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CERES Brown Bag Talks

Several times each semester the Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies hosts luncheon discussions of important topics and emerging research by CERES core faculty members and visiting scholars.

Upcoming Talks

March 29 - "The Politics of Pity in Italian Views of Defeated Germany" by Karrin Hanshew

April 5 - "Making Europe's 'First New Left': Arguments in Milan, Paris, and West Berlin, 1954-1962" by Sean Forner

April 12 - "Alcohol and Politics of Identity in Modern Turkey" by Emile Evered

Past Talks

2020-21

  • Bumping Up Against Ukraine as an Historian of Russia 
  • Cruel Allegories of Capitalist Crisis in Spain: Horror Film, Cultural Trauma & Allegorical Realism 
  • Music Criticism, Ideological Critique: Olin Downes and the Soviets 
  • The Queer Classicism of Pirate TV 
  • Being Brigitte Reimann: Performance, Politics, and Posterity
  • Household Food Security in Southern Kyrgyzstan

2019-20

  • Water Insecurity in the Middle East and its Impacts on Refugee Households 
  • Continuity and Change: The Muslim Reformists (jades) of Central Eurasia 1800-1938
  • Swedish Wildlife and Natural Resource Use: From Rare to Numerous
  • At Distant Ends of the Soviet Empire: Environmental Challenges Today
  • Neo-realist music and Ladri di biciclette
  • Trans*humiliation: The Performative Politics of Right-Wing Female German Politicians

2018-19

  • Intellectuals and the People in 1950s West Germany: Conversations and Democracy
  • Demographic Challenges Facing Greece: Aging, Emigration, and Immigration
  • Notes from the Adriatic: Germans and Italians after 1945
  • Have the Mountains Fallen? Two Journeys of Loss and Redemption in the Cold War
  • Leonardo Sciascia and the Fascist Press
  • German Studies as Global Studies: Reframing a Humanities Curriculum
  • Children's Welfare in Early Soviet Odessa: Revolution, Rescue, and Discipline
  • Comparison of Turkish and Native American Proverbs which have Geographic Events
  • Faculty Panel on Turkey and Europe