Past Events at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
October 2021
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Friday, October 1st On the Day of German Unity: a look at Angela Merkel’s Legacy
Date Time Location Friday, October 1, 2021 1:00PM - 2:30PM Online Event, Online Event + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
This year’s Day of German Unity anniversary coincides with the end of an era -Chancellor Angela Merkel will leave office following the elections on September 26th, after a 16-year tenure.
Together with the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, the German Embassy has conceived a virtual event on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Legacy.
Agenda:
12:50 PM: Photo Album
1:00 PM: Introduction & Opening Remarks
1:10 PM: Short Remarks by Panelists
1:30 PM: Panel Discussion
2:10 PM: Audience Q & A
2:25 PM: Closing Remarks
2:30 PM: Post-Event screening of Deutsch Welle Short Film on Chancellor Merkel
2:40 PM: Event concludes
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Wednesday, October 27th Czech Election Debrief - A Conversation with Two Experts
Date Time Location Wednesday, October 27, 2021 1:00PM - 2:00PM Online Event, Online Event + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
Pavel Pšeja, PhD, is a university lecturer and translator working in several fields. He currently lectures in three universities in the Czech Republic (Masaryk University in Brno, Metropolitan University Prague, and CEVRO Institute Prague); in the past, he was teaching in many universities all over the world including the US, Israel, Austria, and Germany. He has (co-)authored more than 70 articles, chapters, and books published both in the Czech Republic, and abroad.
As regards the non-academic sphere, he is active as an evaluation expert of the European Commission, and as a Country Expert of prestigious project Varieties of Democracy. He has worked in expert positions at the Committies of the Regions in Brussels, and the Council of Europe in Strassbourg. He is also a member of the Czech pool of the International Election Observers, having completed four missions organized by the OSCE, EU, and CoE respectively.
In last fifteen years, he has been actively working in CSO sector, focusing upon the issues of democracy promotion and human rights, and performing various roles ranging from from the field trainer to the Chair of the Board. Finally, he translated into the Czech language more than a dozen of books in the fields of social sciences, history etc., including works by J. M. Keynes, P, Berger, or P. Johnson.Milan Nič is senior fellow in the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies (AOZ). He focuses on geopolitical competition, global issues, and interregional dynamics. From September 2019 to February 2021, he was head of the Robert Bosch Center for Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia, which he had joined in April 2017 as a senior fellow.
Nič previously headed the Europe program at the GLOBSEC Policy Institute in Bratislava, Slovakia, and was managing director of its predecessor, the Central European Policy Institute (CEPI). From 2010 to 2012, he served as senior adviser to the Deputy Foreign Minister of Slovakia. Prior to that, he advised the High Representative/EU Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Nič began his professional career as a broadcaster at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, covering the transition period in Central and Eastern Europe. He was later an analyst at the European Stability Initiative and program director at the Pontis Foundation.
Nič earned his MPhil from the Charles University in Prague and his MA at the Central European University in Budapest. He also studied at the Bologna Center of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
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Friday, October 29th 'A L’Immortalité': Power, Propaganda, and the Académie royale des sciences under the Sun King
Date Time Location Friday, October 29, 2021 4:00PM - 5:30PM Online Event, Online Event + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
How did images function within the early Académie royale des sciences? During the Academy’s formative period, from its inauguration in 1666 to the death of King Louis XIV in 1715, the Academy produced a wealth of images in the form of drawings, prints, medallions, and paintings. Like England’s Royal Society, the Academy was pivotal in the development of early modern natural philosophy as one of the first and best-funded scientific institutions in Europe.
This talk will examine how the images produced by and for the Academy fit into the larger image production machine of Louis XIV. The King’s ministers strategically crafted his public image throughout his reign to promote various messages of his sovereignty, power, and gloire. After the creation of the Academy in 1666, natural philosophy became another source of state power and consistently appeared in various manifestations of royal imagery. I argue that the Academy’s images—produced by both the Academy and state ministers—functioned politically by conflating the power of science and state. Through an analysis of prints, paintings, and medals, I show that, across all media, the Academy and its achievements were depicted as monumental events in the reign of the Sun King, on par with military and political triumphs. Similarly, the repeated visual depiction of the monarch with the Academy reminded viewers that the King was responsible for these scientific victories and, indeed, harnessed their power.Katherine M. Reinhart is a fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. A historian of art and science in early modernity, her publications span various aspects of scientific visual culture, and she is the co-editor (with Margaret Carlyle) of a forthcoming special issue of KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge on anatomical material culture.
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