Past Events at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
August 2023
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Wednesday, August 23rd Filiz Kamran's Writing retreat
Date Time Location Wednesday, August 23, 2023 9:00AM - 5:00PM Seminar Room 108N, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7
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September 2023
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Wednesday, September 6th War and Peace in the South Caucasus
This event has been relocated
Date Time Location Wednesday, September 6, 2023 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 208N, This event took place in-person in Room 208N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 Registration Full Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
The talk discusses international facilitation efforts to overcome decades of conflict in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine, with a focus on the role of the European Union.
Toivo Klaar has been the European Union’s Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia since 2017. Previously, he was the Head of Division for Central Asia in the European External Action Service and Head of the EU’s Monitoring Mission in Georgia. Prior to joining the European Commission, Klaar was an Estonian diplomat who served as an advisor to the president and to the minister of defence of Estonia. He holds an MPA from the Kennedy School at Harvard.
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Thursday, September 7th Book Launch: The Zelensky Effect by Olga Onuch and Henry Hale
Date Time Location Thursday, September 7, 2023 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, This was a hybrid event. In-person attendees went to Room 108N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto. Registration Full Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
Olga Onuch and Lucan Way will discuss Onuch’s and Hale’s new book (co-authored with Henry Hale) titled The Zelensky Effect.
About the book:
With Russian shells raining on Kyiv and tanks closing in, American forces prepared to evacuate Ukraine’s leader. Just three years earlier, his apparent main qualification had been playing a president on TV. But Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly retorted, "I need ammunition, not a ride." Ukrainian forces won the battle for Kyiv, ensuring their country’s independence even as a longer war began for the southeast.
About the authors:
Olga Onuch is Professor of Comparative and Ukrainian Politics at The University of Manchester. In 2021, she was visiting CERES at the University of Toronto as a Senior Research Associate. From 2014 to 2020, she was an Associate Member of Nuffield College (Oxford). Since 2017 she has been an Affiliate of, and previously in 2014 a Fellow of, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. In 2017, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Davis Center (Harvard). She is the winner of the 2017 Political Studies Association National Sir Bernard Crick Award for Outstanding Teaching.
Henry E. Hale is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, and Co-Director of the Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia (PONARS Eurasia)
He has spent extensive time conducting field research in post-Soviet Eurasia and is currently working on identity politics and political system change, with a special focus now on public opinion dynamics in Russia and Ukraine. His work has won two prizes from the American Political Science Association and he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for his research in Russia in 2007-2008.
Prior to joining GW, he taught at Indiana University (2000-2005), the European University at St. Petersburg, Russia (1999), and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1997-98). He is also chair of the editorial board of Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization.
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Monday, September 18th Timothy Garton Ash: 'From Post-War Europe to Post-Wall Europe - and Back'
Date Time Location Monday, September 18, 2023 5:00PM - 7:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, This event took place in-person in the Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto and online via Zoom. Registration Full Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
In his new book Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, Timothy Garton Ash gives a unique account of the history of Europe since 1945. This is history illustrated by memoir and reportage. Garton Ash draws on his extensive personal notes from 50 years of events witnessed, places visited and history makers encountered (from Margaret Thatcher to Vladimir Putin) to chart the rise and then faltering of the quest for a ‘Europe whole and free’.
In this lecture, Professor Garton Ash will extend the analysis in Homelands to offer an interpretation of how Europe progressed from the post-War period (famously analyzed by Tony Judt) to what he calls the post-Wall period. And why it then regressed, in a ‘downward turn’ after 2008, culminating in Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 – beginning the largest war in Europe since 1945. What did Europe get right? Where did it go wrong? Why?
About the Speaker
Timothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of eleven books of contemporary history and political writing which have explored many facets of the history of Europe over the last half-century. They include The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, The File: A Personal History, In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent, Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name and Free Speech: Ten Principles For a Connected World. He also writes a column on international affairs in the Guardian, which is widely syndicated, and is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, amongst other journals. From 2001 to 2006, he was Director of the European Studies Centre at St Antony’s College, Oxford, where he now directs the Dahrendorf Programme. The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, & Prague was reissued in 2019 with a new chapter exploring the 30 years since 1989 in post-communist Europe. His latest book, Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, was recently published and translations into more than 18 other European languages (including Portuguese) have either been published or are in preparation. Prizes he has received for his writing include the Somerset Maugham Award, the Prix Européen de l’Essai and the George Orwell Prize. In 2017, he was awarded the International Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen, for services to European unity.
