The Baltic Studies Program is pleased to welcome Prof. Linda Kaljundi (Estonian Academy of Arts, Professor of Cultural History / Fulbright Scholar at MIT Program in STS) to give a talk on “Decolonizing Eastern Europe: A Baltic Perspective on a Global Debate.”
The Yale Baltic Studies Program presents a talk “On the Aporias of Victimhood: The Case of Lithuania” featuring Baltic Studies Kazickas Associate Research Scholar, Dr. Viktoras Bachmetjevas.
The Yale Baltic Studies Program presents a talk on “Latvia’s Jewish Cultures before the Catastrophe” featuring Baltic Studies Juris Padegs Associate Research Scholar, Dr. Iveta Leitane.
As part of the Slavic Colloquium, Prof. Jenny Kaminer (University of California, Davis) will present “Adolescence as Nightmare in Contemporary Russian Culture” on April 24 at 3pm in HQ 276.
Janine di Giovanni is a multi-award winning journalist and author, and CEO/Executive Director of The Reckoning Project. Janine was a war reporter for nearly three decades, from the first Palestinian intifada in the early 1990s to the siege of Sarajevo; the Rwandan genocide; the brutal wars in Sierra Leone, Somalia, Ivory Coast and Liberia to Chechnya, Afghanistan, Pakistan. She reported extensively in Iraq pre and post invasion, the Arab Spring, and finally Syria. Her field work for her most recent book took her to Gaza, Iraq, Egypt and Syria.
The Modern Europe Colloquium presents Carolyn J. Dean (Yale) and Omnia El Shakry (Yale), on “Witnessing Catastrophe in the Modern Middle East and Modern Europe: A Discussion”
Location: HQ (Humanities Quadrangle), Rm 107, 320 York St.
The Modern Europe Colloquium is generously sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; the European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center
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”
THIS COLLOQUIUM IS POSTPONED TO A FUTURE DATE
As part of the Slavic Colloquium Dr. Yuri Corrigan from Boston University will present on “Mapping the Unconscious from Gogol to Nietzsche”
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
