For the LGBTQ+ community in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, 1989 held out the promise of new freedoms and opportunities. As communist regimes collapsed across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union disintegrated, emerging liberal democratic regimes seemed to … Read more
When Poland achieved statehood in 1918, there were no automobile factories from the former empires on its territory, roads were paltry or in disrepair from the war, and many private cars had been requisitioned for the war effort anyway. This … Read more
East European scholars have only recently begun investigating the tragic history of the Roma people under the Nazi regime during World War II. In addition to analyzing the road to the commemoration of the Romani Holocaust, this lecture will also … Read more
In December, the European Commission proposed to the Council to adopt a decision under Article 7(1) of the Treaty on European Union against Poland. Article 7 provides that the Council may determine that there is a clear risk of a … Read more
Agata Hauser is a lecturer in the Constitutional Law Department at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. Her research focuses on judicial protection of individuals by the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights, the … Read more
Until the mid-twentieth century, studies of ethnicity and race were a source of an epistemological and political competition between scientific schools in Europe and the United States. As a result, ubiquitous notions developed in the post-World War I period about ethnic … Read more
The migrant crisis in 2015 solicited diverse responses from the “old” and “new” Europe. East Central European governments showed little interest in offering refuge on their territories. This reaction has a historical and cultural background to how belonging is defined … Read more
Dr. Devin DeWeese is a professor of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. His research focuses on Islamic Central Asia, Sufism, Islamization, and Islamic hagiography. He is the recipient a Guggenheim Fellowship and was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2006. … Read more
Mikhail Krutikov is Preston R. Tisch professor of Slavic and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905-1914 (Stanford University Press, 2001) and From Kabbalah to … Read more
Vladimir Putin won his reelection in March 2018 with a convincing margin, but now his regime is facing some the most difficult domestic challenges in the last twenty years. Why is that happening? How will Russian political elite resolve the … Read more
