General Public

A journey through film and music with Hobart Earle, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the world-renowned Odesa Philharmonic Orchestra. Maestro Earle will pay homage to members of his orchestra—many of whom are currently displaced by the war in Ukraine or fighting the Russian invasion of their country—by presenting high-quality video recordings of their performances from 2014-2023, featuring various musical compositions by Ukrainian and international composers. His presentation will explore lesser-known moments in Ukrainian history, how performers adapt to life during wartime, and how music itself is transformed for the listener due to current events. www.hobartearle.com
FEATURING VIDEOS OF HIS PAST PERFORMANCES
2014 – 2023
INCLUDING
Flash Mob from the Odesa Fish Market, March 22, 2014
In memoriam … 24.02.2022 — 24.03.2022 with music from Weinberg’s Symphony No. 21 “Kaddish”
and various musical compositions by: Valentyn Silvestrov, Giuseppe Verdi, Yevhen Adamstevych, Alemdar Karamanov, Krzysztof Penderecki, Reinhold Gliere, Archibald Joyce, Mykola Lysenko
Generously Sponsored By: Yale European Studies Council; The George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture Fund in International Studies at the Yale MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies; Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs; Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale; Judaic Studies at Yale; Ukrainian Institute of America; UConn School of Fine Arts
Location: Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale
Slifka Chapel (2nd Fl.) | 80 Wall St, New Haven

The European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center and the Judaic Studies Program present Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets, Associate Professor, Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv), on “Looking for Yiddishland: rediscovery of Galicia in Interwar Yiddish Travelogues”
Moderated by Marci Shore, Professor of History, Yale University
Lunch at 12:30pm ET, talk at 1:00pm ET
Location: Judaic Studies Reading & Reference Room (Rm 335b, 3rd Fl), Sterling Memorial Library
Part of the European & Russian Studies Community Lunch Seminars
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.

VISIONS OF ECOLOGY: CINEMA AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE
Barbora Bartunkova (Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University)
“Post-Apocalyptic Ecologies: The End of August at the Hotel Ozone (1966) and the Czechoslovak New Wave”
Masha Shpolberg (Assistant Professor, Bard College)
“Chernobyl and the Crafting of a Soviet Nuclear Imaginary”
Katie Trumpener (Professor, Yale University)
“Dead Landscape, Deserted Village: Filming East German Ecology Before and After 1989”
Reception to follow.
Henry R. Luce Hall
LUCE 101 (Auditorium)
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Register for Zoom webinar here: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0RhkG_LpQwe7cPoV2iJtQA

The Making and Unmaking of the “Black Myth” of Donbas: Art as Witness to Deindustrialization, Ecocide, and War in Ukraine, 2014-2023 with Dr. Victoria Donovan of the University of St. Andrews
Zoom Registration: https://yale.zoom.us/j/94054227487

For Eastern European societies in the 1990s, the desire for freedom was the key driving force for the shift towards Western liberal democratic capitalism. The West advocated a swift implementation of neoliberal reforms as the only path to a free and democratic society. However, the Soviet and neoliberal systems turned out to be more in common than their official ideological narratives suggest. The talk will focus on the case study of the post-communist Lithuanian academia. Drawing on historical analysis and study of Lithuanian academics’ narratives on change, it will argue that, since the 1990s, neoliberal politics in Lithuania has tended to exacerbate the problem of illiberalism it promises to solve. The talk will demonstrate that the seemingly antithetical the Soviet and the Western political regimes share illiberal and anti-democratic effects in the existential dimension of political life. Similarly to the Soviet order, albeit more subtly, neoliberalism has tightened its grip on academia and the public intellectual sphere more generally, threatening to fracture the ideas of intellectual freedom, truth, public good, and democratic civil society. Thus, given the complexity of the transformation, Eastern Europe is a ‘microcosm’ of the tensions between neoliberalism and democracy as well as between freedom and control.
Rūta Petkutė is a Joseph P. Kazickas Postdoctoral Associate at the MacMillan Center of Yale University and a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology in Lithuania. Her doctoral dissertation in social sciences at Tallinn University, Estonia, was titled “The Instrumentalisation of Academic Lifeworlds, knowledge, and Education: Lithuanian Academics’ responses to the European Higher Education Policy of Curriculum Restructuring” (2022). Her more recent work is at the intersection of the sociology of higher education, political sociology, political anthropology, and the history of ideas. She is working, jointly with a British sociologist Ivor Goodson, on a book project, tentatively titled “Exchanging Tyrannies: Paradoxes of Neoliberalism in a Post-Communist Society”.