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Monday, September 18th Timothy Garton Ash, "Homelands: a Personal History of Europe"
Date Time Location Monday, September 18, 2023 5:00PM - 7:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
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Wednesday, September 20th Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia
Date Time Location Wednesday, September 20, 2023 1:00PM - 3:00PM Seminar Room 108N, This event took place in-person in seminar room 108N, North House, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Series
Russian History and Politics Series
Description
What would you be prepared to do to heal yourself? This talk will discuss what answer the early modern Russian elite gave to that question, an answer shaped by both the opportunities of global trade and the values of local culture.
This event is a part of the Russian History and Politics SeriesClare Griffin is a graduate of University College London and Assistant Professor of Russian History at Indiana University Bloomington. Her first book, Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia, appeared in 2022 with McGill-Queens University Press. She is now working on her next project which is about disability in early modern Russia, with a particular focus on wounded soldiers.
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Monday, September 25th – Friday, September 29th The Neighbours: Forms of Trauma (1945-1989) - Moving through Sound
Date Time Location Monday, September 25, 2023 1:00PM - 5:00PM External Event, This event was held in 321N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 Tuesday, September 26, 2023 1:00PM - 5:00PM External Event, This event was held in 321N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 Wednesday, September 27, 2023 1:00PM - 5:00PM External Event, This event was held in 321N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 Thursday, September 28, 2023 1:00PM - 5:00PM External Event, This event was held in 321N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 Thursday, September 28, 2023 5:30PM - 8:00PM External Event, This event was held in 321N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 Friday, September 29, 2023 1:00PM - 5:00PM External Event, This event was held in 321N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
INSTALLATION | The Neighbours: Forms of Trauma (1945-1989)
Supported by Soulpepper Theatre and the Jackman Humanities Institute, the multimedia installation, The Neighbours: Forms of Trauma (1945-1989), by Lilia Topouzova, Krasimira Butseva, and Julian Chehirian constitutes the public-facing art component of the international academic workshop Authoritarianism: Lives, Legacies, Trauma, led by Professors Joshua Arthurs and Lilia Topouzova.
The installation is built upon 40 interviews conducted by Topouzova and Butseva with survivors from the Bulgarian gulag (1945-1962). The project is the outcome of 20 years of scholarly research and 9 years of artistic collaboration.
Through object, video and sound interventions, the artists recreate the survivors’ homes and evoke the material and psychological space where the interviews unfolded. Staged within them are fragments from oral histories, field recordings and video from former camp sites. The media conflux evokes the unstable boundaries between spaces of home and the psychologically proximate sites of violence.
The public are welcome to view the installation between 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm each day September 25 to September 29. The organizers will hold a special event on September 28, 2023, from 5:30 pm to 8 pm including a guided tour of the installation, a live musical performance featuring works by composers who experienced authoritarian regimes, curated by Catherine Lukits, doctoral candidate in History at the University of Toronto and former orchestral cellist, and a panel discussion between the visual artists and Rohan Kulkarni, Director of Education and Community Engagement at Soulpepper Theater.
For Faculty Members: If you are interested in booking a tour of the installation for your class in the week of September 25 to 29, please email: lilia.topouzova@utoronto.ca.
PUBLIC EVENT: MOVING THROUGH SOUND
On September 28, 2023, from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm, the organizers will host a public event exploring authoritarianism through voice and sound. The event includes a guided tour of the installation, music by Canadian Opera Company performers and a panel discussion between the visual artists and Rohan Kulkarni, Director of Education and Community Engagement at Soulpepper Theater.
Guests will hear the voices of survivors of political violence and listen to the music of composers who survived authoritarian regimes curated by Catherine Lukits, doctoral candidate in History at the University of Toronto and former orchestral cellist.
