The Conference is held online. Time references are in Central European Time.
Please register for online participation: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LsW0fzeYRcKRHx_SRi-FEg
This symposium is part of the Intersectional Black European Studies project (InBEST), funded by the senate of Berlin, Germany, and implemented by the Center for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Technical University Berlin, the RAA Berlin (Center for Educational Justice) and Yale’s European Studies Council and Center for Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration.
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
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
Ayse Zarakol is Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge and a Politics Fellow at Emmanuel College. Her research is at the intersection of IR and historical sociology, focusing on East-West relations in the international system, history and future of world order(s), conceptualizations of modernity and sovereignty, rising and declining powers, and Turkish politics in a comparative perspective.
Cosponsored by the Fox International Fellowship
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.
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.
Screening of the award-winning documentary The Land of Azaba, a Spanish-language film set in Western Spain that closely observes the largest land preservation and ecological restoration project in Europe. Followed by a Q&A with the film director Greta Schiller, an Emmy-Award-winning veteran documentary filmmaker based in New York, and Carlos Sanchez, the film protagonist and President of Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre.
Yiorgo Topalidis is a historical sociologist whose research explores the social construction, contestation, memory and forgetting of Whiteness and its decoupling from White supremacy. He engages with these concepts through historical case studies that feature the experiences of Ottoman Greek migrants in a US context.
Movie screening on Thursday, April 13th, 2023 (25mn) followed immediately by Q&A session (35mn).
