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REES Faculty, Staff and Students with Ambassador of the Rus-sian Federation to the U.S. Sergei Kislyak. Ambassador Kislyak visited Kansas City as part of a KC International Relations Council event on February 11, 2009.

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Welcome to a lively Spring Semester at the KU Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies!

First, we say good-bye but not farewell to Mr. Ray Finch, who after five wonderful years at CREES, will be spending more time on graduate study in the KU History Department and analytical work at Ft. Leavenworth. We welcome Mr. Bart Redford who comes to CREES from KU CIBER. Professor Alex Tsiovkh has captured some of our staffing changes in his witty holiday CREES poem, reprinted here for your enjoy-ment.

In the Spring 2009 CREES Newsletter you will find pictures and articles covering last Fall’s and Winter’s events. In Octo-ber Dr. Stephen Blank gave the annual Palij Lecture on “The Prospects of a New Cold War over Ukraine.” The Friday before the US elections CREES faculty held a lively video conference with faculty from the School of International Relations at St. Petersburg University during which various facets of the upcoming elections were discussed. November featured the Teachers’ Workshop “Learning to Negotiate the Peace: International Trade in the 21st Century,” jointly hosted with KU’s School of Education and the Center for East Asian Studies,. Dr. Irina Fediunina-Six gave a talk on “The Geopoli-tics of Trade: Finding Common Ground with Russia.”

We celebrate the career of Professor Norman Saul (History), who will be retiring after 39 years of teaching and research at the University of Kansas. Bart Redford’s interview with Pro-fessor Saul brings back the highlights of those years. Please mark your calendar for Professor Saul’s brownbag talk, “Rus-sia and the American Civil War,” on Tuesday, April 28.

We remember a beloved member of the CREES family, Mrs. Darlene Heacock, who passed away January 15, 2009. Dar-

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lene served as office manager for many years, through several directors, and was a friend to generations of REES students. Dr. Alan Holiman spoke for REES faculty, staff, and students at the funeral, conveying our affection for Darlene and appreciation for her years of work at CREES, and we include a memorial note written by Professor Maria Carlson.

During the 2009 calendar year CREES celebrates the theme of “Revolution and Protest.” In conjunction with other KU NRCs, CREES is devoting this spring to “Changing the World: The Meanings of Revolution.” Fall 2009 will mark the 20th anniver-sary of the Velvet Revolution, the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the success of Solidarnosc, and the reimagining of Central Europe.

This winter and spring over 10 events address the “Meanings of Revolution.” The first, in February, dealt with revolution in art, music, and film. Among upcoming highlights are the Backus Lecture on April 6 by Professor Padraic Kenney (Indiana University) on “Transition or Revolution in 1989?” and several forums devoted to various facets of revolution. The next forum will be “Changing the World: Revolutionary Thinking about the Environment,” at 3:00 p.m., Thursday, April 16, at The Com-mons in Spooner Hall. Watch university calendars also for the upcoming forum on “Economic Disintegration and Revolution.”

We welcome to KU several visiting researchers: Elchin Rizayev from Azerbaijan (working with Erik Herron in Political Science), Irina Branko from Albania (Marie-Alice L’Heureux in Architec-ture), Natia Kaladze from Georgia (Tom Volek in Journalism), Marija Krstevska from Macedonia (Dennis Karney in Business), Farkhunda Negat-Zade from Tajikistan (Paul Markham in Cur-riculum and Teaching), and Elmaze Nura from Kosovo (John Staniunas in Arts Management/Theater).

Enjoy this spring number of the CREES newsletter and mark your calendars!

interview with norman saul ...... 2

Fall 2008 Visitors ........................... 4

Fall 2008 Brownbags ..................... 4

student and Alumni Updates .................... 5

Faculty news .............................. 6-7

outreach highlights ..................... 7

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1. Can you remember a time when you realized you were hooked on russian history?I caught the bug for history during a post-graduate Ful-bright experience in London at the School of Slavonic Studies, but I really had not decided to move into history at that point. I was more interested in social sciences, inter-national relations, geography, and political science. As an undergraduate I had completed the area studies degree at Indiana, but really without taking very many formal his-tory courses. Of course, I had studied Russian history as part of my coursework at Indiana University, but not in the history department.

