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CES/Harvard Ukrainian Res. Inst.: A Future for Ukraine: Lessons From Poland

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Livestream available at 4:15 pm. A Public Address by H.E. Radoslaw Sikorski, Speaker of Parliament and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Poland A Future for Ukraine: Lessons From Poland In his capacity as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the...

Jewish Politics Between Minorityhood and Triage in Interwar Poland

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Jews in Modern Europe Seminar Jewish Politics Between Minorityhood and Triage in Interwar Poland Speaker: Kenneth Moss, Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Jewish History and the College, University of Chicago Chair: Derek J. Penslar, William Lee...

Jewish Politics Between Minorityhood and Triage in Interwar Poland

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Jews in Modern Europe Seminar Jewish Politics Between Minorityhood and Triage in Interwar Poland Speaker: Kenneth Moss, Harriet and Ulrich E. Meyer Professor of Jewish History and the College, University of Chicago Chair: Derek J. Penslar, William Lee...

CMES: Ottoman Perception Of The Ukrainian Cossack Uprising Against The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1648-1657)

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The Sohbet-i Osmani Seminar Series presents Dr. Sait Ocakli Shklar Fellow, Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Currently an instructor at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, Sait Ocakli comes to HURI in the...

The Missing Second World: On Poland (and Eastern Europe) and Postcolonial Studies

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Featuring: Marta Grzechnik, Fellow at WIGH and CES; University of Gdansk Comments by: Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University Read the paper below:

CES:"True Believers? On Opposition and Collaboration in Communist Poland and Beyond" | Applebaum

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Anne Applebaum Columnist, The Washington Post and Slate; Director, The Transitions Forum, Legatum Institute Sponsors: August Zaleski Lecture in Modern Polish History Contact: Roumiana Theunissen, rtheunissen@fas.harvard.edu

CES: The Annual Zaleski Lecture in Modern Polish History: The Holocaust in Poland: Controversies and Explanations

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Chaired by Grzegorz Ekiert Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University Timothy Snyder Housum Professor of History, Yale University Sponsors: August Zaleski Lecture in Modern...

Nikolas (Niko) Weyland

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Nikolas (Niko) Weyland entered the History Ph.D. Program at Harvard in the Fall of 2020. Raised in Austin, Texas, he graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in History and Government in May of 2020. His specialization in the History Ph.D. Program is...

CES: What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About the Holocaust. Poland After Jedwabne

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For up-to-date information see the CES website. Anna Bikont is a psychologist and writer associated with the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper since its inception in 1989. Her book 'Le Crime et le Silence' won the European Book Prize in 2011. Anna Bikont...

Bystander Society: Conformity and Complicity in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

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Speaker: Mary Fulbrook In this seminar, Mary Fulbrook will discuss her new book Bystander Society (Oxford University Press, 2023) with CES Resident Faculty David Spreen. Fulbrook explores the ways ordinary Germans became increasingly compliant with the...

Harvard mourns the loss of Richard Pipes

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Richard Pipes, the Frank B Baird, Jr Professor of History, Emeritus, at Harvard University, born July 11, 1923, died this morning, May 17, in the Boston area. Born in Poland, Professor Pipes arrived in the United States as a refugee from the Nazis in 1940...

Tehran Children: On the Trail of WWII Refugees in Central Asia and the Middle East

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Beginning in September 1941 and throughout the war, Central Asia and Iran became places of refuge to hundreds of thousands of Jewish and Catholic Polish citizens. Mikhal Dekel, whose father was a child refugee in Tehran, will recount the research and...