More Information Forthcoming
Event will be in person and on Zoom.
More Information Forthcoming
Event will be in person and on Zoom.
Join a YCBA student guide for a tour of In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art.
While the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) is closed for building conservation, more than fifty major collection works, spanning four centuries of British landscape and portraiture traditions, are on view at the Yale University Art Gallery. Join our student guides to learn more about the exhibition, as well as architecture, collection, and history of the YCBA.
The European Studies Council at The MacMillan Center for International & Area Studies at Yale University presents the annual international conference of the Yale European Studies Graduate Fellows
This conference will bring together graduate students from across disciplines - social sciences, history, humanities - to discuss the most pressing challenges facing Europe, Russia, and Eurasia today.
More Info and the Call for Papers To Be Announced
The Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program presents Andrei Kureichyk, Henry Hart Rice Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer, Yale University, on “Real-politic or disfunction of postmodern civilization. Nobel Laureate Ales Bialiatsky: trapped in the depths of the KGB dungeons”.
Andrei Kureichik, a Belarusian dissident and writer in exile known for his opposition to the authoritarian regime in Belarus, will be engaging in a dialogue and discourse centered around Ales Bialiatsky, a prominent Belarusian political prisoner and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize 2022. Bialiatsky is currently being detained by the regime of President Lukashenko in a facility with the highest levels of security. In many nations, the defense of human rights transcends mere activism and instead presents a formidable obstacle to the oppressive machinery of the totalitarian regime. Belarus and Russia serve as illustrative instances. In this discussion, the focus will be on individuals who actively advocate for the protection and promotion of human rights. This discussion pertains to the establishment of the human rights center “Viasna” in Belarus by Ales Bialiatsky, as well as the human rights society “Memorial” in Russia, which has also been recognized with a Nobel Prize 2022.
Lunch at 12:30pm ET, talk at 1:00pm ET
Location: HQ (Humanities Quadrangle) Rm 136 (320 York St)
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminar Series
The European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center and the Baltic Studies Program present
Leonidas Donskis Memorial Seminar: Social Dialogue in Times of Troubled Identities
Participants: Marci Shore, Bradley Woodworth, Viktoras Bachmetjevas
A seminar, dedicated to commemorating Prof. Leonidas Donskis, a philosopher, publicist and politician, one of the most prominent contemporary Jewish Lithuanian intellectual figures internationally.
One of the core concerns in Donskis’ academic and public work was promoting a culture of dialogue and civil conversation, facing the perilous historical heritage of the twentieth century. A student of postmodern crises of national, ethnic and individual identities, Donskis sought ways towards deliberative politics, where different, even conflicting identities could have an opportunity to meet others in a peaceful and constructive fashion.
In times of raging cultural wars, and the uncertainty related to the upcoming U.S. elections, his thought remains relevant as ever. The seminar will invite an open discussion on possible applications of Donskis’s ideas in tackling the contemporary challenges and promoting a culture of dialogue.
Seminar starts at 10:30am ET, lunch at 12:30pm ET
Location: Luce Hall, Rm 203 (2nd fl), 34 Hillhouse Ave.
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminar series
I Am Free…But Who Is Left? (Joanne W. Rudof, 2021, DCP, 92 mins)
Joanne W. Rudof in person! Reflective, first-person accounts of the Nazi invasion of a small Polish town are supplemented by family photos and historical documents in this recent documentary by a long-time archivist at Yale’s Fortunoff Archive. Presented by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and the Yale Film Archive.
Join a YCBA student guide for a tour of In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art.
While the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) is closed for building conservation, more than fifty major collection works, spanning four centuries of British landscape and portraiture traditions, are on view at the Yale University Art Gallery. Join our student guides to learn more about the exhibition, as well as architecture, collection, and history of the YCBA.
Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series presents a Double feature! on Thursday, October 26, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
THE BRIDE AND THE CURFEW (Nusja dhe shtetrrethimi)
Albania, 1978. 52 minutes.
Directed by Kristaq Mitro and Ibrahim Muçaj. Digital file. Albanian Film Archive, Tirane.
THE BRIDE AND THE CURFEW stands out from other Albanian films of the period through its focus on a single partisan woman, who finds a novel way of escaping from (and, of course, punishing) the occupying Germans.
CONSCIENCE (Sovist’)
Ukrainian SSR, 1968. 75 minutes.
Directed by Vladimir Denisenko. Digital file. Dovzhenko Film Archive, Kyiv.
After two young partisans kill a Nazi officer in an occupied Ukrainian village, the invaders make an impossible demand: either turn over the perpetrators, or all the inhabitants of the village will be slaughtered. Too radical for its time, CONSCIENCE attained its status as a Ukrainian film classic only during the Perestroika years.
Humanities Quadrangle, Screening Room L01
320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Free and open to the public | All films will be shown with English subtitles
Sponsors:
Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program; European Studies Council; Whitney Humanities Center; Yale Film Archive; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; and Film and Media Studies Program
About the Film Series: In the aftermath of World War II, several European states started reconstructing and reimagining their identities and recent histories by producing a vast number of films that celebrated and commemorated their guerrilla struggles against fascism. These films ranged in scope and ambition from intimate psychological dramas to overblown military spectacles, from elegiac recollections to pure pulp fiction. Similar to Hollywood westerns, partisan films were the defining genre of the socialist film industry for a significant period. Moreover, in the late 60s and early 70s, both genres reinvented themselves and underwent a political revision that ended their respective “classical periods.” Despite being hugely successful in their domestic markets and often cinematically accomplished, many examples of the partisan films never traveled abroad, and most film prints today remain locked up and in dire need of preservation in various national film archives. Aside from a handful of canonical works, the majority of films we will screen have never been shown in the U.S.
Complexities of Resistance: Partisan Films from Eastern Europe and the Balkans Film Series presents a film screening of MANHUNT (Hajka)
Yugoslavia (Serbia), 1977. 104 minutes.
Directed by Živojin Pavlović. 35mm print. Yugoslav Film Archive, Belgrade.
on Friday, November 10, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Humanities Quadrangle, Screening Room L01
320 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Free and open to the public | All films will be shown with English subtitles
Regarded by many cognoscenti as Yugoslavia’s greatest film director, Pavlović—who was also a distinguished prose writer, memoirist, painter and film theorist— twice applied his gifts to the partisan theme. Based on a novel by Mihailo Lalić, MANHUNT depicts an only apparently brave and unified partisan collective mercilessly pursued by their various opponents through the hills of Montenegro.
Sponsors:
Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program; European Studies Council; Whitney Humanities Center; Yale Film Archive; Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; and Film and Media Studies Program
About the Film Series: In the aftermath of World War II, several European states started reconstructing and reimagining their identities and recent histories by producing a vast number of films that celebrated and commemorated their guerrilla struggles against fascism. These films ranged in scope and ambition from intimate psychological dramas to overblown military spectacles, from elegiac recollections to pure pulp fiction. Similar to Hollywood westerns, partisan films were the defining genre of the socialist film industry for a significant period. Moreover, in the late 60s and early 70s, both genres reinvented themselves and underwent a political revision that ended their respective “classical periods.” Despite being hugely successful in their domestic markets and often cinematically accomplished, many examples of the partisan films never traveled abroad, and most film prints today remain locked up and in dire need of preservation in various national film archives. Aside from a handful of canonical works, the majority of films we will screen have never been shown in the U.S.
