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"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

Can Shared Norms of Good Citizenship Reduce Native-Immigrant Conflict? Experimental Evidence from Greece- Nicholas Sambanis

Nicholas Sambanis joins Yale as the Kalsi Family Professor of Political Science. He previously taught at Penn (2016-2023) and Yale (2001-2016), and he worked at the World Bank Development Economics Research Group (1999-2001). Sambanis is an expert on civil wars, ethnic conflict, and the politics of migration. His writing combines theories and methods from the fields of international relations, comparative politics, and political psychology to study processes of identity formation and change and the ways that identity politics shape conflict outcomes.

Translating André Bazin’s Film Criticism

How do translators bring to English-language readers of the 21st c. André Bazin’s classical style, extended metaphors, and ineffable elan? In the midst of translating 120 of his 2700 pieces— magisterial essays on cinema as well as reviews of forgotten movies—should “fidelity to the letter or to the spirit” be emphasized, as he asked about adaptation? Debating a few challenging instances, while looking at other extant translations, this roundtable will scrutinize translation as it converges with the mode of the essay and the genius of Bazin’s writing

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.

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.

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

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