Past Events

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Claire Kaiser will discuss her new book on the impact of Stalin in Georgia.

Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
Head of Strategy, McLarty Associates

Chairman, Advisory Board, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center; Professor of Modern Georgian History, Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia)

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Discourse and Decolonization: Perspectives from Outside the Anglophone Academy is the second panel of the Decolonization in Focus Series.

The series has six wide-ranging panels featuring speakers from various 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

Associate Professor of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics.

Historian and Researcher, Lviv Center for Urban History

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas

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Maxim Osipov will read from his new book KILOMETER 101 and discuss his work and the state of the Russian short story more generally.

A writer

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

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Decolonization: Why Does It Matter? is the first panel of the Decolonization In Focus series. This session will broach the question of why decolonizing Slavic studies is an important exercise and the impact it may have on scholars and the field more largely.

 

 

Associate Professor, Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University (Estonia)

Art Historian and artist, Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de México & Kyiv School of Economics

Associate Professor, History, University of Illinois, Chicago

Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee

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The roundtable will discuss the current state of regional cooperation on water, energy, and climate change in Central Asia, opportunities and constraints, and ways forward.

Recording Available

Deputy Director, CAREC Institute

Senior Research Fellow, CAREC Institute

Energy Advisor, USAID Central Asia Regional Mission

Director, Scientific Information Center of Interstate Сommission for Water Coordination in Сentral Asia

First Vice-Rector, University of World Economy and Diplomacy; Deputy Director, Institute for Advanced International Studies (Uzbekistan)

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