General Public | Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies at Yale

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.

Ukraine: Music During Wartime

A journey through film and music with Hobart Earle, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the world-renowned Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra. Maestro Earle will pay homage to members of his orchestra—many of whom are currently displaced by the war in Ukraine or fighting the Russian invasion of their country—by presenting high-quality video recordings of their performances from 2014-2023, featuring various musical compositions by Ukrainian and international composers.

Every Inch of NATO Territory: Transatlantic solidarity for the defence of the European continent and some lessons from the creation of the US federal armed forces

Panelists:
Lucio Gussetti, EU Visiting Fellow, and Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, and former Legal Adviser to the US State Department
Holly Harris, Master’s Student of European Studies at Yale University, will intervene.

Looking for Yiddishland: rediscovery of Galicia in Interwar Yiddish Travelogues

The European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center and the Judaic Studies Program present Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets, Associate Professor, Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), on “Looking for Yiddishland: rediscovery of Galicia in Interwar Yiddish Travelogues”
Moderated by Marci Shore, Professor of History, Yale University
Lunch at 12:30pm ET, talk at 1:00pm ET
Location: Judaic Studies Reading & Reference Room (Rm 335b, 3rd Fl), Sterling Memorial Library
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminars
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Haggadah in Ukrainian: Responses of the Jewish community to the full-scale Russian war on Ukraine

Judaic Studies Program and the European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center present Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets, Associate Professor, Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), on “Haggadah in Ukrainian: Responses of the Jewish community to the full-scale Russian war on Ukraine”
Location: HQ Rm 136
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Visions of Ecology on Art and the Environment in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, EVENT #5: Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe panel

VISIONS OF ECOLOGY: CINEMA AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE
Barbora Bartunkova (Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University)
“Post-Apocalyptic Ecologies: The End of August at the Hotel Ozone (1966) and the Czechoslovak New Wave”
Masha Shpolberg (Assistant Professor, Bard College)
“Chernobyl and the Crafting of a Soviet Nuclear Imaginary”
Katie Trumpener (Professor, Yale University)
“Dead Landscape, Deserted Village: Filming East German Ecology Before and After 1989”
Reception to follow.
Henry R. Luce Hall
LUCE 101 (Auditorium)

The reborn Mariupol: creating the urban city vision

We are thrilled to invite you to an important presentation-discussion featuring a team of researchers, designers and urbanists who have been deeply involved in framing the vision for the city of Mariupol. This discussion will highlight the findings from engagement process, the narrative, and the narrative translation into urban application.

Visions of Ecology on Art and the Environment in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, EVENT #4: The Making and Unmaking of the “Black Myth” of Donbas

The Making and Unmaking of the “Black Myth” of Donbas: Art as Witness to Deindustrialization, Ecocide, and War in Ukraine, 2014-2023 with Dr. Victoria Donovan of the University of St. Andrews
Zoom Registration: https://yale.zoom.us/j/94054227487

Paradoxes of Neoliberal Politics in a Post-Communist Society

For Eastern European societies in the 1990s, the desire for freedom was the key driving force for the shift towards Western liberal democratic capitalism. The West advocated a swift implementation of neoliberal reforms as the only path to a free and democratic society. However, the Soviet and neoliberal systems turned out to be more in common than their official ideological narratives suggest. The talk will focus on the case study of the post-communist Lithuanian academia.