Events

We nodigen alle belangstellenden uit Nederland en Vlaanderen van harte uit om deel te nemen en hopen ook veel studenten te mogen verwelkomen.

Op 6 juli vindt de jaarlijkse REKA-conferentie plaats. Tijdens deze besloten bijeenkomst gaan experts, beleidsmakers, ondernemers en journalisten in gesprek over het Nederlandse Oost-Europa beleid en welke kansen dit biedt.

From limited interactions in the early 1990s, the EU and Central Asia now consider each other to be increasingly important. During this roundtable, the speakers will discuss the many aspects of these interactions.

The June edition of Eastsplainers is dedicated to media, cultural memory and conspiracy theories.

This talk will look into the position and role of the Caspian and Aral seas and their respective littorals in the regions’ social transformation in the modern era. What role and function did these ‘inland seas’ had in imperial annexation and integration, for example?

In this lecture, Russian writer Maxim Osipov shares his sober take on the Russian war in Ukraine, migration, and on the question: what does it mean to be a Russian writer in times of full-blown Russian imperialism?

The February edition of Eastsplainers is devoted to music and sound. UvA welcomes three internationally renowned musicians with a special interest in new or, as they themselves call it, ‘unheard’ music.

In this panel discussion, UvA welcomes journalists Alexander Gubsky (Moscow Times) and Julia Taratuta (TVRain).

For this opening of the public lecture series Eastsplainers, the UvA welcomes Ukrainian linguist Oksana Kononchuk.

Mr. Orie is a former justice on the Dutch Supreme Court (Hoge Raad) and the International Criminal Tribunal forthe Former Yugoslavia (ICTY)

Met veel genoegen nodigen we u uit voor onze studiedag, die ook dit jaar georganiseerd wordt in samenwerking met Russische Studies van de Universiteit Leiden. We bieden u onderstaand programma aan met lezingen, workshops, een vertaalwedstrijd en een borrel

On June 28, the Russia and Eastern Europe Knowledge Alliance (REKA) organised an online event titled A new reality in Eastern Europe. We discussed this new reality with representatives of knowledge institutions, the government and media in the Netherlands. Because what are the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine for both countries, Europe as a whole and the Netherlands in particular? Both the opening session and the panel discussion were livestreamed from 14:00 until 15:30.