Social Sciences

Documentary Film: I Am Free...But Who Is Left?

I Am Free…But Who Is Left? (Joanne W. Rudof, 2021, DCP, 92 mins)

Joanne W. Rudof in person! Reflective, first-person accounts of the Nazi invasion of a small Polish town are supplemented by family photos and historical documents in this recent documentary by a long-time archivist at Yale’s Fortunoff Archive. Presented by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and the Yale Film Archive. Co-sponsored by the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism.

Ayse Zarakol- Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders

Ayse Zarakol is Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and a Politics Fellow at Emmanuel College. Her research is at the intersection of IR and historical sociology, focusing on East-West relations in the international system, history and future of world order(s), conceptualizations of modernity and sovereignty, rising and declining powers, and Turkish politics in a comparative perspective.

Cosponsored by the Fox International Fellowship

Keynote Address: "Ukrainian Identity in Peace and War"

Keynote Address of the 4th annual international interdisciplinary conference pf the European Studies Graduate Fellows on Beyond the ‘Communist Bloc’: New Approaches to Studying Europe, Russia, and Eurasia” by Volodymyr Kulyk, Leading Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
“Ukrainian Identity in Peace and War”
Date/Time: 9:45 AM, Wednesday, May 10, 2023 - Location: Henry R. Luce Hall, Rm 203

Whiteness, Not White Supremacy: Lessons Learned from the Whitening Process of Ottoman Greek Migrants

Yiorgo Topalidis is a historical sociologist whose research explores the social construction, contestation, memory and forgetting of Whiteness and its decoupling from White supremacy. He engages with these concepts through historical case studies that feature the experiences of Ottoman Greek migrants in a US context.

Russia’s Malign Influence in the Balkans via Supporting Ethno-Nationalist Forces

Filip Milačić, a researcher on how nationalism affects democratization in Southeastern Europe, will give an E&RS Lunch Seminar about Russian support for ethno-nationalists in the Balkans.
Lunch at 12:30pm ET, talk at 1:00pm ET
Location: Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Rm A001 (lower level) 77 Prospect St.

Decolonizing Europe Lecture | Reparations, the Refugee Crisis and European Neocolonialism

The Decolonizing Europe Lecture Series presents Dr. Maurice Stierl, Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies at Osnabrück University, on “Reparations, the “Refugee Crisis” and European Neocolonialism”
Hosted by Professor Fatima EI-Tayeb
Location: HQ Rm 136
Zoom Registration: https://bit.ly/Yale-MauriceStierl
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Decolonizing Europe Lecture | Colonially Bound - Immateriality Free. On the Expanded Distance Between Object and Image

The Decolonizing Europe Lecture Series presents Dr. Eunsong Kim, Associate Professor in the Department of English, Arizona State University, on “Colonially Bound/ Immateriality Free: On the Expanded Distance Between Object and Image”
Hosted by Professor Fatima EI-Tayeb
Location: HQ Rm 136
Zoom Registration: https://bit.ly/Yale-EunsongKim
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Decolonizing Europe Lecture | Radically Inclusive Archives - Intersectional Black European Studies Today

The Decolonizing Europe Lecture Series presents the INTERSECTIONAL BLACK STUDIES PROJECT (INBEST), on “Radically Inclusive Archives - Intersectional Black European Studies Today”
Hosted by Professor Fatima EI-Tayeb
Location: HQ Rm 136
Zoom Registration: https://bit.ly/Yale-InBEST
InBEST is a Black queer-feminist collaboration, housed at the TU Berlin (Center for Interdisciplinary Gender

Decolonizing Europe Lecture | France and Whiteness. breaking with the collaboration of race

The Decolonizing Europe Lecture Series presents Houria Bouteldja, founding member of le Parti des Indigènes de la république, on “France and Whiteness: breaking with the collaboration of race”
Hosted by Professor Fatima EI-Tayeb
Location: Luce Hall, Rm 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave.)
Zoom Registration: https://bit.ly/Yale-HouriaBouteldja
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