Please join the Harriman Institute for the conference Perestroika and After. Organized by Yana Skorobogatov.
Conference Program
Day One: Friday, November 14, 2025: 107 Uris (Calder Lounge)
10:45am: Welcome Remarks
Yana Skorobogatov (Columbia University)
11:00am - 12:30pm | Panel I: Perestroika Observed
Moderator: Yana Skorobogatov (Columbia University)
- Linda J. Cook (Brown University)
- Robert Legvold (Columbia University)
- William Taubman (Amherst College)
- Jane Taubman (Amherst College)
- Katrina vanden Heuvel (The Nation)
1:45 - 3:30pm | Panel II: Twilight Experiments: Reinventing Self and Society at the End of the USSR
Discussant: Yana Skorobogatov (Columbia University)
- Courtney Doucette (SUNY Oswego)
- Juliane Fürst (Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam)
- Emily Hoge (Clemson University)
- Anne O'Donnell (New York University)
4:00pm | Workshop Keynote Address
- Sheila Fitzpatrick (University of Chicago/University of Sydney)
Day Two: Saturday, November 15, 2025: 1512 International Affairs Building
10:30am | Panel III: Faith, Fame, and Foreign Capital: Rebuilding Society in the Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Worlds
Discussant: Courtney Doucette (SUNY Oswego)
- Alexis Peri (Boston University)
- Erik R. Scott (University of Kansas)
- Gene Zubovich (SUNY Buffalo)
