Vladimir pozner
Vladimir Pozner speaks to MIIS students on November 9, 2021. (Credit: Dr. Anna Vassilieva )

Fall 2021

Date & Time Presenter Teaching Module

10/7, 12, 14, 21, 26, 28

Zoom

Maria M. Buras

Author, Journalist, based in Moscow

Overview of Russian Internet Interview Programs

in Russian

10/18, 21

Zoom

Dr. Yury Kruchkin

Diplomat, Professor, Author, leading Russian expert on Mongolia

Soviet-Mongolian Relations Based on Declassified FSB Materials

in Russian

Features of Mongolian Foreign Policy in the Last 30 Years

in Russian

11/09, 11

In-person

 

Vladimir Pozner 

Journalist, Author, Documentary Filmmaker

Up and Down the Volga River in Search of the Russian Soul

in Russian

A Conversation with Vladimir Pozner

in English

11/18

Zoom

Elena Kostyuchenko

Russian investigative journalist and special correspondent for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper

A Conversation with Elena Kostyuchenko

in Russian

11/30, 12/02

In-person

 

Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov

Russian investigative journalists and authors, founders of Agentura.ru

Lecture by Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov

A Conversation with Irina Borogan and Andrei Soldatov

in Russian

Spring 2022

Date & Time Presenter Teaching Module

4/4 - 4/8

In-person

Ivan Kurilla

Author, Professor, based in St. Petersburg

Victoria Zhuravleva

Author, Professor, based in Moscow

Michael Kimmage

Author, Professor, based in Washington DC

Igor Logvinenko

Political Economist, based in Los Angeles

The Americanists

in Russian and English

4/15

Zoom

Michael Kimmage

Author, Professor, based in Washington DC

Ivan Krastev

Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies

Jade McGlynn

Senior Researcher, Monterey Initiative in Russian Studies

Prisoners of History? Memory, Myth-Making, and Russia’s War on Ukraine

in English

4/21

In-person

 

William Pyle

Professor of Economics, Middlebury College

Exiting Communism’s Enduring Effect on Russian Public Opinion

in English

4/26

In-person

Samuel Greene

Professor of Russian politics, based in London

The Informational Dictator’s Dilemma: Citizen Responses to Media Censorship, Cooptation and Marginalization in Russia and Belarus

in English

5/3

In-person

 

Elena Kostyuchenko

Russian investigative journalist and special correspondent for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper

A Conversation with Elena Kostyuchenko

in Russian

5/5

In-person

Olesya Vartanyan

Senior South Caucasus Analyst, Crisis Group

Where Something is Thin, That’s Where it Breaks: How the War in Ukraine Affects Conflicts in the South Caucasus

in English