Past Events

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Moving Beyond Exclusionary Practices in SEEES

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

Choi Chatterjee
Choi Chatterjee

Professor of History, California State University, Los Angeles

Morgan Liu
Morgan Liu

Associate Professor, Ohio State University

Colleen Lucey
Colleen Lucey

Assistant Professor, University of Arizona

Kimberly St. Julian Varnon
Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon

PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania

Marius Taba
Marius Taba

Corvinus University

From a ‘Marriage of Convenience’ to the ‘Axis of Authoritarianism’: Evaluating the Russia-China Relationship in the 21st Century

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Examining contemporary Russia-China relations, assessments by Western scholars yield a wide variety of perspectives and conclusions.

Recording Available
Lyle Goldstein
Lyle Goldstein

Research Professor, China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI), Naval War College

Vitaly Kozyrev
Vitaly Kozyrev

Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Endicott College

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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

Yevgenia Albats

Editor-in-Chief & CEO, The New Times

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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

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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