Winter Quarter 2023: Lectures and Events

What Russia's Defeats in Ukraine Reveal about Why Russia Made War

Speaker: Richard Anderson, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, UCLA
Respondent: Michael Mann, Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, UCLA
Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (PT)
Format: Online on Zoom

De-Integrate! German-Jewish Notes on the Present

Speaker: Max Czollek
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (PT)
Format: In-person in Royce Hall 236

Film Screening: 'Klondike' (2022)

Speaker: Maryna Er Gorbach, Film Director
Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM (PT)
Format: In-person in James Bridges Theater

When Abortion Is Banned: A Historic Account from Ceauşescu's Romania

Speaker: Gail Kligman, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UCLA
Date: Sunday, January 29, 2023
Time: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM (PT)
Format: In-person at the Wende Museum

Zille Films: Aestheticizing Socioeconomic Injustice in Weimar Berlin

Speaker: Andréas-Benjamin Seyfert, PhD Candidate, Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, UCLA
Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (PT)
Format: Online on Zoom

Film Screening: 'A Rising Fury'

Speaker: Lesya Kalynska, filmmaker
Date: Friday, February 10, 2023
Time: 7:00 PM
Format: In-person in James Bridges Theater

The Unscrupulous Prospector, the Ethiopian Elite, and Italy's Frustrated Imperialists: Alberto Prasso and the Evolution of Italian Colonial Strategy in Ethiopia, 1905-35

Speaker: Noelle Turtur, Eugen and Jaqueline Weber Postdoctoral Scholar in European History, UCLA
Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM (PT)
Format: Online on Zoom

Instances of Reciprocal Illumination: Thinking-Making Through the Theater

Speaker: Maaike Bleeker, Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, Utrecht University
Date: Thursday, February 23, 2023
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM (PT)
Format: In-person at the Faculty Club

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

Speaker: Franziska Exeler, Assistant Professor of History at Free University Berlin
Respondent: Jared McBride, Assistant Adjunct Professor in the History Department, UCLA
Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (PT)
Format: Online on Zoom

Outrageous Comparisons in Modern History and Contemporary Politics

Speaker: Willibald Steinmetz, Professor of Modern Political History, Bielefeld University
Date: Monday, March 6, 2023
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (PT)
Format: In-person in Bunche Hall 6275

Black Germans between Erasure and Tokenism

Speaker: Alice Hasters
Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (PT)
Format: In-person in Royce Hall 236

The Unsung Hero of the Velvet Revolution: Václav Havel's Greengrocer

Speaker: Peter Steiner, Emeritus Professor of Slavic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Date: Friday, March 10, 2023
Time: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (PT)
Format: In-person at the Young Research Library

DakhaBrakha (concert)

Date: Saturday, March 11, 2023
Time: 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM (PT)
Format: In-person at The Theatre at Ace Hotel

Archive Asylum: Archiving and Researching Endangered Literatures

Speaker: Sandra Richter, Director of Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach
Date: Monday, March 13, 2023
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (PT)
Format: In-person in Royce Hall 236

“Navalny” and the Struggle for Russia's Future: A Conversation with Investigative Journalist Maria Pevchikh

Speaker: Maria Pevchikh, investigative journalist
Moderators: Daniel Treisman, professor of political science, UCLA; Oleg Itskhoki, professor of economics, UCLA
Date: Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (PT)
Format: In-person in Physics & Astronomy Building, Room 1425