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The trauma that never was? Politics of memory, cultural trauma, everyday ethnicity: Trianon and the Holocaust in historical perspective
with Gábor Egry, CREEES Visiting Scholar
Encina Hall West, Room 219, Stanford University
In Hungary-- the country where a significant group of Jewish origin survived the Holocaust--the genocide against Jews were soon juxtaposed with a supposedly Hungarian, national trauma, the dismemberment of the country at the end of WWI, with the Peace Treaty of Trianon. As both of these events were pushed to the periphery of historical consciousness during most of the Communist period, their presence in the public sphere was often seen as revelatory, and part of the symbolic change of regime.
Translating Cultures: Balkan Responses to European Migrant Crisis
with Tomislav Longinović, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Encina Hall East, Reuben Hills Conference Room (second floor), 616 Serra Street
The influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East into Europe has challenged the existing notion of national boundaries and demonstrated an increased need for a public policy that would take into account problems arising from the forced movement of population on such a large scale. Media reporting of the crisis focuses on the plight of miserable migrants who are using Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia and Hungary as transition points to reach the wealthier countries in Europe. Needless to say, countries comprising the European Union have had vastly differing responses to the issue of national boundaries and their permeability in the ongoing migration crisis. This lecture uses the innovative methodology of cultural translation to analyze this phenomenon by calling for a new understanding of language, space and identity in the Balkans in particular and Europe in general.
Symposium: Vertov and After
with Nariman Skakov, Robert Bird and Jean-Gabriel Périot, Stanford University, University of Chicago and Film Director, respectively
McMurtry Building, Stanford University
Free and open to the public
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and Art History, Film and Media Studies, and Documentary Film
The Gates of Europe: The History of Ukraine
with Serhii Plokhii, Harvard University
Location: TBA
Free and open to the public
Seminar: The Fall of the Soviet Union
with Serhii Plokhii, Harvard University
Encina Hall West, Room 219, Stanford University
Open to Stanford affiliates
Film Screening: "Plastic Jesus"
with Lazar Stojanović, Director
McMurtry Building, Oshman Hall, Stanford University
Screening of "Plastic Jesus" (1971)
Followed by Q&A with film director, Lazar Stojanović
Baltic Film Series
Cubberley Auditorium, 485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford University
“Free to Rock” (2014) Film Screening
with Jim Brown and Nick Binkley, Director and Producer
Braun Music Center, Campbell Recital Hall, 541 Lasuen Mall, Stanford University
Free and open to the public
Co-sponsored by the Asia-Pacific Research Center and The Freeman Spogli Institute
