Past Events

Event Format
statue in Kazakhstan

The Politics of Reform in Kazakhstan

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Online

Eighteen months into the Tokayev presidency, what has happened to his proposed reform agenda, and what is the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on progress?

Vyacheslav Abramov

Founder and Editor, Vlast.kz

Almas Chukin

Managing Partner, Visor Kazakhstan

Meruert Makhmutova

Director and Founder, Public Policy Research Center

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

Paul Stronski
Paul Stronski

Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

aircraft carrier at sea

Red Horizon: Force and Diplomacy in Eurasia

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Online

Transform the way you think about international security by participating in an intensive three-day virtual workshop and immersive crisis exercise.

justice scales and gavel on tabletop

Law and Order in Kyrgyzstan: Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

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Online

This panel will discuss Kyrgyzstan’s law-enforcement system, its key features and the trajectory of its development.

Recording Available
Vera Mironava
Vera Mironova

Independent Scholar

Saniia Toktogazieva

Associate Professor and Coordinator, Human Rights Program, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek

Erica Marat
Erica Marat

Associate Professor and Chair, Regional and Analytical Studies Department, College of International Security and Affairs (CISA), National Defense University

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

Engaging the Evil Empire book cover

Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War

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Online

Covert engagement gave way to overt conversation in US-Soviet relations during the first half of the 1980s.

Recording Available
Simon Miles
Simon Miles

Assistant Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

Maxim D. Shrayer holding poodle and two copies of book

Of Politics and Pandemics: Songs of a Russian Immigrant

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Online

Maxim D. Shrayer delivers a translingual poetic manifesto of despair, hope, love, and loss.

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

Sergei Kan
Sergei Kan

Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College