UW Slavic Department Professor Jose Alaniz presents his latest book, Moscow 93. Dr. Alaniz will be joined to discuss his book by Professor Sasha Senderovich, also of the UW Slavic Department. About the book:Russia in the 1990s: what better place...
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“When an elder dies, a library burns.” This African proverb emphasizes the irreplaceable role of elders as guardians and transmitters of knowledge, culture, and wisdom. Black grandmothers, as living "libraries," carry and preserve vital stories and cultural inheritances—such as material possessions, traditions...
Presenter: Shelley Pryde, PhD student, GWSS Moderator: Reggie Kent, PhD student, English South Africa enjoys an international reputation as an LGBTQ+ -friendly nation, undergirded by its status as the only African state that has thus far legalized same-sex marriage. While the 1996...
Humankind has already established a firm and growing presence outside the boundaries of planet Earth. Moreover, it is likely that major actors are currently creating path dependencies that will determine the conditions of long-term future, often unknowingly and unintentionally. The...
In her last work, the posthumously published Life of the Mind, Hannah Arendt develops a phenomenology of the activities that make up mental life, specifically thinking and willing (the section on judging remained largely unwritten). In order to elucidate thinking...
The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping with Joseph Torigian
Please join us for a book talk with Joseph Torigian, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution and Associate Professor, School of International Service at American University. The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping Friday, May 30...
The lecture proposes a new poetology of German Baroque Tragedy by placing it within the tradition of spiritual exercises and meditation that emerged in antiquity as an integral part of a philosophical paideia and then in early Christianity as it sought to...
This event is free and open to the public.This talk discusses the unconventional forms of care that emerge out of Kurdish resistance in Turkey, where mothering becomes a powerful response against necropolitical state violence. By centering the stories of two...
Why do some protests in autocracies attract popular participation while others do not? This paper argues that when opposition elites and the masses have divergent motivations for protesting, anti-regime mobilization struggles to gain momentum. Moreover, this weak elite-mass linkage is...