Speaker Series Spring 2024
Fortress Europe is a speaker series hosted by the Centre for European Studies dedicated to language securitization, Nordic Indigenous sovereignty, and feminist war historiography.
Title: “Language Test as Border Work”
Speaker: Dr. Kamran Khan – University of Birmingham (UK)
Date: February 14, 2024, 10-11 am
View the recorded lecture here!
Title: “Follow the Bodies: Feminist Political Economy of War and Peace”
Speaker: Dr. Aida Hozić – University of Florida (USA)
Date: March 13, 2024, 12:30-1:30 pm
Title: “Indigenous Energy Diplomacy in the Arctic: Probing the Complexity with Cases in Sápmi and the Inuvialuit Region”
Speakers: Dr. Rauna Kuokkanen – University of Lapland (Finland)
Date: March 20, 2024, 9-10 am
View the recorded lecture here!
Speaker Series Spring 2023
Engaging Transylvania is a speaker series hosted by the Centre for European Studies dedicated to the cultural and political imaginaries of Transylvania.
Title: “Untypical for a Transylvanian Lady? Gender and Nationalism in Modern Science”
Speaker: PD Dr. Borbala Zsuzsanna Török – Universität Wien (Austria)
Date: March 28, 2023, 1pm-2pm
Recording available here.
Title: “Between Exoticism and Colonialism: Historicising Transylvania in Bram Stoker’s Dracula”
Speaker: Dr. Madeline Potter – University of York
Date: March 13, 2023, 1pm-2pm
Recording available here.
Title: “Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires” Book Talk
Speakers: Prof. Anca Parvulescu – Washington University St. Louis (USA) and Prof. Manuela Boatcă – Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany)
Date: March 08, 2023, 5pm-6pm
Recording available here.
Speaker Series Fall 2022
Multicultural Ukraine is a virtual speaker series hosted by the Centre for European Studies and dedicated to the histories and cultures of ethnic and linguistic minority groups within Ukraine. You can find more resources on Ukraine here.
Recording available here.
Date: October 19, 2022 at 12:00 pm PT
“The Crimean Tatars: The Situation of the Indigenous People of Crimea From the Occupation of Crimea in 2014 to the Occupation of Ukraine in 2022”
Speaker: Dr. Filiz Tutku Aydin (Social Sciences University of Ankara)
Registration and more information: Multicultural Ukraine, with Dr. Filiz Tutku Aydin
Recording available here.
Date: November 02, 2022 at 12:30pm PT
“Imagining Jewish Carpathians: The Myth of Baal Shem Tov in the Yiddish and Polish Literature of the 20th Century”
Speaker: Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets (Historian and Researcher (Ukrainian Catholic University, Center for Urban History, Lviv, Ukraine)
Registration and more information: Multicultural Ukraine, with Dr. Vladyslava Moskalets
Recording available here.
Date: November 30, 2022 at 12:30pm PT
“Roma in Ukraine between a Eurasian Past and a Euro-Atlantic Future”
Speaker: Prof Elena Marushiakova (Research Professor, School of History, University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
Registration and more information: Multicultural Ukraine, with Prof Elena Marushiakova
Speaker Series Spring 2022
Date: April 21, 2022 at 12:30 pm PT
“The Reindeer at the End of the World: Climate, Apocalypse, and Soviet Dreams”
Speaker: Dr. Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University)
Registration and more information: Eurasian Environments, with Dr. Bathsheba Demuth
Date: April 26, 2022 at 11 am PT
“From Soviet Sturgeon to Post-Soviet Pike-Perch: A Century of Ecological Change in Kazakhstan’s Aral Sea Region, Told Through the History of the Fisheries”
Speaker: Dr. William Wheeler (University of Manchester)
Registration and more information: Eurasian Environments, with Dr. William Wheeler
Date: April 29, 2022 at 11 am PT
“Wildfires, Satellites, and Reindeer Shoulder Blades: Readings and Mis-Readings of Environmental Uncertainty in Northeast Siberia”
Speaker: Dr. Olga Ulturgasheva (University of Manchester and Princeton University).
Registration and more information: Eurasian Environments, with Dr. Olga Ulturgasheva
Hosted by: Co-sponsored by:
