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 Global Minds For Ukraine

Global Minds For Ukraine

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#GlobalMinds4Ukraine is a series of lectures with world intellectuals to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine. This project helps to tell the truth about the situation in Ukraine, to resist Russian propaganda, to conduct true narratives, to create ways to rebuild the country, to strengthen connections and the image of Ukraine in the academic environment.

Among the speakers who agreed to hold open lectures for KSE: Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Michael A. McFaul, David Howell Petraeus, Nicholas A. Christakis, Susan Stokes, Mark Esposito, Sander van der Linden and others.
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They try to kill every single Ukrainian | Anne Applebaum

Global Minds For UkraineMay 05, 2022

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What is freedom today? | Slavoj Žižek

What is freedom today? | Slavoj Žižek

Isn't Ukraine too much hurt because of its desire for freedom? We will be able to discuss this live with a lecturer who is in the TOP-25 of the world's best intellectuals according to Prospect Magazine (UK) and Foreign Policy (USA). He was nicknamed "Elvis of Theory of Culture" and "the most dangerous philosopher in the world."

Slavoj has two degrees of Doctor of Philosophy - in psychoanalysis and humanities, is a co-founder of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, author of more than 60 books translated into various languages. He is a person who has combined research interests in such topics as classical German philosophy, pop culture, neo-imperialism, fundamentalism, capitalism, tolerance, political correctness, globalization, subjectivity, human rights, Lenin, myth, cyberspace, postmodernism, postmodernism and even David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock.

Moderator: Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Founding Director, Center for Governance and Markets, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

May 27, 202201:41:56
Genocide and the War in Ukraine | Norman M. Naimark

Genocide and the War in Ukraine | Norman M. Naimark

American historian Norman M. Naimark is the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of Eastern European Studies at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Norman writes on modern Eastern European history, genocide, and ethnic cleansing in the region. He is one of our most respected experts on the Soviet era.  

He is a member of the editorial boards of a number of professional journals, including The American Historical Review and The Journal of Contemporary History. One of Norman's most famous studies is “The Russians In Germany”. He wrote in a 2017 essay that genocide is often tied to war, dehumanization, and/or economic resentment.  

KSE Public lectures with top world intellectuals serve to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine and enhance Ukrainian intellectual sovereignty. More information about project: https://kse.ua/lektsi-na-pidtrimku-ukrayini/ 

The KSE launched a humanitarian aid campaign for Ukraine. The campaign's objective is to purchase necessary supplies, first aid, and protective kits for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Paramedic Association, and the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces. No matter how small, every donation can help deliver essential aid and supplies.  

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May 20, 202201:03:01
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine | Timothy Snyder

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine | Timothy Snyder

Timothy David Snyder is an American author and historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He has written several books, including the best-sellers “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin” and “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century”.  

He is also the author of “The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999” and “Sketches from a Secret War: A Polish Artist's Mission to Liberate Soviet Ukraine”.  

KSE Public lectures with top world intellectuals serve to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine and enhance Ukrainian intellectual sovereignty. More information about project: https://kse.ua/lectures-marathon-in-support-of-ukraine/  

The KSE launched a humanitarian aid campaign for Ukraine. The campaign's objective is to purchase necessary supplies, first aid, and protective kits for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Paramedic Association, and the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces. No matter how small, every donation can help deliver essential aid and supplies.  

DONATE: https://kse.ua/support/donation   

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May 11, 202201:04:30
Public lecture of Philip George Zimbardo
May 08, 202201:07:27
New nuclear security | Kate Brown & Olha Martynyuk

New nuclear security | Kate Brown & Olha Martynyuk

«New nuclear security» of Thomas M. Siebel Distinguished Professor in the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kate Brown and Professor at the NTU «Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute» Olha Martynyuk. Kate and Olha will discuss nuclear security issues as they have unfolded in Ukraine in the last four weeks.  

Kate Brown is the author of several prize-winning histories, including «Plutopia: Nuclear Families», «Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters» (Oxford 2013). Her latest book, «Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future» (Norton 2019), translated into nine languages, won the silver medal for the Laura Shannon Prize, and the Reginald Zelnik and Marshall D. Shulman Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.   

Olha Martynyuk is also a scholar-at-risk fellow at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She defended her dissertation on the history of Russian Nationalism in early XX century Ukraine. She assisted Professor Kate Brown on her project «Manual for Survival: Chornobyl's Guide to the Future» and translated the book into Ukrainian.

