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AI and Propaganda: Nothing Is True and Everything Is Generated

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Join us for a conversation on how AI-powered propaganda differs from what came before and how new technologies shape public reality.

Peter Pomerantsev
Peter Pomerantsev

Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins University

Halyna Padalko

Research Affiliate, MIT-Ukraine Program, Fulbright Fellow

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Analyzing Post-Soviet Reforms and Reform Proposals: Results of Comparative Research, Part 2

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Come hear key findings from a unique comparison of institutional reforms enacted or proposed by elites, opposition groups, and other actors in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan; and Russia. 

Irina Busygina
Irina Busygina

Independent Scholar

Aspram Israyelyan
Aspram Israyelyan

A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies—REECA

Matvey Anufriev
Matvey Anufriev

MPP Candidate, Harvard Kennedy School

Zachary Hollis
Zachary Hollis

A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies—REECA

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Negotiating Authority: Indigenous Diplomacy Across Arctic and Global Governance

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This roundtable examines Indigenous diplomacy as a form of institutional engagement operating simultaneously across multiple political arenas. 

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Malu Rosing

Advisor on Arctic and Human Rights System, International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs

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Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer
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Elsa Stamatopoulou
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Andrey Petrov
Mariana Katzarova

United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Russian Federation

Liubov Sulyandziga
Liubov Sulyandziga

Visiting Scholar, Davis Center (AY 2025-26)

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The Impact of 4 Years of Warfare on the Russian Federation (Part II)

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Join the workshop on how Russia's war against Ukraine impacted the Russian Federation.

 

Maria Snegovaya
Maria Snegovaya

Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Affairs Studies; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University

Peter Rutland
Peter Rutland

Professor of Government, Wesleyan University; Vice President, Association for the Study of Nationalities; Associate Editor, Russian Review

Harley Balzer
Harley Balzer

Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University

Cynthia Buckley
Cynthia Buckley

Adjunct Research Professor, University of Michigan

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

Andrea Graziosi
Andrea Graziosi

Professor of History, Università di Napoli Federico II

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The Literary Legacy of Julius Margolin, Gulag Veteran and Public Intellectual

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Join us for a discussion of the memoir "Journey Into the Land of the Zeks" and its Russian-Polish-Israeli author, one of the earliest significant contributors to the corpus of Gulag literature.

Leona Toker
Leona Toker

Professor Emerita, Hebrew University (Jerusalem)

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

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