Yale Postdoctoral Trainees

PRFDHR Seminar: Genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Its Aftermath: Bosnian Muslims’ Perceptions, Interpretations, and Explanations, Professor Jasmina Besirevic Regan

The presentation will provide a brief overview of the history of former Yugoslavia and focus on its violent break-up, especially on the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It will discuss the refugee experience and importance of family relationships, ethnic and religious identities, as well as the issues around returning home and rebuilding their community in Banja Luka.

THE GREEN RAY (Le Rayon vert, 1986, Éric Rohmer)

From Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” cycle, THE GREEN RAY follows the independent but insecure Delphine (Marie Rivière), a newly single young Parisian who cannot find a holiday companion for the month of August, as she meets and rejects, glides and stumbles in her longing for connection. Overhearing a discussion of Jules Verne’s THE GREEN RAY, Delphine becomes fascinated with seeing the elusive meteorological event and the promise that comes with it.

Poynter Fellowship Lecture: Valerie Hopkins, New York Times

The European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center and the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale present
“From Frontlines to Frontpages: Conversation with Valerie Hopkins”
Moderated by Marci Shore, Professor of History, Yale University
Lunch at 12:30pm ET, talk at 1:00pm ET
Location: Luce Hall, Rm 202
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminars

If These Walls Could Sing

This director’s talk and advanced screening of the upcoming film “If These Walls Could Sing,” from Disney Original Documentary, gives exclusive access to the most famous and longest-running studio in the world, Abbey Road Studios. In this personal film of memory and discovery, director Mary McCartney guides us through nine decades to tell the stories of some of the studio’s most iconic recordings — and the people who made them happen. Discussion moderated by Rachel Fine, executive director of Yale Schwarzman Center.

Voices of New Belarus

The Yale community is invited to hear the 2022 Yale World Fellows read and discuss the documentary play of Belarusian playwright and civil activist Andrei Kureichik. The play features 14 real monologues of Belarusians chosen from more than 700 stories of victims of Lukashenko’s repressive machine. In the play, politicians, journalists, activists, people of all ages and professions share their experience of political repression. This reading is an invitation to a broad discussion about the problem of political prisoners in the world and ways you can help.

Documentary Screening: With Olive Groves in the Aegean: Greeks & Turks

In 1923 when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk rebuilt modern Turkey on the ashes of the Ottoman Empire, the Treaty of Lausanne ordered that all Muslims of Turkish decent who were living in Greece be exchanged with any Greek Christians living in Asia Minor. This population exchange of nearly two million people has left deep traces, many of which are still perceptible today. Fortunately one thing soothed the resulting pain and resentment: both Greeks and Turks had been growing olive trees since the olden days, providing a main source of survival and wealth.

Borders, Migration, and Ethnicity in Historical Perspective: Greek Americans and Italian Americans in Context

Theodora Patrona teaches literary courses at the School of English of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki as special teaching fellow. She has published extensively on Greek American and Italian American literature and film, and regularly reviews for journals and sites abroad. Dr Patrona is the author of Return Narratives: Ethnic Space in Late Twentieth Century Greek American and Italian American Literature(Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017), and coeditor of Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation (Fordham University Press, 2022).

ISS Visiting Fellow Discussion Forum featuring Toomas Ilves

International Security Studies will host a discussion with the Honorable Toomas Ilves, former president of Estonia, who made his country one of the most digitally advanced in the world by spearheading cutting-edge e-governance and cyber policies. He also earned praise for his deft navigation of Estonia’s integration with Europe and NATO while managing relations with neighboring Russia, including through a massive cyber attack widely believed to have been orchestrated by the Kremlin. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation on security in Europe and beyond.

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