Lecture

Who Fills the Seats? Publicly Employed Women in Russian Municipal Politics

Type: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 1:30pm to 2:30pm
Event Location: 
3911 Posvar Hall

On Wednesday, October 30 at 1:30 pm ET, Valeria Umanets will present, “Who Fills the Seats? Publicly Employed Women in Russian Municipal Politics,” based on her research on women’s political engagement in Russia's local politics. Her study explores how women’s involvement in municipal governance helps stabilize authoritarian regimes by enhancing the delivery of essential welfare services. The research draws on interviews with municipal representatives, fieldwork observations, and electoral data analysis.

Green Cities for the Future

Type: 
Thursday, April 10, 2025 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Event Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently predicted that global average temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the mid-2030s. Over the last decades, a global network of scholars, policy makers, activists, and others have organized to offer ways to mitigate and even reverse the effects of climate change. What offramps can these solutions and movements offer our collective humanity?

Front-Line Issues: War, Climate, and Refugees

Type: 
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Event Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently predicted that global average temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the mid-2030s. Over the last decades, a global network of scholars, policy makers, activists, and others have organized to offer ways to mitigate and even reverse the effects of climate change. What offramps can these solutions and movements offer our collective humanity?

To Govern What We Eat

Type: 
Thursday, March 13, 2025 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Event Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently predicted that global average temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the mid-2030s. Over the last decades, a global network of scholars, policy makers, activists, and others have organized to offer ways to mitigate and even reverse the effects of climate change. What offramps can these solutions and movements offer our collective humanity?

Kicking the Hydrocarbon Habit

Type: 
Thursday, February 6, 2025 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Event Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently predicted that global average temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the mid-2030s. Over the last decades, a global network of scholars, policy makers, activists, and others have organized to offer ways to mitigate and even reverse the effects of climate change. What offramps can these solutions and movements offer our collective humanity?

Eurasian Environments in Global Context

Type: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Event Location: 
Zoom

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently predicted that global average temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the mid-2030s. Over the last decades, a global network of scholars, policy makers, activists, and others have organized to offer ways to mitigate and even reverse the effects of climate change. What offramps can these solutions and movements offer our collective humanity?

Wild Weather, Mass Migration

Type: 
Thursday, January 23, 2025 - 1:00pm to 2:30pm
Event Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall

The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently predicted that global average temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in the mid-2030s. Over the last decades, a global network of scholars, policy makers, activists, and others have organized to offer ways to mitigate and even reverse the effects of climate change. What offramps can these solutions and movements offer our collective humanity?

Bohemia, Prague, and Franz Kafka: Intercultural Contexts in Central Europe

Type: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 5:30pm
Event Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, CL 149 (French room)

The lecture by Prof. Dr. Steffen Höhne, "Bohemia, Prague, and Franz Kafka – Intercultural Contexts in Central Europe," will explore Franz Kafka's work in relation to the cultural and political dynamics of Bohemia and Prague. The event will also include a discussion with students from Prof. Dr. Amy Colin's Kafka seminar.

Genealogy and the modern identity: A linguist’s journey into the past and back

Type: 
Friday, September 6, 2024 - 5:00pm
Event Location: 
Hungarian Room – CL 121

This talk summarizes the results of genealogical research done by the author – a linguist and academic from Hungary – which she has conducted in the past five years to uncover her own family’s history of mostly peasant ancestors in 18th-19th century rural southern Hungary. These results are then discussed in terms of the micro-historical, social-historical, and epigenetic contexts of modern (Central European) identity.

How to Conduct Yourself: Dissident Advice Manuals in Late Soviet Society

Type: 
Friday, September 27, 2024 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Event Location: 
Baker/Porter Hall 246A

In the 1970s, a new genre of samizdat emerged in the Soviet Union: the dissident conduct manual, covering situations ranging from interrogations to apartment searches to interviews with psychiatrists. They spoke not to the age-old question "What is to be done?," but the existential "How should you conduct yourself?" What did self-respect require? Did interrogation rooms and psychiatric wards demand a distinct code of behaviour, a moral state of exception- or did they merely reproduce everyday Soviet reality in a heightened form?