War and the Academic
Community in Russia
with

Dr. Dmitry Dubrovskiy
Center for Independent Social Research, St. Petersburg, Russia
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (EST)

Virtual Event
Russia until now has played an important role in international education and science, despite the conservative turn in national policy overall after 2011-2012. A substantial number of Russian scholars and students participate in various exchange schemes and research projects. The aggressive war Russia launched against Ukraine raises the question of how international universities and research institutions, including those based in Europe and the US, should continue collaboration with Russian scholars and students. Dr. Dmitry Dubrovskiy will discuss the natural limits of such cooperation as well as possible conditions defining how it can take place. Additionally, he will describe how Russian scholars and students are protesting against the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He will also discuss the current situation of students and scholars who have already received rejections from Western institutions because of their Russian and Belarusan citizenship.

Speaker:
Dmitry Dubrovskiy, Ph.D. is a Research Fellow at the Center for Independent Social Research in St. Petersburg, Russia. He founded and directed the Ethnic Studies Program at the European University at St. Petersburg from 1999-2005. He was also the founder of the Human Rights Program at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Science, St. Petersburg State University and lectured in the program from 2004 to 2015. He was a visiting lecturer at Bard College, Witwatersrand University, and adjunct assistant professor at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University from 2015-2017. 
Moderator:
Robert Orttung is a Research Professor at IERES and the Director of Research for Sustainable GW. He is editor of Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Demokratization and co-editor of the Russian Analytical Digest. His research focuses on issues of urban sustainability in the Arctic.
Chair:
Marlene Laruelle, Ph.D., is Director of the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Director of the Central Asia Program; Director of the Illiberalism Studies Program; Co-Director of PONARS Eurasia; and Research Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University. She works on political, social, and cultural changes in the post-Soviet space. Marlene's research explores the transformations of nationalist and conservative ideologies in Russia, nationhood construction in Central Asia, as well as the development of Russia's Arctic regions.
This event is on the record and open to the media.
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