Join us on Thursday, October 10 for a presentation by Gábor Egy. Gábor is currently Director-General of the Institute of Political History in Budapest. The paper is entitled When imperialists joined the nationalist against the West. Post-imperial business networks and … Read more
Professor Letitia Guran will lead a fascinating exploration of Langston Hughes’s involvement with communism in the 1930s and his subsequent reflections on race and repression in the U.S. and Soviet Russia. Her talk will examine Hughes’s writings during his travels … Read more
This new library exhibit seeks to educate visitors about the little-known Polish-Ukrainian roots of the author of The Heart of Darkness. Focusing on the family photo album that the orphaned victim of Russian imperialism carried with him into permanent exile, … Read more
Andrei Kureichik, Belarusian Playwright, Screenwriter, and Political Activist, will highlight the role of protest art in Belarus following the 2020 presidential elections. Exiled for his activism, Kureichik will discuss how art has become a form of resistance against authoritarian regimes. … Read more
