Latvia's Jewish Cultures before the Catastrophe | Iveta Leitane
The Yale Baltic Studies Program presents a talk on “Latvia’s Jewish Cultures before the Catastrophe” featuring Baltic Studies Juris Padegs Associate Research Scholar, Dr. Iveta Leitane.
General Public
"In all and for all”: who is included in Orthodox Christian liturgy?
This daylong panel will be convened by ISM fellow Dr. Nadia Kizenko, and the speakers include:
Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Brown University
Nicholas Denysenko, Valparaiso University
Patricia Fann Bouteneff, Axia Women
Carrie Frederick Frost, Western Washington University
Nina Glibetic, Notre Dame
Vassa Larin, Vienna, host of “Coffee with Sister Vassa”
Ashley Purpura, Purdue University
Teva Regule, Boston College
Vera Shevzov, Smith College
Pursuing Justice and Accountability in Ukraine, Two Years on from Russia's 2022 Invasion
Janine di Giovanni is a multi-award winning journalist and author, and CEO/Executive Director of The Reckoning Project. Janine was a war reporter for nearly three decades, from the first Palestinian intifada in the early 1990s to the siege of Sarajevo; the Rwandan genocide; the brutal wars in Sierra Leone, Somalia, Ivory Coast and Liberia to Chechnya, Afghanistan, Pakistan. She reported extensively in Iraq pre and post invasion, the Arab Spring, and finally Syria. Her field work for her most recent book took her to Gaza, Iraq, Egypt and Syria.
Memetic Politics: War and Peace “After Truth” | Arvydas Grisinas
This talk encapsulates an ongoing book project about the changing ways we engage in politics when public truths cease to be factual, wars are fought digitally, and knowledge is governed by AI. The 21st century was expected by many to be a time of radical, post-historical enlightenment, marked by an increasing velocity of scientific and technological innovation, interconnection, and knowledge sharing.
Showing secret words: the representation of sacramental confession in Orthodox Russia and Ukraine
The Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program presents Nadieszda Kizenko, Professor of History, University of Albany; Yale ISM Fellow, on “Showing secret words: the representation of sacramental confession in Orthodox Russia and Ukraine”
Poynter - Terrell Jermaine Starr, Covering the Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a Black Correspondent
Terrell Jermaine Starr, independent journalist, on “Covering the Russian Invasion of Ukraine as a Black Correspondent”
Terrell will talk with Professor Shore about his work in Ukraine, being an independent journalist, his journey of becoming an expert on Ukraine and Eastern European politics and how he is perceived in the region as a Black American.
The Zelensky Effect | Olya Onuch
The Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program presents Olya Onuch, Professor (Chair) in Comparative and Ukrainian Politics, the University of Manchester, on “The Zelensky Effect” (OUP/Hurst 2023/2022, co-authored with Henry Hale) her recent book publication.
Talk at 11:00 am ET, lunch follows
Location: Luce Hall, Rm 203, 2nd fl, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminar Series
Screening of Farewell Until the Next War | 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 FAREWELL UNTIL THE NEXT WAR (Nasvidenje v Naslednji Vojni)
SR Slovenia, 1980. 117 minutes. DCP. Slovenian Film Archive, Ljubljana.
Directed by Živojin Pavlović
on Thursday, March 30, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Humanities Quadrangle, Screening Room L02
320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Free and open to the public | All films will be shown with English subtitles
Screening of The Pine Tree on the Mountain | 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 PINE TREE ON THE MOUNTAIN (U Gori Raste Zelen Bor)
SR Croatia, 1971. 94 minutes. 35mm print. Croatian Cinematheque, Zagreb.
Directed by Antun Vrdoljak
on Saturday, March 30, 2024, 3:00 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 Bell Tolls for the Barefooted | 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 BELL TOLLS FOR THE BAREFOOTED (Zvony Pre Bosych)
Czechoslovakia [in Slovak], 1965. 96 minutes. 35mm print. Slovak Film Institute, Bratislava.
Directed by Stanislav Barabáš
on Saturday, February 17, 2024, 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
