by Ronald Meyer | Oct 30, 2024 | Awards, ECEC, News, Read, Writers in Residence
Renowned Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai has been announced as the recipient of the prestigious Spanish Formentor international literary award 2024. The five-member jury praised the Hungarian writer’s “maintenance of a narrative force that envelops, reveals,...
by Ronald Meyer | Oct 28, 2024 | Awards, Balkans, ECEC, News, Read, Writers in Residence
Georgi Gospodinov was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) of the French Culture Ministry. The award ceremony took place at the residence of the French Embassy in Sofia on October 23, 2024. Attending the event,...
by Ronald Meyer | Oct 25, 2024 | ECEC, Faculty, News, Read
Thomas Kent writes about how Moldova approved a constitutional referendum on EU membership on October 20 by a razor-thin margin which raised concern about its pro-Western trajectory (CEPA, Oct. 24, 2024). The so-so news was that the pro-Western bid to have European...
by Ronald Meyer | Oct 24, 2024 | Faculty, News, Watch
Tanya Domi was interviewed on TVP World about the anatomy of disinformation practiced by foreign actors in the U.S. elections (October 23, 2024). Watch the...
by Ronald Meyer | Oct 15, 2024 | Faculty, News, Read, War in Ukraine
Keith Gessen (George T. Delacorte Assistant Professor of Magazine Journalism) writes how in and around Kyiv war has become part of daily life, even as the public grows weary of its costs (The New Yorker, October 12, 2024). On a recent trip to Kyiv, I found that...
by Ronald Meyer | Oct 15, 2024 | Alumni, News, Read, Russia, War in Ukraine
Mariya Chukhnova (MARS-REERS ’20) writes that to reduce Russia’s war against Ukraine to “one man’s doing and one man’s problem” allows Russia to whitewash its image, evade the topic of collective responsibility, and create further distraction and confusion in...
by Ronald Meyer | Oct 11, 2024 | ECEC, Faculty, News, Read
Anna Frajlich has traveled to Krakow, Lublin, Szczecin and Warsaw to promote her new volume of verse, Odrastamy od drzewa (Forma, 2024), as well as her recent book about Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska (Forma, 2023). From Piotr Michałowski’s Afterword:...
by Ronald Meyer | Oct 5, 2024 | Alumni, Balkans, ECEC, News, Read
Suzana Vuljevic (Ph.D. History and Comp. Lit. ’20) contributed the chapter “Order Amid Chaos: The Crisis of Spirit and a Panoply of Pan-Balkan Solutions in Interwar Europe,” to the volume “East Central European Crisis Discourses in the Twentieth...
by Ronald Meyer | Sep 26, 2024 | Balkans, ECEC, Faculty, News, Watch
Covering a broad range of topics, Tanya Domi discusses US and EU foreign policy in the Western Balkans and the recent controversial actions taken by the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who imposed new election laws on the night of the election in...
by Ronald Meyer | Sep 24, 2024 | Alumni, News, Read, Russia, Ukraine, War in Ukraine
Joshua Yaffa (SIPA ’08, Journalism ’07), a contributing writer at The New Yorker, interviewed President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine for the magazine. Issues ranged from how to end the war with Russia and Putin’s empty rhetoric to what the U.S. election could...
