General Public

Join Eric Karpeles and Alissa Valles for a discussion of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski: his life, his work, and the remarkable range of poets he inspired. Karpeles and Valles are the translators of the NYRB Classics titles Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp and Memories of Starobielsk: Essays Between Art and History, respectively, both of which collect Czapski’s critical writing, authored either about or during his internment in a Soviet Prison Camp between 1939 and 1941.

ESC-YLS Colloquium #4: Rethinking Democracy in and for the European Union

Prof. Michael Wilkinson (London School of Economics)
Prof. Vivien A. Schmidt (Boston University)
Discussant and Chair: Prof. Samuel Moyn (Yale University)

Join member librarians from the East Coast Consortium of Slavic Collections to learn about collection highlights, research opportunities, and more.

Hosted by Anna Arays, Librarian for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Yale University Library

Dr. Anna Kruglova is Lecturer of Terrorism Studies at the School of Arts and Media at the University of Salford and an Associate Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism. Anna has a PhD in International studies from Queen’s University Belfast. She also holds an MA in International Conflict Studies from King’s College London and MSc in Security Studies from UCL.

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.”