CREES Noon Lecture. Permanent Reinventing of Itself: Belarusian Culture Confronting Cyclical Erasure
Victor Martinovich, associate professor of humanities and arts, European Humanities University (Vilnius), and Fulbright visiting professor, Hunter College, New York
Five years ago, Belarus experienced a renaissance in publishing, with dozens of private publishers, an independent system of book...
“For Us the Desert are Buzzling Cities:” Early Soviet Yerevan between Armenian Futurism and Post-Persian Retrotopia
David Leupold, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin
Abstract: Few architects of the 20th century have left as indelible a mark as the neoclassical architect Alexander Tamanyan did in Yerevan....
Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry
Readings by Marianna Kiyanovska, moderated by Alex Averbuch
Marianna Kiyanovska, one of Ukraine’s most acclaimed poets, will read from her renowned work The Voices of Babyn Yar (trans. by Oksana...
Annual Borka Tomljenović Lecture. Migration and Narration
Aleksandar Hemon, professor of creative writing, Princeton University
Aleksandar Hemon will discuss issues of migration, narration, displacement, multilinguality, macaronic language, epic form, music,...
CREES Noon Lecture. Political Anxieties in the Caucasus: the Georgian National Narrative Between War and Peace
Nutsa Batiashvili, professor of anthropology; Director of the Memory and Anxiety Research Laboratory, Free University of Tbilisi
Against the backdrop of Russian aggression in Ukraine and the renewed conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, anxiety about Georgia’s fate and its...
EIHS Lecture
Serhii Plokhii (Harvard University)
Lecture abstract and speaker biography forthcoming....
