Slavic Colloquium | Marina Mogilner
As part of the Slavic Colloquium Dr. Marina Mogilner from University of Illinois at Chicago will present on “Race for the Future: Scientific Visions of Modern Russian Jewishness”
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POSTPONED-Slavic Colloquium | Olesya Khromeychuk
THIS COLLOQUIUM IS POSTPONED TO A FUTURE DATE
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”
"In all and for all”: who is included in Orthodox Christian liturgy?
This daylong panel will be convened by ISM fellow Dr. Nadia Kizenko, and the speakers include:
Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Brown University
Nicholas Denysenko, Valparaiso University
Patricia Fann Bouteneff, Axia Women
Carrie Frederick Frost, Western Washington University
Nina Glibetic, Notre Dame
Vassa Larin, Vienna, host of “Coffee with Sister Vassa”
Ashley Purpura, Purdue University
Teva Regule, Boston College
Vera Shevzov, Smith College
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
