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In Memory of the “Festival Age” (1987–1994)
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Marci ShoreYuri Andrukhovych
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Europe’s Futures Colloquium with Hanna Shelest
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Hanna ShelestIvan Vejvoda
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Enver Hoxha: Biography of a Balkan Tyrant
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Nikolai AntoniadisRobert AustinMisha Glenny
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’
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Ayşe ÇağlarLuiza BialasiewiczMisha Glenny
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Religious Fundamentalism and the Decline of Women’s Reproductive Rights in Central Europe
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Amanda CoakleyDennis PattersonIvan Vejvoda
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Migration, Borders and Technologies – An Introduction to Techno-Borderscapes
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ayşe ÇağlarGiorgia Donà
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Liberalism Challenged: Debating the Causes That Weaken Liberalism, and Illiberalism’s Amplifying Feedback Loop Effect
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Clemena AntonovaMarlene LaruelleYavor Siderov
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Surviving Human Trafficking: Activism as a Way Through the Struggle
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ivan VejvodaMilica Kravić AksamitMisha Glenny
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Elections in Finland: Between Happiness and the Russo-Ukrainian War
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ivan VejvodaVeera Luoma-aho, Iro Särkkä, Mirjana Tomic
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Speakers: Ivan VejvodaVeera Luoma-aho, Iro Särkkä, Mirjana Tomic
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Speakers: Ivan VejvodaVeera Luoma-aho, Iro Särkkä, Mirjana Tomic
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People of the Mountain
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Ivan VejvodaKapka Kassabova
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
For millennia, the people of the Mesta Valley have lived in an intimate relationship with their environment. Kapka Kassabova's enquiry is into the nature of this relationship as it survives today, after a succession of mass traumas in the 20th century have made their mark. They include political persecution during Communism, economic upheaval in the wake of the collapse of the planned economy, environmental degradation during and after Communism, migration, endemic state corruption, climate change, and a generational shift from a traditional, agricultural way of life towards a globalised, digitalised, uprooted way of life. His focus is on the Pomak (indigenous Muslim) and mixed villages here. An interesting phenomenon can be observed: permanent emigration is rare. These communities are held together by invisible factors that cannot be accounted for by pure economics.
The villages of the Mesta Valley are remarkable for several things: their exceptionally rich biosphere where some of Europe’s cleanest foods, animals, and medicinal herbs thrive; their rich tradition of cultural syncretism; their existential endurance in the face of trauma, and the fact that they export the greatest amount of cheap seasonal labour to Western Europe – the fruit pickers, planters, and builders on whom the wealthier European economies depend.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
For millennia, the people of the Mesta Valley have lived in an intimate relationship with their environment. Kapka Kassabova's enquiry is into the nature of this relationship as it survives today, after a succession of mass traumas in the 20th century have made their mark. They include political persecution during Communism, economic upheaval in the wake of the collapse of the planned economy, environmental degradation during and after Communism, migration, endemic state corruption, climate change, and a generational shift from a traditional, agricultural way of life towards a globalised, digitalised, uprooted way of life. His focus is on the Pomak (indigenous Muslim) and mixed villages here. An interesting phenomenon can be observed: permanent emigration is rare. These communities are held together by invisible factors that cannot be accounted for by pure economics.
The villages of the Mesta Valley are remarkable for several things: their exceptionally rich biosphere where some of Europe’s cleanest foods, animals, and medicinal herbs thrive; their rich tradition of cultural syncretism; their existential endurance in the face of trauma, and the fact that they export the greatest amount of cheap seasonal labour to Western Europe – the fruit pickers, planters, and builders on whom the wealthier European economies depend.
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