Online Event  9:00 am EST/GMT-5
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna

This workshop featuring 2022 Get Engaged Alumna Hephzibah Emereole (Ashesi University) provides instruction on "Project Management Techniques for Civic Initiatives."

This workshop will help students learn the essential project management techniques to effectively plan, execute, and sustain their initiatives. This workshop aims to empower listeners with tools to set clear goals, manage resources, and navigate challenges, ensuring your civic engagement projects make a lasting impact.

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Online Event  9:00 am EST/GMT-5
9 AM New York l 3 PM Vienna



This workshop featuring 2022 Get Engaged Alumna Nguyen Dang provides instruction on "How to Enhance Cross-Cultural Communication Skills."

This workshop delves into the vital role of cross-cultural communication in our interconnected world. Participants will uncover how cultural norms and communication styles shape interactions, identify common barriers to understanding, and learn actionable strategies to bridge cultural divides. By the end of the session, attendees will gain practical tools to navigate diverse environments confidently and foster inclusive, meaningful connections across cultures.

Nguyên Dang is a passionate advocate for youth empowerment and sustainable development. As a core member of YUU Organization, a youth-led nonprofit, she focuses on poverty reduction, cultural preservation, job orientation, and educational initiatives through impactful programs and training camps. As a Global Fellow, Nguyên supports OSUN Fulbright students to develop and sustain transformative social projects. 

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Online Event  11:30 am – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
11:30 AM New York l  5:30 PM Vienna

The Hub for the Politics of the Anthropocene (OHPA) presents a seminar with Benjamin Steininger, discussing the Vienna Basin and its oil and gas fields as a showcase for how to deal with Nature/Culture-History in modernity and Anthropocene. Observing the history of oil and gas exploration in the region, Steininger will trace at least four different versions of experience with petro-modernity and Anthropocene-agency (international capitalism, Nazi-war-economy, Soviet imperialism, social democratic-catholic petro-modernity). The talk argues that it takes this type of bottom up field work and a comparative 'petrocultures' or 'Anthropocene-comparision' as performed in the 'Atlas of Petromodernity' to interpret the planetary agency of the so called 'Anthropos'.  

Benjamin Steininger is a historian of science and technology and a curator. He works as a postdoc at the Cluster of Excellence UniSysCat at TU-Berlin and at the MPI of Geoanthropology in Jena. His main Anthropocene research fields are industrial chemistry and petro-modernity. From 2012 to 2016 he led a participatory research and collection project on 100 years of oil and gas in the Vienna basin. His open access book with Alexander Klose, "Atlas der Petromoderne'", was published in German and Russian in 2020 and in 2024 in an enlarged American version with an introduction by Stephanie LeMenager. 

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Online Event  3:00 pm EST/GMT-5
3 PM New York l 9 PM Vienna

The Bard Center for the Study of Hate presents an online opportunity to try out SWAY, a new AI-based platform for engaging difficult conversations.   BCSH recently hosted a webinar on how AI be used to reduce hate, deepen student discussions of divisive topics, and improve teaching and learning. 

Simon Cullen and Nicholas DiBella of Carnegie Mellon University discussed and demonstrated their AI-scaffolded group chat platform for students called SWAY, which was chronicled in Inside Higher Ed.  Cullen and DiBella are now offering an opportunity for OSUN faculty, students, staff to try out this new technology.

SWAY connects students with differing perspectives into one-on-one chats and facilitates better discussions between them. Inspired by John Stuart Mill's radical view that engaging with opposing perspectives is an essential tool for improving reasoning and solving complex problems, SWAY aims to create online environments where students can discuss controversial issues more openly and constructively.

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Online Event  10:30 am EST/GMT-5
10:30 AM New York l 4:30 PM Vienna

This workshop featuring 2020 Get Engaged Alumnus Wisdom Kalu (Ashesi University) provides instruction on "Finding Scholarship Opportunities During Uncertain Times."

This workshop will discuss practical ways to find scholarship opportunities using social media and the My Scholarship Info website. It will give students practical advice on how to search and apply for these scholarships anonymously, specifically for those applying from troubled areas around the world.

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Online Event  11:30 am – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
11:30 AM New York l 5:30 PM Vienna

CEU's Hub for the Politics of the Anthropocene presents an academic seminar with Serhiy Kudelia, Baylor University, on "Urban Agglomerations in Russia’s Conquest of Donbas."  Since its inception in 2014, the Russo-Ukrainian war has been mainly fought in the most densely urbanized and heavily industrialized region of Ukraine – the Donbas.

Professor Kudelia will examine how the urban and industrial landscapes of the region affected the course of the war and, in turn, were transformed as a result. It will explain how the density of urban agglomerations of Donbas enabled quick removal of Ukraine’s sovereign control over the region in spring of 2014, while its dilapidated industrial base turned into a vital material and ideological resource for the nascent separatist movement. With the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, high urban density of the region became, by contrast, an important structural obstacle for further Russian conquest.

During the seminar Kudelia will draw on his field research in the towns of Donbas prior to 2022 and on his forthcoming book Seize the City, Undo the State: The Inception of Russia’s War on Ukraine (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2025).

Serhiy Kudelia is Associate Professor of Political Science at Baylor University, where he teaches courses on political regimes, state-building and political violence, and Ukrainian and Russian politics. His research, published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, deals with various aspects of politics in Ukraine, the armed conflict in Donbas and Russo-Ukrainian war. He earlier held teaching and research positions at the University of St. Andrews (UK), the University of Basel (Switzerland), George Washington University (US), Johns Hopkins University (US), and the National University ‘Kyiv-Mohyla Academy’ (Ukraine).

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