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Princeton
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Princeton Institute for Regional and International Studies
A YEAR THAT SHOOK THE WORLD:
European and Eurasian Responses to America’s Withdrawal
Co-chairs: John Borneman & Serguei Oushakine (Princeton)
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219 AARON BURR HALL
Friday, May 11
10:00-11:30
PANEL 1: MEDIATED CONFLICTS
Moderator:
Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University)
Joshua Tucker (New York University)
From Liberation to Turmoil: Social Media and Democracy
Kevin Limonier (Institut Français de Géopolitique, Université Paris VIII)
Cyberspace as a New Mean of Power for Contemporary Russia: a Cartographical Overview
11:45-1:45
PANEL 2: NEW CARTOGRAPHY
Moderator:
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (King's College London)
Tomas Ries (The Swedish National Defense University)
The Decline of Europe and the Return of Russia
Bill Kappis (Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies, the University of Buckingham)
American Retrenchment and Alliance Formation in the Eastern Mediterranean: Evidence from the Israeli-Greek-Cypriot Geopolitical Axis
Hans-Ulrich Seidt (Former German ambassador to Afghanistan and the Republic of
Korea, Visiting Fellow at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University)
Imperial lessons: Some Remarks on the Current Geopolitical Situation
2:45-4:15
PANEL 3: EURASIA’S PROMISES
Moderator:
Bruce Grant (New York University)
Veronika Zablotsky (UC Santa Cruz)
Eurasian Infrastructures: Constructing a New World Order?
Chris Hann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle)
A Millennium That Shook the World: Eurasia, Western Civilization, and US Exceptionalism in the Light of Axial Age Approaches
4:30-6:00
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Anatol Lieven
(Georgetown University Qatar, New America Foundation)
A Different Kind of Cold War: Russia as the “Third West”
Saturday, May 12
9:30-11:30
Moderator:
Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber
(Princeton University)
Zsuzsa Gille (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
America First, Russia Second? Geopolitical Imaginations and Postcolonial Delusions on the Hungarian Right
Dimitar Bechev (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Central and Southeast Europe in an Age of Uncertainty
Neringa Klumbyte (Miami University, Ohio).
Patriotic Emancipation and Military Activism at the Baltic Frontier
11:45-1:15
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Lutz Niethammer
(Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena)
“The Time is Out of Joint" - Once Again. Some Interim Historical Remarks on Europe and Trump
2:15-4:15
PANEL 4: BETWEEN EUROPE AND RUSSIA
Moderator:
Regina Schulte (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum)
Martin Sajdik (Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine)
How Does European Integration Look from the Perspective of the Ukrainian Crisis?
Jan Kubik (Rutgers University & University College London)
PiS’s Populist Rebellion against Modernity: Neo-Traditional Reinvention of Polish National Identity And Its Consequences
Andrew Moravcsik (Princeton University)
Ukraine, the EU, and Putin’s Rationalism
4:30-6:00
Roundtable:
How Cold is the New Cold War?
Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University),
Anatol Lieven (Georgetown University Qatar), Lutz Niethammer (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität)
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Questions? Contact Carole Frantzen