Save The Date - Annual PONARS Eurasia Fall Conference

PONARS Eurasia Fall Policy Conference

We hope you will join us at our 2022 Annual Policy Conference on

Friday, September 30th, 2022

held at

The Elliott School of International Affairs

1957 E St NW, Washington DC

Online

The PONARS Eurasia Fall Policy Conference convenes international experts from North America, Russia, Ukraine, and other parts of Eurasia for a series of panel discussions. This hybrid event offers an opportunity to hear from experts on important shifts in international affairs both locally and globally in response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Conference Agenda

8:45am-9:00am Opening Remarks and Coffee

9:00am-10:45am Panel 1: Russia’s War on Ukraine

Polina Sinovets (Odesa Mechnikov National University), Olexiy Haran (Kyiv Mohyla Academy), Jesse Driscoll (University of California San Diego), Volodymyr Dubovyk (Odesa Mechnikov National University), Tetyana Malyarenko (National University Odesa Law Academy)

Discussant: Melinda Haring, Deputy Director, Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center

11:00am-12:45pm Panel 2: Russian Strategies and Consequences

Susanne Wengle (University of Notre Dame), Adam Stulberg (Georgia Institute of Technology), Mariya Omelicheva, (National War College), Maria Snegovaya (Georgetown University)

Discussant: Nigel Gould-Davies, Editor, Strategic Survey; Senior Fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies

12:45pm-1:45pm Lunch

1:45pm-3:00pm Panel 3A: Russia’s War at Home

Jean François-Ratelle (University of Ottawa), Margarita Zavadskaya (University of Helsinki, Finland), Ivan Kurilla (St. Petersburg)

Discussant: William Pomeranz, Director, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center

1:45pm-3:00pm Panel 3B: Central Asia in the Shadow of War

Emil Dzhuraev (OSCE Academy in Bishkek), Regina Smyth (Indiana University), Pauline Jones (University of Michigan), Shairbek Dzhuraev (Crossroads Central Asia), Eric McGlinchey (George Mason University)

Discussant: Paul Stronski, Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

3:15pm-5:00pm Panel 4A: The Caucasus Between Russia’s War and Its Own Conflicts

Alexander Iskandaryan (Caucasus Institute, Armenia), Sufian Zhemukhov (The George Washington University), Anar Valiyev (ADA University, Azerbaijan), Kornely Kakachia (Georgian Institute of Politics, Georgia)

Discussant: Cory Welt, Specialist in Russian and European Affairs, Congressional Research Service

3:15pm-5:00pm Panel 4B: Shifting Global Geopolitics

Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University), Arkady Moshes and Ryhor Nizhnikau (Finnish Institute of International Affairs), Mark Kramer (Harvard University), Pavel Baev (Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway), Hilary Appel (Claremont McKenna College)

Discussant: Ambassador Eric Rubin, President, American Foreign Service Association

View the full agenda, including locations and presentation titles, here.

PONARS Eura sia 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.