CONFERENCES

2021 Memory Wars as a Strategic Positioning on Europe's Future, EUHYBRID conference, Jean Monnet Center for Excellence Network, June 16.

2021 Regional Imaginary and/or Revisionism? Russia and the Eurasian Question, Davies Forum Workshop, University of San Francisco, May 3.

2020 Russia’s Civilizational Politics, Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden, December 8.

2020 Fascism, Far Right, and Illiberalism. Disentangling the Putin Regime and its Ideological Ecosystems, ComFas Convention, Central European University, Vienna,

Austria, September 25-27.

2019 Russia’s Conservative Playbook, International Conference “Russia in the Global Cultural Wars,” Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and world Affairs,

Georgetown University, October 17-18, 2019.

2019 Russia as a Conservative Avant-Garde? A Cartography of the Russian “Rights,” Workshop “Taking Far-Right Thinkers Seriously,” Notre Dame University, May 1.

2019 Russia’s Soft Power in the Muslim World, International Conference “Russia’s Islamic Diplomacy. Institutions, Informality, and Believers,” IERES, George

Washington University, Washington DC, April 29.

2019 EAEU and BRI: Regional Integration Grand Designs Challenged, CERES Conference “Energy & Economics in Central Asia,” Georgetown University, April 8.

2019 Kazakhstan’s Youth, National Identity Transformations and their Political Consequences, Central Asia Security Workshop, George Washington University,

Washington DC, March 18.

2019 Populism and Character Assassination in European Context: A Comparative Approach, International Conference “CARP2019: Character Assassination and

Populism: Challenges and Responses,” George Mason University, March 16.

2019 Why Asking If “Russia Is Undermining Democracy in the West” Is Asking the Wrong Question,” Conference “Is Russia Undermining Democracy in the West?”

Penn State, Philadelphia, March 14.

2019 Theorizing Central Asia: State of the Field, Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, February 20.

2019 “Conservatism” in Russia and in Europe. Gaps and Overlaps, International Conference “Conservatism and Reaction in Contemporary Politics,” Bard College,

Gagarin Center at the Smolny College (Saint-Petersburg), and the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, February 11-13.

2019 Beyond Putin: Russia’s Generations Y and Z, PONARS Spring Annual Policy Conference, George Washington University, Washington DC, February 1.

2018 Cultural Studies and their Role in Understanding Russia’s Political Regime, Conference “Regime Evolution, Institutional Change, and Social Transformation in

Russia,” Yale University, April 27-28.

2018 Kazakhstani Perceptions of External Powers. Unexpected Findings of Survey Analysis, International Conference “Central Asia Security Workshop,” George

Washington University, Washington DC, March 5.

2017 Indicators of an Arctic Urban Social Sustainability Index,5thinternational conference of the Arctic Research Coordination Network “Building a Research

Network for Promoting Arctic Urban Sustainability,” Anchorage, Alaska, May 15-16.

2017 Studying Russian Media Context, Challenges and New Directions for Research, PONARS Eurasia Workshop “Revisiting Research on Russian Media,” George

Washington University, Washington DC, April 28.

2017 Labor migration to Russia and its impact on Central Asian societies, Conference “US-Central Asia Relations,” Georgetown University, Washington DC, April 20.

2017 Revisiting ‘Conservative’ values. Is Illiberalism the New Mainstream for Central Asian Societies? International Conference “Central Asia Security Workshop,”

George Washington University, Washington DC, March 6.

2017 Reductio ad Fascism. Character Assassination of Putin’s Regime through the Labeling of ‘Fascism’, International Conference “Character Assassination in Theory

and Practice,” George Mason University, Washington DC, March 4.

2016 Book launch,25 Years of Independence: Questioning Post-Soviet, Kennan Institute, Washington DC, December 6.

2016 Changes in the Social Fabric of Russia’s Arctic Cities, First PIRE international conference, George Washington University, Washington DC, October 20.

2016 Debating Islam and Russia’s National Identity, International Conference “The Image of Islam in Russia,” Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies,

Uppsala, Sweden, October 6-8.

