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2024 World Refugee Day - Food Bazaar

Join us on June 20th, 2024 for a heartwarming celebration of World Refugee Day! Let’s honor the resilience and strength of those forced to flee with a delightful culinary journey. Indulge in the rich flavors of Syrian, Afghan, and Senegalese cuisine at Sanctuary Kitchen, savor authentic Ethiopian dishes at Lalibella, and treat yourself to heavenly sweet delights and refreshing hibiscus tea at Havenly Treats. Let’s come together, share stories, and support our refugee communities with love and compassion.

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.

Russian Independent Media Archive

The RUSSIAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA ARCHIVE is preserving the last two decades of independent Russian journalism, guarding this irreplaceable historical record against erasure as media outlets not aligned with the regime of President Vladimir Putin are shuttered and their reporters and editors cast into exile.

EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY: “MY LANGUAGE IS NOT MY LANGUAGE. THIS IS WHY IT IS CALLED MY LANGUAGE.” READING + CONVERSATION

EUGENE OSTASHEVSKY: “MY LANGUAGE IS NOT MY LANGUAGE. THIS IS WHY IT IS CALLED MY LANGUAGE.”
READING + CONVERSATION
APRIL 2 2024, 53 WALL ST, RM. 208

Youth Participation in the Ukrainian Recovery: Experiences from Two Wars in Ukraine

Tanya Kotelnykova, Co-Founder and President of Brave Generation and MA student in European, & Russian Studies at Yale University, on “Youth Participation in the Ukrainian Recovery: Experiences from Two Wars in Ukraine”

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

Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble | Songs of Sustenance from Balkan, Baltic, Caucasian, Mediterranean, and Slavic Lands

The Yale Slavic Chorus presents a performance by Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble - Songs of Sustenance from Balkan, Baltic, Caucasian, Mediterranean, and Slavic Lands.

Kitka is an ensemble from Oakland, CA that specializes in folk music of Georgia, Armenia, the Balkans, and Ukraine.

This very special performance is sponsored by the Traphagen Alumni Speaker Series, the Institute for Sacred Music, the REEES Program at the Yale MacMillan Center, the Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Dept. of Music.

Free Advance Registration: tinyurl.com/kitkayale

Research Workshop: Slavic Collections in North America

Join member librarians from the East Coast Consortium of Slavic Collections to learn about collection highlights, research opportunities, and more.

Hosted by Anna Arays, Librarian for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Yale University Library

Screening of FOUR WINTERS with Q&A by Director | Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series

Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series presents a film screening of FOUR WINTERS: a Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in WW2 with Q&A by Director Julia R. Mintz
USA, 2022. 1h 30m. DCP. New Moon Films.
Directed by Julia R. Mintz

on Tuesday, April 09, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Auditorium, 53 Wall St. (first floor)
New Haven, CT 06511
Free and open to the public | All films will be shown with English subtitles

Disentangling Disinformation | Selling the Extreme: How Terrorists Use Marketing to Disseminate Their Propaganda

Dr. Anna Kruglova is Lecturer of Terrorism Studies at the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford and an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism. Anna has a PhD in International studies from Queen’s University Belfast. She also holds an MA in International Conflict Studies from King’s College London and MSc in Security Studies from UCL.