Please join the Turkish Circle on April 13, at 2:00pm CST for a movie screening of "Mild West” (Yahşi Batı), a comedy movie directed by and starring Cem Yılmaz, one of the most famous comedians in Turkey.
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All are cordially invited to attend the virtual public lecture by Professor John Schneider, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Chicago. Professor Schneider's lecture is entitled Epidemics and Vulnerable Community Members in Greece: Three Case Studies and will take place on April 16, 2022 at 12:00 PM CST.
Mercy Corps has reopened its registration and presence in Ukraine, as well as offices to support people in neighboring Poland and Romania. This includes partnership models, cash, information as protection and other emergency response activities in a very fluid environment. The Program Officer (PO) supports strategic, impactful, high-quality programming in the Asia region, particularly for Ukraine. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art and the Kyiv Committee of CSCI present the “We Stand With Ukraine” benefit concert. The concert will take place on Saturday, April 9 at 7 p.m. at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral and will highlight the music of Lysenko, Hulak-Artemovsky, Elgar, Skoryk, Verdi, and Webber. Tickets are $100, all proceeds will provide humanitarian relief for refugee children.
Join us as Yelena Lembersky and Sophia Shalmiyev discuss their respective memoirs, Like a Drop of Ink in a Downpour and Mother Winter, both of which ruminate on political antisemisim in and flight from the Soviet Union, the power of art, and the lasting bond between mother and daughter. The event will be moderated by Helen Fremont, author of The Escape Artist. Book talk is Apr 6, 2022 @ 6:30PM CST.
The Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (CSEEES) is pleased to announce that Rexhina Ndoci (PhD Candidate at the Department of Linguistics) will present the second of our 2022 Spring Semester Graduate Student Lectures. In her lecture Rexhina will explore how the migration of Albanians to Greece in the early 1990s led to intense xenophobic discourses that led to Albanians being engraved in the Greek consciousness as “cunning”, “primitive”, “untrustworthy”, “dangerous” and “criminal” especially through the creation and use of internet memes in later years. Watch via Facebook Live on April 11, 2022 @ 11:00AM - 12:30PM CST.
The conflict around Ukraine has brought to a head debate about how to deal with Russia, what role NATO should play, and how to manage interstate relations. It has also drawn attention to the diverse interests and perspective that are now evident in NATO -- which has expended from 12 to 30 countries -- and the threats to liberal values from abroad and within. The Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the Ohio State University hopes to provide some dispassionate and well-informed perspectives on the conflict and NATO's involvement. Conference takes place April 8, 8:00AM - 3:00PM CST.
Visit the Ukrainian National Museum on Friday, April 8 @ 7:00PM CST for the opening of a new exhibition: The LIfe and Legacy of Christine Staruch (1944-2021). Unique works of Ukrainian artists will be on sale from the private collection of Christine Staruch.
Lukich is one of the most interesting new directors in the Ukrainian film scene. His first feature film, a lyrical, absurdist comedy called My Thoughts are Silent (2019), won major international awards at the Karlovy Vary film festival and other international ceremonies, and you can watch it this week by registering for the Q&A. We invite you for a lively conversation about contemporary cinema, humor and the absurd in popular culture, what it was like to work in the film industry before the war, what's going on with Lukich's long-awaited sequel to his first feature, and what his hopes are for the future of Ukrainian cinema. The one-hour-long event begins at 4PM CST on Friday, April 1, 2022.
We are pleased to be accepting applications for our third biannual Graduate Methods Training Workshop, hosted by the Russian Studies Workshop (RSW) at Indiana University’s Russian and East European Institute (REEI). This two-day event is geared towards doctoral students working on Russia-related topics within social science disciplines to workshop their planned methodologies, discuss research challenges, and learn interdisciplinary tools from experts in the field. Applications due April 20, 2022.