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Russia’s Lawfare on the EU: Twisted Inclusion and Exclusion Strategies in the European Security Agenda

Hampton Room, 61ý

Russia’s legal warfare, or lawfare, has become an important non-kinetic element of its broader hybrid warfare strategy aimed at destabilizing the European Union and challenging the Euro-Atlantic security framework. Lawfare involves the strategic manipulation of legal norms, doctrines, and rhetoric to legitimize actions that undermine the international order while presenting them as legally justified. This presentation examines […]

Toward Total Cinema: “Satantango” and the Limits of Film

Humanities Museum (HUM 225)

Satantango (1994), the legendary seven-and-a-half-hour film by Hungarian director Béla Tarr, based on a novel by the outstanding writer László Krasznahorkai, the latest Nobel Prize winner, follows a group of villagers in a world slowly falling apart. Often seen as a landmark of “slow cinema,” it pushes time, storytelling, and perception to their limits. With […]

How to Start a Pogrom: The Lepers’ Plot of 1321 in France and Aragon

Humanities Museum (HUM 225)

In 1320, King Philip V of France suppressed the "Shepherds," a rural movement that had tried to restart the crusades by massacring communities of Jews and Muslims across France and Aragon. In 1321, he approved the executions and expulsions of those same communities, this time for colluding with lepers to poison wells and "infect people […]