Yale Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies

NEXT WEEK: Join us in-person or on Zoom for the 7th annual European & Eurasian Studies Graduate Student Conference at the Yale Macmillan Center

Featuring innovative research by graduate students across disciplines and universities.

🗓️ Wed, May 6 - Thur, May 7, 2026
📍 Luce Hall, Room 203 | 34 Hillhouse Ave

For program details or to register for virtual participation: https://buff.ly/tv0PtJ2

Don't miss the Zingaresca Ensemble Music Residency

REEESNe Romani Study Group:
Zingaresca Ensemble Music Residency & Performances
Event 1: "Romany Vengerka" Documentary Film Screening
Mon, April 13 | 7:30pm | 37 Hillhouse Ave, https://buff.ly/uabpGqw

Event 2: Lecture on Romani History & Culture
Tues, April 14 | 10:45am | Luce Hall 202, https://buff.ly/Bf6zYdQ

Event 3: Zingaresca Performance
Tues, April 14 | 7:00pm | Luce Hall Auditorium, https://buff.ly/KF160pZ

The Central Asia Initiative is looking forward to welcoming Nile Green, Professor of History and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at UCLA, where he holds the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History.

"Whose Ghaznavids? Afghan Nationalists and the Medieval Past"

🕓 4:15 PM | Wednesday, April 08, 2026
📍 Luce Hall 202 | 34 Hillhouse Ave
More info: https://buff.ly/dROkYMc

Please join us for a screening of KONTINENTAL '25 with a post screening virtual Q&A with the director, Radu Jude

⏰Friday, April 03, 2026 at 3:45 pm
🎈Humanities Quadrangle, L01, 320 York St

DCP | 2025 | Radu Jude | Romania, Brazil, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and Luxembourg | 109 minutes | Romanian, Hungarian, and German with English subtitles

Sponsored by the Yale Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program and the Film and Media Studies Program

More Info: https://buff.ly/JSLDJR8

Join Ukraine House at Yale, the Yale Hellenic Society, the Yale Ukrainian Program and the ESC for our first Greek & Ukrainian Cross Cultural Celebration!

"A Port of Many Nations: Odesa’s Greek Heritage and Transnational Legacy"
Discover the multi-cultral history and literature of Odesa and yummy Ukrainian Greek cuisine

Featuring:
Uilleam Blacker, Associate Professor in Ukrainian and East European Culture at University College London
Nikolaos Chrissidis, Professor in Russian History at Southern Connecticut State University
Nikos Makridis, Undergraduate Student, Yale University

Join REEES today and this weekend for these great events:

REEES and Beinecke Library Object Study Seminar
with Justin Willson, Assistant Professor in the History of Art, Yale University
Fri, Mar 27 | 12:00–1:30 PM - registration required, space limited, https://buff.ly/JhzIvAM

Ukrainian Program at Yale
Ukraine New Cinema — three-day film festival and symposium!
Mar 27-29, https://buff.ly/4pebSKJ

The 2026 Zingaresca Residency & Romani Studies Symposium, FREE at Yale University’s Luce Hall from April 12-14, will bring together researchers, activists and artists to present on diverse topics in the field of Romani studies. There will be three events, including a concert by the Romani and Jewish Zingaresca Ensemble (ZINGARESCA Music Ensemble).

Find full details and register: https://bit.ly/zingaresca-symp

'The Italian word “Zingaresca” means “in a Gypsy style." Formed in 2006, Zingaresca Ensemble is a product of collaboration between the celebrated Romani (“Gypsy”) virtuoso Vadim Kolpakov, the pioneer in the revival of the seven-string guitar Oleg Timofeyev, and the Juilliard-trained baritone Anton Belov. The ensemble interweaves classical Eastern European guitar heritage with the best traditions of the Romani and Jewish diaspora, thus blending the sophistication of classical music with the fiery vitality of folk musical expression.

We are happy to hold our first colloquium of 2026!
The Modern Europe Colloquium presents a graduate student workshop on
"Towns for Debt: the Russian Empire and the Acquisition of Private Towns in the Territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1795-1847”
By Kostas Ziva, PhD candidate in History, Yale University

Monday, Mar 23, 2026 | 4:00 pm in HQ 107
More info: https://buff.ly/zDZmtXz

Upcoming: imperial finance, Greco-Slavic engravers in Karyes on Mount Athos, Putin-era political trails, EU lecture on NATO, and the Ukraine New Cinema Film Festival with screenings + a Faculty Panel, a Graduate Student Panel, and a keynote address by Vitaly Chernetsky on the landscape of contemporary Ukrainian cinema — all in one place.

Modern Europe Colloquium
Towns for Debt: the Russian Empire and the Acquisition of Private Towns in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1795–1847
By Kostas Zivas, PhD Candidate in History, Yale University
Mon, Mar 23 | 4:00 PM, https://buff.ly/zDZmtXz
HQ 107, 320 York St

Slavic and Eurasian Colloquium
Performance and Performativity in the Putin-era Political Trial
By Polly Jones, Professor of Russian and Fellow of University College, Oxford University
Wed, Mar 25 | 3:30 PM, https://buff.ly/MUjGA89

European Union Studies Program and Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs
European Security and NATO
By Peter Rough, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Europe and Eurasia at the Hudson Institute
Thur, Mar 26 | 4:15 PM, https://buff.ly/6MyBaPC
ISPS, Rm A002, 77 Prospect St

REEES | Beinecke Object Study Seminar
with Justin Willson, Assistant Professor in the History of Art, Yale University
Fri, Mar 27 | 12:00–1:30 PM - registration required, space limited, https://buff.ly/JhzIvAM

Ukrainian Program at Yale
Ukraine New Cinema — three-day film festival and symposium
Mar 27-29, https://buff.ly/4pebSKJ

Central Asia at Yale had a wonderful meeting with Arailym Nurmasheva from Kazakh-American University to discuss potential collaborations and tour the campus. Looking forward to future opportunities to work together!