Dr. Alexander Vindman | Russia, Ukraine, and the US Today
Jackson School Director Danny Hoffman and Ellison Center Director Guntis Šmidchens engage in an insightful discussion with special guest spe...
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The Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the University of Washington promotes in-depth interdisciplinary study of all major post-communist subregions - Eas...
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Lauri Malksoo | Russia, the Soviet Union, and Imperial Continuity in International Law
Lauri Malksoo gives the keynote address at the 2025 REECAS Northwest Conference, an ASEEES regional conference which takes place annually at...
Oxana Shevel | Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States
In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. Presiden...
Nargis Kassenova & Temur Umarov | Central Asia in the Shadow of Russia's War | April 23, 2024
Nargis Kassenova is a senior fellow and director of the Program on Central Asia at the Davis Center. Prior to joining the center, she was an...
David Ost | Undoing Legal Authoritarianism: The Case of Poland, and its Relevance Elsewhere
David Ost is a professor of Politics at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. He has written widely on eastern Europe, with...
Christopher Miller | The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine
When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine just before dawn on 24 February 2022, it marke...
Volodymyr Kulyk | The Shift Away from Russian in Wartime Ukraine
Contrary to Putin’s expectations, most Ukrainians responded to Russia’s full-blown invasion of Ukraine by a stronger attachment to their cou...
Alexei Yurchak | Mutations of “Lenin” The Sacred Core of Sovereignty: Soviet, Post-Soviet [...]
Mutations of “Lenin” The Sacred Core of Sovereignty: Soviet, Post-Soviet, Anti-Soviet Alexei Yurchak is Professor of Anthropology at Univers...
Joshua Zimmerman | Józef Piłsudski, Founding Father of Modern Poland, and his Plan for [...]
Józef Piłsudski, Founding Father of Modern Poland, and his Plan for Ukrainian Independence Joshua D. Zimmerman is Professor of History at Ye...
Martin Nekola | War in Ukraine: Impact on the Czech Republic & on Europe
The lecture will focus on the current political developments in Europe after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. In response to t...
TALK | The Northern Sea Route: The Anthropology of Russian Arctic Mega Infrastructure
The Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the University of Washington presents the first talk (12/1/2022)i...
Dean LaRue | How Does the EU Actually Work and How Is It Changing[...]
Dean LaRue presents his lecture, "How Does the EU Actually Work and How Is It Changing in the Face of Russian Aggression in Ukraine?" on Aug...
Scott Montgomery | EU Economic and Energy Responses to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Scott Montgomery presents his lecture, "EU Economic and Energy Responses to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine" on Aug. 17, 2022. This lecture was...
Glennys Young | Russia's War Against Ukraine: Teaching Opportunities and Challenges
Glennys Young presents her lecture, "Russia's War Against Ukraine: Teaching Opportunities and Challenges" on Aug. 17, 2022. This lecture was...
Christopher Jones | What to Do About Russia? Russia, the EU, and the International System
Christopher Jones presents his lecture, "What to Do About Russia? Russia, the EU, and the International System" on Aug. 17, 2022. This lectu...
Brendan Mcelmeel | Russia vs. ‘Gayropa?’ Russian Cultural Politics since the Conservative Turn
Brendan Mcelmeel presents his lecture, "Russia vs. ‘Gayropa?’ Russian Cultural Politics since the Conservative Turn" on Aug. 17, 2022. This...
Eliot Borenstein | 'Everybody Hates Russia:' On the Uses of Conspiracy Theory Under Putin 4.07.2022
Eliot Borenstein is Professor of Russian & Slavic Studies and Senior Academic Convenor for the Global Network at New York University. He gav...
PANEL | In Focus: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine (3.7.2022)
The Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies presents "In Focus: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine" on March 7, 2022,...
PANEL | Challenges to the Post-Cold War Order: Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan (2.1.2022)
The Ellison Center presents the panel, "Challenges to the Post-Cold War Order: Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan" on Feb. 1, 2022. Speakers: Ox...
Scott Radnitz | Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia (1.13.22)
Ellison Center Director Scott Radnitz presents his lecture "Revealing Schemes: The Politics of Conspiracy in Russia and the Post-Soviet Regi...