UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies

13/11/2025

TOMORROW: Thu, Nov 13, 2025 @ 1:00 p.m.
Don't miss information session on German research funding -- an early International Education Week 2025 event!
UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
German Research Foundation Funding Info Session
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 and online -- 1:00 p.m.
RSVP required for online version: tinyurl.com/jrya2y2n
The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) will:
> Present funding opportunities, study abroad, research, and
internships in Germany
> Give an overview of research opportunities through Research
Internship in Science and Engineering (RISE) program
> Answer student questions
See the event page for links to specific organizations who offer scholarships: tinyurl.com/jrya2y2n
cc: UCLA College UCLA UCLA History Department UCLA Department of Political Science L.A. Social Science UCLA IEO UCLA Library

TOMORROW: Thu, Nov 13, 2025 @ 1:00 p.m.
Don't miss information session on German research funding -- an early International Education Week 2025 event!

UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
German Research Foundation Funding Info Session
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 and online -- 1:00 p.m.
RSVP required for online version: tinyurl.com/jrya2y2n

The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) will:
> Present funding opportunities, study abroad, research, and
internships in Germany
> Give an overview of research opportunities through Research
Internship in Science and Engineering (RISE) program
> Answer student questions

See the event page for links to specific organizations who offer scholarships: tinyurl.com/jrya2y2n

cc: UCLA College UCLA UCLA History Department UCLA Department of Political Science L.A. Social Science UCLA IEO UCLA Library

27/10/2025

The UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures, in co-sponsorship with the Consulate General of Romania in Los Angeles, and with permission from the Romanian Cultural Institute, is pleased to present a screening of Maria, Heart of Romania.

6:00pm PST
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Royce Hall Room #314

The documentary presents to the public the extraordinary story of the political role and the interesting private life of Queen Marie of Romania. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, she married the Crown prince of Romania in 1893. We will see how she ruled the country during the horrors of the First World War, until the victory at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
This event requires advance registration and is in-person only. Seating is limited to 120 attendees and tickets are free. Light refreshments will be provided.
Register to attend on the UCLA Slavic department website: slavic.ucla.edu/events

06/05/2025

Women's Artistic Dissent: Repelling Totalitarianism in Pre-1989 Czechoslovakia

The UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures presents Women’s Artistic Dissent. Repelling Totalitarianism in Pre-1989 Czechoslovakia, a talk with co-authors Dr. Brenda Flanagan and Dr. Hana Waisserová

Thursday, May 8th, 2025 in Kaplan 348 at 6:30pm

This talk is 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

07/04/2025

The European History Colloquium of the UCLA History Department presents Natasha Wheatley: The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty

April 7 (Today)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
In Person: Bunche 5288
Online: ucla.in/3FZnXFu

About the Speaker: Natasha Wheatley is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Princeton University. She works on modern European and international history, with broad interests in intellectual and legal history, Central Europe, and the history of international law. Her first book, The Life and Death of States was recently published by Princeton University Press. She is the co-editor of Power and Time: Temporalities in Conflict and the Making of History (Chicago 2020) and Remaking Central Europe: The League of Nations and the Former Habsburg Lands (Oxford 2020).

Alt image: Lecture flyer with headshot of Professor Wheatley.

14/02/2025

Join us for an upcoming talk: Changing Russian Propaganda against Ukraine: Quantitative Textual Analysis of Newspapers in Russia (1997 – 2022)

Thursday, February 20, 2025
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383

Speaker: Masaaki Higashijima, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo, discusses the media control techniques employed by modern autocracies.

Info: ucla.in/4kaCy0q
RSVP: ucla.in/40XJvca

29/01/2025

Tomorrow's Book Talk: Return to the Motherland: Displaced Soviets in WWII and the Cold War

Thursday, January 30, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
RSVP: ucla.in/40QhAfB

Join us for a book talk tomorrow with Seth Bernstein, University of Florida, 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.

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and cosponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration.

UCLA International Institute UCLA

30/11/2024

Graduate Student Lecture & Mixer: Mount Athos and its ‘World': Orthodox Christian Monasticism in Contemporary Greece

Tuesday, December 3, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall Rm 10383
RSVP: ucla.in/3UVRHaL

Join us for a lecture by Paul Melas, PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology, followed by a graduate student mixer open to all disciplines!

The all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, Greece has been an important center of Orthodox Christian spirituality and asceticism for more than one thousand years. Located on a bordered peninsula in northern Greece, the community is comprised of twenty monasteries that are today home to nearly two thousand Orthodox monks. Mount Athos also hosts tens of thousands of male pilgrims annually, and maintains dozens of dependency parishes throughout Greece and Europe. Based on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork within the community, this paper will reflect on the communicative, material and symbolic circuits that connect Mount Athos and its monks to the ‘world’ that exists beyond its border.

Cosponsored by UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture and the UCLA Department of Anthropology.

14/11/2024

Funding Information Session with German Funding Organizations on November 19 during International Education Week

Where: Bunche Hall Room 10383 or via Zoom
When: Tuesday, November 19 at 2 PM (for faculty and postdocs) and 3 PM (for undergraduate and graduate students)
Register here: ucla.in/48koP1A

Please join us for a hybrid funding information session on Tuesday, November 19 in Bunche Hall Room 10383 with light refreshments provided or online. Leading German funding organizations will present about funding and research opportunities for researchers across all disciplines, as well as a testimonial by a UCLA faculty funding recipient. Knowledge of German or research of German-related topics is NOT required to qualify for these opportunities and we encourage all available faculty and postdocs to come.

