Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on September 18, 2025 to attend this event.
Please join the Harriman Institute for the Carnegie Corporation Russia Studies Capstone Conference.
Conference Program
9:00 AM | Welcoming Remarks
- Alexander Cooley and Jack Snyder
9:15 - 10:30 AM | Panel I: Geopolitics and the Fate of Russian and Eurasian Studies
Chair: Jack Snyder (Columbia University)
- Julie Newton (Oxford University)
- Michael Kimmage (Catholic University)
- Oxana Shevel (Tufts University)
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM | Panel II: Reflections on the Political Economy of Russia
Chair: Timothy Frye (Columbia University)
- Anton Shirikov (University of Kansas)
- Egor Lazarev (Yale University)
- Georgiy Syunyaev (Vanderbilt University)
- Guzel Garifullina (University of Richmond)
12:45 - 1:45 PM | Keynote Remarks
1:45 - 3:00 PM | Panel III: New Research Agendas and Topics
Chair: Elise Giuliano (Columbia University)
- Yana Gorokhovskaia (Freedom House)
- Paul Goode (Carleton University, Canada)
- Valerie Sperling (Clark University)
- Yoshiko Herrera (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
3:15 - 4:30 PM | Panel IV: Institutional Impacts of the War: Regional Studies and Regional Impacts (Caucasus and Central Asia)
Chair: Alexander Cooley (Columbia University)
- Julie George (CUNY)
- Nargis Kassenova (Harvard University)
- Ed Schatz (University of Toronto)
- Joshua Tucker (New York University)
4:30 PM | Concluding Remarks
