Lecture Series / Brown Bag

Hrishabh Sandaliya, Co-Director of European Programme for Integration and Migration (EPIM) In this session he will speak candidly, offering insight from his "lived experience as a migrant, student, entrepreneur and civil society activist on the seeming impossibility of Europe today, and the hope -the relational and imagination infrastructures we need to ensure its continuity." Specifically, he hopes to relate "my time in and from Europe's different nooks and corners - borders (Cyprus and Armenia), Scandinavia, MittelEuropa and its capital, to the numerous challenges we face, and posit that per

Moderator/s: Gabriella Lukacs, University of Pittsburgh Erica Edwards, University of Pittsburgh Panelists: Zsuzsanna Szelényi, Founding Director, CEU Democracy Institute Leadership Academy Ms. Szelényi is a former politician from Hungary, foreign policy specialist, author and Founding Director at the CEU Democracy Institute Leadership Academy. She is conducting research on how autocratic politics is influencing and shaping the future of the European Union.

UPDATE: THE LECTURE DATE HAS BEEN CHANGED TO Jan 23rd at 12:30 ET. EU ENLARGEMENT LECTURE SERIES: 20th Anniversary of the EU Enlargement As part of our continued efforts to bring together experts with diverse perspectives to discuss contemporary issues facing Europe, the European Studies Center/European Union Center of Excellence (ESC/EUCE) along with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) offers a new lecture series to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the EU Enlargement.

EU ENLARGEMENT LECTURE SERIES: 20th Anniversary of the EU Enlargement As part of our continued efforts to bring together experts with diverse perspectives to discuss contemporary issues facing Europe, the European Studies Center/European Union Center of Excellence (ESC/EUCE) along with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) offers a new lecture series to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the EU Enlargement.

EU ENLARGEMENT LECTURE SERIES: 20th Anniversary of the EU Enlargement As part of our continued efforts to bring together experts with diverse perspectives to discuss contemporary issues facing Europe, the European Studies Center/European Union Center of Excellence (ESC/EUCE) along with the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES) offers a new lecture series to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the EU Enlargement.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine transformed European security concerns dramatically. It has disrupted the lives of countless people in the region. It triggered a new wave of rapid forced migration throughout the EU and in other neighboring countries. Displacement from the war impacts not only Ukrainian women and children fleeing to Poland, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, and other neighboring countries. It has also affected Russians avoiding mobilization or Russian intellectuals avoiding repressions in their home country.

Moderator: Erica Edwards, Unversity of Pittsburgh Panelists: Ralitsa Kovacheva, Sofia University Julia Partheymuller, University of Vienna Elena Bruni, LUISS Gudio Carli, Italy, Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer Not to be confused with misinformation, meaning inaccurate information, disinformation is false material meant to intentionally mislead or misinform individuals. Brought to the fore in 2016 with Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, disinformation threatens to erode trust in democratic systems, weaken individual freedoms, and increasingly undermine governments around the world.

Moderator: Randall Halle, University of Pittsburgh Panelist: TBD

Moderators: Randall Halle, European Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh Nancy Condee, Center for Russia East European and Eurasian Studies, University of Pittsburgh Panelist: Agnieszka Holland, European Film Academy Agnieszka Holland, President of the European Film Academy, graduated from the Prague film school FAMU in 1971. She made her directorial debut with the television film “An Evening at Abdon's” (1975). Her first cinematic film was "Provincial Actors" (1978) - one of the flagship films of the so-called "cinema of moral anxiety," awarded in Cannes with the FIPRESCI prize in 1980.

It is 60 years since the signing of the Yaoundé Convention (1963). This was a moment in the history of decolonization when the Associated African States, 12 mainly young postcolonial Western African countries, signed a trade agreement with the also young European Economic Community. The Yaoundé Convention was part of the EEC’s Eurafrica initiative, an effort to maintain a presence in the former colonies. Yaoundé initiated a series of trade and aid agreements that replaced the colonial relation with a developmental model. An era of trade and infrastructural development followed.