2019-2020 Academic Year

Spring 2020

The Visiting Experts Program for Spring 2020 was suspended due to COVID-19.

Fall 2019

Date & Time Presenter Title

11/25

12:15 p.m.

CNS Videoconference Room

 Alexey Arbatov

Academician, Head of the Center for International Security at IMEMO, Moscow

Arms Control Myths and Realities in a World in Disarray

Lecture in English

11/22

2:00 p.m.

CNS

Videoconference Room

 Angelos Theocharis

Doctoral Candidate, University of Edinburgh

Russian Literature as Cultural Statecraft

Lecture in English

11/21

12:15 p.m.

CNS

Videoconference Room

 Artem Lukin

Professor, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok

Russia’s Turn to the East: Geo-economics and Geopolitics

Lecture in Russian

11/21

10:00 a.m.

McGowan MG100

 Pavel Polyan

Author, Geographer, Historian, Moscow

Mandelstam

Lecture in Russian

11/19

12:15 p.m.

CNS

Videoconference Room

 Pavel Polyan

Author, Geographer, Historian, Moscow

Soviet Deportations and their Long Echo

Lecture in Russian

11/18

4:00 p.m.

CNS

Videoconference Room

 Pavel Polyan

Author, Geographer, Historian, Moscow

Jewish Migration from the Post-Soviet Space to Germany

Lecture in Russian

11/7

12:15 p.m.

CNS

Videoconference Room

 Masataka Suzuki

Politician, Board Member, Association of Former LDP Parliament Members, Tokyo

The Security Environment of Northeast Asia and Japan-US-Russia Relations

Lecture in Japanese with Interpretation into English

11/1

10:00 a.m.

Morse B104

 Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov

Investigative Journalists, Authors, Moscow

Book Presentation—The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia’s Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad

Lecture in Russian

10/31

10:00 a.m.

McGowan MG100

 Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov

Investigative Journalists, Authors, Moscow

The Battle for Russia’s Internet: How the Kremlin is Trying to Control the World Wide Web

Lecture in Russian

10/25

6:00 p.m.

Irvine Auditorium

 Vladimir Pozner

Journalist, Author, Documentary Filmmaker

Front Page: The Changing Face of Journalism in Russia and the United States

Presentation in English

10/24

10:00 a.m.

McGowan MG100

 Vladimir Pozner

Journalist, Author, Documentary Filmmaker

Conversations with Vladimir Vladimirovich Pozner

in Russian

10/23

12:00 p.m.

McGowan MG100

 Vladimir Pozner

Journalist, Author, Documentary Filmmaker

Conversations with Vladimir Vladimirovich Pozner

in Russian

10/15

10:00 a.m.

McGowan MG100

 Grigory Zorin

Producer, Moscow

Evolution of Youth Music Culture from 2000 to 2010

Lecture in Russian via Zoom

10/9

12:15 p.m.

CNS V499

 George S. Beebe

Director of Studies,

Center for the National Interest

Subverting the Dominant Paradigm About Russia

Lecture in English