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.
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
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