AUBGTalks » History https://aubgtalks.stoilms.com Videos from AUBG's guest lecturers Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:56:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.1 John Rodrigue – Breaking the Crown: Rebellion and the King’s Image in Early Stuart England https://aubgtalks.stoilms.com/john-rodrigue-breaking-the-crown-rebellion-and-the-kings-image-in-early-stuart-england/ https://aubgtalks.stoilms.com/john-rodrigue-breaking-the-crown-rebellion-and-the-kings-image-in-early-stuart-england/#comments Sun, 29 Nov 2015 18:38:15 +0000 https://aubgtalks.stoilms.com/?p=1332 (October 19, 2015) John Rodrigue talks about the images of kingship and the resistance to it, as these things played out in literature, drama, and polemic. Most specifically, on the “image wars” between the King and his opposition as they wrestled for the hearts and minds of the people — a struggle Charles I seemed to have lost when he lost his head, but that monarchy ultimately won. Historically, the “image wars” were one of the first PR battles to take place in Europe, and certainly in England, after 100 or more years of the printing press. John Rodrigue is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Arts, Languages, and Literature Department at AUBG.

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]]> https://aubgtalks.stoilms.com/john-rodrigue-breaking-the-crown-rebellion-and-the-kings-image-in-early-stuart-england/feed/ 0 Iliya Lingorski – The Triumph of Geopolitics Over Freedom? https://aubgtalks.stoilms.com/iliya-lingorski-the-triumph-of-geopolitics-over-freedom/ https://aubgtalks.stoilms.com/iliya-lingorski-the-triumph-of-geopolitics-over-freedom/#comments Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:40:00 +0000 https://aubgtalks.stoilms.com/?p=1044 (April 17, 2014) Former Deputy Finance Minister Iliya Lingorski talks about the recent Russian annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, and how that event demonstrates a triumph of geopolitics over freedom in our modern world.

The lecturer would like to acknowledge Stratfor and explicitly George Friedman and Robert D. Kaplan as well as Thomas L. Friedman from New York Times whose work he has used to prepare this lecture.

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]]> https://aubgtalks.stoilms.com/iliya-lingorski-the-triumph-of-geopolitics-over-freedom/feed/ 0 Marco Arndt – Issues of De-Communization in Germany and Bulgaria https://aubgtalks.stoilms.com/marco-arndt-issues-of-de-communization-in-germany-and-bulgaria/ https://aubgtalks.stoilms.com/marco-arndt-issues-of-de-communization-in-germany-and-bulgaria/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2014 15:00:57 +0000 https://aubgtalks.stoilms.com/?p=1014 (December 3, 2013) Marco Arndt talks about dealing with communist dictatorship in Germany and Bulgaria. He draws the parallels between the two countries regarding the process of de-communization. Marco Arndt is a director of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Sofia. This talks is part of the Pantiza Communist Studies Lecture Series.

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