Undergraduate and graduate students will learn about internships, research opportunities, study abroad to Germany, and student funding opportunities, as well as the Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE) program which offers undergraduate students from North American, British and Irish universities the opportunity to complete a summer research internship at top German universities and research institutions with a 3 month stipend (knowledge of German is NOT required). All students are welcome.

Learn more here: https://ucla.in/3AEYP4w

UCLA International Institute

29/10/2024

TOMORROW AT 4PM: Perpetrator as Victim: Putin's War in Ukraine and Criticism of Title IX

Please join us in Bunche Hall Room 10383 for a book talk with Joy Neumeyer, historian and author of A Survivor's Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don't Tell. This talk will feature discussion with Professor Jared McBride, UCLA Department of History.

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall Room 10383
RSVP: ucla.in/3zS9Lvg

This event is sponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures, UCLA Center for the Study of Women Streisand Center, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy and UCLA History Department.

17/10/2024

Tonight: Ukrainian Poetry in a Time of War: A Reading and Discussion with Olena Huseinova and Lyuba Yakimchuk

Tonight, October 17, 2024
5:15 pm - 7:00 pm
Kaplan Hall Room 348

The Center for European and Russian Studies, in cosponsorship with the Department of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Languages and Cultures, invites you to Ukrainian Poetry in a Time of War: A Reading and Discussion with Olena Huseinova and Lyuba Yakimchuk. This poetry reading and discussion will take place in Kaplan Hall Room 348 on October 17, 2024 at 5:15 PM.

Olena Huseinova (poet, prose writer, radio host and producer; Ukraine) is the author of three poetry collections, most recently Нічний ефір [Night Air] (2024). Huseinova also writes short fiction and essays, some of which are featured in the anthology Ukraine 22: Ukrainian Writers Respond to War (2023). As the editor in chief at UA: Radio Culture, part of Ukraine’s Public Broadcasting, she oversees radio theater and literary programming, leads a team producing radio documentaries on Ukrainian culture, and hosts of her own live radio programs. From February 26, 2022, until August 2023, Huseinova was a key voice in 24-hour news broadcasting on Ukrainian Radio. She has since expanded her activities to include documentary writing about the Russian-Ukrainian war, particularly focusing on the impact on civilians during the Russian occupation. She is currently a fellow at the Iowa International Writer’s Group.

Lyuba Yakimchuk (poet, playwright, screenwriter, performance artist; Ukraine) is the author of the poetry books Абрикоси Донбасу [Apricots of Donbas] (2015) and Як мода [Like Fashion] (2009), as well as the plays Wall and Schrödinger’s Cat. She also wrote the screenplays for both the film Slovo House. Unfinished Novel (2021) and the documentary Slovo House (2017). Yakimchuk was a songwriter and spoken word artist on the album Ukrainian Songs of Love and Hate (2022) and coauthor with Mary Branley of the libretto for the musical Freedom Letters. Her writing has been translated into more than twenty languages, and she read her poetry as part of John Legend’s performance during the 2022 Grammys. Her work has been covered by The New York Times, BBC, CBC, and CNN. She is currently a fellow at the Iowa International Writer’s Group.

UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies

11/10/2024

Perpetrator as Victim: Putin's War in Ukraine and Criticism of Title IX

Please join us for a book talk with Joy Neumeyer, historian and author of A Survivor's Education: Women, Violence, and the Stories We Don't Tell. This talk will feature discussion with Professor Jared McBride, UCLA Department of History.

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall Room 10383
RSVP: ucla.in/3zS9Lvg

This event is sponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures, UCLA Center for the Study of Women Streisand Center, UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy and UCLA Department of History.

10/10/2024

Soviet Adventures in the Land of the Capitalists

Join us for a book talk with Professor Lisa Kirschenbaum, West Chester University and discussant Professor Vadim Shneyder, UCLA on the epic journey of the two Soviet funnymen, Ilf and Petrov.

Tuesday, October 15, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Bunche Hall Rm 10383
Register: https://ucla.in/4dCudOB

About the Book:
In 1935, two Soviet satirists, Ilia Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, undertook a 10,000 mile American road trip from New York to Hollywood and back accompanied only by their guide and chauffeur, a gregarious Russian Jewish immigrant and his American-born, Russian-speaking wife. They immortalized their journey in a popular travelogue that condemned American inequality and racism even as it marvelled at American modernity and efficiency. Lisa Kirschenbaum reconstructs the epic journey of the two Soviet funnymen and their encounters with a vast cast of characters, ranging from famous authors, artists, poets and filmmakers to unemployed hitchhikers and revolutionaries. Using the authors' notes, US and Russian archives, and even FBI files, she reveals the role of ordinary individuals in shaping foreign relations as Ilf, Petrov and the immigrants, communists, and fellow travelers who served as their hosts, guides, and translators became creative actors in cultural exchange between the two countries.

This talk is cosponsored by UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies and UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures.