Charlie Bertsch / 28 Sep 2022
The Work of Remembrance
Germany, Year Zero, Today
It’s hard to watch Roberto Rossellini’s 1948 film Germany, Year Zero to its conclusion. The mood is relentlessly bleak and the landscape bleaker still.(...)
Ukraine War
Heather Allansdottir / 15 Aug 2022
Universitet Lessons
Russia After the Arab Spring
In 2015, I moved to Moscow to spend a year teaching human rights. I lasted five months. As my former students from that time are arrested for protesting the Ukrainian war, here are some reflections on what I learned about the evil of Putin and the kindness of Russians.(...)
Heather Allansdottir / 25 Jul 2022
Odesa Mama
Utopia by the Sea
The Russians have struck Odesa again, this time mere hours after reaching a deal with the Ukrainians. Though spared the worst of the war, an attack on Odesa is an attack on the best of Ukrainian and Russophone culture alike.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 04 Jun 2022
European History and the Ukraine War
The When Walls Talk Exhibit
Not long after it opened in 2017, I paid my first visit to the House of European History. (...)
Ernst Stetter / 20 May 2022
Lessons From the Ukraine War
The European Union and China
It’s been one horror story after another. Since Vladimir Putin first invaded Ukraine, the press has been deluged with reports of raw materials shortages and Europe’s reliance on Russian energy imports.(...)
Joel Schalit / 04 Mar 2022
Radioactive Europe
Russia’s Nuclear Tightrope
The German press was alarmed. Wild boars had infiltrated Berlin and were making their way to the city centre.(...)