PROGRAM
5:30 pm: Guided Tour of the Installation
6:00 to 8:00 pm: Welcoming remarks by Professors Joshua Arthurs and Lilia Topouzova
Music Performances
György Ligeti – Sonata for Solo Cello (1948/1953)
Leana Rutt, cello (Canadian Opera Company)
Marcel d’Entremont (Canadian Opera Company)
Panel Discussion
Rohan Kulkarni (Soulpepper Theater) in conversation with the artists and scholars, Lilia Topouzova (University of Toronto), Julian Chehirian (Princeton University), and Krasimira Butseva (London College of Communication, University of the Arts London).
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Wednesday, September 27th Russian invasion of Ukraine: How to report from a warzone
Date Time Location Wednesday, September 27, 2023 1:00PM - 3:00PM Seminar Room 208N, This event took place in-person at Room 208N, North House, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON. + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
One of the most prominent Czech journalists, Ondřej Kundra, will speak about the war in Ukraine based on his first hand experience, further discussing how to report about the atrocities of the Russian aggression.
About the Speaker
Ondřej Kundra currently works in the Respekt weekly as a deputy editor-in-chief. He has received numerous journalism awards for political analysis and investigative reporting, including the prestigious Ferdinand Peroutka Prize. He is the author of Meda Mládková’s biography My Amazing Life (2014), a book about Russian spies; Putin’s Agents (2016), for which he was nominated for the Magnesia Litera award. Together with Tomáš Lindner, he wrote the documentary book My Son the Terrorist (2017). The book of the story of Vendulka Voglová about the most famous photo of the Holocaust of Czechoslovak Jews is called Flight to Freedom. His last book is Novichok or Bullet (2021) about the dirty operations of Russian intelligence. He has been eight times in Ukraine since last February when the Russian full-scale invasion started.
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Thursday, September 28th Talk on the Six-Day War with Guy Laron
Date Time Location Thursday, September 28, 2023 6:00PM - 8:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, This event took place in-person in the Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto Registration Full Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
One fateful week in June 1967 redrew the map of the Middle East. Many scholars have documented how the Six-Day War unfolded, but little has been done to explain why the conflict happened at all. In this talk, Guy Laron refutes the widely accepted belief that the war was merely the result of regional friction, revealing the crucial roles played by American and Soviet policies in the face of an encroaching global economic crisis, and restoring Syria’s often overlooked centrality to events leading up to the hostilities.
About the Speaker
Guy Laron is a senior lecturer at the international relations department, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Previously, he was a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University, a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford, and a term fellow at the Wilson Center (2022-2023). He is the author of two books: "Origins of the Suez Crisis" and "The Six-Day War." His op-eds and stories have appeared in the Guardian, the Nation, History Today, Haaretz, Le Monde Diplomatique, and the American Prospect.
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October 2023
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Monday, October 2nd Challenges and Amplifiers for the Ukrainian Democracy: Politics and Civil Society during 600 Days of the War
Date Time Location Monday, October 2, 2023 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 108N, This event was held in-person at Room 108N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto and online via Zoom + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
This presentation explores the intricate relationship between democracy and the ongoing war in Ukraine. Focusing on the period during the war, it examines the challenges and opportunities that emerged for the Ukrainian government, local authorities and civil society. Based on the changes of the public opinion Dr. Bidenko highlights key factors of the Ukrainian unity and risks for the further recovery.
About the Speaker
Dr. Yuliya Bidenko (j.bidenko@karazin.ua) is an Associate Professor and Guarantee of the Master’s Program at Karazin Kharkiv National University, Political Science Department. For 2023 she serves as a Senior Visitor Research Fellow at the Centre for Eastern European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin. In 2021-2022 she was the expert and the author of the Ukrainian annual country report for the Nations in Transit by the Freedom House. In 2022 she joined the National Platform for Resilience and Reconciliation as a regional coordinator in eastern Ukraine. Since 2016 Dr. Bidenko is the expert for the “Team Europe” Initiative by the European Union’s Delegation to Ukraine. She has published academic articles and papers devoted to Ukrainian resilience, decentralization, civil society, and political regime changes in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
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Tuesday, October 3rd New Sources on the Fate of Hungarian Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees in Soviet Captivity
Date Time Location Tuesday, October 3, 2023 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, This event took place in-person in seminar room 208N, North House, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto. + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
I have been exploring questions such as why and how the Soviet authorities rounded up some 700,000 prisoners of war and civilian internees in Hungary to transport them to hundreds of labor camps in the Soviet Union. As a significant development, three years ago, the Hungarian National Archives purchased the digitized version of 682,000 personal documents from the Military Archives of Russia. These files also contained the personal data of Hungarian prisoners. This new source, available online since 2022, has given new impetus to my research. Considering the above, the first topic that I would like to propose for my planned presentation is the history of Hungarian prisoners in Soviet labor camps after the Second World War in the light of new Soviet sources.
