Pulitzer Prize finalist Hernan Diaz to deliver spring 2021 Finzi-Contini Lecture
Why dwell on made-up stories? Why make them up in the first place? Can fiction, that pack of lies, aspire to some form of truth? Award-winning novelist Hernan Diaz will present a Finzi-Contini lecture titled “The Heart of Fiction” on Tuesday, March 16, at 4:30 pm EST via Zoom.
An introduction and Q&A session for the funding opportunities offered by the European Studies Council and the Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS) during the summer and academic terms. Dr. Charles Bryan Jenkins, NRC/FLAS Program Officer of the Department of Education will provide a short presentation and answer questions regarding FLAS Fellowships.
Register for Virtual Event: https://bit.ly/ESCFLASinfosession
The European Studies Council and the Baltic Studies Program at Yale present Dr. Gintare Venzlauskaite, the Joseph P. Kazickas Visiting Fellow, Yale, on “Identity, Agency, and the Constraints of Political Conditionality: Understanding Lithuanian Diasporas of Displacement Through Narratives of Return”
The European Studies Council and the Baltic Studies Program at Yale present Dr. Solvita Denisa-Liepniece, the Juris Padegs Visiting Fellow, on “Weapons of Mass Instruction in Putin’s Russia: the Baltics in Educational Policies and Teaching History.”
Register for Virtual Event: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y2GdPkadTUCAsga5mtaNpQ
The Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies Program presents Dr. Ian MacMillen, Yale University, to discuss “African American Performance in Post-WWII Soviet/Yugoslav Space and Screens.”
Please register for the zoom webinar link: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2Il8C3jeTgixb9hDN2GEGg
The EU Studies Program along with Hamish Falconer, World Fellow 2020, present a panel of experts to discuss “Can Britain Have a Grand Strategy after Brexit” Featuring the following speakers:
Ben Judah is a foreign policy writer based in New York, with his current research focus on the foreign and economic policy of both post-Brexit Britain and a potential future Biden-Harris Administration.
The European Studies Council and the Baltic Studies Program at Yale present Indra Ekmanis, Baltic Sea Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute, who will present the following talk on “Sound of the Nation: Russian-Speaker Integration in Latvia”
Comments by Solvita Denisa-Liepniece, Juris Padegs Fellow, Yale University
Please register for the webinar zoom link: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8wrN-QlLSZ6d22Qwct8saA
