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In October, 2023, M.A. Student in European & Russian Studies Maggie Lindrooth attended the Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference at the University of Pittsburgh where she presented a paper entitled, “Booze, Bills, and Buildings: the Appropriation of Chinggis Khan and the Making of Mongolian National Identity.”

Student in European & Russian Studies Maggie Lindrooth
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In October, Ph.D. Student and European Studies Council Graduate Fellow John Hoffmeyer attended the conference “Romanticism in Music: Poland in its European Context” in Warsaw, Poland. There, he presented a paper entitled “Palimpsest Dialectics: The Poetics of Translation in Schumann’s Liederkreis, Op. 39.”

Warsaw Conference
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Yasmine Chokrane's research project in London, UK, was two-fold: first, she examined the tensions of the British national identity, in terms of cultural heritage and preservation. The second was examining what the larger artistic implications were for contemporary artists, who are interacting with those legacies.

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Wiktor Babinski met with Viktor Yushchenko and his wife Kateryna at their hotel in London, where he conducted an interview about Polish-Ukrainian relations and Ukraine’s path to Euro-Atlantic institutions.

Viktor Yushchenko and Wiktor Babinski