Dr. Dyak will focus on Lviv, a city that emerged from WWII with more than 90% of its buildings intact but more than 90% of its prewar inhabitants gone and was transferred from one state to another. Its stories of postwar recovery and their legacy should be considered as Ukraine contemplates a new era of sustainable reconstruction amid the current war.
In the Soviet bloc, Communist rulers sought to prevent CSCE from being invoked by human rights activists and organizations to press for greater freedom. This seminar will explore how this issue was viewed in the Soviet bloc.
Professor of International Law and International Relations, Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Professor of International Law at Plovdiv University
Japanese diplomat-spy Chiune Sugihara is often hailed as the “Japanese Schindler” for issuing over 2,000 Japanese transit visas to Jews stranded in Lithuania in 1939-40. This talk will explore why Stalin let those Jewish families transit the USSR.
Over four sessions we will work with a beautiful, highly detailed plan of Odesa/Odessa published in 1894. We will study the map’s structure and content and go through the process of pulling it apart (and putting it back together again).
Five researchers from the Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania and other international research institutions investigate the political police management of special agents and informers with the MGB/KGB, as well as the identities and experiences of these collaborators.
