Keynote Address of the 5th annual Yale European and Eurasian Studies Graduate Student Conference by Alberto Alemanno, the Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law, HEC Paris (France)
Moderated by Ligia Fabris Campos, the Henry Hart Rice Visiting Professor, Yale University and Assistant Professor at the Law School of Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil)
Join us on June 20th, 2024 for a heartwarming celebration of World Refugee Day! Let’s honor the resilience and strength of those forced to flee with a delightful culinary journey. Indulge in the rich flavors of Syrian, Afghan, and Senegalese cuisine at Sanctuary Kitchen, savor authentic Ethiopian dishes at Lalibella, and treat yourself to heavenly sweet delights and refreshing hibiscus tea at Havenly Treats. Let’s come together, share stories, and support our refugee communities with love and compassion.
Dr. O’Brien is visiting professor at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota. Her most recent book is From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process through a Human Rights Lens and includes extensive research on the Armenian Genocide conducted in Armenia and Turkey.
Panel Discussion & Reception
Prof. Jan Wouters (Jan Monnet Chair & Professor of International Law, KU Leuven)
Prof. Harold Honkju Koh (Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School)
Consul-General Filip Vanden Bulcke (Belgian Consul-General to NYC, 2022-Present)
Ambassador Dirk Wouters (Belgian Ambassador to the US (2016-2020)
Prof. Susan Rose-Ackerman (Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School)
Join Eric Karpeles and Alissa Valles for a discussion of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski: his life, his work, and the remarkable range of poets he inspired. Karpeles and Valles are the translators of the NYRB Classics titles Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp and Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History, respectively, both of which collect Czapski’s critical writing, authored either about or during his internment in a Soviet Prison Camp between 1939 and 1941.
Round Table
RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR AS A PLAY
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Rm 218 (2nd fl), 120 High St.
Critically acclaimed playwright and journalist Alexander Mardan and poet Vitaliia Babushchak (Odessa, Ukraine) will deliver a talk on the plot of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and war through the lenses of the theory of drama. They will also discuss the significance of Odessa as the capital of multiculturalism in Ukraine during the Russian invasion and Ukrainian nationalism.
The RUSSIAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA ARCHIVE is preserving the last two decades of independent Russian journalism, guarding this irreplaceable historical record against erasure as media outlets not aligned with the regime of President Vladimir Putin are shuttered and their reporters and editors cast into exile.
EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY: “MY LANGUAGE IS NOT MY LANGUAGE. THIS IS WHY IT IS CALLED MY LANGUAGE.”
READING + CONVERSATION
APRIL 2 2024, 53 WALL ST, RM. 208
Tanya Kotelnykova, Co-Founder and President of Brave Generation and MA student in European, & Russian Studies at Yale University, on “Youth Participation in the Ukrainian Recovery: Experiences from Two Wars in Ukraine”
Lunch @ 12:30 pm ET, Talk @ 1:00 pm
Location: Luce Hall, Rm 202, 2nd fl, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminar Series
REEESNe’s Roma Studies Student Working Group will be holding a symposium at Yale University (Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall). The Working Group consists of doctoral and undergraduate students, as well as recent graduates, from institutions such as Brandeis University, Bucknell University, Central Connecticut State University, Duke University, and Southern Connecticut State University, and all are welcome (no registration necessary) to this FREE event, which will feature their scholarship and other work on Romani topics.
