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Global Minds For UkraineWhat is freedom today? | Slavoj ŽižekIsn'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...2022-05-271h 41
Global Minds For UkraineGenocide and the War in Ukraine | Norman M. NaimarkAmerican 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...2022-05-201h 03
Global Minds For UkraineRussia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine | Timothy SnyderTimothy 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 l...2022-05-111h 04
Global Minds For UkrainePublic lecture of Philip George ZimbardoJoin the public lecture of American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University Philip George Zimbardo.
His world-famous Stanford prison experiment in 1971 was exploring how the social role imposed on a person affects his behavior.
Zimbardo has authored various introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project, an organization aimed at increasing heroic behavior among everyday people.
KSE Public lectures with top world intellectuals serve to demonstrate...2022-05-081h 07
Global Minds For UkraineNew 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 Lau...2022-05-0849 min
Global Minds For UkraineRussia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine | Fiona HillFiona 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 moder...2022-05-081h 15
Global Minds For UkraineRussia's invasion of Ukraine: what's next | Michael A. McFaulDr. Michael A. McFaul served for five years in the Obama administration, first as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (2009-2012), and then as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014). During the discussion, Michael A. McFaul and the President of Kyiv School of Economics, associate Professor of the University of Pittsburgh Tymofiy Mylovanov will discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
KSE Public lectures with top world intellectuals serve to demonstrate solidarity with Ukraine and enhance Ukrainian intellectual sovereignty. More information...2022-05-081h 00
Global Minds For UkraineAntifragile: how things gain from disorder | Nassim Nicholas TalebNassim Nicholas Taleb is a leading international intellectual, the author of bestselling books “The Black Swan” and “Skin in the game”. Nassim’s KSE public talk discussed the concept of antifragility and its practical application to the current situation in 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/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, t...2022-05-0855 min
Global Minds For UkraineThe Foundation of Propagandistic Speech | Jason StanleyJason 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 an...2022-05-051h 08
Global Minds For UkraineThey 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...2022-05-051h 04
Global Minds For UkraineRussia's invasion and global economy| Paul KrugmanPaul Krugman is the sole recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work on international trade theory in 2008. He has taught at Yale, M.I.T. and Stanford. He is distinguished professor in the Graduate Center Economics Ph.D. program and distinguished scholar at the Stone Center for Socioeconomic Inequality at the City University of New York.
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 U...2022-05-0558 min