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Sawchen Lecture: Svitlana Zhabotynska “Ukraine’s Image Framing in the Narrative Battles of Russia-Ukraine War”

Join us on October 3 at 11:00 am Pacific Time for our first online Sawchen Lecture of the year. Focusing on the theme of ‘dissent’, CENES welcomes Dr. Svitlana Zhabotynska from the Bohdan Khmelnitsky National University of Cherkassy, Ukraine. Title: “Ukraine’s Image Framing in the Narrative Battles of Russia-Ukraine War” Abstract: This lecture shows how […]

Sawchen Lecture: Elena Baraban “Why Did Anna Go to the Opera? The Question of Authenticity in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina”

Join us on October 15 at 12:30 pm Pacific Time for another online Sawchen Lecture. Focusing on the theme of ‘dissent’, CENES welcomes Dr. Elena Baraban from the University of Manitoba. Title: Why Did Anna Go to the Opera? The Question of Authenticity in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina Abstract: Many interpreters commend Leo Tolstoy for […]

Sawchen Lecture: Alex Drace-Francis “Mămăligă as Metahistory: Between Subordination and Revolt”

Join us on November 5 at 12:30pm Pacific Time for an online Sawchen Lecture. Focusing on the theme of ‘dissent’, CENES welcomes Dr. Alex Drace-Francis from the University of Amsterdam. Title: “Mămăligă as Metahistory: Between Subordination and Revolt” Abstract: Dr. Drace-Francis will be drawing on the traditional Romanian trope of the ‘non-/explosive’ corn mush as […]

Ziegler Lecture: Zafer Şenocak, “Migration, Exile, Memory, Identity – A Reading and Discussion with Turkish-German Writer Zafer Şenocak”

Abstract: Berlin-based writer Zafer Şenocak will read from his new bilingual poetry collection First Light (Turkish and English). Readers will find explorations of migration, exile, memory, identity, and the fine line between reason and belief — themes that have appeared throughout his career as a leading Turkish-German intellectual, but which gain new shades of meaning as […]

Ziegler Lecture: Baijayanti Roy “The Use of Knowledge Discourses on India for Nazi Political Goals”

Join us on January 14 at 12:30pm Pacific Time for our first online Ziegler Lecture of 2025. Focusing on the theme of ‘dissent’, CENES welcomes Dr. Roy from the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Title: “The Use of Knowledge Discourses on India for Nazi Political Goals” Abstract: Dr. Roy’s monograph engages with the little-researched […]

Sawchen Lecture: Dr. Chloe Papadopoulos “Capital from Nizhny: Koz’ma Minin and Military Philanthropy in the Arts”

Join us on October 14 at 12:30 pm PT for the first online Sawchen Lecture of the 2025-2026 academic year. Focusing on the theme of ‘networks’, CENES welcomes Dr. Chloe Papadopoulos from the University of Southern California.