KSE Public lectures with top world intellectuals serve to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine and enhance Ukrainian intellectual sovereignty. More information about project: https://kse.ua/lektsi-na-pidtrimku-ukrayini/

The KSE launched a humanitarian aid campaign for Ukraine. The campaign's objective is to purchase necessary supplies, first aid, and protective kits for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Paramedic Association, and the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces. No matter how small, every donation can help deliver essential aid and supplies.

DONATE: https://kse.ua/support/donation

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https://twitter.com/KyivSchool

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May 08, 202249:25
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine | Fiona Hill

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine | Fiona Hill

Fiona Hill is an British-American political scientist, former deputy assistant to the president and senior director for European and Russian affairs on the US National Security Council. The lecturer has a reputation as one of the world's best political scientists — specialists in Russia’s questions.  

According to Gill, pre-revolutionary Russia is the birthplace of the ideology of terrorism. Her and Clifford Gaddy's book The Siberian Curse (2003) is considered as one of the most cited works among books and articles on Russia's development prospects published since the beginning of the century, as well as an economic analysis of modern Russia Energy.  

Hill also testified publicly in Congress in the case of the impeachment of President Donald Trump, where she refuted the accusation of alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Hill said she believed World War III had begun.

KSE Public lectures with top world intellectuals serve to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine and enhance Ukrainian intellectual sovereignty. More information about project: https://kse.ua/lektsi-na-pidtrimku-ukrayini/

The KSE launched a humanitarian aid campaign for Ukraine. The campaign's objective is to purchase necessary supplies, first aid, and protective kits for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Paramedic Association, and the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces. No matter how small, every donation can help deliver essential aid and supplies.

DONATE: https://kse.ua/support/donation

Follow us on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/KyivSchool

https://twitter.com/brik_t

May 08, 202201:15:25
Russia's invasion of Ukraine: what's next | Michael A. McFaul
May 08, 202201:00:26
Antifragile: how things gain from disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb
May 08, 202255:56
The Foundation of Propagandistic Speech | Jason Stanley

The Foundation of Propagandistic Speech | Jason Stanley

Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Before coming to Yale in 2013, he was Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University.  

Stanley is the author of Know How; Languages in Context; Knowledge and Practical Interests, which won the American Philosophical Association book prize; and How Propaganda Works, which won the PROSE Award for Philosophy from the Association of American Publishers.  

He writes about authoritarianism, propaganda, free speech, mass incarceration, and other topics for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Review, The Guardian, Project Syndicate and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications.

KSE Public lectures with top world intellectuals serve to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine and enhance Ukrainian intellectual sovereignty. More information about project: https://kse.ua/lektsi-na-pidtrimku-ukrayini/  

The KSE launched a humanitarian aid campaign for Ukraine. The campaign's objective is to purchase necessary supplies, first aid, and protective kits for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Paramedic Association, and the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces. No matter how small, every donation can help deliver essential aid and supplies.   

DONATE: https://kse.ua/support/donation    

Follow us on Twitter:   

 https://twitter.com/KyivSchool  

 https://twitter.com/brik_t

May 05, 202201:08:30
They try to kill every single Ukrainian | Anne Applebaum

They try to kill every single Ukrainian | Anne Applebaum

“I think it is a genocidal behavior. They try to kill every single Ukrainian. That was what Hitler tried to do with Jews”, – told during the public talk for #GlobalMinds4Ukraine Anne Applebaum, a leading historian and commentator on Ukraine, Russia, and Eastern Europe.  

Anne is a Pulitzer Prize-winner and author at The Atlantic. She has written several books on 20th-century Eastern Europe, the most famous of which is “The Red Famine. Stalin's war on Ukraine". Ivan Gomza, Head of the Department of Public Governance at KSE, and Volodymyr Fedoryn, Head of project Forbes Ukraine, have spoken with Anne.

KSE Public lectures with top world intellectuals serve to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine and enhance Ukrainian intellectual sovereignty. More information about project: https://kse.ua/lektsi-na-pidtrimku-ukrayini/

The KSE launched a humanitarian aid campaign for Ukraine. The campaign's objective is to purchase necessary supplies, first aid, and protective kits for the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Paramedic Association, and the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces. No matter how small, every donation can help deliver essential aid and supplies.

DONATE: https://kse.ua/support/donation

Follow us on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/KyivSchool

https://twitter.com/brik_t

May 05, 202201:04:49
Russia's invasion and global economy| Paul Krugman
May 05, 202258:10