Fall 2022 Lectures

Can Russia be Brought to Justice for War Crimes in Ukraine

• Date and Time: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 at 12:15pm (PT)
• Format: Hybrid
• Panelists: Jessica Peake, Director of International and Comparative Law Program (ICLP) at UCLA; Alexandre Prezanti, International Lawyer and Partner, Global Diligence LLP; Daniel Treisman, Professor, Department of Political Science, UCLA
  
  

A Sarajevo Story: Jews, Muslims, and the Complexities of Rescue in a Formerly Ottoman Town

• Date and Time: Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4pm (PT)
• Format: In-person
• Speaker: Emily Greble
  
  

The Wretched of France: The 1983 March for Equality and Against Racism

• Date and Time: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 at 12pm (PT)
• Format: Hybrid
• Speaker: Abdellali Hajjat, Associate Professor of Sociology at the Université libre de Bruxelles
  
  

Sanctions: What Everyone Needs to Know

• Date and Time: Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 12:30pm (PT)
  
• Format: Online
• Speaker: Bruce Jentleson, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University
  
  

From Beverly Hills Brat to Red Wave: Joanna Stingray and the Underground Soviet Rock Scene of the Late Cold War

• Date and Time: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 at 4pm
• Format: Hybrid
  
• Speaker: Joanna Stingray
  
  

The Long Shadow of Assad's Gulag: Syrian Former Detainees in Europe

• Date and Time: Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 12:00pm (PT)
  
• Format: Online
• Speaker: Uğur Ümit Üngör, Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Amsterdam

History of Immigration in France: Research, Politics, and Activism

• Date and Time: Thursday, November 17, 2022
• Format: In-person
• Speaker: Driss El Yazami
  
  

Western Ottomanists' Workshop (WOW)

• Date and Time: Friday, November 18, 2022 to Saturday, November 19, 2022
• Format: Hybrid
• Keynote speakers: Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley), Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA) and Sarah Stein (UCLA)
  
  

Theo Angelopoulos: A Retrospective for Our Times

• Date and Time: Sunday, November 20, 2022, 10:00am (PT)
• Format: Online
• Speakers: Vangelis Calotychos, Vrasidas Karalis, Lydia Papadimitriou
  
  

Ghosts of War: Nazi Occupation and Its Aftermath in Soviet Belarus

• Date and Time: Monday, November 21, 2022 at 12:00pm (PT)
• Format: Online
• Speaker: Franziska Exeler, Assistant Professor of History at Free University Berlin
  
  

Zille Films: Aestheticizing Socio-Economic Injustice in Weimar Berlin

• Date and Time: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at 12pm (PT)
  
• Format: Online
  
• Speaker: Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert, PhD Candidate at the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA
  
  

War on Culture/War on Memory: Ukraine, Bosnia and the Global Defense of Heritage

• Date and Time: Friday, December 2, 2022, 10:30am - 5:30pm (PT)
• Format: In-person
  
• Panelists: Ihor Poshyvailo, Damian Koropeckyj, David Myers, Amila Buturović, Aleksandar Hemon