Society and Culture Events
Local Media and Ethnic Politics in 21st-Century Russia
June 18, 2012 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Kennan Institute
Kathryn Graber, Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute
Familiar Strangers in the Soviet Marketplace: Georgian Trade Networks between the Caucasus and Moscow
June 11, 2012 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Kennan Institute
Erik R. Scott, Title VIII-Supported Research Scholar, Kennan Institute
Brazil and South America
June 01, 2012 // 9:00am — 12:30pm
Latin American Program
On Friday, June 1, The Latin American Program and the Brazil Institute convene a panel of experts to discuss regional relations in South America.
Women’s Leadership in Post-Conflict Liberia: My Journey A Book Launch
May 30, 2012 // 10:00am — 12:00pm
Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity
Women’s Leadership in Post-Conflict Liberia: My Journey book launch with Author Olubanke King-Akerele, former Minister of Foreign Affairs in Liberia and Special Keynote Address from
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf via video-conference.
Book Discussion: Stage Fright: Politics and the Performing Arts in Late Imperial Russia
May 14, 2012 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Kennan Institute
Paul du Quenoy, Professor, Department of History and Archaeology, American University of Beirut, will present his recent book, "Stage Fright: Politics and the Performing Arts in Late Imperial Russia" (Penn State University Press, 2009). In a refutation of accepted arguments about the political nature of Russian culture, its central argument maintains that patterns of commercialization and entertainment dominated the Russian Empire's performing arts culture, to the widespread exclusion of political expression.
Geopolitics, States, and Networks in Central Eurasia
May 09, 2012 // 3:30pm — 5:30pm
Kennan Institute
Authors and scholars Alexander Cooley and Alexander Kupatadze discuss their research into the interplay of geopolitics and local networks across Central Asia. Cooley explores the dynamics of the new competition between Russia, China and the United States over the region since 9/11, as well as how small states’ interaction with great powers advances our understanding of how world politics actually works in the contemporary era of diminishing Western influence and rising new regional powers. Author Alexander Kupatadze will discuss the diverging trajectories of organized crime in post-Soviet Eurasia focusing on professional criminals (so-called vory-v-zakone) in Georgia and drug smuggling groups in Kyrgyzstan.
Educating for Democracy: The Case of the European Humanities University
May 08, 2012 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Kennan Institute
This luncheon program will convey the continuing impact of the European Humanities University (EHU) through exchanges with current EHU students and remarks from the university’s founding rector, Anatoli Mikhailov and Eurasia Foundation President, Horton Beebe-Center. The students, a live example of civic education in action, will help to focus the session on the challenges and rewards of educating a rising generation, especially in a state with an authoritarian government.
Police Reform and Corruption in Russia
May 07, 2012 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Kennan Institute
Vladimir Sergevnin, Assistant Professor, School of Law Enforcement and Justice Administration and Director, Center for Applied Criminal Justice, Western Illinois University; and Editor, Law Enforcement Executive Forum, will address one of the critical issues of modern law enforcement segment of the Russian state: does police reform produce a new paradigm in controlling misconduct and corruption? What are some of the first results in reforming Russian police towards more accountability and professionalism?
St. Petersburg Regionalism as a Political Force: 1980s to 2010s
April 30, 2012 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Kennan Institute
Lev Lurye, cultural historian, St. Petersburg
Translating Judgments into Policy: The Influence of the European Court of Human Rights on the Russian Criminal Justice System
April 26, 2012 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
Kennan Institute
The Kennan Institute, in partnership with the ABA Rule of Law Initiative, will host a seminar consisting of leading Russian human rights experts visiting the U.S. as part of ABA ROLI’s Conditions of Confinement and Prison Reform Study Tour, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The meeting will address Russian citizens’ use of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) as a tool for justice, its judgments on prison issues, and the court’s broader influence on the Russian judicial system.
