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Dealing with Dictatorships: German Interactions with Worldwide Autocracies since the 1950s

Tuesday, September 29, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 6275

Frank Bösch on Germany's engagement with dictatorships across the globe and a new perspective on the history of the Federal Republic.

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Weaponized Uncertainty: Deepfakes, Democratic Resilience and the Scandinavian Test Case

Tuesday, October 13, 2026
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383

Researchers discuss the Deep Fake Democracy Project, an interdisciplinary research initiative at Malmö University investigating how AI-generated video deepfakes threaten democratic resilience in European and Nordic contexts.

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The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin and the Decline of Modern Russia

Thursday, November 19, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383

A talk by journalist Mikhail Fishman on how Russia lost its chance of freedom.

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Facing Down the Russian Threat: A View from Estonia

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

A diplomatic discussion with Kristjan Prikk, Estonia's Ambassador to the US.

Remembering Professor J. Arch Getty

Monday, June 9, 2025

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For Hannah Arendt, solidarity was neither universal nor an effective political force

Friday, July 25, 2025

After becoming a U.S. citizen, “[Hannah] Arendt idealized the U.S. as a consent-based revival of Rome. She missed the rethinking of the civil rights moment in the U.S. during the 1950s and 60s, as well as anticolonial thought after the Second World War,” said David Kim.

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