Join us for an upcoming book talk at the Center for European and Russian Studies.
Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
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Amín Pérez, Université du Québec à Montréal, rediscovers the anticolonial origins of the pathbreaking social thought of Bourdieu and Sayad in the midst of the Algerian war of independence.
Copresented by the Center for European and Russian Studies and Center for Near Eastern Studies.
Women's Artistic Dissent. Repelling Totalitarianism in Pre-1989 Czechoslovakia
Thursday, May 8, 2025
6:30 PM
Kaplan Hall, Rm 348
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Flanagan and Waisserová discuss the ways in which women resisted totalitarianism through literature and ecological activities in pre-1989 Czechoslovakia.
Sponsored by the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures and co-sponsored by the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in Los Angeles , the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies (CERS), and the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles.
Arendt's Solidarity: Anti-Semitism and Racism in the Atlantic World
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
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David Kim, Professor in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies and Associate Vice Provost of the International Institute, presents his new book, a full-scale reinterpretation of Hannah Arendt's oeuvre, in conversation with Samuel Moyn, Yale, and Yogita Goyal, UCLA.
Copresented by the Center for European and Russian Studies and Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies.
Foreign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History
Thursday, May 22, 2025
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 6275
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Michelle Lynn Kahn, Associate Professor of Modern European History at University of Richmond, on the transnational history of Turkish migrants, Germany's largest ethnic minority.
Copresented by the Center for European and Russian Studies and Department of History.