Past Events

New Roads, Old Stories: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Travel in the Age of the BRI

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  10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
   Online Zoom Webinar (Off Campus)
Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi

The New Nuclear Arms Race, Its Dangers, and How to Turn it Around

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  4:15 - 5:15 p.m.
   virtual (Zoom) (Off Campus)
Robert Goldston

The Myths and Realities of Putin's Russia

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  10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
   Zoom Livestream (Off Campus)
George Breslauer
Joshua Yaffa

The View From Moscow: An American Reporter in Russia in a Time of Protest and Pandemic

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  10 - 11:30 a.m.
   Facebook Live (Off Campus)
Joshua Yaffa

Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin

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  5 - 7 p.m.
   Online Zoom Webinar (Off Campus)
Maya Peterson
Josh Tucker

Measuring Belief in Fake News Online

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  12 - 1 p.m.
   Virtual Event - Register for Zoom Link (Off Campus)
Joshua Tucker

Ruin and Renewal: Civilizing Europe after the Second World War

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  10 - 11 p.m.
   Zoom (Off Campus)
Paul Betts, John Connelly

Music and Poetry against Hatred: A Conversation with Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

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  12 - 1:30 p.m.
  Zachary Kelly Facebook Live (Off Campus)
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
Pieter Judson

Remembering Empire: For a Different History of Habsburg Central Europe

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  10 - 11:30 a.m.
   Facebook Live (Off Campus)
Pieter M. Judson
Maria Sonevytsky

Musical Evolution and The Other: State-Sponsored Musical Evolutionism in the USSR and the Conundrum of Post-Soviet Crimean Tatar Indigenous Music

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  11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
   Facebook Live (Off Campus)
Maria Sonevytsky

European Disintegration? The Politics of Crisis in the European Union

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  12 - 1 p.m.
  201 Moses Hall
Douglas Webber
Harsha Ram

The Caucasus: From Geopolitics to Geopoetics

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  11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
   YouTube (Off Campus)
Harsha Ram

Security in the High North

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  12 - 1 p.m.
  201 Moses Hall
Kristian Åtland

Leslie Root: A Demography Brown Bag Talk

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  12 - 1 p.m.
  Seminar Room 2232 Piedmont
Leslie Root

Struggles Over Europe

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  12 - 1 p.m.
  201 Moses Hall
Paweł Lewicki
Looking at Art

POSTPONED - The Right to Be Creative and Invisible Russia

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  6:30 - 8 p.m.
   Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Margarita Kuleva, Natalia Samutina

Right to Be Creative and Invisible Russia

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  6:30 - 8 p.m.
   Osher Theater, BAMPFA (Off Campus)
Margarita Kuleva, Natalia Samutina

Film: Chamisso’s Shadow: A Journey to the Bering Sea in Three Chapters. Chapter 2, Part 2: Chukotka and Wrangel Island

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  1 p.m.
   Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Film: March, March! Tra-Ta-Ta!

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  5 p.m.
   Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

CANCELED: The 2019-2020 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics - Eugene Ostashevsky

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  7 p.m.
  Maude Fife Room 315 Wheeler Hall Wheeler Hall

Violent Borderlands. The EU Border Regime in Global Comparative Approach

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  12 - 1 p.m.
  201 Moses Hall
Estela Schindel

CANCELLED- Dwelling in Liminalities: The Otherwise Care of Bucharest Underground

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  12 - 1:30 p.m.
  402 Barrows Hall
Michele Lancione
Soviet Buryatia

CANCELLED - Desecration and Destruction: Stalin’s Repression of Buddhism in Buryatia

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  5 p.m.
  180 Doe Library
Melissa Chakars, Brian Baumann

“The Demographic Time-Bomb”. Emigration Anxieties in the EU’s New Member States and European Inequalities

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  12 - 1 p.m.
  201 Moses Hall
Ulf Brunnbauer
Jelena Subotic

CANCELLED: Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism

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  5:15 - 7 p.m.
  3335 Dwinelle Hall
Jelena Subotic
Kristian Atland

The Donbas Deadlock: “Minsk II” at Five Years

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  4 - 5:30 p.m.
  223 Moses Hall
Kristian Atland

Mikhail Shishkin: A Bilingual Reading and Conversation

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  4 - 6 p.m.
  Geballe Room, the Townsend Center Stephens Hall
Mikhail Shishkin
Steven Seegel

Lives and Deaths of Eastern Europe’s Map Men after 1919

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  5 - 6:30 p.m.
  180 Doe Library
Steven Seegel
Ulf Brunnbauer

'It hurts us that our people must work for global capital': The Symbolic Politics of Out-Migration in Socialist Yugoslavia

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  4 - 5:30 p.m.
  270 Stephens Hall
Ulf Brunnbauer

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians

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  7 p.m.
   Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Melissa Bilal

Ottoman Armenian Feminist Writers on Antimilitarism and People's Right to Self-Defense

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  7 - 8:30 p.m.
  3335 Dwinelle Hall
Melissa Bilal
Denis Zhernokleyev

Lust of the Eyes: Dostoevsky and the Feuilleton

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  4 - 6 p.m.
  B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Denis Zhernokleyev

Soldiers: A Story from Ferentari

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  7 p.m.
   Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

How Has the Ukraine Crisis Affected EU Foreign Policy and the EU-US Relationship?

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  12 - 1 p.m.
  201 Moses Hall
Marianne Riddervold

Jill Lepore, Una's Lecture

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  5 p.m.
  Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Wheeler Hall
Polina Barskova

Notes of the Unsuccessful Writer in Progress: Dostoevsky and Shvarts Revise their City

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  4 - 6 p.m.
  3335 Dwinelle Hall
Polina Barskova

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu

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  12:30 p.m.
   Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Out of the Present

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  7 p.m.
   Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Ulaanbaatar 2020: Opportunities and Challenges

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  5 - 6:30 p.m.
  Lounge Women's Faculty Club
Mayor Amarsaikhan Sainbuyan

Disabled Truths on Disability: Understanding, Interpreting and Experiencing Disability (Studies) in Hungary

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  4 - 5:30 p.m.
  306 Wheeler Hall
Maria Flamich, Maria Rita Hoffman

Videograms of a Revolution

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  7 p.m.
   Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Alexander Spektor

The Space of Ethics in the ‘Dream of a Ridiculous Man’

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  4 - 6 p.m.
  B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Alexander Spektor
Joshua Yaffa

Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia

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  5:30 - 7 p.m.
  Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall
Joshua Yaffa
Ruth Wurl

A Story of Her Own?: Representation in Alexander Herzen’s ‘The Thieving Magpie’

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  4 - 6 p.m.
  B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Ruth Wurl

Chernobyl

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  4 - 6 p.m.
  105 North Gate Hall

Child’s Pose

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  7 p.m.
   Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Maria Bucur

The Feminism of Alexandrina Cantacuzino and the Little Entente of Women: A Historical Puzzle

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  4 - 5:30 p.m.
  270 Stephens Hall
Maria Bucur

David Ohannessian and the Armenian Ceramics of Jerusalem

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  7 - 8:30 p.m.
  3335 Dwinelle Hall
Sato Moughalian
Greta Matzner-Gore

The Improbable Poetics of Crime and Punishment

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  4 - 6 p.m.
  B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Great Matzner-Gore

The Paper Will Be Blue

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  5:30 p.m.
   Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive