UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies

Upcoming Events

Exhibit Opening
1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall & Rise of the Velvet Revolution

Thursday, November 7, 2019
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Powell Library Rotunda

Pier Paolo Pasolini and Arte Povera: Prehistory, Primitivism, and the Aesthetics of 'Contamination'

A lecture by Ara Merjian (NYU, Italian Studies) with respondent Gian Maria Annovi (USC, Italian and Comparative Literature). Organized by the UCLA Departments of Italian and French, cosponsored by CERS.

Tuesday, November 12, 2019
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
236 Royce Hall

Pasolini, Poverty, and the Question of Degrowth (Décroissance/Decrescita)

A roundtable discussion with Ara Merjian, Gian Maria Annovi, Federica Di Blasio, Claudio Fogu, Shelleen Greene, Magdalena Blaisdell, and Lucia Re. Organized by the UCLA Departments of Italian and French, cosponsored by CERS.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
236 Royce Hall

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New faces at the UCLA International Institute

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

New center directors, teaching faculty and executive staff are joining the UCLA International Institute.

Democratic elections in Moscow?

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

July 15, 2019. “Even pretty repressive dictators claim to be democratic,” said UCLA Professor Daniel Treisman, to the New York Times. Holding an election while barring opposition figures “doesn't delegitimize the election as much as it might seem,” he said.

Censorship in Ukraine related to the ongoing war with Russia

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Ukrainian intellectual Mykola Riabchuk defended current limitations on the freedom of speech in Ukraine as legitimate policies to counter disinformation in a time of war.

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