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Ellen Nye is a PhD Candidate in history researching early modern trade between England and the Ottoman Empire to offer a new interpretation of the inter-imperial origins of global finance.

Adi Meyerovitch is a doctoral student in the history and theory of architecture at Yale School of Architecture. She studies the history of architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with an emphasis on the Middle East.

Valeriia Mutc is a PhD student in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

The 8th edition of the International Conference on Opportunities and Challenges in Management, Economics and Accounting (OMEACONF) was held in Paris during the Thanksgiving break. In the history of the OMEACONF series, the conferences have been held in 7 different countries. The previous series of OMEACONF was held in Belgium (Brussels ), Italy (Milan), Germany (Berlin), Italy (Rome), Switzerland (Geneva), Iran (Tehran) and Norway (Oslo).

Barbora Bartunkova is a Ph.D. Candidate in the History of Art Department at Yale University, where she works on European art, photography, and film from the nineteenth century to the present, with a particular focus on interwar and Cold War visual cultures.

Thanks to the generous support of the European Studies Council at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, I presented a dissertation-related paper at the Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), which took place from November 18–21, 2021, in New Orleans.

Charlotte Kiechel is a historian of the 20th century Europe with research expertise in the history of decolonization, human rights, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies. A PhD Candidate in the History Department, she is completing a dissertation which uncovers Holocaust memory’s role in the anticolonial campaigns of the global Cold War.

Alexander Trubowitz enrolled in two intensive online German language courses through the Goethe Institut during the summer of 2021.

CLAIS and ESC congratulate the winners of the Fall 2020 photo essay competition, “Reflections on Research.” Competition entrants submitted photos and captions, or photos and a brief essay, reflecting on how they have adapted their research pursuits in light of the disruptions caused by COVID-19. Through their submissions, entrants shared their personal answers to the contest’s guiding question: Without access to the sites, archives, and communities that fuel our work, how can we continue to make contributions with our projects?

Liliya Dashevski is a Graduate student in the department of Slavic Languages and Literatures. She received her M.A in the History of Art department in the University of Haifa, Israel, where she wrote her thesis on Mikhail Vrubel’s art. She is currently interested in two projects: Russia’s childhood material culture of the 19th century, and Russian speaking culture in Israel.

Emily Sigman is a joint degree MA Global Affairs and MA Forestry candidate at the Jackson Institute and School of Forestry. Her research interests in Europe span the intersecting fields of agriculture, climate resilience, and geopolitics.