Past Events

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Connecting the World-Island: What will China’s PEACE cable bring to Pakistan and East Africa?

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The roundtable will discuss the technical, economic, and geopolitical implications of the China-led PEACE (Pakistan East Africa Connecting Europe) cable project.

Recording Available
Motolani Agbebi
Motolani Agbebi

University teacher, Faculty of Management and Business, University of Tampere (Finland)

Tayyb Safdar
Tayyab Safdar

Post-Doctoral Researcher, East Asia Centre & Department of Politics, University of Virginia

Roxana Vatanparast
Roxana Vatanparast

Affiliate, Center on Global Legal Transformation, Columbia Law School

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

James Evans
James Gethyn Evans

Ph.D. Student, Department of History, Harvard

Central Downtown Nur-Sultan: in center Bayterek tower

Kazakhstan’s e-Government and Its Partnership with Russian Sberbank: An Existential Choice?

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The roundtable will discuss technical, economic and political implications of Kazakhstan's government's decision to move e-government onto Russian Sberbank's "Platform V."

Recording Available
Wolfgang Drechsler
Wolfgang Drechsler

Professor of Governance, Ragnar Nurkse Department, Tallinn University of Technology

Anna Gussarova
Anna Gussarova

Director, Central Asia Institute for Strategic Studies

Oleg Shakirov
Oleg Shakirov

Senior Expert, Center for Advanced Governance (Russia)

Yahiya Tuleshov
Yahiya Tuleshov

Digitalization Expert

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

Judges' panel, Nuremburg Trials

Bearing Witness at Nuremberg: The Soviet Contribution to the Record of the Holocaust

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Online

Join Francine Hirsch and Maxim Shrayer as they discuss the often overlooked role of the Soviet contribution at Nuremberg (along with other Soviet contributions to the International Military Tribunal).

Recording Available
Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College; Chair, Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center

lady justice under blue sky

REECA Master’s Program Info Session

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Join us for a brief overview of the Master's Degree Program in Regional Studies—Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (REECA).

Donna Griesenbeck
Donna Griesenbeck

Student Programs Officer, Davis Center

Soliders and Civilians in Afghanistan

Lessons from International Security Force Assistance in Afghanistan: A Negotiation Exercise

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Join the Negotiation Task Force on Friday, October 15, for "Lessons from international security force assistance in Afghanistan: A negotiation exercise."

Arvid Bell

Founder, Negotiation Task Force

Phillip Ackerman
Philipp Ackermann

Director-General for political relations with the Near and Middle East, Africa and Latin America, German Federal Foreign Office; former civilian head, PRT Kunduz, Afghanistan.

Eva Kahan

Conflict Finance Analyst at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS)