Institute for European Studies
Counterterrorism Between the Wars: An International History, 1919-1937
March 9, 2023
11:25 am
What happened to the tens of millions of guns left over from World War I? Mary Barton discusses how the Great Powers’ failure to secure these weapons contributed to the rise of state-sponsored terrorism during the 1920s and 1930s. Barton tells a global story of the demise of empires, the rise of communism, and the cooperation between the United Kingdom and United States that would evolve into the Five Eyes intelligence alliance.
The Five Eyes remains a vital intelligence alliance today. The Five Eyes justice chiefs recently strongly supported Ukraine's efforts to prosecute war crimes arising from Russia's invasion.
Please join us for this virtual conversation. Register here.
About the Speaker
Mary Barton is an analyst with the U.S. government. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2016. She completed postdoctoral fellowships at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, SAIS, and Dartmouth College, and previously served as a historian and wargaming analyst supporting the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense.
Presented by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. Co-sponsored by the Institute for European Studies and the Gender and Security Sector Lab.
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Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
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Call for IES Graduate Fellows
The Institute for European Studies aims to become a focal point at Cornell for an interdisciplinary European Studies research community. To this end, we are inviting applications for an inaugural cohort of 6-10 IES Graduate Fellows.
The IES Fellows will advance their research and participate in the European Studies community by regularly attending and engaging in IES-hosted talks in-person (about six talks per year), as well as by organizing and taking part in a graduate research workshop or discussion group, and in other collective activities.
The Institute will support these activities by providing a small ($500) research stipend to each Fellow. IES Fellows will also receive priority when applying for IES summer and semester research and travel fellowships.
Any graduate-level student across Cornell colleges and departments is eligible to apply if they will be enrolled in 2023-24.
To apply, please submit a brief proposal explaining your research interests and how they relate to European Studies (2 pages or less), as well as a C.V. and the name of one recommender (ideally the student’s dissertation adviser) who can provide details about the student’s academic promise and activities.
Applications are due February 3, 2023. Materials should be sent to the IES Program Manager Patricia Young at pty6@cornell.edu.
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Will Sanctions against Russia End the War in Ukraine?
Nicholas Mulder, IES
“Sanctions are kind of like alchemy,” says Nicholas Mulder, assistant professor of history. “You apply all this pressure to this black box of a country’s economy and hope that, on the other side of that black box, political change comes out. But making sure that pain and pressure lead to the kind of change you want to see—that’s the real challenge, and often people underestimate how difficult that will be.”
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Call for Proposals: IES Research Pods
The Institute for European Studies is inviting applications for IES Faculty Research Pods. The research pods are a new initiative designed to bring together small teams of researchers from across Cornell, who collaborate to organize activities focused on a research theme related to European Studies.
Saviana Stanescu
Associate Professor of Playwriting, Department of Theatre Studies, Ithaca College
Saviana Stanescu is a Romanian-born poet and writer, and an award-winning playwright and ARTivist based in NY. She is the winner of New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Script, Samuel French OOB Festival, Best Romanian Play of the Year UNITER Award, and Marulic Prize for Best European Radiodrama. Saviana's plays have been translated and produced around the world. She holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University, and a doctorate in Theatre Studies from the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest, Romania.
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Bryn Rosenfeld wins Ed A. Hewett Book Prize
Congratulations!
We are proud to announce that IES faculty associate Bryn Rosenfeld has been awarded the Ed A. Hewett Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). The Ed A. Hewett Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding monograph on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Easter Europe.
The Autocratic Middle Class (Princeton University Press, 2021) explains how middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilience. In addition to the Ed A. Hewett Prize, it won the 2022 Best Book award from the American Political Science Association's Democracy & Autocracy section and an Honorable Mention for APSA's William H. Riker award for best book in political economy.
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Call for Proposals: IES Research Pods
The Institute for European Studies is inviting applications for IES Faculty Research Pods. The research pods are a new initiative designed to bring together small teams of researchers from across Cornell, who collaborate to organize activities focused on a research theme related to European Studies.
Research pod activities should aim to bring faculty together to discuss, collaborate, workshop, or advance research ideas, but the specific activities are flexible. Funding could be allocated to organizing a series of meetings or workshops, inviting an external collaborator to campus, hiring hourly student support, or coordinating any form of community event relating to the specific research theme. Successful applications will demonstrate the potential for long-term collaboration. Expenses involving data collection or research activities will be considered, but applicants must justify this activity toward the goal of fostering sustained collaboration.
Funding for IES Research Pods will be up to $3,000 for the year.
To apply, please submit a proposal (up to 1,000 words) to ies@cornell.edu with the subject titled “IES Research Pod Application.” The application should include the names and affiliations of all Cornell researchers involved in the pod’s initial formation, and the proposed activities of the pod. We hope to award the first set of research pod seed funding by the end of 2022, with applications considered on a rolling basis.
