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Friday, March 31

Decolonization in Focus Series (Panel VI) The Future of SEEES Expertise: How Can We Anticipate Tomorrow’s Differences?
Time:
12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Presenter:
Serhy Yekelchyk, Ararat L. Osipian, Ilya Gerasimov, Juliet Johnson
Location:
Zoom
Streaming Link:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nZA58BF4RaaTtT1tn5KeLQ
Sponsored by:
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies along with Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, University of Chicago”
“Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison”
“Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas”
“Center for Russian, University of Michigan”
“Center for Russian, University of Texas at Austin”
“Center for Slavic, Ohio State University”
“Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill”
“Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, Indiana University, Bloomington”
“Institute of Slavic, University of California, Berkeley”
“Robert F. Byrnes Russian and East European Institute and Bloomington”

The Future of SEEES Expertise: How Can We Anticipate Tomorrow’s Differences? is the sixth and the last panel of the Decolonization in Focus Series.

The Russian war in Ukraine has had innumerable impacts, from personal to political, local, national, and global. One of the many sea changes wrought by the war has been the reckoning within Slavic/Russian & Eurasian Studies over the outsized role Russia has played and continues to play in the field and what could and should be done about it. The invited panelists in this series will consider the relationships of power that have long dominated the region, how they have impacted the field of study, and what, if anything, could and should be done about it.

The series has six wide-ranging panels featuring speakers from various disciplines and institutions. Panelists and participants will be encouraged to consider why decolonizing Russian & Eurasian studies matters, how to implement concrete change in their classrooms, and how to conceive of the future of expertise within the field. All sessions will be convened using Zoom, live-streamed via YouTube, and recorded to be made available for later viewing.