The Black Sea Lab is an exploratory collaboration across research initiatives at the Davis Center, consisting of a series of conversations to assess scholarly trends and new avenues of inquiry related to security challenges in the Black Sea region.
Guided by a holistic and interdisciplinary understanding of the concept of risk, our goal is to examine the Black Sea not just from an established political and economic lens but by recruiting kaleidoscopic perspectives that integrate the social, historical, and cultural dimensions that shape the region. We want to test the notion that the Black Sea is a multi-dimensional topos, a physical and conceptual space with its own history, character, and agency in international affairs, whose re-centering in scholarship and policy is critically overdue.
12:30-12:45 Welcome and Opening by Kelly O'Neill
12:45-1:30 Roundtable 1: Populations at Risk
Moderator: Dana Masalimova, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center
Speaker: Nadia Boyadjieva, Professor of International Law and International Relations, Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Scholar Davis Center
Speaker: Danielle Leavitt, Postdoctoral Fellow, HURI
Speaker: Eve McGlynn, Disaster Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, CMES
1:30-2:15 Roundtable 2: Culture at Risk
Moderator: Paul Vădan, Coordinator, Imperiia Project
Speaker: Gökçen Erkılıç, Post-Graduate Teaching Fellow, Northeastern University
Speaker: Christina Maranci, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Harvard University
Speaker: Ewa Sułek, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center
2:15-2:30 Coffee
2:30-3:15 Roundtable 3: Sovereignty at Risk
Moderator: Allison Hart, Coordinator, Program on Georgian Studies
Speaker: Irina Busygina, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center
Speaker: Nargis Kassenova, Director of the Program on Central Asia
Speaker: Neil MacFarlane, Professor Emeritus, Oxford University
3:15-4:00 Plenary discussion moderated by Kelly O’Neill
Accessibility
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