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Tuning to the Seasons: Feast Songs of Cyprus- Vasiliki Hadjiadamou and Ensemble

Mention of Greek religious music more often than not conjures up liturgical music–singing to be precise, chanting, monophonic or in unison, neumes, modes, an archaic idiom and, its raison d’être, the Word of God. Parallel to liturgical music but independent from it, flourished for centuries an equally rich and long tradition of popular religious songs. Their composition, transmission, orchestration, musical and poetics meters, linguistic idiom as well as the lyrics themselves, are consonant with the Cypriot oral tradition of music and singing.

Gender in the Courtroom: Overlooked Factors in Decision-Making and Their Impact on Rights Adjudication | Juliana Cesario Alvim Gomes

The European Studies Council and the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies at Yale present a talk by Dr. Juliana Cesario Alvim Gomes (Central European University; Austria / Federal University of Minas Gerais; Brazil) on “Gender in the Courtroom: Overlooked Factors in Decision-Making and Their Impact on Rights Adjudication.”

Lunch at 11:45am ET, talk at 12:00pm ET
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminar Series
Co-Sponsored by the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies

Decolonizing Eastern Europe: A Baltic Perspective on a Global Debate | Linda Kaljundi

The Baltic Studies Program is pleased to welcome Prof. Linda Kaljundi (Estonian Academy of Arts, Professor of Cultural History / Fulbright Scholar at MIT Program in STS) to give a talk on “Decolonizing Eastern Europe: A Baltic Perspective on a Global Debate.”

On the Aporias of Victimhood: The Case of Lithuania | Viktoras Bachmetjevas

The Yale Baltic Studies Program presents a talk “On the Aporias of Victimhood: The Case of Lithuania” featuring Baltic Studies Kazickas Associate Research Scholar, Dr. Viktoras Bachmetjevas.

Latvia's Jewish Cultures before the Catastrophe | Iveta Leitane

The Yale Baltic Studies Program presents a talk on “Latvia’s Jewish Cultures before the Catastrophe” featuring Baltic Studies Juris Padegs Associate Research Scholar, Dr. Iveta Leitane.

Slavic Colloquium | Jenny Kaminer

As part of the Slavic Colloquium, Prof. Jenny Kaminer (University of California, Davis) will present “Adolescence as Nightmare in Contemporary Russian Culture” on April 24 at 3pm in HQ 276.

Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair

Please join us for a conversation to celebrate the publication of Maurice Samuels’s new book, Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair

Pursuing Justice and Accountability in Ukraine, Two Years on from Russia's 2022 Invasion

Janine di Giovanni is a multi-award winning journalist and author, and CEO/Executive Director of The Reckoning Project. Janine was a war reporter for nearly three decades, from the first Palestinian intifada in the early 1990s to the siege of Sarajevo; the Rwandan genocide; the brutal wars in Sierra Leone, Somalia, Ivory Coast and Liberia to Chechnya, Afghanistan, Pakistan. She reported extensively in Iraq pre and post invasion, the Arab Spring, and finally Syria. Her field work for her most recent book took her to Gaza, Iraq, Egypt and Syria.

Modern Europe Colloquium | Witnessing Catastrophe in the Modern Middle East and Modern Europe: A Discussion

The Modern Europe Colloquium presents Carolyn J. Dean (Yale) and Omnia El Shakry (Yale), on “Witnessing Catastrophe in the Modern Middle East and Modern Europe: A Discussion”

Location: HQ (Humanities Quadrangle), Rm 107, 320 York St.

The Modern Europe Colloquium is generously sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; the European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center

Modern Europe Colloquium | The Last Kid: French Childhood, Culture, and Media in the Shadow of Depopulation (1900–1940)

The Modern Europe Colloquium presents Dr. Hannah Stamler, postgraduate research associate, Princeton University, on “The Last Kid: French Childhood, Culture, and Media in the Shadow of Depopulation (1900–1940)”

Location: HQ (Humanities Quadrangle), Rm 107, 320 York St.

The Modern Europe Colloquium is generously sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; the European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center