Past Events

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Central Bank of Armenia Internship Info Session

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Looking for an interesting internship opportunity for summer 2022? 

Donna Griesenbeck
Donna Griesenbeck

Student Programs Officer, Davis Center

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Living Intersectionality in Academia: Emerging Scholars

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This session introduces the broad matrix of ways in which emerging scholars in SEEES navigate their particular locations as underrepresented subjects.

Emily Couch
Emily Couch

Writer

Kellan Baker
Kellan Baker

Executive Director, Whitman-Walker Institute

Nadja Greku
Nadja Greku

Central European University

Christy Monet
Christy Monet

Dual PhD candidate in Political Science and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago

Raushan Zhandayeva
Raushan Zhandayeva

Ph.D. student, George Washington University

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Kazakhstan: What Next? Understanding the Protests and the Post-Protest Political Context

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It’s been over a week since the massive protests that took the lives of at least 225 people. How can we begin to understand the diversity of reasons for the public dissent that emerged from various regions of the country?

Dosym Satpayev
Dosym Satpayev

Director of Kazakhstan Risk Assessment Group and a member of the presidium of the Kazakhstan Council on International Relations

Diana Kudaibergenova
Diana Kudaibergenova

Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge

Azamat K. Junisbai
Azamat K. Junisbai

Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California

Dinissa Duvanova
Dinissa Duvanova

Associate Professor, International Relations, Lehigh University

Bruce Pannier
Bruce Pannier

Correspondent, RFE/RL

Marlene Laruelle
Marlene Laruelle

Director and Research Professor, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), The George Washington University

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Bridging State and Civil Society: Informal Organizations in Tajik/ Afghan Badakhshan

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Join us for the discussion of the new book "Bridging Sate and Civil Society. Informal Organizations in Tajik/Afghan Badakhshan" by Dr. Suzanne Levi-Sanchez.

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Suzanne Levi-Sanchez
Suzanne Levi-Sanchez

Non-resident Fellow, American University, School of International Service

Robert Finn
Robert Finn

U.S. Ambassador (retired)

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

Senior Fellow and Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center

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What Is Happening in Kazakhstan?

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Locally based journalists and experts will share their views on the current crisis in Kazakhstan.

Merkhat Sharipzhanov

RFE/RL's Sr. Central Newsroom Correspondent, former Director of Kazakh Service

Temur Umarov
Temur Umarov

Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)

Pauline Jones
Pauline Jones

Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan

Barbara Junisbai
Barbara Junisbai

Associate Professor of Organizational Studies, Pitzer College

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

Senior Fellow and Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center

Marlene Laruelle
Marlene Laruelle

Director and Research Professor, Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), The George Washington University