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5th Annual Yale European Studies Graduate Fellows Conference

The European Studies Council at The MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies at Yale University presents the annual international conference of the Yale European Studies Graduate Fellows

This conference will bring together graduate students from across disciplines - social sciences, history, humanities - to discuss the most pressing challenges facing Europe, Russia, and Eurasia today.

More Info and the Call for Papers To Be Announced

REEES Lunch Seminar: Andrei Kureichyk

The Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program presents Andrei Kureichyk, Henry Hart Rice Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer, Yale University, on “Real-politic or disfunction of postmodern civilization. Nobel Laureate Ales Bialiatsky: trapped in the depths of the KGB dungeons”.

Leonidas Donskis Memorial Seminar: Social Dialogue in Times of Troubled Identities

The European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center and the Baltic Studies Program present

Leonidas Donskis Memorial Seminar: Social Dialogue in Times of Troubled Identities

Participants: Arvydas Grišinas, Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder, Bradley Woodworth, Viktoras Bachmetjevas
Seminar starts at 10:30am ET, lunch at 12:30pm ET
Location: Luce Hall, Rm 203 (2nd fl), 34 Hillhouse Ave.
Register to Attend on Zoom: https://bit.ly/Yale-LeonidasDonskis

Artists on the Move: Transnational and Transcultural Perspectives on Migration from the (former) Russian Empire, 1880–1939

Location: Online (co-sponsored by Yale-NUS College and the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University)
Dates: 7–9 March 2024

Screening of Manhunt | Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series

Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series presents a film screening of MANHUNT (Hajka)
Yugoslavia (Serbia), 1977. 104 minutes.
Directed by Živojin Pavlović. 35mm print. Yugoslav Film Archive, Belgrade.
on Friday, November 10, 2023, 7:00 p.m.

Humanities Quadrangle, Screening Room L01
320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Free and open to the public | All films will be shown with English subtitles

Double Feature Screenings | Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series

Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series presents a Double feature! on Thursday, October 26, 2023, 7:00 p.m.

THE BRIDE AND THE CURFEW (Nusja dhe shtetrrethimi)
Albania, 1978. 52 minutes.
Directed by Kristaq Mitro and Ibrahim Muçaj. Digital file. Albanian Film Archive, Tirane.

THE BRIDE AND THE CURFEW stands out from other Albanian films of the period through its focus on a single partisan woman, who finds a novel way of escaping from (and, of course, punishing) the occupying Germans.

Screening of Rainbow | Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series

Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series presents a film screening of RAINBOW (Raduga/Rajduga)
Ukrainian SSR, 1944. 93 minutes.
Directed by Mark Donskoj. Digital file. Dovzhenko Film Center, Kyiv.
on Saturday, October 7, 2023, 1:00 p.m.

Humanities Quadrangle, Screening Room L01
320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Free and open to the public | All films will be shown with English subtitles

Screening of The Valley of Peace | Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series

Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series presents a film screening of THE VALLEY OF PEACE (Dolina miru)
Yugoslavia (Slovenia), 1956. 89 minutes.
Directed by France Štiglic. DCP. Slovenian Film Archive, Ljubljana.
on Saturday, September 30, 2023, 7:00 p.m.

Humanities Quadrangle, Screening Room L01
320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Free and open to the public | All films will be shown with English subtitles

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.

Language, Identity, and the War in Ukraine: The Balkan Connection

In his presentation Professor Greenberg will address the cultural and linguistic ramifications of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Russia’s invasion has accelerated processes of Ukrainianization, especially among the country’s Russian speakers. These processes have arisen in direct defiance of Vladimir Putin’s declared aims of liberating and protecting Ukraine’s Russophone population. Like Slobodan Milošević in the Yugoslav conflicts of the 1990s, Putin has used historical grievances and language issues to justify his country’s attacks on Ukrainian cities, towns and villages.