9:00 am - 9:15 am — Welcoming Remarks
Marlene Laruelle and Ivan Grek, Russia Program, IERES
9:15 am - 10:30 am—Panel I. Russian Journalism, In and Out
Chair: Jill Dougherty (Georgetown University, Former CNN Foreign Affairs Correspondent)
Mikhail Zygar (Founding Editor-in-Chief of Dozhd, Columnist for Der Spiegel)
Anna Zueva (Independent Journalist)
Roman Badanin and Mikhail Rubin (Proekt and Agentstvo)
10:30 am - 11:45 аm — Panel II. What the “Decolonizing” Prism is Telling Us… Or Not
Chair: Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University)
Madina Tlostanova (Linköping University)
Sergey Abashin (European University in St. Petersburg)
Ilya Budraitskis (University of California, Berkeley)
Guzel Yusupova (Carleton University)
11:45 am - 12:30 pm — Lunch
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm — Panel III. Reflecting on the Field of Russian Studies
Chair: Timothy Frye (Columbia University)
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (King’s College London)
Artemy Magun (The European University at Saint-Petersburg)
Ivan Grek (George Washington University)
Tomila Lankina (London School of Economics)
1:45 pm - 3:00 pm — Panel IV. Digital Tools for the Study of Russia: The Prigozhin Galaxy Case Study
In partnership with GEODE, the leading French research on the Russian-speaking datasphere
Chair: Samuel Greene (Center for European Policy Analysis, King’s College London)
Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University)
Kevin Limonier (GEODE)
Maxime Audinet (IRSEM/CARISM, Paris II University)
Kélian Sanz Pascual (GEODE)