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Upcoming Events

Thursday, January 30, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall Rm 10383
A book talk with Seth Bernstein on the history of the millions of Eastern Europeans who came to Hitler's Europe as forced laborers and who returned to a Soviet Union that treated them as traitors.
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Repression is working, says Russian journalist

Monday, March 18, 2024

Investigative journalist Roman Badanin says many criminal and administrative charges have either been newly introduced, or more aggressively pursued, in the last six years to suppress dissent in Russia.
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Opinion: The best tribute we can pay to Navalny

Saturday, February 17, 2024

"Navalny's example and ultimate sacrifice remind us that there have always been — and still are — Russians who believe in decency and freedom for all. Now more than ever, we need to show them that they are not alone," says Daniel Treisman (UCLA Political Science).
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Putin's ‘fear dictatorship': Political scientist Daniel Treisman on the state of Russia's autocracy

Friday, July 28, 2023

Meduza special correspondent Margarita Liutova spoke to Professor Treisman to learn more about how Putin's regime has changed in recent years — and what the future might have in store for Russia.

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The Cybercene: The Othering of Europe's Black and Brown Migrants and Pathways towards Ecocultural Healing

A faculty lecture by Vetri Nathan, Associate Professor in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (ELTS) at UCLA.
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Will Russia Ever (Again) Be a Democracy?

A conversation with political scientist and commentator Ekaterina Shulmann and journalist Maksim Kurnikov, moderated by Daniel Treisman, Professor of Political Science at UCLA.
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Violence in the suburbs of France: a tragic cycle of déjà vus

Visiting Professor of the Dutch Studies Program, Luuk Slooter, discusses structural violence of a socially and spatially divided society in France.

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