News Archive for April - 2009
Browse through the Centre for the Study of Wider Europe's news archive, a collection of news items published by the centre grouped by publication dates. If you're looking for a specific item, and don't know the publication date, we advise you to use our site-search facility in the top left hand corner of this page. You may also be interested in browsing through the Centre's blog, Wider Opinions, which groups together all the opinion pieces published by the Centre.Upcoming Lecture in UCD: \'St Petersburg: Shadows of the Past\' Posted: Tue 28th April
Prof. Catriona Kelly, Professor of Russian and Director, European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford will give a lecture entitled \'St. Petersburg: Shadows of the Past\' on 18th May 2009
Surviving History: Portraits from Vilna Photo Exhibition, Public Talks, Documentary Screenings Posted: Tue 28th April
Wednesday, 27 May, to Saturday, 30 May 2009: Surviving History: Portraits from Vilna presents the life stories of ten individuals who survived the Holocaust in Lithuania where ninety-five percent of the 240,000-strong pre-war Jewish population was annihilated.
Anthropology of Europe: what is it and how should it be practiced Posted: Mon 20th April
Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Poznań is proudly celebrating its 90th anniversary of its establishment. As a part of this commemorations we announce a conference at which we would like to address several issues falling with the domain of what is broadly understood as the anthropology of Europe.
23 April 2009: Dr Ignác Romsics seminar on the third Hungarian Revolution 1987-1990 Posted: Thu 16th April
\'The birth of the Third Hungarian Republic and the International Environment, 1987-1990\'
Seminar, 22 April 2009: Virginie Vate Posted: Thu 16th April
Dr Virginie Vate will give a seminar entitled ‘Conversion to Evangelical Christianity in Chukotka (Russia): Individual or Collective?’
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