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In his presentation Professor Greenberg will address the cultural and linguistic ramifications of the ongoing war in Ukraine. Russia’s invasion has accelerated processes of Ukrainianization, especially among the country’s Russian speakers. These processes have arisen in direct defiance of Vladimir Putin’s declared aims of liberating and protecting Ukraine’s Russophone population. Like Slobodan Milošević in the Yugoslav conflicts of the 1990s, Putin has used historical grievances and language issues to justify his country’s attacks on Ukrainian cities, towns and villages. Professor Greenberg will argue that the Yugoslav precedent helps us understand Putin’s mindset and may provide clues as to future scenarios as we enter the second year of the war.
Professor Robert Greenberg is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has held teaching positions at Yale, Hunter College, Georgetown, and the UNC-Chapel Hill. Professor Greenberg specializes in South Slavic languages and linguistics, and has worked primarily on sociolinguistic issues in the former Yugoslavia, exploring issues of language, nationalism, and ethnic identity both in Tito’s Yugoslavia and in the years following Yugoslavia’s breakup. He is the author of “Language and Identity in the Balkans” (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Panelists:
Lucio Gussetti, EU Visiting Fellow, and Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, and former Legal Adviser to the US State Department
Holly Harris, Master’s Student of European Studies at Yale University, will intervene.
President Biden has repeatedly confirmed the US “rock solid” commitment “to defend every inch of NATO territory” based on Article 5 NATO. A similar, albeit not identical, solidarity clause is contained in the EU Treaties in Article 42. Since 1949, the European continent has developed a structure of concentrical solidarity provisions, the intra-EU bond for the 27 EU Member States, and the larger NATO transatlantic bond. The event aims at discussing the scope, interaction, and future practical use of both legal commitments.
The historical constitutional development of the United States provides for remarkable correspondence with, and for several lessons for the European Union as it engages in further developing its military capability within NATO. The event will present some brief considerations in the context of the emergence of the EU Common Defence.

Judaic Studies Program and the European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center present Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets, Associate Professor, Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), on “Haggadah in Ukrainian: Responses of the Jewish community to the full-scale Russian war on Ukraine”
Location: HQ Rm 136
Bio:
Associate Professor at Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), coordinator of the Jewish Studies program and researcher at the Center for Urban History (Lviv). Vladyslava received PhD in history in 2017 from Jagiellonian University. Vladyslava was an external collegiate at the Doktoratskolleg Galizien program (University of Vienna) in 2013-2016, fellow of the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations (March-May 2016), fulbright Scholar Fellow (2018-2019), Northwestern University, Chicago. Currently a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she teaches history of Ukraine. The research interests include Jewish social history, Ukrainian-Jewish relations, Yiddish literature.

We are thrilled to invite you to an important presentation-discussion featuring a team of researchers, designers and urbanists who have been deeply involved in framing the vision for the city of Mariupol. This discussion will highlight the findings from engagement process, the narrative, and the narrative translation into urban application.
Our speakers will share their personal experiences and reflections on the vision of a rebuilt Mariupol (a city in Ukraine vastly impacted by the current war happenings), and how this inspiring project has impacted their personal and professional perspectives. They will discuss the upcoming long and difficult journey of rebuilding not only buildings but, most importantly, people’s lives and dreams.
This discussion is an opportunity for all of us to reflect on the importance of collaborative work and the commitment needed to bring about meaningful change. Our speakers’ message of hope and inspiration will resonate with all those who are passionate about building better communities and creating a brighter future for all.
About speakers At CRITICAL+Xwhy Research and Design agency, a team of interdisciplinary professionals spearheads comprehensive city development initiatives. Among them is Egle Vitkute, a distinguished senior researcher and strategist whose expertise guides numerous projects.
Jonas Liugaila, a design strategy lead at the agency, is renowned as a prominent voice in the Baltic design industry. In addition to his role at CRITICAL+Xwhy, Jonas serves as Secretary General at the esteemed International Council of Design.
Dominykas Karpovic, an innovation lead who also lectures at the ISM University. Dominykas’ contributions have enabled significant advancements not only within the agency but across diverse ecosystems beyond.
Leading research projects on sustainability throughout Europe is Zemartas Budrys, the agency’s sustainability lead. Zemartas’ fundamental research initiatives have been instrumental in advancing sustainability themes in various cases.
Justina Muliolyte is also a partner at PUPA, working on high-stake projects. Justina is recognised in urban planning field for her dedication and problem-solving skills.
CRITICAL+Xwhy web: https://www.cxfolio.com/
Urbanists‘ web: https://pu-pa.eu/eng/

Professor Michael Steinlauf will talk with Professor Marci Shore about his recently published book, This Was Not America: A Wrangle Through Jewish-Polish-American History. A dialogue with Polish historian Elżbieta Janicka, This Was Not America traces Steinlauf’s political and intellectual life from the Brighton Beach kitchens of Holocaust survivors in the 1950s to the Columbia University sit-ins of 1968, and later from the Solidarity movement in Poland of the 1980s to the wrenching debates about Polish complicity in the Holocaust that followed Solidarity’s victory and communism’s collapse. The book chronicles, too, the lives of his Polish Jewish parents, who survived the Holocaust, and the life of the author’s younger half-brother, who did not. Woven throughout the dialogue is a sometimes furious argument with Janicka about antisemitism, guilt, and the meaning of Polish-Jewish history.