Marlene Laruelle, Ph.D.,
is Director and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (
IERES
), GW. Dr. Laruelle is also a Co-Director of
PONARS
(Program on New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia) and Director of GW’s Central Asia Program. Her research explores the transformations of nationalist and conservative ideologies in Russia and nationhood construction in Central Asia, as well as the development of Russia’s Arctic regions. Two of her books will be out in late 2020:
Is Russia Fascist? Unraveling Propaganda East and West
(Cornell University Press) and
Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War. Red versus Whites
(Bloomsbury).
Akhmet Yarlykapov
is a Senior Research Fellow at Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO-University), Center for Caucasian Studies and Regional Security. He is currently researching Islam and ethnic cultures, modern Islamic movements, ethno-political and ethno-confessional conflicts in the North Caucasus. He is also doing field research in Muslim communities of the Asian part of Russia, including the Russian North. He is an author of
Islam Among Steppe Nogais in 20-th Century
, Moscow, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2008 (in Russian).
Monday, June 22, 2020
12:00-1:00 pm
Meeting Number (Access Code):
160 489 2891
Event Password:
IERES0622
