Program | Schedule

Download the full program

There will be a performance of Ukrainian folk songs, led by Lysander Jaffe; a small Tufts choir performance of "Subrali, Sa Se Subrali" (Bulgarian), "Ghirs ars da martal" (Georgian), and "Iz strany, strany dalyokoi" (Russian) led by Emma Daniels; and a violin and piano presentation on the development of professional Russian music led by Vera Rubin on violin and Yevgenia Semeina on piano. The evening also will feature the photography of Eric Bouvet from his work in Ukraine. Bouvet has received five World Press Awards, as well as two Visa d’Or, the gold medal of 15th anniversary of the photography, the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, the Public award from Bayeux-Calvados, the Front Line Club award and the Paris-Match Award.

There will be a performance of Ukrainian folk songs, led by Lysander Jaffe; a small Tufts choir performance of "Subrali, Sa Se Subrali" (Bulgarian), "Ghirs ars da martal" (Georgian), and "Iz strany, strany dalyokoi" (Russian) led by Emma Daniels; and a violin and piano presentation on the development of professional Russian music led by Vera Rubin on violin and Yevgenia Semeina on piano.

The evening also will feature the photography of Eric Bouvet from his work in Ukraine.  Bouvet has received five World Press Awards, as well as two Visa d’Or, the gold medal of 15th anniversary of the photography, the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, the Public award from Bayeux-Calvados, the Front Line Club award and the Paris-Match Award.

Laurence Senelick, Fletcher Professor of Oratory and Director of Graduate Studies in Drama in the Department of Drama and Dance at Tufts will present on the plight of theatre in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.

• Geraldine Fagan, Moscow Correspondent, Forum 18 News Service; Author, Believing in Russia: Religious Policy after Communism • Suzanne Massie, Author; Trust but Verify: Reagan, Russia, and Me
• Michael Khodarkovsky, Professor of Russian History, Loyola University, Chicago; Author, Bitter Choices: Loyalty and Betrayal in the Russian Conquest of the North Caucasus
• Roman Lunkin, Director, Institute for Religion and Law; Leading Institute Fellow, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• Marya Rozanova, Director, Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Socio-Cultural Integration and Associate Professor, Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy, St. Petersburg; Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.

• Alexander Cooley, Professor and Chair, Political Science Department, Barnard College, Columbia University; Deputy Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia University; Author; Great Games, Local Rules: The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia
• Guan Guihai, Associate Dean, School of International Studies, Peking University
• Shiv Khemka, Vice Chairman and Director of investment and entrepreneurial activities in Russia and Ukraine, SUN Group, India; Chairman, Russia Country Committee, Confederation of Indian Industry
• Artyom Lukin, Associate Professor, Deputy Director for Research, School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok
• Vitaly Kozyrev, Associate Professor, Endicott College, Senior Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; former Professor, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

• Robert Legvold, Marshall D. Shulman Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
 
• Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center; former Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Europe, Moscow; served in the Russian Armed Forces, 1972-93
 

• Ilya Ponomarev, Member of Russian Parliament, State Duma; Chairman of Innovation and Venture Capital Subcommittee, Economic Policy, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Committee; one of the leaders of the left flank of Russian politics
• Thomas F Remington, Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science, Emory University; Author, Presidential Decrees in Russia: A Comparative Perspective and The Politics of Inequality in Russia
• Anna Vassilieva, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey; Author, The Russian Émigré Press on Democracy in Russia, 1980-1990s, Co-author, Influence on Russian Culture on Russian Negotiating Style; Co-editor, Russia and East Asia: Informal and Gradual Integration, Crossing National Borders

Student Presentation: Grigory Khakimov, EPIIC Colloquium Member; Junior, majoring in International Relations with a thematic concentration on Europe and the Former Soviet Union; Former Member, Russian Democratic Party Yabloko

• Lt. Gen Arlen Jameson (USAF, ret.), Former Deputy Commander in Chief, U.S. Strategic Command; Vice Chairman, Air Force Academy Board of Visitors
• Michael Kofman, Russia/Eurasia Security and Defense Public Policy Scholar, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center, Adviser for military to military engagements for senior officers at National Defense University
• Brigadier General Kevin Ryan (U.S. Army retired), Director, Defense and Intelligence Projects at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
• Svetlana Savranskaya, Director, Cooperative Projects with Russia and Editor, Russian and East Bloc Archival Documents Database, National Security Archive
• Major General Pavel Zolotarev (Russian Armed Forces, ret.), Deputy Director, Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (confirmed in principle)

• Maxim Bratersky, Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• Igor Istomin, Lecturer, Department of Applied Analysis of International Crises, MGIMO; Executive Editor, International Trends
• Carol R. Saivetz, Research Fellow, Security Studies Program, MIT; Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
• Shorena Shaverdashvili (EPIIC’99), Partner and Editor, Liberali, Georgia
• Oxana Shevel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tufts University
• Maxim Suchkov, Fellow, Institute for Strategic Studies, Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University
• Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center; former Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Europe, Moscow; served in the Russian Armed Forces, 1972-93

• Samuel Greene, Head, King's Global Institutes and Director, King's Russia Institute, King's College, London
• Roman Lunkin, Director, Institute for Religion and Law; Leading Institute Fellow, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• Marya Rozanova, Director, Center for Intercultural Dialogue and Socio-Cultural Integration and Associate Professor, Admiral Makarov State Maritime Academy, St. Petersburg; Galina Starovoitova Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.