C  of C 11-18-2023 Lessons from a Cabbage Field: What I Learned in Lithuania
Channel: Tim Bolger
Date: 2024-01-26

November 18

Lessons from a Cabbage Field: What I Learned in Lithuania
in the shadow of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine

Meetings #3,743 - Paul Draus, Faculty Director, Professor of Sociology, The University of Michigan-Dearborn

​The speaker states that :”I recently completed a Fulbright Scholar sojourn and have developed some materials based on that experience.”

The speaker states that "The presentation describes the efforts of a community organization in the Šančiai (pronounced SHAN-chee) neighborhood of Kaunas (Lithuania's second largest city) to resist aggressive urbanization through structured protest informed by artistic practice, including the development and performance of a community opera. This story occurs in the midst of a mayoral election, in the shadow of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine, and offers lessons concerning the role of art, community and civil society in local urban regeneration."