Panel Discussions and Roundtables | Yale MacMillan Center European Union Studies

Voices of New Belarus

The Yale community is invited to hear the 2022 Yale World Fellows read and discuss the documentary play of Belarusian playwright and civil activist Andrei Kureichik. The play features 14 real monologues of Belarusians chosen from more than 700 stories of victims of Lukashenko’s repressive machine. In the play, politicians, journalists, activists, people of all ages and professions share their experience of political repression. This reading is an invitation to a broad discussion about the problem of political prisoners in the world and ways you can help.

(Post)-soviet / (de-)colonial: architectural constellations

Wednesday 30 November, 5pm-7pm
Loria 251a, Yale History of Art (190 York Street)

Visions of Ecology on Art and the Environment in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, EVENT #2

EVENT #2: SWEET RUINS: INFRASTRUCTURES OF THE SOCIALIST ANTHROPOCENE | Thursday, December 8, 2022, 12:00pm ET
DR. MAJA FOWKES AND DR. REUBEN FOWKES
ART HISTORIANS, CURATORS AND CO-DIRECTORS OF THE POSTSOCIALIST ART CENTRE (PACT), THE UCL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES
Sweet Ruins: Infrastructures of the Socialist Anthropocene

ISS Visiting Fellow Discussion Forum featuring Toomas Ilves

International Security Studies will host a discussion with the Honorable Toomas Ilves, former president of Estonia, who made his country one of the most digitally advanced in the world by spearheading cutting-edge e-governance and cyber policies. He also earned praise for his deft navigation of Estonia’s integration with Europe and NATO while managing relations with neighboring Russia, including through a massive cyber attack widely believed to have been orchestrated by the Kremlin. Join us for a wide-ranging conversation on security in Europe and beyond.

Visions of Ecology on Art and the Environment in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, EVENT #3: METHODS AND CASE STUDIES

LINDA KALJUNDI
HISTORIAN AND CURATOR, ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS / TALLINN UNIVERSITY
“DE-PROVINCIALIZING ENVIRONMENTALISM IN EASTERN EUROPEAN ART (HISTORY): THE CASE OF SOVIET ESTONIA”
LUKAS BRASISKIS
ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF VIDEO & FILM, E-FLUX
“ANTHROPOCENE VISUALITY IN TIMES AFTER NATURE: A CASE STUDY OF ‘ACID FOREST’”
PAVEL BORECKÝ
VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGIST, UNIVERSITY OF BERN
“TUNING SOLARIS: FROM THE DARKNESS OF A SHOPPING MALL TOWARDS POST-HUMANIST CINEMA”

The War in Ukraine: Where do we go from here?

With the Russian war in Ukraine entering its eighth month, what are the prospects for resolution? Can either Russia or Ukraine “win” the war in any meaningful way? Do the US and Europe have enough domestic political resolve to continue supporting Ukraine with critical resources as they face the possibility of warfare persisting into a second winter?

A Poor Westerner Looks at Ukraine

Register (zoom): https://bit.ly/Yale-UkraineApril21

Humanities in Action: Oral Histories and Artistic Exhibitions

The Humanities in Action Series features Yale Environmental Humanities grantees sharing their completed projects, reflecting upon their research and creative processes, and collectively discussing what they have learned about engaging broader publics on environmental and social issues.
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A Dialogue about War, from Inside

The philosopher Walter Benjamin famously distinguished two different levels of experience: Erlebnis as “lived experience” in its immediate, affective, not-yet-processed reality, and Erfahrung as more self-conscious, theorized, conceptualized experience. This will be a discussion among Ukrainian intellectuals who in most of their lives devote much energy to conceptualizing and theorizing. Now they find themselves in the midst of what is the largest-scale invasion in Europe since the defeat of Nazi Germany.

Hamid Ismailov: A Retrospective Symposium

Central Asian literature taps into deep wellsprings of Islamic philosophy and Persianate poetry. Over the last two hundred years – years of colonization and revolution, authoritarianism and decolonization – it has developed in conversation with Russian, Western, and Chinese traditions. Hamid Ismailov, the foremost contemporary Central Asian author, brings together all these traditions in his prolific oeuvre, including many novels and collections of poetry. Born in Kyrgyzstan, he began his writing career in Uzbekistan and now lives in political exile in the Czech Republic.