2016 Social Changes and New Mobilities in Norilsk, International Conference “Russia’s Arctic Cities’ Sustainable Development and Challenges,” George Washington

University, and the Russian Geographical Society, Lenin Icebreaker, Murmansk, Russia, June 27-28.

2016 ‘Nationalism’, ‘Conservatism’? Competition and Overlaps in the Kremlin’s Narrative, International Conference “The State and Political Discourse in Today’s

Russia,” George Washington University and Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations conference, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy, June 17-18.

2016 Tajikistan’s Quest for a National Storytelling. Ambivalences, Blank Spaces, and Discontinuities, International Conference “Tajikistan. Approaches, Fieldworks

and Topics,” George Washington University and the Swedish Institute for International Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden, June 13-14.

2016 Assessing Russia’s Normative Agenda in Central Asia, International Conference “The Great Powers and Central Asia after Western Drawndown from

Afghanistan,” OSCE Academy and Columbia University, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, June 6-7, 2016.

2016 Is Nationalism a Force of Change in Russia?, Daedalus authors’ workshop, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian

Studies, Harvard University, MA, May 31-June 2.

2016 Arctic Social Sciences Workshop, NSF-funded workshop of Arctic Horizons, Brown University, MA, June 1-2.

2016 Izborsky Club: Nationalism, Stalinism, Conservatism?, International Conference “Nation-building and nationalism in today’s Russia,” Tallinn, Estonia, April 28-

29.

2016 How Nation-Building Interact with Regime Legitimacy, Workshop “Understanding Regime Legitimacy in Central Asia,” University of Glasgow’s CRCEES and

George Washington University, Washington D.C., April 13.

2016 Can we Map the Production of ‘Ideologies’ in Contemporary Russia?, International conference “Locating ‘Conservative Ideology’ in Today’s Russia,” George

Washington University, Washington D.C., March 31-April 1.

2016 Roundtable Confronting Far-Right Extremism in Europe, Atlantic Council, Washington D.C., March 22.

2016 Capturing Russian Media Influence in Central Asia, Workshop “Third Central Asia Security Workshop,” George Washington University, Washington D.C., March

8.

2016 Soil and Bones. The Search Movement in Russia, Workshop “The Culture of Memory and Commemoration in Contemporary Russia,” George Washington

University, Washington D.C., February 26.

2016 Russia’s Arctic Policy. Setting the Scene, Conference “U.S.-Russia Relations in the Arctic,” Harriman Institute and SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy,

Columbia University, February 12.

2015 Russia’s Celebration of V-Day: Great Politics and Domestic Legitimacy, International Conference “Anniversary Politics: Commemorations of WWII in the Asia

Pacific in 2015,” Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University, Washington D.C., September 10.

2015 The New Ice Curtain: Russia's Strategic Reach to the Arctic, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Washington D.C., August 27.

2015 The ‘Xenophobic Empire’. Multinationality, Ethnicity and Empire in State Narratives in Russia, International workshop “The Evolution of Russian Political

Thought after 1991,” Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik, Berlin, Germany, June 22-23.

2015 Academia and the National Identity Narrative in Uzbekistan. Structure and Evolution, International conference “Uzbekistan beyond the ‘Curtain’. Approaches,

fieldworks and topics,” George Washington University and the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden, June 11-12.

2015 Why the Eurasian Union is not Eurasianist, International conference “The Politics of Eurasianism,” Sodertorn University, Stockholm, Sweden, May 14-15.

2015 The Economic Crisis in Central Asia and the Relationship to Russia, Conference “Central Asia. What’s next?” Georgetown University, Washington D.C., March

30.

2015 Russia’s Arctic Policy in the post-Ukraine Situation, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C., March 25.

2015 The Eurasian Economic Union and Central Asia, Seminar “What Future for the Eurasian Economic Union?” Columbia University, New York, March 3.

2014 Russia, China, India. Convergences and Conflicts of Interests, Workshop “India, China, Russia: Incentives and Limits of Cooperation,” Carnegie Endowment for

International Affairs, Washington D.C., May 14.

2014 Russian Nationalism and the Ukrainian Crisis, Seminar “The Role of Ultra-Nationalism in Conflict and Crisis: Russia, Ukraine and the EU,” Kennan Institute,

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., November 12.

