Talks and Lectures

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

PRFDHR Seminar: Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants, Professor Nicholas Sambanis

In the aftermath of the refugee crisis caused by conflicts in the Middle East and an increase in migration to Europe, European nations have witnessed a surge in discrimination targeted at immigrant minorities. Drawing from original surveys, survey experiments, and novel field experiments, Professor Sambanis will discuss his recent book with co-authors Donghyun Danny Choi and Mathias Poertner.

Book Talk with Erik Scott: Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World

Erik R. Scott is Associate Professor of History and director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire (OUP, 2016) and editor of The Russian Review.
The Book Talk will be moderated by David Engerman, Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History.

Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World

Erik R. Scott is Associate Professor of History and director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire (OUP, 2016) and editor of The Russian Review.

The Book Talk will be moderated by David Engerman, Leitner International Interdisciplinary Professor of History.

This event is in person only.

Resistance and Struggle Across Racial Regimes: Germany, South Africa, and the United States

In-person and live-streamed
A Symposium sponsored by:
Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center, Yale University
Co-sponsored by: The Amistad Committee, Inc.; Yale Education Studies Program; and Yale MacMillan Center’s Council on African Studies and European Studies Council
With generous support from the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund
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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.

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