Contextualizing The War in Ukraine
| Dates: | March 25, 2022 |
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| Meets: | F from 12 N to 1:30 PM |
| Location: | Online |
| Cost: | $0.00 |
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On February 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin unleashed a war on the neighboring country of Ukraine, which has already resulted in mounting military casualties on the Russian side and a civilian tragedy on the Ukrainian side. What are the declared and the real causes for this war? Who are the players in the conflict? What is the lay of the land, and what is the significance of specific places mentioned in the news? In this lecture, we’ll put the current events in a broader geographical and historical context to gain a deeper understanding of the who, what, where and why of the current conflict.
| Fee: | $0.00 |
Online
This is a real-time (live) online class that meets at the specified day(s)/time(s) listed.We will send you a reminder email with login instructions one business day before the program start date. If there are additional sessions, we will send reminders the morning of those sessions.
Asya Pereltsvaig
Asya Pereltsvaig received a degree in English and history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in linguistics from McGill University. She taught at Yale and Stanford. She has also taught in lifelong education programs since 2010. Her expertise is in language and history and the relationship between them. Cambridge University Press published her most recent book, Languages of the World: An Introduction, (4th edition) in 2023. Asya is a popular instructor for several OLLI programs nationwide and was the faculty host for the OLLI trip to the Baltic countries and St. Petersburg in July 2017.