Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on September 18, 2025 to attend this event.
Please join the Harriman Institute for the Carnegie Corporation Russian Studies Capstone Conference.
Conference Program
9:00 AM | Opening 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)
- Michael Kimmage (Catholic University)
- Julie Newton (Oxford University)
- Oxana Shevel (Tufts University)
Panel I Video
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM | Panel II: Reflections on the Political Economy of Russia
Chair: Timothy Frye (Columbia University)
- Guzel Garifullina (University of Richmond)
- Egor Lazarev (Yale University)
- Anton Shirikov (University of Kansas)
- Georgiy Syunyaev (Vanderbilt University)
12:45 – 1:45 PM | Keynote Remarks
- Robert Legvold (Columbia University)
Keynote Remarks Video
1:45 – 3:00 PM | Panel III: New Research Agendas and Topics
Chair: Elise Giuliano (Columbia University)
- Paul Goode (Carleton University, Canada)
- Yana Gorokhovskaia (Freedom House)
- Yoshiko Herrera (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Valerie Sperling (Clark University)
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)
- Edward Schatz (University of Toronto)
- Joshua Tucker (New York University)
4:30 PM | Concluding Remarks
- Alexander Cooley
Four conference participants contributed oral histories to “Cold Wars and the Academy: An Oral History on Russian and Eurasian Studies”: Alexander Cooley, Timothy Frye, Robert Legvold, and Jack Snyder. Carnegie Corporation of New York’s former Vice President of the International Program at Carnegie Corporation of New York and our alumna, Deana Arsenian, also contributed to this project.
A recording of Panel I and the Keynote Remarks will be available after the event has ended.
