Event Recaps

Understanding Totalitarianism in a Postmodern World: Lessons from Central European Philosophy
April 10, 2018
On April 5 and 6, 2018, Dr. Marci Shore, professor of history at Yale University, brought to New Haven the leading intellectuals and intellectual historians from the United...
From left to right- Visiting Professor Stephen Hanson and Professor Tom Graham
April 9, 2018
On March 18, in a landslide victory of over 76 % of the votes, Vladimir Putin extended his time in office for another six years. Thomas Graham, Senior Lecturer in Russian...
Russian Journalist Provides a Fresh View of Moscow’s Politics
March 2, 2018
“In a physical sense, traveling from Moscow to New York is easy. In a political sense, it feels like going to a different planet,” said Russian journalist Mikhail...
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...