Arts and Humanities

Screening of The Valley of Peace | Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series

Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series presents a film screening of THE VALLEY OF PEACE (Dolina miru)
Yugoslavia (Slovenia), 1956. 89 minutes.
Directed by France Štiglic. DCP. Slovenian Film Archive, Ljubljana.
on Saturday, September 30, 2023, 7:00 p.m.

Humanities Quadrangle, Screening Room L01
320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Free and open to the public | All films will be shown with English subtitles

Vilnius 700

October 12-13, 2023
In 2023, Vilnius turns 700. The first mention of Vilnius dates to the letter sent by the Grand Duke Gediminas to the cities of Lübeck, Bremen, and others on January 25, 1323. The official commemoration program ‘Vilnius – 700 years young’ by Vilnius City Municipality runs through the entire 2023.

Vilnius 700 Symposium

October 12-13, 2023
This two-day symposium brings together thinkers and writers engaged in the history and life of Vilnius to reflect on the role, space, and place of the city and its peoples. Vilnius encompasses centuries-long historical, cultural, and political significance to many nations of Central and Eastern Europe including Lithuanians, Poles, Jews, Belarusians, and others. The goal of the Vilnius 700 symposium at Yale is to reach for a better understanding of Vilnius both as a place and as an idea, a city with a multiplicity of peoples and voices – a wealth of polyphony.

Keynote Address: "Ukrainian Identity in Peace and War"

Keynote Address of the 4th annual international interdisciplinary conference pf the European Studies Graduate Fellows on Beyond the ‘Communist Bloc’: New Approaches to Studying Europe, Russia, and Eurasia” by Volodymyr Kulyk, Leading Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
“Ukrainian Identity in Peace and War”
Date/Time: 9:45 AM, Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - Location: Henry R. Luce Hall, Rm 203

Screening of The Land of Azaba & Q&A with director and protagonist

Screening of the award-winning documentary The Land of Azaba, a Spanish-language film set in Western Spain that closely observes the largest land preservation and ecological restoration project in Europe. Followed by a Q&A with the film director Greta Schiller, an Emmy-Award-winning veteran documentary filmmaker based in New York, and Carlos Sanchez, the film protagonist and President of Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre.

Ukraine: Music During Wartime

A journey through film and music with Hobart Earle, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the world-renowned Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra. Maestro Earle will pay homage to members of his orchestra—many of whom are currently displaced by the war in Ukraine or fighting the Russian invasion of their country—by presenting high-quality video recordings of their performances from 2014-2023, featuring various musical compositions by Ukrainian and international composers.

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