It was in London, and during tours of Europe, that I really saw the importance of history and decided I wanted to concen-trate on that. So I studied Russian history on my own, at the University of London’s School of Slavonic Studies. And then I had two years to think about things, because I still had my required military service to fulfill. In my last year at Ft. Bragg I was still considering three options—Law School, Graduate School and the Foreign Service.I passed the Foreign Service exam, and was accepted but wait-listed for posting. Then I received a Ford Foundation fellow-ship for graduate study, and that really made my decision very easy. While in my second year of graduate work at Indiana, I received word from the Foreign Service that they had a post-ing for me. I asked them to wait until I finished my second year, but they wouldn’t, and so I decided to finish my degree. By that point, I was already thinking about going on for the doctorate.As far as my reasons for getting into international studies and Russian studies as an undergraduate go, really the Cold War was the most important factor. And since I had a foreign language requirement as an undergraduate, I decided on Rus-sian as a freshman. So that was another factor in my decision, but ultimately it came out of the Cold War environment, and growing up in that time.

2. While in London, did you have a chance to visit russia?No, it was not so easy getting into Russia during this period. This was the 1950s we are talking about. I finally did get into an exchange program in 1960-61 as I was finishing my disser-tation, and spent six months in Leningrad. This was the third year of the exchange program, which began in 1958. I have actually done a little research, a paper, on the negotiations which produced this exchange, which was called the Lacy-Zarubin agreement, but which is more commonly known as the Khrushchev-Eisenhower exchange agreement. So, that is one of my interests. I am considering writing a fifth volume on this, and it would focus on Russian-American rela-tions from 1941 to perhaps 1962. And I may argue in this book that the Cold War really ended with the negotiation of that ex-change agreement in 1958. After that, the two nations were not in that very tense standoff across Europe, and the Iron Curtain was becoming porous with the advent of that exchange. These were not just student exchanges, but expanded into all kinds of cultural elements.

3. Your multi-volumed work has been described as the magnum opus on russian-American relations. At what point did you start on this project, and what made you decide to undertake such an ambitious work?I had been interested in diplomatic history for quite some time (my dissertation involved Napoleonic history). It partly stems from my interest in naval history, going back to World War II. My cousin was an officer in the Pacific during the war, and ended up as the commander of a destroyer. So it was natural that I pursued this interest, and my Masters thesis focused on the Baltic Fleet in 1917. I was hoping to continue this line of research, looking at Rus-sia and the Baltic just after the revolution. Russian interest

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Professor Saul arrived at KU in 1970, just a few years after the first graduates were granted in-terdisciplinary degrees in what was then known as Slavic and Soviet Area Studies. Upon the completion of the spring 2009 semester, almost 40 years after he began teaching at KU, Pro-fessor Saul will retire from the

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Department of History. For much of his tenure, Saul has served as an international authority on a variety of topics. He began his career examining Russian naval history, and has become well known as the expert on the Volga Germans and Mennonites from Russia and their immigration to Kansas. He has also received ac-colades for his multi-volume study of Russian-American relations.Our own Ray Finch described Professor Saul as a man who literal-ly wrote the book (or a series of books) on U.S.-Russian relations; “Back in 1991, I had the good fortune to take Dr. Saul’s course dedicated to the History of the Soviet Union. Recall that the USSR was on the verge of falling apart, yet Dr. Saul was able to place these traumatic events into the larger historical perspective. Since then I’ve been an admirer of his many scholarly achievements, and as an aspiring historian myself, have looked to Dr. Saul as the quintessential historian.” mAjor Works BY normAn sAULHistorical Dictionary of United States-Russian/Soviet Relations (2009)Friends or Foes?The United States and Soviet Russia, 1921-1941 (2006)War and Revolution: The United States and Russia, 1914-1921 (2001)Concord and Conflict: The United States and Russia, 1867-1914 (1996)Distant Friends: The United States and Russia, 1763-1867 (1992)Sailors in Revolt: The Russian Baltic Fleet in 1917 (1978)Russia and the Mediterranean, 1797-1807 (1970)Saul has received, among other honors, the Byron Caldwell Smith book award, the Robert H. Ferrell book prize from the Society of American Foreign Relations, the Balfour S. Jeffrey (Higuchi) Research Award, and a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies. He is currently work-ing on a biography of the famous entrepreneur Charles R. Crane, one of the founders of Russian Studies in America.

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Norman SaulB.A., Slavic Studies, Indiana, 1954M.A., History, Columbia, 1959Ph.D., History and International Relations, Columbia, 1965

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sort of switches, in 1807, from the Mediterranean to the Baltic. They fought a war with Sweden, annexed Finland, and became more of a Baltic power during that period, from 1807 to 1815. I received a Fulbright to go to Finland to conduct research on this, since I knew the archives in Russia proper weren’t very likely to have much on the subject. So I was in Finland for a year, working on this topic. Also, while I was teaching at Brown University, I was intro-duced as Brown’s Russian historian to a woman at a cocktail party. She told me that her great grandfather had gone to Rus-sia, and that she had a bunch of papers of his. “Would you like to look at them?” she asked me. Of course, I said “yes”, and a few months later a bunch of boxes appeared on my porch. I started going through them, and this eventually ended up as an article about her great grandfather’s experiences in Russia. He was a businessman in California, and became involved in various enterprises. One of them was the ice business, and in those days you went to Alaska to get ice, which at the time was still Russian Alaska. And so this man travelled to St. Peters-burg in order to negotiate a contract with the head of the com-pany, for this ice trade. That was my first article on the topic of Russia-American relations, and then I explored that some more, and finally I decided to put the pieces together in more solid chunks, chronologically.

4. given your background, and your knowledge of rus-sian-American relations, are you thinking about president obama, and is there advice that you would give him?I would certainly be in favor of reducing tensions as much as possible, respecting Russian positions on various issues, and sending a competent ambassador there. I have heard that William Burns, who was a recent U.S. ambassador to Russia, is in line for a promotion to something higher, which I take as a good sign. And I think Hillary will move in that direc-tion. (Note: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did indeed keep Burns on as Under Secretary of State). During the last year or so, I attended two conferences in Mos-cow marking the bicentennial of Russian-American relations. The Ambassadorial Conference of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace took place in 2007, commemorating the decision to exchange ambassadors in 1807. But the ambas-sadors didn’t actually get there until a year or two later, and so there have been a series of conferences to commemorate the advent of American-Russian relations. I was struck by the cordial, close relationship between these colleagues. At one of the final sessions, a council of ambassadors, made up of four former U.S. ambassadors to Russia and four former Russian ambassadors to the U.S., gathered together to discuss the future of U.S.-Russian relations. During the day, before that, I had been co-chairing a day-long session, and two of the former Russian ambassadors walked in. They listened to one of the Russian scholars giving a presentation on recent events in Russian-American relations, and then they just sort of took over, and debated the whole future of Russian-American relations there, between themselves and with the audience. Everyone was fascinated. I was impressed with the conference, and with the willing-ness of the former ambassadors to share historic details with

colleagues in this format. And I think this is a very hopeful sign. Another hopeful sign is that there have been quite a few publications in the last few years on American-Russian rela-tions from the Russian side..

5. Do you have any memorable moments or fond memories of teaching you would like to share?I like to interject things into classes. Tomorrow in class I will be showing this picture (he shows me a photograph of two men in uniform). This is Grand Duke Alexis, son of Alexan-der the Second. He was about 21 at this time. The other man in the picture is George Armstrong Custer, and they had just completed a Buffalo hunt out in Western Nebraska and in Eastern Colorado. They were on their way back east after the hunt, and this picture was taken in Topeka. They had stopped for a day, and went to the legislature, in January 1872. Some-times I like to pull something like this out, and see students’ reactions to it, to see them try to figure out what might be going on in the image, in order to get them interested in how these two men might have met. Alexis returned to America in 1878, and wrote to his mother about Custer’s fate. I’ve seen it in the archives, where he writes of how depressed he was to learn of the demise of his good friend General Custer. And that had actually happened the year before, but Alexis had just gotten the news.

6. Would you care to share any thoughts on the state of the field?Well, I can tell you that enrollment in my 568 course is down considerably from what it used to be, just because there aren’t nearly as many graduate students in history as there used to be. I used to have a colloquium of 15-16 students; this year it is down to six. The job market in the field is certainly down this year nationally for history and those specializing in the Russian field, which is not encouraging. However, I think that the international situation will cause a revival of the need for expertise in the future. One thing that has pleased me is that resources have, so far, kept up. I am speaking of the library, and CREES, having the resources to keep programs going. And then there are organi-zations like IREX, and many other programs.

7. You started teaching just after CREES was created. Can you talk a little about some of the changes you have seen over the years?The main promoter of the program was Oswald P. Backus, and he was instrumental in building the library and faculty that included Heinrich Stammler, Anna Cienciala, Roy Laird, Joseph Conrad, John (Jay) Alexander, Leslie Dienes, Richard DeGeorge, and others. I met Ozzie already as a graduate stu-dent at Columbia and was impressed with developments at KU. I also knew Richard, as we served in the army together, and Rex Martin in Philosophy, so I had friends already here when the opportunity to come here arose. I think all of us en-joyed the supportive and congenial atmosphere, and stayed through good and bad times to fulfill our mission of Russian and East European Studies at KU.

Interview with Prof. Saul by Bart Redfort, 2009.

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On 7 October, 2008, Ray Hackler, Battle Command Training Program, Fort Leavenworth, KS., talked about “Observa-tions from the Ceasefire Line: the Role of United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia and the U.S. Contribution.”

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T. M. Poulsen, Professor Emeri-tus of Geogra-phy, Portland State University, delivers a brown bag lecture on life along the Volga.

(Left to right) KSU Professor of Education Tom Vonz and Kazakh teachers Gaukhar Tophakova and Gulzhan Musabekova meet with Associate Dean for International Studies Bill Tsutsui. The Kazakh teachers were visiting under the auspices of a US/ED democratization grant, “Civic Mosaic.”

CREES Director Edith Clowes, Steven Blank (Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College), and Michael and Lubomira Palij.

shAre YoUr reseArCh At A rees BroWnBAg! Please contact Bart Redford,

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E-mail: bredford@ku.edu

On 11 November, Marie Alice L’Heureux, Architecture, gave a talk titled: “The Bronze Soldier: Embody-ing Conflicts between Estonians and Russian-Speakers in Tallinn.”

Nathan Wood, History, gave a talk on the role of national identity in late 19th and early 20th century in key cities of Eastern Europe “Not Just the National: Modernity and Iden-tity in the Cities of East Central Europe,” 4 November 2008.

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stUDent UpDAtesMatthew Stein reports that he will be interning with the State Department in Astana, Kazakhstan, this summer.

ALUmni UpDAtesLet us know what you have been up to! Send your updates to Bart Redford, bredford@ku.edu

1969After completing the program at KU, Fred Walker studied at the US Army Institute for Soviet and East European Studies in Garmisch, Germany, from 1969-1971. Upon graduation, he served with the US Liaison Mission to the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, in Potsdam, until 1973. He recently wrote that he “enjoys reading your on-line newsletter, re-membering some of my former professors--Dr. Dienes, Dr. Alexander, and others.”

1994James Bramble went to Garmisch to undergo the Army Eurasian Foreign Area Officer training. He then completed a tour in Turkmenistan working with a team under Am-bassadors Hulings and Cotter. In 2006 he was deployed to Afghanistan as a Civil Affairs Corps Reservist where he had many opportunities to speak Russian as a Provincial Recon-struction Team Commander. LTC Bramble recently wrote to inquire about suitable Russian language programs for his son, now a Junior at UT El Paso.

2002LTC Randi G. Masten earned his Master of Military Art and Science in Military History at the CGSC at Ft. Leavenworth, and in doing so received the General George C. Marshall Award as the distinguished graduate in his class. In 2004, he moved with his family to Washington, D.C., and was stationed at the Pentagon. While there, he worked as Senior Intelligence Analyst and a Branch Chief in the European Division, as well as an analyst and Team Chief for the Of-fice of Iraq Analysis, which included a tour of duty in Iraq. His duties focused on providing situational awareness and strategic warning for the President, Secretary of Defense, and other key leaders in our national government and military. In October 2007, LTC Masten returned to Lawrence to take an instructor position at Fort Leavenworth. He currently teaches in the Department of Joint, Interagency, and Multinational

Operations, which focuses on strategic and operational level planning and providing the student with a thorough understanding of U.S. national instruments of power. Randi says that he is “thrilled to be back in the Lawrence commu-nity and close to KU.”

2007Major Kelly MacDonald is working for the Defense Threat Reduction Office at the US Embassy in Moscow (DTRO-M), where he coordinates Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) efforts to eliminate weapons of mass destruction in the Rus-sian Federation. He frequently accompanies delegations that go to Russia to conduct contract negotiations and work verification visits at various sites throughout Russia in sup-port of the CTR program.

Major Bernie Stone is currently the Operations Officer for the Arms Control Implementation Division of the Defense Threat Reduction Office - Moscow. He works on START, CFE, PPRA, VD99, Open Skies, and TOBOS among other arms control treaties.

1994Major Scott McIntosh, USAF, was senior U.S. Military Advi-sor for the UN Observer Mission in Georgia. He sent us a snapshot he took in early September outside Zugdidi, with the following description--“it’s a Georgian T-72 the Rus-sians M-killed at the city limits. We were able to get this shot before they dragged it back to the repair depot. The two vehicles in the back are South Africa-made Nyalas, the armored car used in the United Nations Observer Mission in Goergia.”

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On 31 October 2008, work-ing with the American Consulate in St. Petersburg, Russia, CREES hosted a video conference between KU faculty and the faculty of the School of Interna-tional Relations at St. Petersburg State Univer-sity. Faculty discussed and gained unique perspectives regarding the upcoming US presidential elections.

REES Alum Scott McIntosh in Georgia.

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Professor Emerita Anna Cienciala (History) was inter-viewed about her book Katyn: A Crime Without Punish-ment in Frontpage Magazine (March 24, 2008). She pub-lished a review article on books by Norman Davies and Niall Ferguson entitled “Poland in Two Recent Histories of WWII,” in The Polish Review v. LIII, no.1, 2008, pp. 97-106. She also translated from Polish and edited an article by Inessa Jażborowska, entitled “Russian Historical Lit-erature on the Katyn Massacre,” The Polish Review, v. LIII, no. 2, 2008, pp. 139-158. She reviewed an article on Polish Diplomatic Documents Jan.1 - Sept. 1, 1939 (in Polish), published in: Kwartalnik Historyczny, v. CXV, no. 2, 2008, pp. 137-146. On October 13, 2008, she delivered a lecture at the Hall Center, entitled “Katyn: A Stalinist Crime.”In November Professor Edith W. Clowes (Slavic Lan-guages & Literatures, CREES) visited Binghamton University where she gave a talk on the popular Russian writer, Viktor Pelevin, and his parody of neo-Eurasian-ism and post-Soviet geopolitical thinking. Just before Christmas she had good news with the acceptance of her book manuscript, Russia at the Edge: Imagined Goegraphies and Post-Soviet Identity, with Cornell University Press.Professor William Comer (Slavic Languages & Litera-tures) has published a pedagogical edition of Viktoriia Tokareva’s short story День без вранья — A Day without Lying (Slavica, 2008). The text is aimed at intermediate level students of Russian and has extensive vocabulary glosses and exercises.Professor Ron Francisco (Political Science) reports that Springer Verlag has published his book Dynamics of Con-flict, which has a chapter on East European dictatorships as well as a chapter on East European democracies.Professor Marc L. Greenberg (Slavic Languages & Litera-tures) gave a three-day lecture series on Balkan history, language, prehistory, and identity in former Yugosla-via at the Northwestern University Summer School in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in July, 2008. In November he gave a talk “What is so special about Prekmurje Slovene?” at the conference Multilingualism in the EU, held at University of Maribor, Slovenia. During his stay he was interviewed on television and radio about the issue of multilingualism and the political changes in the U.S. dur-ing the elections. His radio remarks were broadcast on Slovene-language programs in the diaspora communities in Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the U.S.Professor Eve Levin (History) was elected Vice-President and President-Elect of the Early Slavic Studies Associa-tion.Professor Renee Perelmutter (Slavic and Jewish Studies) recently published an article entitled “Pragmatic func-tions of reported speech with jako in the Old Russian Primary Chronicle” in the February Journal of Historical

Pragmatics 10:1. 2009. She also presented “Impersonal Constructions in Family Conflict Discourse,” at the De-cember 2008 AATSEEL meetings in San Francisco, as well as “Pronominal Reference and Deixis in the Judaizers’ Translations from Hebrew”, September 2008, at a confer-ence on Translation and Tradition in Slavia Orthodoxa, at Columbia University.Scarecrow Press (Rowman and Littlefield) has published the Historical Dictionary of United States-Russian/Soviet Rela-tions by Professor Norman Saul (History). Professor Saul will also be participating in a conference at Oxford in July on the “Global Lincoln” with a paper, “Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War, and the Russian Empire.” In June, he will be a guest scholar at an NEH workshop for college teach-ers at the New York Public Library on “America Meets Russia.” In mid-February Saul presented a special lecture on “Charles Crane, American Globalist and Russophile” at Oklahoma State in Stillwater. At the AAASS in Phila-delphia last November, he participated in two panels, one with a paper on “Grand Duke Alexis and the American West,” the other on Crane as a founder of Russian Studies in America.Malgorzata Stamm (Slavic & Eurasian Studies Depart-ment, Watson Library) was featured on an episode of Jayni’s Kitchen, a local cooking show. Malgorzata showed Jayni how to make several Polish dishes, including yellow pea soup, bigos (hunter’s stew) and apple pancakes. Professor Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova (Slavic Lan-guages & Literatures) has published “Voluntary Social Marginalization as a Surviving Strategy in Polish Post-Communist Accounts of Childhood,” in The Sarmatian Review 29.1 (2009), as well as “Барокът в литературата на православните славяни” [The Baroque in the Literatures of the Orthodox Slavs], in Slavic Philology, vol. 24, The Bulgarian Contributions to the 14th Congress of Slavists (Sofia: Academic Press Professor Marin Drinov, 2008). She also made a number of presentations at conferences, in-cluding “The Myth of Mother Poland and the Image of the Mother in the Post-1989 Polish Initiation Novels” at AAT-SEEL National Convention, Dec. 27-30, 2008, and “The Crisis of Fatherhood in Polish Post-Communist Initiation Novels”, presented at “New Directions, New Connections: Polish Studies in Cross-Disciplinary Context,” 2nd Inter-national Conference on Polish Studies, at Indiana Univer-sity in April 2008. Professor Vassileva-Karagyozova also won a Hall Center Research Fellowship for AY 2009-10.In late November and early December 2008, Professor Na-than Wood (History), traveled to Central Europe to deliver several talks and conduct preliminary research for his second project about bicycles, automobiles, and airplanes, and conceptions of backwardness and speed in early 20th-century East Central Europe. At the Central Euro-pean University in Budapest he delivered a guest lecture

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entitled “Not just the National: Modernity and Identity in the Cities of East Central Europe. In Vienna, Prof. Wood participated in a conference about Habsburg Galicia at the University of Vienna, where he delivered a commentary on one of the papers. He then gave two talks, one of them in Polish, at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, and conducted further research, including a visit to the Museum of Polish Flight.Professor Stephen Dickey (Slavic Languages & Literatures) has received both CREES and CLAS on-line course devel-opment grants for Summer, 2009, to deliver his SLAV 508 Introduction to the Literature and Civilization of the South Slavs course online in the spring of 2010.

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Вот ушел из REESаПлавно, без истерикМолодой директорПолитолог Эрик.

И, прийдя из ВэскоВ кресло первый номер,В REESе поселился на год Вильям Комер.

