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ILR @ Oak Hammock Archive Talks

Date Speaker Title
Fall 2023 Sep 27 Natalia Aleksiun Jewish Life in Warsaw
Oct 4 Agata Kowalewska Warsaw: My City
Oct 11 Morgan Rich Vienna’s Musical Landscapes
Oct 26 Armin Langer Contemporary Viennese Society: A Vibrant Immigrant Community
Oct 25 Conor O’Dwyer Urban Planning in the Postcommunist City: The Politics of Development in Prague
Nov 1 Holly Raynard Cultural Identity in Prague
Fall 2022 Oct 5 Asli Baysal European Crises Overview
Oct 12 Sara Agnelli The Unity of Science: Preserving Europe’s Common Good in Times of Crisis
Oct 19 Zachary Selden War in Ukraine: How Did We Get Here and How Might it End?
Oct 26 Corinne Tomasi What it Took: 10 Years on from the Euro Crisis
Nov 2 Amie Kreppel Global Britain or Little England: An Assessment of Brexit 3 Years On
Fall 2021 Oct 11 Zach Selden EU and the Transatlantic Relationship
Oct 18 Emrah Sahin EU and Turkey
Oct 25 Helen Jang EU and China
Nov 1 Abdoulaye Kane EU and Africa
Nov 8 Amie Kreppel EU and the World
Fall 2020 Oct 5 Marcel Lewandowsky Rising Autocrats and Freedom Fighters: How the Populist Radical Right in Germany Responds to the Corona Pandemic
Oct 12 Amie Kreppel EU and the Pandemic: Another Example of Integration Through Crisis Management
Oct 15 Asli Baysal Post-Covid Crisis: EU Reactions to the Eastern Mediterranean Resources Disputes
Fall 2019 Sep 30 Hannah Alarian The Migrant Crisis and the Far-Right in German: Causes and Consequences
Oct 7 Conor O’Dwyer Coming Out of Communism: The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe
Oct 14 Marcel Lewandowsky Populism on the Rise in Contemporary Germany
Oct 21 Lisa Booth Russia Today: Human Rights, Democracy, and the Sakharov Center
Nov 4 Emrah Sahin Debating European Identity: Turkish-German Athletes in Focus
Fall 2018 Oct 1 Emily Theobald The Art Music of War: Polish Music Responds to WWII
Oct 8 Peter Gitto European Art Cinema
Oct 15 Agata Kowalewska What To Eat When Not in Italy
Oct 22 Shannon Butts Mobilizing Paris: Mapping History and Art Through New Media
Oct 29 Ralf Remshardt No Show Business as Usual: European Theatre in the Age of Populism
Nov 5 Michael Leslie Victims, Villains, or Heroes: Images of Europe’s Black Immigrants in Film
Fall 2017 Sep 25 Zach Selden Transatlantic Relations During the Trump Administration
Oct 2 Michael Schuering The 2017 German Election and Germany’s Role in Europe
Oct 9 Maria Stoilkova The Refugee Crisis in Europe
Oct 16 Chrysostomos Kostopoulos A Greek Tragedy in the Making?: Explaining Greece’s Debt Crisis
Oct 23 Asli Baysal Europe in Crisis: Lessons from the Past
Oct 30 Amie Kreppel Brexit: Crisis or Opportunity
Spring 2013 Jan 16 Amie Kreppel Current Challenges Facing the European Union
Jan 23 Zach Selden The European Debt Crisis and American Security Policy
Jan 30 John VanSickle Chicken Salad in Europe: Economic Uncertainties and Agriculture
Feb 6 Emrah Sahin Turkey: Deep Divides Withine
Feb 13 Ioannis Ziogas Austerity Measures and Unrest in Greece
Spring 2012 Jan 18 Tristan Vellinga Political Expansion in the United States, Canada, and the EU
Jan 25 Magda Giurcanu Political Expansion in the United States, Canada, and the EU
Feb 1 Scott Feinstein Secession versus Autonomy: Evidence from the Tartars and the Transnistrians
Feb 8 Missy Molloy Exploring the Local Effects of Transnational Violence in Susanne Bier’s Films
Feb 15 Erin Cass Czech Roma and the Challenge of Political Mobilization
Spring 2011 Jan 19 Ioannis Ziogas The White Paper: The European Commission’s Plan to Keep Europe Green
Jan 26 Julie Hundersmarck Turkey and Croatia: Accessing into the European Union
Feb 2 Victor Olivieri The Development of European Identity in Spain: Cultural and Political Ramifications
Feb 9 Georgia Bianchi Citizenship and the Second Generation in Europe
Feb 23 Ineta Jonusas The Lithuanian Choral Tradition: A National Identity Through Song
Spring 2010 Jan 21 Alin Ceobanu
Franz Futterknecht
Aida Hozic
The Collapse of Communism
Jan 28 Michael Bernhard The Revolutions of 1989: Causes and Consequences
Feb 18 Wolfgang Glaesker How the Collapse of Communism Affected the Economies of Bulgaria and Romania
Feb 25 Bryon Moraski The Collapse of Communism and the Institutional Origins of Russia’s ‘Tandem-ocracy’
Spring 2009 Mar 17 Robert Hatch Science and the Modern World: re-Thinking Western Civilization
Mar 24 Frederick Gregory The Discovery of Atomic Fission and its Cultural Political Aftermath
Mar 31 Christopher Furlow The Problem of Islamic Science
Apr 7 Betty Smocovitis Julian Huxley and the Modern Synthesis of Evolution
Apr 14 Robert Malone How the Scots Shaped America
Apr 21 Charlotte Porter William Bartram and English Natural History
Spring 2008 Jan 10 Amie Kreppel The EU: What, Where, Why, How
Jan 17 Zach Selden EU Security, Defense, and Foreign Policy
Jan 24 Petia Kostadinova Economic Integration, the Euro and Trade with the World
Jan 31 Conor O’Dwyer The EU and Eastern Enlargement
Feb 7 Gaye Gungor Turkey’s Bid to Join the EU
Feb 14 Student Panel The EU from My Perspective
Fall 2007 Oct 2 Bev Asbury The Artwork of György Kádár: Survivor of Death, Witness to Life
Oct 9 David Kushner Music Written During and About the Holocaust
Oct 16 Holly Raynard Terezin
Oct 23 Cindy Hill Hope and Photos: Making the Documentary Film “Angel of Ahlem”
Oct 30 Anastasia Ulanowicz Anne Frank’s own True Heir: Intertextuality and the Intergenerational in Zlata’s Diary
Nov 6 Geoffrey Giles A Different View: Creative Expression during and about the Holocaust

 

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