Drawing on research for a monograph in-progress entitled “The Czech Manuscripts: Poetics, Faith, Scholarship,” this presentation will examine the qualities of the manuscripts themselves, both as physical and as literary objects, their effective use in the Czech cultural revival of the period, and the cultural and intellectual horizons of the period that made the manuscripts (seem) real.
This series is designed to elevate conversations about teaching on race and continued disparities in our field while also bringing research by scholars and/or on communities of color to the center stage.
A lecture series presented by the 2018-2021 U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies grant recipients for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.
This series is designed to elevate conversations about teaching on race and continued disparities in our field while also bringing research by scholars and/or on communities of color to the center stage.
Drawing on almost two years of ethnographic research with older Poles in a range of contexts, this talk shows that everyday practices of remembering and relatedness shape how older Poles come to be seen by themselves and by others as living worthy, valued lives.
This series is designed to elevate conversations about teaching on race and continued disparities in our field while also bringing research by scholars and/or on communities of color to the center stage.
In this talk I explore the contours of antiziganism, conceptualized as racism and prejudice against Romani people groups, in Albania and the Balkan region.
Chelsi West Ohueri
October 21 | 1PM CST | Via Zoom
This series is designed to elevate conversations about teaching on race and continued disparities in our field while also bringing research by scholars and/or on communities of color to the center stage.
A lecture series presented by the 2018-2021 U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies grant recipients for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.
In this presentation, I draw on the example of the Soviet institutionalization of a Crimean Tatar folk orchestra to demonstrate how Soviet musical evolutionism ordered and constrained vernacular musical practices in ways that have had long-term political consequences, especially with regard to the politics of post-Soviet indigeneity.
A lecture series presented by the 2018-2021 U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies grant recipients for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.
Dr. Trevor Erlacher
November 12 | 1PM CST | Via Zoom
A lecture series presented by the 2018-2021 U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies grant recipients for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.
A lecture series presented by the 2018-2021 U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center and Foreign Language and Area Studies grant recipients for Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia.
Presenting Bulgaria’s cultural engagements with multiple actors in the Third World, this talk highlights the global reach of state socialism, demonstrates the existence of vibrant partnerships along an East-South axis during the 1970s, and challenges notions of late socialism as the prelude to communist collapse in eastern Europe.
Theodora Dragostinova
December 10 | 1PM CST | Via Zoom
There is no going back to the beginning. The emerging global economy will not resemble the system that came before. That pre-pandemic system was already fragile. Now we have an opportunity to imagine a new global economy.
"Polish Migrations Through a European (and American) Lens," a lecture by Professor Kris Van Heuckelom, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, exploring the representation of international migration in European cinema of the past 100 years.
April 13, 2020 from 4:30-7:30PM @ Foster Hall, Room 505
Tomas Matza discusses Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia. He will be joined in conversation by Eugene Raikhel. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 — 6:00pm-7:00pm @ The Seminary Co-op
In March 2020, Russian Renaissance makes its Chicago debut on the Music Without Borders series, bringing its expansive energy and unique sensitivity with music from Russia, Brazil, Japan, Argentina, and the U.S. Before the performance, the ensemble joins scholars Philip Bohlman, Robert Bird, and William Nickell in a pre-concert talk about their music and approach to their unique instruments.
March 1, 2020, 2:00PM @ Logan Center Performance Hall
Maria Todorova’s new book is devoted to the ‘golden age’ of the socialist idea, surveying the period of the Second International. It examines the promise for an alternative socialist utopia, moving beyond traditional historiographical emphasis on ideology, into intersections of spaces, generations, genders, ideas and feelings, and different flows of historical time.
February 27, 2020 @ 5pm, Social Sciences Tea Room (Room 201)
Michał Murawski discusses The Palace Complex: A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed. He will be joined in conversation by Meghanne Barker. A Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.
Thursday, February 20, 2020 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm @ The Seminary Co-op
‘On the history of kino clubs and the politics of amateurism in Socialist Yugoslavia’ with Greg de Cuir Jr. This public lecture examines the unique history of kino clubs and kino club culture on the territory of the former Yugoslavia, from its roots in the interwar years in the early twentieth century to the postwar years in the mid-twentieth century and the golden age of Socialist Yugoslavia.
February 18, 2020, 5:00pm @ The Franke Institute for the Humanities
The Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies invites proposals from University of Chicago PhD students for an undergraduate course to be taught during the Academic Year 2020-2021. This lectureship will provide support for CEERES-focused graduate students at the University of Chicago to design an area studies course related to their research interests.
