This Friday - PONARS Eurasia Spring Conference

PONARS Eurasia Spring Policy Conference

We hope you will join us at our 2023 Spring Policy Conference on

Friday, March 3rd, 2023

held at

The Elliott School of International Affairs

1957 E St NW, Washington DC

Lindner Commons Room 602

Online

The annual PONARS Eurasia Spring Policy Conference convenes international experts from North America, Russia, Ukraine, and other parts of Eurasia for a series of panel discussions. This year's hybrid event offers insight from leading scholars and experts into comparative politics and society in the region, both related to and beyond Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.

Conference Agenda

9:00 am Opening Remarks: David Szakonyi, The George Washington University

9:00 am-10:30 am Panel 1: Ukrainian Society and Politics in Wartime

Tymofii Brik (Kyiv School of Economics), Oleksandr Fisun (Kharkiv National University), Ivan Gomza (Kyiv School of Economics), Tetyana Malyarenko (National University Odessa Law Academy), Borys Kormych (National University Odessa Law Academy)

Chair: Henry Hale (The George Washington University)

Discussant: Michael Keays (Wilson Center)

10:30-10:45 am Coffee Break

10:45 am-12:30 pm Panel 2: Authoritarianism and Democracy Promotion

Hannah Chapman (University of Oklahoma), Emil Dzhuraev (Soros Foundation - Kyrgyzstan), Cole Harvey (Oklahoma State University), Valerie Sperling (Clark University), Laura Henry (Bowdoin College), Margarita Zavadskaya (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Chair: Mikhail Troitskiy (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Discussant: Heather Ashby (U.S. Institute of Peace)

12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch

1:30 pm-3:00 pm Panel 3: Russian War Practice and Consequences

Kristina Hook (Kennesaw State University), Marat Iliyasov (Miami University, OH), Jean-Francois Ratelle (University of Ottawa), Andrei Semenov (Center for Comparative History and Politics, Perm)

Chair: Timothy Frye (Columbia University)

Discussant: Miriam Lanskoy (National Endowment for Democracy)

3:00-3:15 pm Coffee Break

3:15 pm-5:00 pm Panel 4: Russian Ideology and Values on the Offensive

Ivan Fomin (Center for European Policy Analysis), Ivan Grek (The George Washington University), Azamat Junisbai (Pitzer College), Katie Stewart (Knox College)

Chair: Marlene Laruelle (The George Washington University)

Discussant: Eva Busza (National Democratic Institute)

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.