Past Events

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State-Building as Lawfare explores the use of state and non-state legal systems by politicians and ordinary people in postwar Chechnya.

Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies; Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University.

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

Chair, Weatherhead Research Cluster on Business and Government; Associate Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University.

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Can Ukrainian resolve be sustained for as long as the war lasts? Our panelists will help us clarify what the war has cost (or not cost) Russia and Putin, how Ukrainians have been united by a common cause, and what Europe and the United States should do in a second year of war.

Editor-in-Chief & CEO, The New Times

Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, Mechnikov National University, Odesa, Ukraine

Director, Scholars Without Borders, Davis Center; Vice President for Strategic Engagement, Kyiv School of Economics

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Emerging Scholars on the State of the Field, Activism, and Advocacy is the third panel in the Decolonization in focus Series

The series will consist of six wide-ranging panels featuring speakers from a variety of disciplines and institutions. Panelists and participants will be encouraged to consider why decolonizing Russian & Eurasian studies matters, how to implement concrete change in their classrooms, and how to conceive of the future of expertise within the field. All sessions will be convened using Zoom, live-streamed via YouTube, and recorded to be made available for later viewing.

Recording Available

Ph.D. Candidate at the New School for Social Research, New York

NSSRPhD Candidate

Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics, Oberlin College

Professor of Politics, The New School for Social Research

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The panel will discuss considerable interrelated challenges facing Caspian littoral states and their plans to develop the Middle Corridor for trans-Eurasian trade.

Recording Available

Visiting Professor of Urban Studies and Post-War Reconstruction, Kyiv School of Economics

U.S. Ambassador (Retired); Co-Manager, Trans Caspian US Resources

Assistant Professor, University of Groningen

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

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Travelogues by Sophia Yablonska transgressed norms of gender, genre, and perception and will offer material to reassess traditional histories of literature in the twentieth century.

Professor of Literature Theory and Comparative Literature, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and Ukrainian Catholic University

Howard Mumford Jones Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University