Past Events

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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

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

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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