Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship. Through innovative and rigorous curricula and projects, EPIIC prepares young people to play active roles in their communities, whether at the local, national or global level.
Dr. Mark Galeotti, specialist in Transnational Organized Crime, Security Affairs, and Modern Russia, discusses how intelligence is both Russia's secret weapon and its Achilles' heel. Galeotti is currently the academic director of the Transnational Security concentration of the MS in Global Affairs Program at the New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.
Fletcher Students in Security Post-Soviet Nations Club Institute for Global Leadership Russia’s annexation of Crimea and possible incursions into eastern Ukraine could reshape the global geopolitical map and derail cooperation between Moscow and the West for years to come. Will Ukraine remain unstable, or will the ceasefire hold? How does the crisis influence U.S. strategy and Russia’s next moves? How will the fallout from the conflict impact regional and global security challenges?
Russia in the XXI Century
The 30th Annual Norris and Margery Bendetson EPIIC International Symposium
February 26 - March 1, 2015
The international symposium is an annual public forum designed and enacted by the EPIIC students. It features scores of international practitioners, academics, public intellectuals, activists and journalists in panel discussions and workshops.
Kirill Medvedev has recently emerged as one of the most exciting, unpredictable voices on the Russian literary and music scenes. Widely published and acclaimed as a poet, he is also is an activist and a member of the Russian Socialist movement “Vpered" [Forward].
In early 2012, as the protest movement against Vladimir Putin's government gained steam, Novaya Gazeta and Moscow's School for Documentary Film and Theater partnered to send ten young documentarians into the streets to chronicle as much of the movement as they could. The resulting film, "Winter, Go Away!" (Russia, 2012) is a kaleidoscopic vision of the anti-Putin protest movement as it plans, debates, and confronts the authorities.