We awarded the first research pod in early 2023. Find out more here.
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Shop Talk: How to be interesting: nine keys for reader's attention
November 1, 2022
5:00 pm
Literatures in English Lounge, 250 Goldwin Smith Hall
Shop Talk: How to be interesting: nine keys for reader's attention
by Dmitry Bykov
Bio: I was born 12.20.1967, graduated Moscow University, spent two years in the Soviet Army, worked in most of post-soviet newspapers, published about 80 books, including 12 novels and 20 volumes of poetry. I was teaching in 5 schools and 7 universities in Moscow, New Jersey and California. All my activities are totally banned in Russia. Sounds strange but during this restless work I managed to marry 3 times (all my wives are friendly to each other and even to me) and to become father of two sons and one daughter. Children appeared to be even better than books.
This event is open to Cornell creative writing students only.
Russian dissident Dmitry Bykov is an Open Society University Network fellow and visiting critic based in the Einaudi Center’s Institute for European Studies (IES). One of Russia’s best-known public intellectuals, he is a novelist, poet, critic, satirist, and university professor.
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155th Birthday of Maria Curie - the Polish Scientist
November 7, 2022
5:00 pm
Klarman Hall Auditorium
Please join the Polish Program to celebrate the 155th Birthday of Maria Curie – the Polish scientist.
Expect a cake and a lecture “Curie Science 101” by Julia Thom-Levy, a Professor in the Department of Physics.
The exhibition about Maria Curie is available November 7 till December 7 on the street level of Klarman Hall.
The event is sponsored by Cornell Department of Romance Studies, the Embassy of Poland in Washington, DC & Cornell Institute for European Studies.
Contact person: Ewa Bachminska, Senior Lecturer of Polish (eb583@cornell.edu).
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Universities and Peace: The Role of Higher Education and Peace Pedagogies in Peacebuilding, Resistance and Citizenship
November 2, 2022
12:25 pm
Warren Hall, 151
Perspectives in Global Development: Fall 2022 Seminar Series Speaker: Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić This lecture will explore the role of higher education in responding to conflict by opening up the questions of the responsibility of higher education institutions to educate the students, citizens, professionals and leaders of the future to act ethically in defense of the peace values. Since universities can be seen as microcosms of society the question arises whether the university programs prioritize the contribution to the public good and what their role and responsibility should be in educating young people to address some of the society's biggest problems. The lecture will discuss the potential of integrating peace pedagogies across the curriculum in university programs and it will use the example of International Research Project University Peace Hubs: Peace-building pedagogies in higher education (2018-2020), which aimed at illustrating and documenting good practices of teaching about peace and actively working for peace in places and contexts where politics, schooling and socialization processes remain or become challenging, deeply divided and polarized (Rwanda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, United Kingdom). The lecture will argue that the pedagogical experience of working directly with difference, controversial and sensitive issues, by integrating peace pedagogies and peace approaches to education in different discipline areas, can build student knowledge and values aimed for building skills of negotiation, intercultural sensitivity, deepened understanding of different world views and fostering attitudes of acceptance and respect. About the speaker Larisa Kasumagić-Kafedžić is an associate professor at the University of Sarajevo’s Department of English Language and Literature in the Faculty of Philosophy. Her peacebuilding engagement began during the war in BiH with co-founding the organization Sezam (1994-95) and working on child war trauma, peace education and nonviolent communication with teachers and schools in conflict-affected communities. She is a 2003-04 Cornell University Hubert Humphrey Fellow Alumni. She holds an MPS in International Development and Education from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in English Language Pedagogy and Intercultural Education from Sarajevo University. Her teaching, writing and research interests focus on critical, peace and intercultural pedagogies in teacher education and language and culture didactics. She is the founder and the president of the Peace Education Hub, established in 2020 at the University of Sarajevo. She is currently a visiting associate professor at the University of Cornell where she will spend the 2022-23 academic year as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar Fellow. Her research project “Teachers as Agents of Change: Education for Peace and Social Responsibility“ will enable her to collaborate closely with schools, teachers and teacher educators in Ithaca and the region, while also providing various lectures and seminars on her expertise, experience and research with students, professors and community members at Cornell in the 2022-23 academic year. About the seminar series The Perspectives in Global Development seminars are held Wednesdays from 12:25 – 1:15 p.m. eastern time during the semester. The series will be presented in a hybrid format with some speakers on campus and others appearing via Zoom. All seminars are shown in Warren 151. Students, faculty and the general public are welcome to attend. The series is co-sponsored by the Department of Global Development, the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and the School of Integrative Plant Science as part of courses GDEV 4961, AEM 4961, NTRES 4961, GDEV 6960, AEM 6960, and NTRES 6960.
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