Extensive disruption and destruction of the everyday lives of civilian populations, often including deprivation of basic physiological and psychological human needs, is a deliberate feature of many forms of political violence.
One of the most underreported human catastrophes of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is the ongoing cultural and existential erasure of the country’s Nadazov Greek population, which, prior to the war, constituted the third-largest ethnic group (after Ukrainians and Russians) in the bitterly contested Donetsk region. Most of these Greeks were concentrated in and around the city of Mariupol, which they founded after Catherine the Great had resettled them from their ancient homeland of Crimea in 1778.
Hear from and pose questions to students from five REEESNe institutions, currently or recently studying (in) Russian in Almaty, Bishkek, Daugavpils, Tbilisi, and Yerevan. The conversations will be split into two sessions of roughly 30 minutes each to accommodate presenters on different continents:
12:20 pm Eastern U.S. Time: Georgia and Kazakhstan
5:00 pm Eastern U.S. Time: Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Latvia
Register for either/both for free: https://bit.ly/3FLb1j0
Hear from and pose questions to students from five REEESNe institutions, currently or recently studying (in) Russian in Almaty, Bishkek, Daugavpils, Tbilisi, and Yerevan. The conversations will be split into two sessions of roughly 30 minutes each to accommodate presenters on different continents:
12:20 pm Eastern U.S. Time: Georgia and Kazakhstan
5:00 pm Eastern U.S. Time: Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Latvia
Register for either/both for free: https://bit.ly/3FLb1j0
Bulgarika in concert
Come and enjoy live Bulgarian music and learn traditional Bulgarian line dance from the finest professionals!
Donka Koleva - vocals
Nikolay Kolev – gadulka
Temelko Ivanov – kaval
Nikolay Kodzhabashev – tambura
Marin Chalamov - tupan
Location: Provost’s House
35 Hillhouse Ave
Co-Sponsored By the Bulgarian Cultural Center in CT Roden Krai; First Year Seminar Program; European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center; and the Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies Program
Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series presents a film screening of KANAL (Kanał)
Poland, 1957. 91 minutes
Directed by Andrzej Wajda. 35mm print. Print Courtesy of the George Eastman Museum. Janus Films/Polart.
on Saturday, December 9, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Humanities Quadrangle, Screening Room L01
320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Free and open to the public | All films will be shown with English subtitles
The European Studies Council presents prominent Ukrainian writer and Professor of History, Olena Stiazhkina on “The Last Words in the World: Ukrainians and the War Experience”
Moderated by Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History (Yale)
Lunch at 12:30pm ET, talk at 1:00pm ET
Location: Luce Hall, Rm 203 (2nd fl), 34 Hillhouse Ave
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminar Series & the Reading Ukraine: New Ukrainian Books Presentation Series
The European Studies Council, The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale, and the Slavic Colloquium present Elena Kostyuchenko, journalist and author, in conversation with Andrei Kureichyk, a Belarusian dissident and writer in exile, and Nari Shelekpayev, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (Yale). Hosted and Moderated by Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History (Yale)
Lunch at 12:30pm ET, talk at 1:00pm ET
Location: HQ, Rm 136 (first floor), 320 York St.
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminar Series
Join the European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center for an admissions information session on the application process and opportunities within the European & Russian Studies M.A. program.
Register for the session: https://bit.ly/YaleERSMA2024
The seminar led by Dr. Raphaela Schweiger will delve into the profound impacts of digitalization and technological advancements on migration and refugee policies. In a world shaped by rapid technological change, this seminar offers an exploration of the evolving landscape, both globally and in some specific cases in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and North America. Technology has already begun reshaping the experiences of migrants, refugees, and those on the move.