Tamas Stark received his PhD from the Eötvös Loránd University in 1993. From 1983 he was a researcher at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 2000 he was appointed a senior research fellow. In 2014 he was Fulbright visiting professor at the Nazareth College in Rochester NY. His specialization is forced population movement in East-Central Europe in the period 1938-1956, with special regard to the history of the Holocaust, the fate of prisoners of war and civilian internees and postwar migrations. Since 2020, he is the chairman of the subcommittee on the History of World War II of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His main publications include: Hungarian Jews During the Holocaust and After the Second World War, 1939–1949; A Statistical Review ( Boulder CO, 2000), Magyar foglyok a Szovjetunióban (Budapest 2006) and „...akkor aszt mondták kicsi robot” – A magyar polgári lakosság elhurcolása a Szovjetunióba korabeli dokumentumok tükrében. (Budapest 2017).
Susan M. Papp was awarded a Ph.D. in Modern European History at the University of Toronto in 2019, specializing in east-central Europe and Holocaust Studies. Dr. Papp is widely published (both scholarly works and historical fiction) in several languages. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
Her dissertation, The Politics of Exclusion in the Hungarian film industry: Jews, Fascists, Communists and the path to Hollywood will be published shortly.
Sponsored by CERES, Hungarian Studies Program, and Hungarian Research Institute of Canada
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Thursday, October 5th The Impact of the War in Ukraine on Central Europe
Date Time Location Thursday, October 5, 2023 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, This event took place in-person at Room 108N, North House, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
The policies of Central European states are the opposite of what one might conclude on the basis of their past relations with Ukraine and the Ukrainians. The Polish-Ukrainian and Romanian-Ukrainian history is burdened by ethnic cleansing, territorial claims/disputes, repression. The Czech Republic and Slovakia were traditionally pro-Russians. Despite the burdened history and the pro-Russian traditions these countries have been able to overcome the shadow of the past and now stand by Ukraine. In Hungary, anti-Russian sentiments were deeply rooted, with two revolutions and freedom struggles being defeated by the Russian/Soviet army, while Hungarians have had no conflict with Ukrainians in the past. Despite this historical past, the Hungarian government is the only one in Central Europe and the European Union that pursues a pro-Russian policy. In my presentation, I would explain what has caused these changes and the possible reasons for the Hungarian government’s hostile policy towards Ukraine.
About the Speaker
Tamas Stark received his PhD from the Eötvös Loránd University in 1993. From 1983 he was a researcher at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and in 2000 he was appointed a senior research fellow. In 2014 he was Fulbright visiting professor at the Nazareth College in Rochester NY. His specialization is forced population movement in East-Central Europe in the period 1938-1956, with special regard to the history of the Holocaust, the fate of prisoners of war and civilian internees and postwar migrations. Since 2020, he is the chairman of the subcommittee on the History of World War II of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His main publications include: Hungarian Jews During the Holocaust and After the Second World War, 1939–1949; A Statistical Review ( Boulder CO, 2000), Magyar foglyok a Szovjetunióban (Budapest 2006) and „...akkor aszt mondták kicsi robot” – A magyar polgári lakosság elhurcolása a Szovjetunióba korabeli dokumentumok tükrében. (Budapest 2017).
Susan M. Papp was awarded a Ph.D. in Modern European History at the University of Toronto in 2019, specializing in east-central Europe and Holocaust Studies. Dr. Papp is widely published (both scholarly works and historical fiction) in several languages. She is an award-winning documentary filmmaker.
