Past Events

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Evsei Shor and Rudolf Roeßler

In Battle for the German Mind: Evsei Shor, Rudolf Roeßler, and the Vita-Nova Publishing House

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Based primarily on correspondence, this presentation will address some of the Vita Nova’s attempts to break through the Nazi propaganda machine.

Recording Available
Michael Wachtel
Michael Wachtel

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College; Chair, Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center

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The Soviet Union and the Neutral European Countries During the Cold War

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The Soviet Union and Cold War Neutrality and Nonalignment in Europe examines how the neutral European countries and the Soviet Union interacted after WWII.

Recording Available
Aryo Makko
Aryo Makko

Professor of History and Director, Hans Blix Centre for the History of International Relations, Stockholm University

Peter Ruggenthaler
Peter Ruggenthaler

Deputy Director, Boltzmann Institute for the Study of War's Consequences (Austria)

Nadia Boyadjieva
Nadia Boyadjieva

Professor of International Law and International Relations, Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Professor of International Law at Plovdiv University

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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Navalny and Next: Possibilities, Prognosis, and Perceptions in Russia

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What do the protests in Russia suggest about Russian society, politics, and the state of Putin's power?

Greg Yudin
Greg Yudin

Professor, Political Philosophy, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences

Svetlana Yerpyleva

Researcher, Public Sociology Laboratory, Center for Independent Social Research, St.Petersburg

Ilya Budraitskis

Lecturer, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences

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Sean Guillory

Digital Scholarship Curator, University of Pittsburgh; Host, SRB Podcast

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Lessons Learned from Anti-Equality Mobilization

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This talk describes distinct challenges illiberal governance poses to women's rights, feminist civil society and emancipatory politics in the former Soviet bloc.

Recording Available
Andrea Pető
Andrea Pető

Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Vienna, Austria; Doctor of Science, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Rochelle Ruthchild
Rochelle Ruthchild

Women's and Gender Studies Historian

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NTF Live, Episode 4: Deals and Disruption: Assessing Middle East Negotiations after the U.S. Elections

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Ambassador Ron Prosor will address negotiations and conditions for diplomacy in the Middle East.

Ron Prosor
Ron Prosor

Head, Abba Eban Institute of International Diplomacy, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC)

Arvid Bell

Founder, Negotiation Task Force