Modern Europe Colloquium | Towns for Debt

The Modern Europe Colloquium presents a graduate student workshop

"Towns for Debt: the Russian Empire and the Acquisition of Private Towns in the Territories of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1795-1847” 

4:00 pm ET, Monday, March 23, 2026, in HQ Rm 107

Bio: Kostas Zivas is a PhD candidate in History at Yale University. He holds a BA in International Relations from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, Greece, and an MPhil in History from the University of Cambridge. His dissertation, "Converting Empire: Imperial Russia and the Politics of Debt in the Territories of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1793–1840s)," examines how the Russian Empire utilized the private debts of the Commonwealth’s nobility as a mechanism of governance in the annexed territories. 

Open to the Yale Community Only

The Modern Europe Colloquium is generously sponsored by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund; and the European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center