Her dissertation, The Politics of Exclusion in the Hungarian film industry: Jews, Fascists, Communists and the path to Hollywood will be published shortly.
Sponsored by CERES, Hungarian Studies Program, and Hungarian Research Institute of Canada
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Thursday, October 5th Tamas Stark
Date Time Location Thursday, October 5, 2023 4:00PM - 6:00PM First Floor Lounge, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7
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Friday, October 13th Soviet Industrial Architecture and Its Afterlife in Eastern Ukraine
Date Time Location Friday, October 13, 2023 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, This event was held at 108N, North House,1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
Christina E. Crawford provides historical context for the present-day destruction of industrial architecture in Eastern Ukraine by Russia through focus on Kharkiv, the first capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919-34). In research drawn from her recent book, Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union (Cornell University Press, 2022), Crawford will discuss how, in the 1920s and ‘30s during Stalin’s first Five-Year Plan for industrialization, Soviet authorities invested heavily in capital projects in Kharkiv and the Donbas, a territory rich in the natural commodities of iron ore, coal, and grain. A late-breaking decision to construct a tractor factory on Kharkiv’s outskirts pushed Ukrainian architects to embrace intense design standardization not only for the factory, but for its residential sector as well. New Kharkiv, the so-called socialist city designed by Ukrainian architects for tractor factory workers, utilized standardized housing, social service buildings, and even repeatable urban blocks to ensure swift construction. Industrial architecture innovations developed with the help of American technical consultants at New Kharkiv were then harnessed by the increasingly centralized Soviet planning regime to quickly construct other industrial enterprises in the region. The Azovstal Steel Factory in Mariupol, where Ukrainian soldiers made a final stand against Russian occupiers in Spring 2022, too, has its roots in the early Soviet period, as Crawford will discuss.
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Wednesday, October 18th Organizing for Survival: Disability Advocacy during Russia's War Against Ukraine, from refugees to veterans
Date Time Location Wednesday, October 18, 2023 12:00PM - 1:30PM Online Event, This was an Online Event + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
Virtual Event presented by the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine and the Centre for Global Disability Studies at the University of Toronto
Disability advocacy is an often-overlooked arena of human rights civic organizing. This roundtable brings together three researchers with new and on-the-ground knowledge of the impacts of the war on disability advocacy and policy and on disabled people and their families. Drawing on expertise, research, and activism, panelists will discuss experiences of wounded Ukrainian soldiers; the impact of the war on disabled civilians and how disability advocacy networks and organizations led by disabled people have responded, in both Ukraine and in neighboring Poland to support disabled refugees. Taken together, a new picture of disability experience in war time begins to emerge, as well as a deeply changed political landscape for disability advocacy. What are the lived experiences of living with or acquiring disability in Ukraine (or of fleeing Ukraine) in war time? How are disability advocacy leaders understanding the task at hand? What is needed now? What global networks or historical examples are useful in a situation like this one?
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Thursday, October 19th – Friday, October 20th Humanitarianism, Intervention, and Sovereignty. European and Global Perspectives on the History of Humanitarian Interventionism since 1945
Date Time Location Thursday, October 19, 2023 8:00AM - 5:00PM Seminar Room 108N, This event took place in-person in seminar room 108N, North House, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON Thursday, October 19, 2023 8:00AM - 5:00PM Second Floor Lounge, This event took place in-person in seminar room 108N, North House, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON Friday, October 20, 2023 8:00AM - 5:00PM Seminar Room 108N, This event took place in-person in seminar room 108N, North House, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON Friday, October 20, 2023 8:00AM - 5:00PM Second Floor Lounge, This event took place in-person in seminar room 108N, North House, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto ON Registration Full Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
The event is open only to the University of Toronto faculty, staff and students.
The conference intends focuses on the global debates surrounding state sovereignty and (humanitarian) interventionism during emergencies situations since 1945 and addresses the interdependence of humanitarian assistance and humanitarian intervention as well as its local implementations.
This event was funded by the DAAD with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office (AA).
Sponsored by Joint Initiative in German and European Studies. Co-sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
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Thursday, October 19th On NATO’s Frontline: The View from Estonia
Date Time Location Thursday, October 19, 2023 1:00PM - 2:00PM Boardroom and Library, This event took place in-person in the Boardroom at the Observatory, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, 315 Bloor St. W., Toronto ON. Registration Full Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
Estonia is a small frontline NATO and EU member which is playing an oversized role in the Western response to Russia’s war against Ukraine. Estonia has provided more aid per capita to Ukraine than any other country, devoting 1.3% of its entire GDP to help resist aggression. Estonia has been working to bolster European security and maintain Transatlantic unity. Minister Tshakna will give a short overview of what has been done so far and what needs to be done in the future, including holding Russia accountable for its war crimes.
Speaker bio:
Margus Tsahkna is Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia and has previously also served as Minister of Defence and Minister of Social Welfare. He has been the Secretary-General of the Pro Patria Union, but is now a member of the leadership of the new liberal party Estonia 200. He was born in Tartu in 1977, studied law at the University of Tartu, and enjoys singing.
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Friday, October 20th Vaccine Politics in Western Europe
Date Time Location Friday, October 20, 2023 12:00PM - 1:30PM Seminar Room 208N, This event took place in-person in Seminar Room 208N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
This talk will examine the politics of vaccinations in Europe: how do governments ensure that their populations are vaccinated, and why do they use different approaches? Kurzer’s focus will be on Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. The academic literature identifies trust (general, science, medical) and administrative capacity as the most common political and policy factors influencing vaccination rate. Trust in the government plays an important role in the decisions of individuals to accept a vaccine or not. A second factor is public administration or state capacity in delivering vaccines, mapping out vaccine campaigns, deciding on access, and neutralizing the impact of anti-vaccine forces on vaccination campaigns. The literature concludes that countries with high levels of trust and high administrative capacity have high vaccination rates. By comparing the three countries, the talk presents findings that question the conventional wisdom as neither administrative capacity nor trust seem to explain variations in the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations.
Paulette Kurzer’s expertise is European politics. She has published widely on the European Union and her specific focus is the politics of EU consumer protection, public health, and housing. Her other research project is the comparative political economy of the small states in Western Europe. She teaches courses in comparative politics, advanced industrialized states, and European politics. She is the Director of the Online Graduate Program in International Security. This lecture is in part funded by the DAAD with funds from the German Federal Foreign Office (AA).
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Friday, October 20th Opposition Rule: Controlling Corruption Under Autocracy
Date Time Location Friday, October 20, 2023 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 208N, This event took place in seminar room 208N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, Toronto ON. + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Series
Russian History and Politics Series
Description
How does the opposition govern under autocracy? In this paper, I analyze a unique instance where pro-democratic forces took control of political institutions in a prominent electoral autocracy: the success of the non-systemic opposition in the 2017 Moscow municipal council elections. Even in a repressive environment, I show that opposition forces can improve governance and reduce corruption from within government, suggesting that developing an alternative to autocratic rule may be best served by joining rather than boycotting institutions.
About the speaker
David Szakonyi is Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University and co-founder of the Anti-Corruption Data Collective. His academic research focuses on corruption, clientelism, and political economy in Russia, Western Europe, and the United States. His most recent book — Politics for Profit: Business, Elections, and Policymaking in Russia (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics, 2020) — examines why businesspeople run for political office and how their firms benefit. He has also led numerous investigations into political corruption and opacity in the private equity and real estate industries, which have been published in the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, the Daily Beast, and the Miami Herald, among other outlets. He received his PhD in political science from Columbia University and his BA from the University of Virginia.
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Wednesday, October 25th CERES MA Open House
Date Time Location Wednesday, October 25, 2023 4:00PM - 5:00PM Online Event, This was an online event + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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This is an online event. Interested in the Master of Arts Degree in European and Russian Affairs? Do you want to study the histories, politics, economies, and societies of Europe, Russia, and Eurasia with world-renowned scholars? Are you interested in a funded international summer internship or a semester of study abroad? Recognized as one of the best of its kind in North America, the two-year Master of Arts program offered at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies offers students the opportunity to pursue a comprehensive, rigorous, and hands-on degree at Canada’s leading research university. Join us virtually for the CERES MA Open House on Monday, October 25, 4 – 5 pm. Learn about admissions and meet CERES students and alumni. Apply by February 1, 2024 to be considered for funding: https://archive.munkschool.utoronto.ca/ceres-ma/how-apply
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Friday, October 27th Radical Leftist Parties in Europe (1945-2023): From communism to a modern Radical Left
Date Time Location Friday, October 27, 2023 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, This event took place in-person at Room 208N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
The Hellenic Studies Initiative at University of Toronto, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek Studies at York University, the Graduate Diploma in European Studies, York University and the Hellenic Canadian Academic Association of Ontario welcome Nikos Marantzidis.
