Jared McBride, University of California, Los Angeles
Mark Galeotti, Senior Associate Fellow at Royal United Services Institute
Maxim Trudolyubov, Vedomosti, Kennan Institute
Kevin Rothrock, Meduza
A live interview with Natalia Telepneva, University of Warwick
Join the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies for the annual East European Festival on Sunday, February 24, from noon until 4:00pm in the Cathedral of Learning. Enjoy regional cuisine, a Russian tea ceremony, and other entertainment. We’ll also have a table with activities for the kids. Thank you to our co-sponsors, including the Yugoslav Nationality Room, the Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia, and our many student organizations.
Performances by Balkan Babes (12:00 pm) and GypsyStringz (2:00 pm)
The Holocaust Center will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a screening of the French drama Korkoro. Korkoro (“Alone” in the Romanes) tells the story of a Romani family trying to evade the Nazis while traveling through France. It has been described as a “rare cinematic tribute” to those killed in the Porajmos, or the Romani genocide by the Nazis during World War II. The event will include a discussion with an expert on the Romani experience.
Tickets are $10, free for Holocaust survivors and students with valid ID.
The nations of the Eurasian landmass have been on both the receiving and giving ends of kinetic and non-kinetic coercion long before fear spread of Russian Twitter bots. Powers both great and small in Eurasia have for centuries attempted to exert control over their neighbors and lands further across the globe.The United States’ 2016 presidential election made information warfare and cyber-security the topics of conversation in academic, policy, and security circles.
The 2013 Bosnian census figures reported by the central government contain an over-count of approximately 150,000, a number greater than the population of the third-largest city in the country, and probably due to mainly to illegal registrations of non-residents in strategically important parts of the country. While EUROSTAT had devised procedures to ensure a more accurate enumeration, the leaders of the three main ethno-national political communities had opposing interests in counting non-residents, illegally, as residents.
Live demonstrations of Polish cooking, pierogi making, Polish Pastries, hand painted Polish Easter eggs, straw ornaments, Polish surname origins, Polish paper cuttings, St. Andrew’s Eve fortune telling and a variety of Polish, Lithuanian and Carpatho-Rusyn folk arts will be featured for festival guests to try. Join Radek Fizik and his Polish Folk Songs and the Polkas, Obereks and Mazurkas of “Frania’s Polka Celebration" for your listening and dancing pleasure. The Polish Kitchen and Old World Bakery will offer delicious foods and baked goods at reasonable prices.
The University of Pittsburgh's Pitt Student Slovak Club and Slovak Studies Program present the 28th annual Slovak Heritage Festival. This popular event features continuous musical performers, cultural displays and lectures, Slovak and other East European import vendors, and ethnic food (klobasa, halušky, holupki, pirohy, and pastries).
