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ESC Student Grants and FLAS Fellowships Info Session

The European Studies Council (ESC) of the Yale MacMillan Center will host an info session regarding all the student funding opportunities offered in European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies for the upcoming year and summer including the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS).

For the complete list and descriptions of available ESC grants & fellowships open to Yale undergraduate, graduate and professional students see: https://bit.ly/YaleESC-GrantsFLASinfo

Location: Luce Hall, Rm 202, 2nd fl.

Academic Year and Summer Funding for Undergraduate, Graduate and Professional Students

The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale offers funding for language study, internships, dissertation research, independent projects, and presenting at conferences.

All funding opportunities are listed on the Student Grants Database: https://yale.communityforce.com/Funds/Search.aspx

A conversation with Arman Tatoyan on the Artsakh Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Arman Tatoyan holds his Master of Laws from University of Pennsylvania Law School; he obtained his LLM and Ph.D. from YSU, Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics. Mr. Tatoyan is the former Human Rights Defender (Ombudsman) of Armenia and an Ad hoc Judge in the European Court of Human Rights. He served as the Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia and also has been the Deputy Representative of the Government of Armenia before the European Court of Human Rights. Mr. Tatoyan is also a permanent international advisor in the Council of Europe.

Wenkai He-- Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China

How were state formation and early modern politics shaped by the state’s proclaimed obligation to domestic welfare? Drawing on a wide range of historical scholarship and primary sources, this book demonstrates that a public interest-based discourse of state legitimation was common to early modern England, Japan, and China. This normative platform served as a shared basis on which state and society could negotiate and collaborate over how to attain good governance through providing public goods such as famine relief and infrastructural facilities.

Populism in Power: Discourse & Performativity in SYRIZA and Donald Trump

Populism has a complicated relationship with power and democratic institutions. Conventional wisdom assumes that populists cannot last in power; they either become mainstream or turn authoritarian. Such hypotheses are arguably rooted in systematic, anti-populist theorizations, which view populism always as a threat to democracy, connecting it with demagogy and irresponsibility and understanding it as a force that belongs to the opposition.

The Admonitory State: KGB Surveillance, Prophylactic Policing, and Political Control in the USSR’s Baltic Republics and Beyond

Between 1953 and the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 500,000 Soviet citizens were summoned to the offices of the KGB for so-called “prophylactic conversations,” in which they were accused of low-level political crimes, lectured about Soviet values, questioned about their behavior and their attitudes toward the regime, and warned that they would face serious consequences if they broke the law again.

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