Past Events

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Syllabus Design and Critical Pedagogies in the Classroom: How Do We Teach Differently? is the fifth panel of the Decolonization in Focus Series. The series will have six wide-ranging panels featuring speakers from various disciplines and institutions. Panelists and participants will be encouraged to consider why decolonizing Russian & Eurasian studies matters, how to implement concrete change in their classrooms, and how to conceive of the future of expertise within the field.

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Assistant Professor, History, Texas State University

Chair and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History, Director of Russian Studies, Hamilton College

Associate Professor of Political Science, Nazarbayev University

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The panel will reflect on the three decades of the OSCE engagement in Central Asia, current challenges facing the organization, and suggest options for OSCE cooperation with Central Asian participating states.

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Senior Researcher, Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Professor of NATO and European Security Issues, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies

Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham

Director of Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies

Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

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This panel will discuss ongoing socio-economic reforms in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, focusing on barriers and opportunities for structural change.

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Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Bristol (UK) and Professor, Public Administration Academy under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Head of the Office, Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Uzbekistan

Independent Researcher

Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has challenged scholars in Slavic studies to collectively rethink approaches to the field. This conference gathers fellow graduate students from other universities across a range of disciplines to engage new and developing approaches to study of the region.

Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

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A rare gendered and feminist analysis of the Russian war against Ukraine. 

Graduate Student, London School of Economics

Research Scholar, Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University