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Oct 04

PONARS Annual Policy Conference

The PONARS Fall Policy Conference convenes international experts from North America, Russia, Ukraine, and parts of Eurasia for a series of panel discussions. This year's event offers insight from leading scholars and experts into comparative politics and international affairs in the region, both related to and beyond Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine. The live event will be exclusively in person.

Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St NW, Lindner Commons, Washington, DC 20052
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Friday, October 4, 2024
09:00am - 05:00pm ET

Free

This event is on record and is open to the media.


Conference Agenda



9:00 am  Opening Remarks


9:00 am-10:30 am  Panel 1: Strategic Dynamics and Security Challenges: Ukraine in the Global Context

Tetyana Malyarenko (National University Odessa Law Academy), Jean-François Ratelle (University of Ottawa), Uliana Movchan (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University), Oleksandr Fisun (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University)


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

Pavlo Smytsnyuk (Princeton University), Hannah Chapman (University of Oklahoma), Azamat Junisbai (Pitzer College), Katie Stewart (Knox College)


12:30pm-1:30pm  Lunch


1:30 pm-3:00 pm  Panel 3: Russia at Year 3 of the War: Military, Foreign Policy and Authoritarianism Diffusion

Kirill Shamiev (European Council on Foreign Relations), Margarita Zavadskaya (Finnish Institute of International Affairs), Emil Dzhuraev (OSCE Academy in Bishkek; Crossroads Central Asia), Ivan Kłyszcz (International Centre for Defence and Security)


3:00-3:15 pm  Coffee Break


3:15 pm-5:00 pm  Panel 4: Russia In and Out: Domestic Propaganda and Activism in Emigration 

Lisa Sundstrom (The University of British Columbia), Mikhail Turchenko (Northwestern University), Anton Shirikov (University of Kansas), Georgiy Syunyaev (Vanderbilt University), Alexander Iskandaryan (Caucasus Institute, Armenia)