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When the Phone Range (2024, dir. Iva Radivojević)
Join us for a screening of When the Phone Range, as part of the Kino Nights series with the theme Coming Together, Coming Apart.
Memories of ex-Yugoslavia meet autofiction in a critically acclaimed film about an 11-year-old girl who receives a series of mysterious phone calls that change her life. Through the intimate reconstruction of these events, When The Phone Rang investigates dislocation and the nature of remembering. In the protagonist’s mind the phone call erases her entire country, history and identity. Writer Dubravka Ugresic notes that memories appear as if from a dream, returning to haunt the present. The aim of this film is to give these memories a container, all the while inviting witnesses.
Iva Radivojević - an artist and filmmaker whose work presents itself as a collection of fragments that collage together to connect into a ruminating whole, circling around dislocation, migration, and belonging, seeking to connect to the metaphysical or the magical.
ASU MIX Center, Screening Room 201
50 N Centennial Way, Mesa
NOV 25 at 3:00 PM
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Watching the Watchers: Communist Elites, the Secret Police and Social Order in Cold War Europe
Throughout history, dictators have constructed secret police agencies to neutralize rivals and enforce social order. But the same agencies can become disloyal and threatening. This book explores how eight communist regimes in Cold War Europe confronted this dilemma.
For Russia with Hitler: White Russian Émigrés & the German-Soviet War | a book discussion
The Bolshevik takeover of Russia created an alternative Russia in exile that never laid down its arms. For two decades, expelled White Russians sought ways to retaliate against the Soviet Union and return home. Their irreconcilability was galvanized by a superstructure, the dominant military organization, the Russian All-Military Union (ROVS).
Research Pieces - Visiting Scholar Edition, Maricopa Community Colleges (MCC) Fellows
Presentations by the MCC Fellows at the Melikian Center about the courses addressing issues of Eastern Europe and Eurasia that they have developed during their 2024-2025 fellowship at ASU.
Depth Two (2016) Ognjen Glavonic - a film screening and discussion
When evidence of war crimes committed between 1998 and 1999 is discovered across sites in war-torn Serbia—including a truck filled with bodies at the bottom of the Danube and mass graves in suburban Belgrade—film director Ognjen Glavonić begins a years-long examination of the unexamined and exploration of the inexplicable.
The Load(Teret) - a narrative film (2018, Ognjen Glavonić)
During NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999, Vlada, a truck driver, is hired to undertake a treacherous path across his war-torn country and deliver mysterious cargo. On a journey where friend and foe prove indistinguishable, Vlada comes to realize the horrifying ramifications of his mission.
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages - Arizona Chapter
Scholars present papers on aspects of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian languages, literatures, linguistics, cultures, and history.
Reading Postcards, Changing Viewpoints: Skopje 1900-2019 - Mary Choncoff Lecture
The identity of modern Macedonia has been shaped by many forces over the centuries, including over the dynamic past 125 years. The hundreds of postcards featuring Skopje, produced locally and abroad, provide a diachronic, image-to-image telling of the city’s history by insiders and outsiders.
Combating Antisemitism in Germany and Poland: Strategies since 1990 | A book discussion
In both Germany and Poland—primary locations of the Holocaust—the legacy of antisemitism remains a major obstacle to reconciliation with the past. How does antisemitism typically manifest in these countries?
Disinformation and Its Impacts on Eastern Europe
A discussion about disinformation and the role it is playing in Eastern Europe and how Eastern Europe is portrayed, featuring current fellows and an alum of the Hubert H. Humphrey program for communications and journalism.
Songs of Slow Burning Earth (2024, Olha Zhurba)
Against the backdrop of the (meta)physical landscape of collective disaster, a new generation of Ukrainians aspires to imagine the future.
1489 (2023, Shoghakat Vardanyan) - A film screening and discussion
Shoghakat Vardanyan, inspired by her brother's disappearance in the 2020 Artsakh War, created a documentary filmed over two years capturing her family's ordeal. The film, '1489', won awards at IDFA and is featured in Kino Nights 2025, exploring trauma through cinema.
The City is Ours: Spaces of Political Mobilization and Imaginaries of Nationhood in Turkey - a discussion with author Muna Guvenc
The book 'The City is Ours' explores how urban spaces in Diyarbakır, Turkey, shape political mobilization and Kurdish nationhood. Muna Guvenc analyzes architecture's role in both empowering and controlling minority groups, transforming urban struggles into opportunities for dissent.