Russia's strategy is to outdo their previous crimes with even bigger tragedies so that the previous wrongdoings are erased from people’s memories. How to document every story of every tragedy, family, street, and city in a way that nobody can deny it? How do we reunite truth with justice?
- Speaker: Nataliya Gumenyuk, Founder and CEO of the Public Interest Journalism Lab
- Respondent: Daniel Treisman, UCLA Department of Political Science & Center for European and Russian Studies
- Organizer: UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
Speaking at a Center for European and Russian Studies event in late February, Badanin called it a prudent question. Until recently, he lacked the kind of concrete data needed to judge the level of public protest against the regime. But today he has an answer: Russians do protest.
- Speaker: Roman Badanin, Founder and editor-in-chief of Proekt (The Project) and Agentstvo (The Agency)
- Respondent: Daniel Treisman, UCLA Department of Political Science & Center for European and Russian Studies
- Organizer: UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
A conversation between Mikhail Zygar and Professor Daniel Treisman, Interim Director of UCLA CERS, about Russia's history of oppressing Ukraine, as discussed in Zygar's new book
- Speaker: Mikhail Zygar, Author, Journalist and Founding editor-in-chief of Dozhd
- Respondent: Daniel Treisman, UCLA Department of Political Science & Center for European and Russian Studies
- Organizer: UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
Russia's military ineffectiveness has been known inside the US government for forty-five years and has demonstrably worsened over time
- Speaker: Richard Anderson, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, UCLA
- Respondent: Michael Mann, Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, UCLA
- Moderator: Laurie Kain Hart, Director, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
- Organizer: UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
Despite international legal sanctions, we are currently witnessing widespread systematic attacks on cultural heritage in armed conflict, including the brute destruction of cultural sites, the theft of material heritage, the use of media campaigns to rewrite history, and the detention or killing of cultural actors
- Speakers: Ihor Poshyvailo, Director, National Museum of Revolution of Dignity in Kyiv; Damian Koropeckyj, Senior Analyst, Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab, Virginia; David Myers, Senior Project Specialist, Getty Conservation Institute; Amila Buturović, Professor, Department of Humanities, York University; Aleksandar Hemon, Author and Professor, Princeton University; Tim Slade, Director and Producer; and Panelists
- Moderators: Vadim Schneyder, Associate Professor, UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures; Anne Gilliland, Professor, UCLA School of Education & Information Studies; Adam Moore, Associate Professor at UCLA Geography; Laurie Kain Hart, Director, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies; Roman Koropeckyj, Professor, UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures
- Organizers: UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies in co-sponsorship with President’s International Council, J. Paul Getty Trust; the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Creative Activities; CLA Center for Near Eastern Studies; UCLA Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages & Cultures; and the South East European Film Festival
Experts in human rights law and Russia discuss whether Russia can be brought to justice for war crimes in Ukraine
- Speakers: Jessica Peake, Director, International and Comparative Law Program, UCLA; Alexandre Prezanti, International Lawyer and Partner, Global Diligence LLP; Daniel Treisman, Professor, Department of Political Science, UCLA
- Moderator: Alexandra Lieben, Deputy Director, Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations
- Organizers: Burkle Center for International Relations in co-sponsorship with UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, and The Promise Institute for Human Rights
The attack on Ukraine presents the largest challenge to the norm of territorial integrity since the Second World War
- Speaker: Tanisha Fazal, Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota
- Moderator: Kal Raustiala, Promise Institute Chair in Comparative and International Law at UCLA Law School
- Organizers: Burkle Center for International Relations in co-sponsorship with UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
A unique perspective to the Russian invasion, the Ukrainian response, and the resulting dynamics in Black Sea states and the Middle East
- Speaker: Yevgeniya Gaber, Non-resident Senior Fellow, Center in Modern Turkish Studies, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University
- Moderator: Alan Makovsky, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
- Organizers: Center for Middle East Development in co-sponsorship with UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, and Luskin Department of Public Policy
Explore the domestic roots of Putin's war, how it changed Russia's security environment, and what the potential consequences are for the Middle East
- Speaker: Konstantin Eggert, journalist and commentator
- Moderator: Steven Spiegel, Director, UCLA Center for Middle East Development
- Organizers: Center for Middle East Development in co-sponsorship with UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies, Burkle Center for International Relations, and Luskin Department of Public Policy
A panel assess the historical context of contemporary displacements, the reception of refugees in neighboring countries and beyond, and the comparison between the reception of Ukrainians in 2022 and Syrians in 2015
- Speakers: Marta Bivand Erdal, Research Professor in Migration Studies, Peace Research Institute Oslo; Rana Khoury, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University; Marta Pachocka, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Studies, SGH Warsaw School of Economics; Raphi Rechitsky, Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Studies, National University in San Diego; Martin Rozumek, Executive Director, Organization for Aid to Refugees
- Moderator: David Scott FitzGerald, Co-Director, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, UC San Diego
- Organizers: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC San Diego in co-sponsorship with UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration, and UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
An international panel of experts discusses the often-overlooked religious dimensions of the conflict
- Speakers: José Casanova, Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Theology and Religious Studies, Georgetown University; Sean Griffin, Research Fellow, Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki; Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun, Professor in Ecclesiology, International Relations and Ecumenism, University College Stockholm; Frank E. Sysyn, Director, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies
- Moderator: Roman Koropeckyj, Professor of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Languages & Cultures, UCLA
- Organizer: UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
A panel examines the underlying political economy of Russia to better understand the reasons for war and its ramifications for the region and the wider world economy
- Speakers: Ilya Matveev, Public Sociology Laboratory; Boris Kagarlitsky, international commentator; Ilya Budraitskis, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences; Suzi Weissman, broadcast journalist at KPFK
- Moderator: Robert Brenner, Director, UCLA Center for Social Theory and Comparative History
- Organizers: UCLA Center for Social Theory and Comparative History in co-sponsorship with UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies
A faculty panel discusses the historical roots of the war in Ukraine and what could come next
- Speakers: Michael Mann, Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, UCLA; Jared McBride, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of History, UCLA; Daniel Treisman, Professor, Department of Political Science, UCLA
- Moderator: Gail Kligman, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, UCLA
- Organizer: UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies