Keynote Address of the 5th annual Yale European and Eurasian Studies Graduate Student Conference by Alberto Alemanno, the Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law, HEC Paris (France)
Moderated by Ligia Fabris Campos, the Henry Hart Rice Visiting Professor, Yale University and Assistant Professor at the Law School of Getulio Vargas Foundation (Brazil)
Dr. O’Brien is visiting professor at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota. Her most recent book is From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process through a Human Rights Lens and includes extensive research on the Armenian Genocide conducted in Armenia and Turkey.
Panel Discussion & Reception
Prof. Jan Wouters (Jan Monnet Chair & Professor of International Law, KU Leuven)
Prof. Harold Honkju Koh (Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School)
Consul-General Filip Vanden Bulcke (Belgian Consul-General to NYC, 2022-Present)
Ambassador Dirk Wouters (Belgian Ambassador to the US (2016-2020)
Prof. Susan Rose-Ackerman (Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School)
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.
The RUSSIAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA ARCHIVE is preserving the last two decades of independent Russian journalism, guarding this irreplaceable historical record against erasure as media outlets not aligned with the regime of President Vladimir Putin are shuttered and their reporters and editors cast into exile.
Tanya Kotelnykova, Co-Founder and President of Brave Generation and MA student in European, & Russian Studies at Yale University, on “Youth Participation in the Ukrainian Recovery: Experiences from Two Wars in Ukraine”
Lunch @ 12:30 pm ET, Talk @ 1:00 pm
Location: Luce Hall, Rm 202, 2nd fl, 34 Hillhouse Ave.
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminar Series
REEESNe’s Roma Studies Student Working Group will be holding a symposium at Yale University (Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall). The Working Group consists of doctoral and undergraduate students, as well as recent graduates, from institutions such as Brandeis University, Bucknell University, Central Connecticut State University, Duke University, and Southern Connecticut State University, and all are welcome (no registration necessary) to this FREE event, which will feature their scholarship and other work on Romani topics.
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
Low levels of social trust are widely seen as an impediment to economic development and social cohesion. Trust is measured mainly via surveys: metrics are used extensively in cross-national studies and percolate back to inform societal debates. However, the way in which trust is empirically approached is subject to two problems: measurement bias and the relation between attitudes and behavior. We address both problems focusing on Greece, currently ranked as one of Europe’s least trusting societies.
Throughout history, Cyprus has been variously described as ‘the island of love’, ‘the birthplace of Aphrodite’, ‘the island of saints,’ and ‘the land of lemon and olive trees. In the past half century, Cyprus has also been known as a land of pain and sorrow; an island of division and loss. On this musical journey to Cyprus, Nicoletta Demetriou (voice), Nikitas Tampakis (viola), and Panayotis League (laouto) explore this varied identity, as expressed through the island’s music and song.
