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10:00-11:25am: Welcome & Panel 1: US-Russia Relations

Peter Rutland (Wesleyan University), Mikhail Rykhtik (Lobachevskiy State University of Nizhniy Novgorod), Polina Sinovets (Odessa I. I. Mechnikov University),  Adam Stulberg (Georgia Institute of Technology), Mikhail Troitskiy (Moscow State Institute of International Relations)

11:25-11:30am:  Break

11:30am-12:45pm:  Panel 2: Shifting Patterns in Grand Geopolitics

Pavel Baev (Peace Research Institute Oslo), Alexander Iskandaryan (Caucasus Institute), Irina Kobrinskaya (Primakov’s National Research Institute of World Economy & International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Elizabeth Wishnick (Montclair State University)

12:45-1:15pm:  Lunch/Dinner

1:15-2:30pm: Panel 3A: Russian Foreign and Security Policy (Breakout Session)

Irina Busygina (Higher School of Economics), Arkady Moshes (Finnish Institute of International Affairs), Mariya Omelicheva (National War College), Dmitry Gorenburg (Harvard University)

1:15-2:30pm: Panel 3B: Conflicts (Breakout Session)

Richard Arnold (Muskingum University), Tetyana Malyarenko (National University Odessa Law Academy),  Eric McGlinchey (George Mason University), Shairbek Dzhuraev (Crossroads Central Asia), Anar Valiyev (ADA University)

2:30-2:45pm: Break

2:45-4:00pm: Panel 4: U.S. Policy in Ukraine and Central Asia

Mikhail Alexseev (San Diego State University), Volodymyr Dubovyk (Odessa I. I. Mechnikov University), Sebastien Peyrouse (George Washington University), Oleksandr Sushko (International Renaissance Foundation)