Slavic Colloquium | Yuri Corrigan
As part of the Slavic Colloquium Dr. Yuri Corrigan from Boston University will present on “Mapping the Unconscious from Gogol to Nietzsche”
.macmillan
Russia's War on Ukrainian Farms
The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Reading Group presents Dr. Susanne Wengle, Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Uppsala University, on “Russia’s War on Ukrainian Farms”
RSVP required By Feb. 16: please submit via this form: https://bit.ly/REEESRG-Feb22
Location: HQ Rm 131, first floor, 320 York St.
Gendering Democratic Theory from an Intersectional Perspective
Ana María Miranda Mora, Yale Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Associate, Dresden University of Technology, on “Gendering Democratic Theory from an Intersectional Perspective”
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
Can Shared Norms of Good Citizenship Reduce Native-Immigrant Conflict? Experimental Evidence from Greece- Nicholas Sambanis
Nicholas Sambanis joins Yale as the Kalsi Family Professor of Political Science. He previously taught at Penn (2016-2023) and Yale (2001-2016), and he worked at the World Bank Development Economics Research Group (1999-2001). Sambanis is an expert on civil wars, ethnic conflict, and the politics of migration. His writing combines theories and methods from the fields of international relations, comparative politics, and political psychology to study processes of identity formation and change and the ways that identity politics shape conflict outcomes.
PRFDHR Seminar: "Ideological Migrants” to Russia: Examining How Disillusionment Motivates Migration, Professor Lauren Woodard
Russia is the world’s fourth top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post-Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian-speaking diaspora has migrated from Europe and North and South America. Lauded in Russian media as “ideological migrants,” the Kremlin claims that they flee liberalism and oppression by the transnational elite. This presentation by Professor Lauren Woodard asks, what really motivates their migration?
Fragile Things: Material Culture from the Russian Empire
April 12-13, 2024 | Yale University | New Haven, CT
This conference will be in-person.
Please note that the information below is subject to change.
For the most up to date information please visit the conference website: https://reees.macmillan.yale.edu/fragile-things-conference
Translating André Bazin’s Film Criticism
How do translators bring to English-language readers of the 21st c. André Bazin’s classical style, extended metaphors, and ineffable elan? In the midst of translating 120 of his 2700 pieces— magisterial essays on cinema as well as reviews of forgotten movies—should “fidelity to the letter or to the spirit” be emphasized, as he asked about adaptation? Debating a few challenging instances, while looking at other extant translations, this roundtable will scrutinize translation as it converges with the mode of the essay and the genius of Bazin’s writing
Showing secret words: the representation of sacramental confession in Orthodox Russia and Ukraine
The Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program presents Nadieszda Kizenko, Professor of History, University of Albany; Yale ISM Fellow, on “Showing secret words: the representation of sacramental confession in Orthodox Russia and Ukraine”
PRFDHR Seminar: Echoes Through Generations: Exploring Intergenerational and Complex Trauma in Kosovo through the Ecological Perspective, Professor Albina Balidemaj
This presentation by Professor Albina Balidemaj examines the multifaceted layers of intergenerational and complex trauma within Kosovo by employing the ecological perspective. The historical, cultural, social, and environmental dimensions of trauma are explored to understand the intensity and enduring impact of past adversities on the current generations.
Screening of Farewell Until the Next War | Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series
Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series presents a film screening of FAREWELL UNTIL THE NEXT WAR (Nasvidenje v Naslednji Vojni)
SR Slovenia, 1980. 117 minutes. DCP. Slovenian Film Archive, Ljubljana.
Directed by Živojin Pavlović
on Thursday, March 30, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Humanities Quadrangle, Screening Room L02
320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Free and open to the public | All films will be shown with English subtitles
