; telephone us at (206) 543-4852; email reecas@u.washington.edu; or check our website: http://jsis.washington.edu/ellison/.

by Scott Dareff