About the Speaker
Nikos Marantzidis is Professor of Political Science in the department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. He is also elected visiting professor at the Department of International Studies at Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) and the University of Kerala (India). He is the author of many books, journal articles, opinion pieces and his latest book is Under Stalin’s shadow: a global history of Greek Communism, by Cornell University Press (2023). Other books: Εμφύλια Πάθη, 23 ερωτήσεις και απαντήσεις για τον εμφύλιο (with Stathis Kalyvas), Athens, Μεταίχμιο 2015. Δημοκρατικός Στρατός Ελλάδας 1946-1949, Αθήνα, Αλεξάνδρεια, 2010.
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Friday, October 27th Citizens Electric! Galvanized Bodies and Popular Sovereignty in the Revolutionary Francophone Atlantic
Date Time Location Friday, October 27, 2023 4:30PM - 6:30PM Seminar Room 108N, This event took place in-person at Room 108N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, M5S 3K7 + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Series
French History Seminar/Seminaire d'histoire de France
Description
In an era before the lightbulb, when electricity meant both Benjamin Franklin’s bottled lightning and the ethereal fluid that animated Luigi Galvani’s frog legs, what did electricity mean politically? Electricity became a metaphor for the power of revolutionary festivals, speeches, and events to "shock" an audience, producing overpowering collective sentiment in an instant. Electrified citizens, equal and united in sentiment, replaced the stratified body politic as a model of social cohesion. A new era required new metaphors, and this talk investigates how science and politics intersected to produce the new metaphor of revolutionary electricity.
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Friday, October 27th Book Launch: Randall Hansen: War, Work & Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis caused Mass Migration & Revolution
Date Time Location Friday, October 27, 2023 5:00PM - 6:30PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, This event took place in-person in the Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto and online via Zoom. Registration Full Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
War, Work & Want asks why global migration, which should have fallen after 1970, tripled over the next fifty years. Hansen argues that the OPEC oil crisis unleashed economic and geopolitical changes that led to over 100 million unexpected migrants. The quadrupling of oil prices permanently halved economic growth in the West, leading to a five-decade stagnation in wages. The middle classes responding by rebuilding their inflation-shattered standards of living on the back of cheap migration labor, leading to millions of low-skilled migrations – documented and undocumented. In the oil-rich Middle East and Russia, a sudden rush of oil money destabilized Iran, led to the fall of the Shah, and resulted in multiple military conflicts: the Iran-Iraq War, two Gulf Wars, and, in a more complicated way, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The result was tens of millions of refugees. The overall result was over 100 million unexpected – and unwanted – migrants.
Followed by a reception
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Friday, October 27th Book launch: Randall Hansen, War, Work & Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis caused Mass Migration & Revolution
Date Time Location Friday, October 27, 2023 5:00PM - 8:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, 'Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
Description
War, Work & Want asks why global migration, which should have fallen after 1970, tripled over the next fifty years. Hansen argues that the OPEC oil crisis unleashed economic and geopolitical changes that led to over 100 million unexpected migrants. The quadrupling of oil prices permanently halved economic growth in the West, leading to a five-decade stagnation in wages. The middle classes responding by rebuilding their inflation-shattered standards of living on the back of cheap migration labor, leading to millions of low-skilled migrations – documented and undocumented. In the oil-rich Middle East and Russia, a sudden rush of oil money destabilized Iran, led to the fall of the Shah, and resulted in multiple military conflicts: the Iran-Iraq War, two Gulf Wars, and, in a more complicated way, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The result was tens of millions of refugees. The overall result was over 100 unexpected – and unwanted – migrants.
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