With many students, staff, and faculty members connected to Ukraine, Russia, and the broader region, the Brooklyn College community has been shaken by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Join us for a conversation led by faculty with expertise and experience related to this war. There will be an opportunity to learn more about the historical and […]

Feeding Resistance and Refugees of Ukraine: The Humanitarian Crisis in Eastern Europe Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, regional food infrastructures were destroyed leaving millions of people at severe risk of hunger both in and outside of Ukraine. What is happening in the major food producing region will also have rippling effects on the global food […]

Join via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84586846226 Hosted by Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College Sponsored by the Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Hunter College, CUNY, and the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs, and Geography Program, College of Staten Island, CUNY Announcing a webinar discussion with notable political geographers who have familiarity and […]

The horrific war launched by Russia against the people of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 has brought, and continues to bring, devastation to the lives of millions and has triggered Europe’s greatest refugee crisis since World War II.  Please join us to hear the voices of four Ukrainian scholars whose work advances our understanding of intra-ethnic relations, genocide, and the […]

The Gender and Transformation in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia will host: Masha Beketova, Humboldt University in Berlin “Queer/kvir post-Soviet Diaspora in Germany” Discussant: Alexandra Novitskaya, SUNY Stony Brook Register at the Zoom link, and email Mara Lazda ([email protected]) in advance. The Gender and Transformation Workshop is a unique venue in New York City for the […]

The CUNY Russian, Eastern European and Eurasia Studies Workshop hosts: Thomas Ort, Associate Professor of History at Queens College, will present a chapter from his new book project, tentatively entitled "The Afterlife of a Death: Meaning, Memory, and the Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.”    The project concerns the May 1942 assassination in Prague of Reinhard Heydrich, […]

The European Union Studies Center and the Graduate Center's Public Programs are proud to announce that Ivan Krastev, Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Permanent Fellow at the in Vienna, Austria, will give the annual Otto and Fran Walter Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, April 27, at 12:00 EST. At this […]

The History Department of the College of Staten Island CUNY  Spring 2022 History Lecture Series presents:  Exhibiting Trauma: The Soviet Era in Ukrainian Museums  Professor Valentyna Kharkhun    A talk and discussion with Valentyna Kharkhun, Professor of Ukrainian Literature at the Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University in Ukraine.  Moderators: Professor Eric A. Ivison and Adjunct […]

Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 has brought, and continues to bring, devastation to the lives of millions and has triggered Europe's greatest refugee crisis since World War II.  Please join us for a series of virtual events to hear the besieged voices of a historian, a poet, and a journalist on the […]