REMINDER: PONARS Eurasia Annual Spring Policy Conference 2022

PONARS Eurasia Annual Spring Policy Conference 2022

Domestic Politics in the Shadow of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

We hope you will join us at our Spring Policy Conference this

Friday, March 25, 2022

This hybrid event will give you an opportunity to hear from experts on important domestic political developments in Ukraine, Russia, and other countries of the region as the war plays out. The conversations will highlight leading and up-and-coming scholars from North America, Russia, Ukraine, and other parts of Eurasia. Coffee and lunch will be provided for those who attend in person.

8:45am-9:00am: Coffee

9:00am-9:15am: Introductions

9:15am-10:30am: Panel 1: Better Understanding Ukraine

Serhiy Kudelia (Baylor University), Volodymyr Kulyk (National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine), Mikhail Alexseev (University of San Diego), Olga Onuch (University of Manchester, UK)

10:45am-12:30pm: Panel 2: Russian State Narratives and Mass Responses

Marat Iliyasov (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Scott Radnitz (University of Washington), Henry E. Hale (George Washington University), Olga Iakimova (Fulbright Visiting Scholar), Sarah Wilson Sokhey (University of Colorado, Boulder)

12:30pm-1:30pm: Lunch

1:30pm-2:45pm: Panel 3A: Repression and Manipulation in Russia and Belarus

Theodore Gerber (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Samuel Greene (King's College London, UK), Yulia Khalikova (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Katie Stewart (Knox College)

1:30pm-2:45pm: Panel 3B: Elites in Russia's Political System

Richard Arnold (Muskingum University), Kirill Melnikov (Institute of Philosophy and Law, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia), Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (King's College London, UK), Maria Snegovaya (George Washington University)

3:00pm-3:45pm: Panel 4: Unrest in Kazakhstan and Its Implications

Azamat Junisbai (Pitzer College), Barbara Junisbai (Pitzer College), Dinissa Duvanova (Lehigh University)

3:45pm-5:00pm: Panel 5: Prospects for Opposition in Russia

Irina Busygina (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia), Ekaterina Paustyan (University of Bremen, Germany), Stephen Crowley (Oberlin College), Robert Orttung (George Washington University), Andrei Semenov (Center for Comparative History and Politics, Perm, Russia)

Friday, March 25, 2022

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

The Elliott School of International Affairs

1957 E St. NW, Washington DC

Online

PONARS Eurasia is an international network of scholars advancing new approaches to research on security, politics, economics, and society in Russia and Eurasia. The program is based at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. PONARS Eurasia is supported in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.