Law, Politics and Society

This symposium is part of the Intersectional Black European Studies project (InBEST), funded by the senate of Berlin, Germany, and implemented by the Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Technical University Berlin, the RAA Berlin (Center for Educational Justice) and Yale’s European Studies Council and Center for Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration.

The Modern Europe Colloquium presents Minayo Nasiali, Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, on “Sea Traffic: Rebel Sailors and Arbitrage Across Empires in the Twentieth Century”

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

The Modern Europe Colloquium presents Megan Brown, Associate Professor, Swarthmore College, on “The Seventh Member State: Algeria, France, and the European Community.”

Updated start time is 5:30 pm
The Modern Europe Colloquium presents Larry Wolff, the Julius Silver Professor of History, New York University, on “Habsburg Aftermath 1919: From Versailles to the Vienna Opera.”
This lecture will focus on the year 1919 and the end of the Habsburg monarchy, analyzed from the perspective of two recent books: “Woodrow Wilson and the Reimagining of Eastern Europe” (2020), and “The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy” (2023).

Location: HQ (Humanities Quadrangle), Rm 276, 320 York St.

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.