2014 The Water/Energy Nexus in Central Asia. Do we ask the Right Questions? Workshop “The Third Central Asia Fellowship Seminar,” George Washington

University, Washington D.C., June 24.

2014 The Rise of Kazakh Nationalism: Internet Sociability, Youth Ideology, and National Myths, International Conference “Kazakhstan beyond Economic Success.

Exploring Social and Cultural Changes in Eurasia,” George Washington University and the Uppsala Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (UCRS), Uppsala

University, Sweden, June 13-14.

2014 Is Eurasia winning over Eurasianism? Trajectories of a Concept, Workshop “The Vision of Eurasia,” Sodertorn University, Sweden, June 9.

2014 Norilsk Urban Landscape: Migrants, Social Stratification and Symbolic Hierarchy, Arctic Research Coordination Network, Second Workshop, Saint-Petersburg,

Russia, June 5-7.

2014 Mahalla as an object of Western Scholarship, Workshop “Mahallas in Uzbekistan and the status of self-governing bodies,” George Washington University,

Washington D.C., May 29.

2014 Russia’s Arctic Policy. Domestic and International Drivers, Federal Conference “Sovereignty, Security and Governance in the Arctic,” Woodrow Wilson

International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C., May 21.

2014 Convergences and Conflicts of Interests Seen from Russia, Workshop “India, China, Russia. Incentives and Limits of Cooperation,” Carnegie Endowment for

International Peace, Washington D.C., May 14.

2014 “Silk Road”: Historical Metaphor, Ideology, Wishful Thinking?, Workshop “The Second Central Asia Security Workshop,” George Washington University,

Washington D.C., February 24.

2014 Kazakhstan as a Migration Pole: Regional Opportunities, Domestic Challenges, International Conference “Soft Security Challenges in Central Asia and

Kazakhstan,” George Washington University, Washington D.C., February 4.

2013 Russia's Futures, Plenary Panel, “Russia and the World,” 13th Annual Aleksanteri Conference in Helsinki, Finland, October 23-25.

2013 Research on National and Political Identity in Russia: New Developments and Ideas, Centenary Conference of Slavic Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands,

October 11.

2013 Patriotism, Memory and Culture. Kul'tura, Zvezda and Spas Broadcasting Narratives, Workshop “Media and Democratization in post-Soviet Nations, George

Washington University,” Washington D.C., September 25. 

2013 US Policy towards Central Asia, International conference “Islam in Eurasia. Policy Conference,” David Center for Russian Studies and Kennan Institute,

Washington D.C., June 6-7.

2013 Central Asian Migrants as New Actors in Russia’s Arctic Urban Landscape, Arctic Urban Sustainability Conference, George Washington University, Washington

D.C., May 30-31.

2013 A “Regional Solution” for Afghanistan? Perspectives from Afghanistan's Northern Neighbors, Workshop “Afghanistan after 2014,” George Washington

University, the Kennan Institute and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ South Asia Center, Washington D.C., May 1.

2013 Women and Water in South and Central Asia, Workshop “Water Resource Management, Human Rights and Environmental Security in South/Central Asia.

Gilgit-Baltistan: A Case Study,” Central Asia Program, in partnership with GW International Development Program, The Foundation for Democracy and Rule

of Law for Regions in Conflict, and The Institute of Gilgit-Baltistan Studies, Washington D.C., April 25.

2013 Changing Patterns of Identity Debates in Russia and Ukraine: from Memory Wars to the Migration Issue, International Conference “Russian and Ukrainian

Nationalism: Entangled Histories,” Harriman Institute, Columbia University Press April 22-23.

2013 Deconstructing the ‘Spillover’ Narrative, “Central Asia Security Workshop,” Central Asia Program, George Washington University, Washington D.C., March 25-

26.

2013 The Chinese Question in Central Asia: Perceptions, Politics and Social Change: A Conversation with authors Marlene Laruelle and Sebastien Peyrouse, Moderated

by Alexander Cooley, Harriman Institute and Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York, March 6.

