Panel Discussions and Roundtables

Captivity and Creativity in 20th Century Polish Literature: Józef Czapski and His Poets- A Discussion and Reading

Join Eric Karpeles and Alissa Valles for a discussion of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski: his life, his work, and the remarkable range of poets he inspired. Karpeles and Valles are the translators of the NYRB Classics titles Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp and Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History, respectively, both of which collect Czapski’s critical writing, authored either about or during his internment in a Soviet Prison Camp between 1939 and 1941.

Round Table RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR AS A PLAY

Round Table
RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR AS A PLAY
Location: Sterling Memorial Library, Rm 218 (2nd fl), 120 High St.

Critically acclaimed playwright and journalist Alexander Mardan and poet Vitaliia Babushchak (Odessa, Ukraine) will deliver a talk on the plot of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and war through the lenses of the theory of drama. They will also discuss the significance of Odessa as the capital of multiculturalism in Ukraine during the Russian invasion and Ukrainian nationalism.

"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

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

ESC-YLS Colloquium: The Rule of Law in the EU

Colloquium 1: Rule of Law Backsliding and New Democracy Deficit in the EU

Prof. Kim Scheppele (Princeton): “The New Democracy Deficit”
Prof. Laurent Pech (University College Dublin): “The Future of the Rule of Law ”
Chaired by Prof. Isabela Mares (Yale)

Part of a colloquium series on the future of European integration co-organized by Yale’s European Studies Council and the Yale Law School European Law Association.

Event will be in person and on Zoom.

CANCELLED - ESC-YLS Colloquium: Today’s Transformation of Europe

CANCELLED

Featuring Dr. Joseph Weiler (NYU) and Dr. Kalypso Nicolaïdis (via Zoom) (Oxford University, European University Institute). Moderated by Prof. Samuel Moyn (Yale University

Colloquium 1: Today’s Transformation of Europe

Prof. Weiler: “Is the Church of European Legal Integration facing a Reformation? Should It?”

Prof. Nicolaïdis: “The Peoples Imagined. Constituting a Democratic European Polity”

Event will be in person and on Zoom.

From Dr. Weiler:
“Is the Church of European Legal Integration facing a Reformation? Should It?”

Leonidas Donskis Memorial Seminar: Social Dialogue in Times of Troubled Identities

The European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center and the Baltic Studies Program present

Leonidas Donskis Memorial Seminar: Social Dialogue in Times of Troubled Identities

Participants: Arvydas Grišinas, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder, Bradley Woodworth, Viktoras Bachmetjevas
Seminar starts at 10:30am ET, lunch at 12:30pm ET
Location: Luce Hall, Rm 203 (2nd fl), 34 Hillhouse Ave.
Register to Attend on Zoom: https://bit.ly/Yale-LeonidasDonskis

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