Yale Postdoctoral Trainees | Baltic Studies Program

Ayse Zarakol- Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders

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

Whiteness, Not White Supremacy: Lessons Learned from the Whitening Process of Ottoman Greek Migrants

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.

PRFDHR Film: Frø: Nordic Seed Heroes - Movie Screening and Q&A with Film Director Charly Frisk

Movie screening on Thursday, April 13th, 2023 (25mn) followed immediately by Q&A session (35mn).

Interconnectivity and the Global Digital Agenda

The Schmidt Program on Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, and National Power at the Jackson School will host a conversation with Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), on the evolving issues of interconnectivity, global advancement of the digital agenda (Connect 2030 Agenda), and the interplay of the emerging telecommunication technologies and infrastructural change. Ted Wittenstein, Executive Director of International Security Studies, will moderate.

Will Putin's Invasion Spur More Countries to Acquire Nuclear Weapons?

The Jackson School of Global Affairs will host a talk with Robert Einhorn, senior fellow at the Strobe Talbott Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology of the Brookings Institution.
In his remarks, Einhorn will address the question, “Will Putin’s Invasion Spur More Countries to Acquire Nuclear Weapons?”
The event is part of the school’s Sunrise Foundation Lecture Series, which addresses policy issues especially pertinent to emerging economies.

Russia, Ukraine, and the Laws of War

With Alona Verbytska, human rights advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ms. Verbytska’s portfolio covers the “Human Rights of the Defender.” She assesses and monitors the adherence to the laws of war in the conflict. She will speak about issues such as the commission of and accountability for war crimes, the use of mercenary soldiers, and the treatment of prisoners of war.

Breaches of International Law in the Aggression Against Ukraine: Women in Russian Captivity

Lyudmila Huseynova is a resident of the temporarily occupied Novoazovsk region of Donetsk region where she worked as a safety engineer at a local poultry farm. At the time of her arrest, she had spent the past five years caring for orphans and semi-orphans from the temporarily occupied village of Primorske. She was detained on October 9, 2019 for volunteering, espousing a pro-Ukrainian position (a blue-yellow flag hung over her house in Novoazovsk for a long time), and for her social media activity. Lyudmila was initially detained in the Izolyatsia prison, where she was severely tortured.

Addressing the Security Risks of Anti-Roma Hate Speech on Social Media Platforms

This paper examines hate speech and its associated risks for human security, focusing on user-generated content (UGC) targeting Roma and related content moderation standards, tools, processes, and practices. The Romani people have experienced systemic racism, discrimination, and exclusion and faced prejudices, stereotypes, and hostility across countries. These negative attitudes are perpetuated, broadcast, and intensified in online spaces in the form of hateful and racist speech or incitement to violence.

Greece & Classical Music: In Myth and Tradition

Greece has a strong folk music culture and a tradition of Byzantine music (Greek Orthodox church music). These styles include musical features such as tropic modes and compound rhythms, musical elements that sound ‘exotic’ to the Western-trained ear. Furthermore, the music that is often associated with Greece around the world is an early 20th-century urban popular style known as rebetika (e.g. Zorba’s dance).

Balkan Communism Revisited

In the past few years there has been a revived interest in how international Communism affected politics and society in the Balkan region during the Cold War. Most importantly, new research has convincingly shown that Soviet control was not uniform in the region and that the cracks that appeared on the surface of the Soviet bloc merit investigation as they expose significant differences at the societal, political, and cultural level.