Next Friday: PONARS Eurasia Annual Policy Conference

PONARS Eurasia Annual Policy Conference

We hope you will join us at our 2024 Annual Policy Conference on

Friday, October 4th, 2024

held at

The Elliott School of International Affairs

1957 E St NW, Washington DC

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.

Conference Agenda

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)

This event is on record and open to the media.

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.