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European Studies Because Lecture Series

2023-2024

Date Title Speaker
March 26, 2024 Contemporary Slovak Poster Art a Review Adrián Kobetič, curator
March 21, 2024 Greece in the Early 20th Century, and its Influence on Greek Music and Culture in America Meletios Pouliopoulos, Greek Cultural Resources
November 16, 2023 Russian Plebiscitarian Regime in Times of Peace and War Greg Yudin, University Center for Human Values

 

2022-2023

Date Title Speaker
March 2, 2023 Rewriting History Fabiola Jean-Louis, artist
October 26, 2022 To Create the City from Below: The Role of Civic Initiatives in Post-socialist Urban Transformation, the Case of Prague Vaclav Orcigr, Charles University
August 25, 2022 Individual Soveriegnism and Conspiracy: How Populist Rhetoric Hijacks the Rule of Law in Pandemic Times Oscar Mazzoleni, Universite de Lausanne

 

2021-2022

Date Title Speaker
January 25, 2022 Drawing on the Past: Superheroes, Comics & Propaganda: Cultural Memory in German and Italian Comics Barbara Gruning, University of Bicocca
January 20, 2022 Drawing on the Past: Superheroes, Comics & Propaganda: Spies and Counterspies in East German Comics Michael Scholz, Uppsala University
November 10, 2021 Drawing on the Past: Superheroes, Comics & Propaganda: A European Superman Lars Konzack, University of Copenhagen
October 21, 2021 Novel Practices: Exploring rehabilitation and reentry strategies in European prisons Erika Brooke, UF, Sociology and Criminology & Law

 

2020-2021

Date Title Speaker
April 13, 2021 Re-imaging Resilient Food Landscapes: Perspectives from European Planning History Carla Brisotto, UF, Florida Institute for the Built Environment Resilience & Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira, Politecnico di Milano
March 22, 2021 CERN and a European Model for International Collaboration Richard Cavanaugh, University of Illinois Chicago & Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Sept 19, 2020 Fruits of the Past, Present, and Future Anna Tje
Oct 21, 2020 Risks and Returns in Peer-to-Peer Lending: Comparing European FinTech Platforms Sofia Johan, Florida Atlantic University

 

2019-2020

Date Title Speaker
Feb 26, 2020 On Secularity, Muslim Immigrants and the Post-Lutheran Mindset David Thurfell, Sodertorn University
Jan 12, 2020 Andre Kertesz – Budapest/Paris/New York Robert Gurbo, Curator
Sep 19, 2019 “Peeking Behind the Curtain: Political Theater of Russian Education Reforms” Elena Aydarova, Auburn University

 

2018-2019

Date Title Speaker
Apr 4, 2019 “The European Union’s Authoritarian Equilibrium” R. Daniel Kelemen, Rutgers University
Mar 27, 2019 Punch of the Auto-Chthones Jan Cumlivski, Prague Academy of Art
Feb 5, 2019 “The Impact of BREXIT on Higher Education in the UK and Northern Ireland” Nicola Kernaghan, Queen’s University Belfast

 

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