The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy hosts Russia expert Tom Graham for a frank discussion on US-Russia relations. His new book, Getting Russia Right, identifies the blind spots that have prevented Washington from seeing Russia as it really is and from crafting a policy to advance American interests without provoking an aggressive Russian response.
The third annual REEESNe Student Conference will be hosted by UMass Amherst the weekend of April 12th-14th (precise starting date and schedule to follow). This will be an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students throughout the network to meet and to present their REEES-related research, internships, and other experience. To the extent possible, REEESNe will cover travel and accommodations for student presenters with financial need. Proposals for presentations will be due early in 2024.
Our annual spring workshop will be hosted by Bryn Mawr College on March 1-2, 2024, and will focus on the evolving geopolitical landscape of study abroad, study away, and immersion experiences for students (precise program to follow, with applications for sponsored attendance due in early 2024).
More information: https://reeesnenetwork.yale.edu/upcoming-events
Whereas the period 1890–1914 (between Bismarck’s dismissal and the outbreak of the Great War) has long been framed as a relatively static episode in Second-Empire Germany, recent historiography has recognized here a nation still struggling to define its identity in the arenas of politics and culture. Since the Reformation at latest, the peculiar dynamic of German history assured that the Catholic-Protestant divide, too, would inform questions of Germanness.
Colloquium 1: Rule of Law Backsliding and New Democracy Deficit in the EU
Prof. Kim Scheppele (Princeton): “The New Democracy Deficit”
Prof. Laurent Pech (University College Dublin): “The Future of the Rule of Law ”
Chaired by Prof. Isabela Mares (Yale)
Part of a colloquium series on the future of European integration co-organized by Yale’s European Studies Council and the Yale Law School European Law Association.
Event will be in person and on Zoom.
CANCELLED
Featuring Dr. Joseph Weiler (NYU) and Dr. Kalypso Nicolaïdis (via Zoom) (Oxford University, European University Institute). Moderated by Prof. Samuel Moyn (Yale University
Colloquium 1: Today’s Transformation of Europe
Prof. Weiler: “Is the Church of European Legal Integration facing a Reformation? Should It?”
Prof. Nicolaïdis: “The Peoples Imagined. Constituting a Democratic European Polity”
Event will be in person and on Zoom.
From Dr. Weiler:
“Is the Church of European Legal Integration facing a Reformation? Should It?”
The European Studies Council (ESC) of the Yale MacMillan Center will host an info session regarding all the student funding opportunities offered in European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies for the upcoming summer including the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS).
For the complete list and descriptions of available ESC grants & fellowships open to Yale undergraduate, graduate and professional students see: https://bit.ly/YaleESC-GrantsFLASinfo
Location: RKZ Rm 102
The European Studies Council at the Yale MacMillan Center hosts this international and interdisciplinary conference. The conference seeks to showcase current research and foster exchange between students, postdocs, and faculty working across diverse disciplines on the study of Europe, Russia, and Eurasia.
For the full conference program & schedule, visit: https://bit.ly/2024-YaleESCGradConf
The Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program presents Andrei Kureichyk, Henry Hart Rice Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer, Yale University, on “Real-politic or disfunction of postmodern civilization. Nobel Laureate Ales Bialiatsky: trapped in the depths of the KGB dungeons”.
I Am Free…But Who Is Left? (Joanne W. Rudof, 2021, DCP, 92 mins)
Joanne W. Rudof in person! Reflective, first-person accounts of the Nazi invasion of a small Polish town are supplemented by family photos and historical documents in this recent documentary by a long-time archivist at Yale’s Fortunoff Archive. Presented by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and the Yale Film Archive. Co-sponsored by the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism.
