Extensive disruption and destruction of the everyday lives of civilian populations, often including deprivation of basic physiological and psychological human needs, is a deliberate feature of many forms of political violence.
One of the most underreported human catastrophes of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is the ongoing cultural and existential erasure of the country’s Nadazov Greek population, which, prior to the war, constituted the third-largest ethnic group (after Ukrainians and Russians) in the bitterly contested Donetsk region. Most of these Greeks were concentrated in and around the city of Mariupol, which they founded after Catherine the Great had resettled them from their ancient homeland of Crimea in 1778.
Please join us for a lunchtime talk with Institute of Sacred Music fellow, Dr. Samantha Slaubaugh. Since lunch is included, RSVP to raymond.vogel@yale.edu by Monday, November 6, 2023.
Note: Seating capacity is limited and will be given on a first-come, first-served basis.
The European Studies Council presents prominent Ukrainian writer and Professor of History, Olena Stiazhkina on “The Last Words in the World: Ukrainians and the War Experience”
Moderated by Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History (Yale)
Lunch at 12:30pm ET, talk at 1:00pm ET
Location: Luce Hall, Rm 203 (2nd fl), 34 Hillhouse Ave
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminar Series & the Reading Ukraine: New Ukrainian Books Presentation Series
The Jackson School of Global Affairs will host a conversation with Natalia Gavrilița, former prime minister of Moldova, on leadership in crisis and the future of Eastern Europe and the EU.
The conversation will be moderated by Jackson Senior Fellow Alix Zwane.
And yet evil exists: a Crisis of Love and writing through War
Conversation with Marci Shore and Iya Kiva with poetry readings
Reception to follow.
The European Studies Council, The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale, and the Slavic Colloquium present Elena Kostyuchenko, journalist and author, in conversation with Andrei Kureichyk, a Belarusian dissident and writer in exile, and Nari Shelekpayev, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures (Yale). Hosted and Moderated by Marci Shore, Associate Professor of History (Yale)
Lunch at 12:30pm ET, talk at 1:00pm ET
Location: HQ, Rm 136 (first floor), 320 York St.
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminar Series
The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy hosts Russia expert Tom Graham for a frank discussion on US-Russia relations. His new book, Getting Russia Right, identifies the blind spots that have prevented Washington from seeing Russia as it really is and from crafting a policy to advance American interests without provoking an aggressive Russian response.
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The World Fellows Program will host a conversation with Marvin Rees, the Mayor of Bristol, UK and a 2010 Yale World Fellow. A champion of urban leadership on climate issues, he will address how the battle against climate change will be won or lost in our cities. Introduction by 2023 World Fellow Guy Disney.