2012 Framing the Nation and the Sociology of Academia in Kyrgyzstan, International conference “Kyrgyzstan Beyond ‘Democracy Island’ And ‘Failing State’:

Factoring Social and Political Changes in a Post-Soviet Society,” George Washington University and UCRS, Uppsala, Sweden, December 17-18.

2012 Central Asian Workers in the Arctic, Workshop “Russia’s Arctic Cities: State Policies, Resource Development, and Climate Change,” Washington D.C., George

Washington University, November 19.

2012 Nomadism as a Nation-Building tool in Contemporary Kazakhstan, Workshop “Nomadic Life Styles and Narratives in Kazakhstan: Then and Now,” George

Washington University and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., November 9.

2012 Debating “Patronal Politics in Central Asia.” A Demokratizatsiya Special Issue, with Slavomir Horak, Erica Marat, Lawrence Markowitz, and Sebastien Peyrouse,

George Washington University, Washington D.C., September 25.

2012 Repenser la race par la culture : la raciologie dans la Nouvelle Droite russe et française [Affirming race through culture : Raciology in the Russian and French

New Rights], International Conference “L’imaginaire raciologique en France et en Russie aux XIXe- XXe siècles [Racial Imaginary in France and Russia, 19th-

20th centuries],” Russian State University in the Humanities, Moscow, Russia, May 25-27.

2012 Uzbekistan, a Key and Uncertain Actor for the Future of Afghanistan and the Regional Order in the Wider Central Asia, International conference “Afghanistan's

Stability and Regional Security Implications for Central Asia,” George Washington University and EUCAM, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, May 17-18.

2012 Reassessing ‘Regional Solutions’ for Post-2014 Afghanistan, Conference “Afghanistan 2014: Impacts on Global Security Identities,” The University of Kansas,

Lawrence, KS, April 25.

2012 Russian Think Tanks: A Look on Ideas' Diversity in Russia and its Impact on the Decision-making Circles, Conference “New President, New Russia? What’s Next?”

Aleksanteri Elections Seminars, Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki, Finland, March 14.

2012 Integration of Central Asian Migrants in Russia: the Micro-Scale Level, International Conference “Labor Migration in the Post-Soviet World (Impetus,

Experience, Effects, Policy),” Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, March 1.

2012 Armed Xenophobia in Eurasia, Forum “Armed Xenophobia. The Global War against Immigrants,” The Center for the History of the New America, University of

Maryland, Washington D.C., February 16.

2012 Factoring the Foreign Policy Goals of the Central Asian States, International conference “The U.S., China, and the Future of Central Asia,” The China-U.S.

Studies Center, New York University, February 6-8.

2012 Opportunities and Disillusions of the “Look North” Policy. Indian Perceptions of and Strategies in Central Asia, Joint Seminar, Sigur Center for Asian Studies and

IERES, Elliott School for International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington D.C., January 23.

2012 Patterns of Globalization in Central Asia: Integrating the World Economy, International Seminar “Governance in Central Asia: The ‘Other’ Mapping of Energy

Resources,” Barcelona University, Spain, January 19-20.

2011 Russia, International conference “The Other Sides of Afghanistan: a Regional Perspective on Security Issues in Afghanistan,” The Center for Security Studies

(CSS), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, November 3-4.

2011 Evolving Pattern of Migration from Central Asia to Russia. Shuttle Migration and Long-Term Emigration, International Conference “The Resilience of People in

motion: Processes of immigration, transmigration, and remigration in the wider Europe today,” Trier University, Germany, October 13-15.

2011 Apprendre à être patriote : les clubs patriotiques pour adolescents [Learning to be patriot: Patriotic clubs for teenagers], Conference “Russie: Le patriotisme

en pratique(s),” [Russia: Patriotism in Practice], CERCEC/CERI/MSH, Paris, France, May 12-13 (video-conference).

2011 A Russian Look on the Arctic Future, Conference “The Future of the Arctic,” SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C., February 2.

2011 National Minorities’ Associations in Kazakhstan: Renegotiating Social Activism? International Workshop “Civil Society in Kazakhstan and Central Asia,” Kennan

Institute, Washington D.C., January 20-2