А теперь как будтоВ речке поднят шлюз:У руля директор новый –Эдит Клюс.

rees: Kраткая Cтихотворная CправкаА за ней дуэтом,В тон, в одном напеве,АкадемсоветникЗам.директор Левин.

Но стоит порою,Будто-бы за дверью,Тень из деканатаПола Д`Аниери.

И хранится в REESеПамяти лекарство:Всем на крайний случай –Опыт Мани Карлсон.

In November 2008, at KU, the Center for Russian, East Euro-pean and Eurasian Studies (CREES), the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) and the Center for Economic Education (CEE) held a K-12 workshop for educators, “Learning to Negotiate the Peace: International Trade in the 21st Century.” It raised the question “is it possible to negotiate peace in the modern era of Globalization?” The workshop addressed the ways in which secure trade networks can help establish the basis for economic development, peaceful relations, and a higher level of education. Despite inclement weather, educators and stu-dents, 33 in all, gathered for the event.

Dr. Irina Six (CREES) presents at the workshop in November 2008.

Треугольник REESаМного пережил.Как всегда, на местеRэй, Татьяна, Билл.

Я про будни REESа Говорить не стану – Вместе лямку тянутБилл и Рэй с Татьяной.

Заходи к нам в офис И найдёшь друзей:Здесь тебя встречаютБилл, Татьяна, Рэй.

А пополненье кстати:Недавно в REES на стартВ команду нашу прибылЗнакомый – Барт.

С юмором, стихамиREES я описал,Чтоб успехов REESуКаждый пожелал!

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oUtreACh highLightsIn October 2008, Tatyana Wilds (CREES, Outreach Coordi-nator) gave a presentation titled “Teaching World Cultures through Art and Literature. Art, Politics, and Revolution: The Russian Avant-Garde Art and Literature” at the fall 2008 KCSS conference for educators, “Kansas Social Studies: Contexts, Perspectives and Practices.” She also presented on “Animation: Russian Legendary Images” at the 2008 KAEA Conference, “Art the Sign of the Times”.

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Long-time CREES faculty and alumni who received the SEES or REES degree before 1996 will be saddened to hear that the “den mother” of our program, Darlene Heacock, passed away on 15 January 2009.

In her 29 years at KU, Darlene “trained” three Center directors and several interims. When Prof. Oswald Backus first initiated the Center for Soviet

“Employee of the Year” award that spring. For years she was listed on the REES Faculty List as “Name: Darlene Heacock; Position: CREES Institutional Memory.”

Darlene will be remembered not only for the excellent and re-sponsible job she did for many years as CREES office manager, but for the wonderful mentoring she gave to CREES students and to the students and staff who worked in the CREES office. Students found in her a comforting shoulder -- she knew what to say and how to say it. Students also found a shrewd advi-sor -- one who knew the score, knew the answer, and knew how to get around the director. Darlene was warm, sincere, loyal, and truly good. Eternal memory.

Dr. Maria CarlsonProfessor and Director emerita, 1993-2003

If you have memories of Darlene you would like to share, you may send them to the CREES Assistant Director and Darlene’s long-time fan, Bart Redford, bredford@ku.edu.

Lawrence Journal World Obituary: www2.ljworld.com/obits/2009/jan/17/darlene-hea/

Dr. Alan Holiman’s Comments at the Memorial Service, First Baptist Church of Lawrence, 19 January 2009: www.crees.ku.edu/people/memoriam.shtml

& East European Studies and a SEES Graduate Certificate Program in 1965-1966, Darlene was the first staff member he hired. When Dr. William C. Fletcher succeeded to the direc-tor’s chair in the mid-1970s, Darlene was on board and her institutional memory helped Bill Fletcher through the hard parts. When Dr. Fletcher stepped down at the end of 1992, Darlene trained Dr. Maria Carlson (at that point, Darlene re-ally knew what worked and what did not). Darlene retired in summer 1995 in a blaze of glory, after receiving the KU

Darlene Heacock 1932-2009

CREES Accountant Bill London (left) shares a plane ride to Washington DC to survey Title VI grant applications at US/ED with KU Chancellor Robert Hemenway.

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