Lecture

Kapka Kassabova's writing eschews a narrow register of academic writing and explores different chronotypes of nourishment, from the "Red Riviera" of the Black Sea coast to the interconnected lakes Ohrid and Prespa and the valley of the river Mesta, abundant with local practices of healing. Join us for a discussion about situated, in-depth histories of well-being, care, and nourishment as we collectively contemplate the potential of the Balkans as a space of nourishment.

On Wednesday, September 13 at 12pm, Professor Marian Zulean Professor of Sociology at the University of Bucharest (Romania) will discuss identity and security in the Black Sea Region. The talk will be held in 3911 Posvar Hall and will also be streamed on Zoom.

How did Jewish children conceal their presence during the Holocaust and what effect did hiding have on child survivors? This talk will expand the story of Krakow Jews as told in the film "Schindler's List" by zooming in on Jewish children's experiences and what that conveys about the German occupation of Krakow, Poland.

Professor Jochen Hellbeck of Rutgers University will give the third and final presentation of the Socialist Studies Seminar series, presenting on a chapter from his book-in-progress, "A War Like No Other?"

Part of a forthcoming monograph devoted to the decades-long stand-off between Nazi antibolshevism and Soviet antifascism, this chapter traces the Red Army’s incursion into Germany in 1944 and 1945 as it focuses on the interpretive lenses that propagandists, soldiers, and civilians on both sides of the front applied to the final stage of the Second World War in Europe.

Professor Gennady Estraikh of New York University will give the second lecture of the Socialist Studies Seminar series.

Alissa Klots will give the first lecture of her Socialist Studies Seminar on Friday, September 1st at 4 p.m.

Anton Dolin is a widely known Russian television and radio host, film critic, journalist, and podcaster. From 2017 until the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he was the Editor in Chief of Russia’s most prominent cinema journal Iskusstvo Kino; from 2012 to 2020 he regularly appeared on television as film reviewer for Evening Urgant. For an interview with Anton Dolin, see Deutsche Welle, as well as his YouTube channel Radio Dolin.

The fundamental interconnectedness of all things: Nationality Rooms in the Cathedral of Learning

The presentation explores the case of Arnaldo Ochoa, a top-ranking general in the Cuban military who once rivalled Fidel Castro in popularity and esteem across the island. News of Ochoa’s arrest, conviction and execution on grounds of corruption and drug-smuggling in 1989 shocked both Cuba and the globe. This talk explores what happened to Ochoa through the lens of his military leadership in Angola, the southern African nation whose independence Cuba had been supporting since 1975.

With the recent developments in Ukraine and Putin's talk on restoring the Soviet aor the Russian Empire, newly independent territories and cities at the former imperial periphery are again in focus. Riga, today's capital of Latvia, belonged to the Russian Empire (1710-1917) and used to be one of imperial Russia's main ports. In the decade before World War I, Riga was the port with the highest turnover, surpassing both Odessa and the capital St. Petersburg. But Riga was never really a "Russian" city: before World War I, only 18 percent of its inhabitance were native Russian speakers.