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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. Ch ...
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What is freedom today? | Slavoj Žižek
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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 degre…
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Genocide and the War in Ukraine | Norman M. Naimark
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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 membe…
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Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine | Timothy Snyder
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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 Be…
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Public lecture of Philip George Zimbardo
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Join 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 notab…
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New nuclear security | Kate Brown & Olha Martynyuk
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«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 …
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Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine | Fiona Hill
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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 th…
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Russia's invasion of Ukraine: what's next | Michael A. McFaul
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Dr. 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…
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Antifragile: how things gain from disorder | Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Nassim 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 wi…
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The Foundation of Propagandistic Speech | Jason Stanley
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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; a…
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They try to kill every single Ukrainian | Anne Applebaum
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“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 seve…
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Russia's invasion and global economy| Paul Krugman
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Paul 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 Univer…
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