Event Recaps

March 1, 2018
“Can music change the world?” is the question Tomek Lipiński, a co-founder of a Polish punk band Brygada Kryzys, is faced with at the end of the film Beats of Freedom. At the...
February 26, 2018
On February 16, Marci Shore, professor of cultural and intellectual history at Yale University spoke in conversation with the New Haven community about her most recent book...
February 2, 2018
For the full recording of the event After the 2008 Russian-Georgian war and the more recent conflict in Crimea in 2014, many are asking: are we now in a ‘new normal’ for...
December 13, 2017
Latvia’s economic recovery has been touted as one of Europe’s success stories since the financial crisis. Having shrunk more than 14 percent in 2009 – three times more than...
If the Walls Could Speak: Inside a Women’s Prison in Communist Poland
December 8, 2017
On Wednesday, October 25, the Yale Department of History hosted Anna Müller, an assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan-Dearborn who delivered a talk on...
mbassador Einar Gunnarsson, Permanent Representative of Iceland to the United Nations; and Yuriy Sergeyev, former representative of Ukraine to the UN
December 5, 2017
For the full recording of the event On Monday, December 4, the Global Governance series welcomed Ambassador Einar Gunnarsson, Permanent Representative of Iceland to the...
Mikhail Fridman: What does it take to become an entrepreneur?
November 3, 2017
On Tuesday, October 24, the Yale School of Management and the Russian Studies Program at the Council on European Studies at the MacMillan Center hosted Mikhail Fridman,...