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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.

Every Inch of NATO Territory: Transatlantic solidarity for the defence of the European continent and some lessons from the creation of the US federal armed forces

Panelists:
Lucio Gussetti, EU Visiting Fellow, and Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, and former Legal Adviser to the US State Department
Holly Harris, Master’s Student of European Studies at Yale University, will intervene.

Visions of Ecology on Art and the Environment in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, EVENT #5: Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe panel

VISIONS OF ECOLOGY: CINEMA AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE
Barbora Bartunkova (Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University)
“Post-Apocalyptic Ecologies: The End of August at the Hotel Ozone (1966) and the Czechoslovak New Wave”
Masha Shpolberg (Assistant Professor, Bard College)
“Chernobyl and the Crafting of a Soviet Nuclear Imaginary”
Katie Trumpener (Professor, Yale University)
“Dead Landscape, Deserted Village: Filming East German Ecology Before and After 1989”
Reception to follow.
Henry R. Luce Hall
LUCE 101 (Auditorium)

Will Putin's Invasion Spur More Countries to Acquire Nuclear Weapons?

The Jackson School of Global Affairs will host a talk with Robert Einhorn, senior fellow at the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology of the Brookings Institution.
In his remarks, Einhorn will address the question, “Will Putin’s Invasion Spur More Countries to Acquire Nuclear Weapons?”
The event is part of the school’s Sunrise Foundation Lecture Series, which addresses policy issues especially pertinent to emerging economies.

The reborn Mariupol: creating the urban city vision

We are thrilled to invite you to an important presentation-discussion featuring a team of researchers, designers and urbanists who have been deeply involved in framing the vision for the city of Mariupol. This discussion will highlight the findings from engagement process, the narrative, and the narrative translation into urban application.

Pension Reform in Spain: Making Social and Financial Sustainability Compatible

The European Studies council presents a lecture given by José Fernández-Albertos.
José Fernández-Albertos holds a Ph.D in Political Science from Harvard University. Since 2009, he is a permanent research fellow at the Institute for Policies and Public Goods at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). He has also taught comparative and international political economy at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, IE University, and the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid.

Visions of Ecology on Art and the Environment in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, EVENT #4: The Making and Unmaking of the “Black Myth” of Donbas

The Making and Unmaking of the “Black Myth” of Donbas: Art as Witness to Deindustrialization, Ecocide, and War in Ukraine, 2014-2023 with Dr. Victoria Donovan of the University of St. Andrews
Zoom Registration: https://yale.zoom.us/j/94054227487

Science and Literature in Russia and Eastern Europe Conference

The study of a reciprocal influence between science and literature has been gaining traction in recent years. Both scholarly and public interest in how science and literary culture interact has grown exponentially over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, scientific knowledge has circulated, changed, and taken shape in literary and artistic outlets since the emergence of modern science.

Paradoxes of Neoliberal Politics in a Post-Communist Society

For Eastern European societies in the 1990s, the desire for freedom was the key driving force for the shift towards Western liberal democratic capitalism. The West advocated a swift implementation of neoliberal reforms as the only path to a free and democratic society. However, the Soviet and neoliberal systems turned out to be more in common than their official ideological narratives suggest. The talk will focus on the case study of the post-communist Lithuanian academia.

Russia, Ukraine, and the Laws of War

With Alona Verbytska, human rights advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ms. Verbytska’s portfolio covers the “Human Rights of the Defender.” She assesses and monitors the adherence to the laws of war in the conflict. She will speak about issues such as the commission of and accountability for war crimes, the use of mercenary soldiers, and the treatment of prisoners of war.