Past Events

Event Format
Alexei Navalny at a microphone

What Does the Navalny Poisoning Tell Us About Russia’s Regime?

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The Kremlin has used arrest and imprisonment to suppress dissent. Now it appears that it is willing to use banned chemical weapons to silence prominent opposition figures. What does Alexei Navalny’s alleged poisoning tell us about the evolution of the regime in Russia?

Recording Available
Timothy J. Colton
Timothy Colton

Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University

Sergei Guriev
Sergei Guriev

Dean and Professor of Economics, London Business School

Yevgenia Albats

Editor-in-Chief & CEO, The New Times

black, yellow, and white hands reaching

Emerging Scholars of Color Abroad

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Race in Focus: From Critical Pedagogies to Research Practice and Public Engagement in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Ioanida Costache
Ioanida Costache

Stanford University

Alicia Hernandez-Strong

Yale University

Rafael Pablo Labanino

University of Konstanz

Kimberly St. Julian Varnon
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon

PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

Alexa Tignall

University of California-Berkeley

children with backpacks holding hands

Repatriation and Reintegration of ISIS Affiliates in Central Asia

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Up to 10,000 individuals from post-Soviet Eurasia have traveled to Syria and Iraq to join ISIS in recent years. What will happen once they return to Central Asia?

Recording Available
Vera Mironava
Vera Mironova

Independent Scholar

Farrukh Chariyev

Project Component Manager, NGO “Barqaror Hayot”

Rustam Azizi

Deputy Director, Center for Islamic Studies under the President of the Republic of Tajikistan

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

View of Red Square at night

Alexander Goldenweiser, an American Anthropologist with Russian Jewish Roots

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Professor Kan’s exploration of Goldenweiser’s widely scattered archive as well as his contributions as a public intellectual to various nonacademic periodicals.

Recording Available
Sergei Kan
Sergei Kan

Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

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

black, yellow, and white hands reaching

Engaging with Race and Racism in the Classroom

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Race in Focus: From Critical Pedagogies to Research Practice and Public Engagement in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

Joy Gleason Carew
Joy Gleason Carew

Associate Professor (Pan-African Studies), University of Louisville

Raquel Greene
Raquel Greene

Associate Professor, Department Chair of Russian, Grinnell College

Chelsi West Ohueri
Chelsi West Ohueri

Assistant Professor — Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin