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Friday, October 4th
The Elliott School of International Affairs, 1957 E St. NW, Washington DC
9:00 am-5:00 pm
Lindner Commons, Room 602
Conference Agenda
9:00 am – 10:30 am Panel 1: Strategic Dynamics and Security Challenges: Ukraine in the Global Context
Chair: Henry Hale, The George Washington University
Tetyana Malyarenko (National University Odessa Law Academy) “China’s Small and Great Game Around Ukraine”
Jean-François Ratelle (University of Ottawa) “Foreign Fighters in Ukraine: Emerging Risks to Western Security”
Uliana Movchan (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University) “Wartime Politics and Governance: Centralization vs. Decentralization in Ukraine”
Oleksandr Fisun (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University) TBD
Discussant: Melinda Haring, Razom for Ukraine, Atlantic Council
10:30-10:45 am – Coffee Break
10:45 am – 12:30 pm Panel 2: Changing Identities in the Broader Region: War, Memory, Language and Religion
Chair: Margarita Zavadskaya, Finnish Institute of International Affairs
Pavlo Smytsnyuk (George Washington University) “National Security, Religious Freedom, and the Russian Orthodox Tradition: Ukraine in Search of an Elusive Balance”
Hannah Chapman (University of Oklahoma) “Central Asian Attitudes toward the International Community amid Russia’s War against Ukraine”
Azamat Junisbai (Pitzer College) “Role of Language and Age in Ethnic Qazaqs’ Perceptions of the War in Ukraine”
Katie Stewart (Knox College) “Monument Erection and Demolition in Russian – East European Memory Wars”
Discussant: Miriam Lanskoy, National Endowment for Democracy
12:30-1:30 pm – Lunch Break
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm Panel 3: Russia at Year 3 of the War: Military, Foreign Policy, and Authoritarianism Diffusion
Chair: David Szakonyi, The George Washington University
Kirill Shamiev (European Council on Foreign Relations) “Dynamics of Civil-Military Relations in Wartime Russia 2022-2024”
Margarita Zavadskaya (Finnish Institute of International Affairs), Marina Vyrskaia (University of Helsinki), Aleksei Gilev (University of Helsinki) “Warring for Peace: Support for the Peace Talks in Russia, Evidence from A Conjoint Experiment”
Emil Dzhuraev (OSCE Academy in Bishkek; Crossroads Central Asia) “Battles Over “Foreign Agents”: Geopolitics Against Democracy”
Ivan Kłyszcz (International Centre for Defence and Security) “Despite Everything: How and Why Russia Remains an Actor in the Horn of Africa”
Discussant: Michael Kofman, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
3:00-3:15 pm – Coffee Break
3:15-5:00 pm Panel 4: Russia In and Out: Domestic Propaganda and Activism in Emigration
Chair: Marlene Laruelle, The George Washington University
Lisa Sundstrom (The University of British Columbia), Laura A. Henry (Bowdoin College), Valerie Sperling (Clark University) “New States of Activism: The Impact of Host and Home Country Political Environments on Russians Organizing Abroad”
Mikhail Turchenko (Northwestern University) “Political Reforms for Postwar Russia: Evidence from a Study of Russian Wartime Migrants”
Anton Shirikov (University of Kansas), Georgiy Syunyaev (Vanderbilt University) “Learning to Recognize Propaganda? Attention to Media Bias and Openness to Independent Information in Russia”
Alexander Iskandaryan (Caucasus Institute, Armenia) “The Ethno-Nationalist Component of Russian Imperialism”
Discussant: William Pomeranz, Kennan Institute
