Although the Western Balkans are making progress to membership in the EU, politics in the region diverge from the script laid out in Brussels. International watchdogs and local civil society raise concern about democratic backsliding. The rule of law is … Read more
This paper contributes to recent scholarship on Eastern Europe and the Global South by exploring Romania’s engagement with the Vietnam War. In Romania, the Vietnam War served as a platform for critiquing American imperialism and showcasing socialist solidarity, with the … 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
Written in different times, diverse political climates, and in various countries, memoirs of female Auschwitz survivors tell a compelling story of concentration camp experiences specific to women, and allow for a reflection on what it meant to be a “woman” … Read more
In this talk, Dr. Katya Pertsova (Linguistics, UNC) will discuss corpus linguistics and specifically focus on the Russian National Corpus (RNC). Corpora (large collections of texts, often annotated with additional information) have become ubiquitous in social sciences and humanities because … Read more
Participants: Donald J. Raleigh (History, UNC), Graeme Robertson (Political Science, UNC), Stanislav Stanskikh (CSEEES Fellow), and Erinn Whitaker (CSEEES Fellow). Sponsored by the CSEEES Russia on the World Stage Today Series
The year 1968 was a momentous one in many spots on the globe, perhaps no more so than in Poland and Czechoslovakia. With a few exceptions, however, 1968 and its aftermath in these two countries largely have been studied in … Read more
The collecting of vinyl records and music tapes in communist Poland was prohibitively expensive, not to mention that official releases of recordings by Western artists hardly existed in the 1970s and 1980s. As a result, informal social networks of listeners … Read more
This presentation will chart the flow of the Soviet-Afghan War on screen as the conflict raged, analyzing eight works--feature films, documentaries, and a television mini-series--in chronological order between 1983-1989. The portrayal of the conflict in these media evolves in this … Read more
In today's East Central Europe, where former communist states had been successfully transformed into liberal democracies, we see the emergence of populism as a significant political force in the last decade. Hungary has received a special status in this process: … Read more
