Focus on Eurasia Events

Each semester the Center, together with the MIT Security Studies Program, and the MIT-Eurasia Program, presents a speaker series entitled “Focus on Eurasia,” which considers a number of current issues in Eurasian domestic and foreign policies. The public is welcome to attend.

 

Upcoming events

 

Spring 2025 TBD

 

Past events

 

October 17, 2024

Lessons from battlefield Ukraine: With Ukraine's former defense minister Oleksii Reznikov

4:30 pm to 6:00 pm Watch video
September 18, 2023

Starr Forum: Rebuilding Ukraine While Under Fire

12:00 pm to 1:15 pmVirtual Event

 

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April 24, 2023

Starr Forum: From Chornobyl to Zaporizhzhia: The Atom and its Impact on Ukraine’s Politics and Security

12:00 pm to 1:15 pmVirtual Event

 

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March 11, 2024

Starr Forum: The war in Ukraine: Insights at year three

12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

February 27, 2023

Starr Forum: Ukraine and Russia One Year On: The Domestic Impact of the War

2:00 pm to 3:15 pmVirtual Event

 

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December 09, 2022

Starr Forum: Energy as a Weapon of War: Russia, Ukraine, and Europe in Challenging Times

12:00 pm to 1:15 pm Virtual Event

 

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October 07, 2022

Starr Forum: An Update on Russia's War Against Ukraine

12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

 

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April 25, 2022

Starr Forum: The Collapse of the Soviet Empire and the seeds of the new European war

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

 

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April 04, 2022

Starr Forum: The Wider Implications of the War in Ukraine

1:00 pm to 2:15 pm

 

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March 14, 2022

Starr Forum: The War in Ukraine: A Reporter's View

11:30 am to 12:30 pmVirtual Event

 

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January 28, 2022

Starr Forum: A Prologue to WWII or another Frozen Conflict?

12:00 pmVirtual Event

 

November 09, 2021

Starr Forum: The Future of US-Russian Relations: More of the Same or Something Different?

11:30 am to 12:30 pm

 

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October 07, 2021

Starr Forum: Navalny: Putin’s Nemesis, Russia’s Future?

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

 

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April 12, 2021

Starr Forum: Advice for President Biden: Dealing with Putin’s Russia

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

 

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March 01, 2021

Starr Forum: Palaces & Sandcastles: Deconstructing Putin’s Power

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm

 

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October 29, 2020

Great Power Competition in the Arctic

1:30 pm to 2:30 pm Virtual Event

 

September 24, 2020

Starr Forum: Russia’s Information War on America

3:30 pm to 4:30 pm

 

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March 12, 2020

Starr Forum: Russia's Putin: From Silent Coup to Legal Dictatorship

4:30 pm to 6:00 pm1-190 Pierce Laboratory

33 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

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October 24, 2019

Starr Forum: The Kremlin’s Global Outreach: From Cyber to Russians Abroad

4:30 pm to 6:00 pmE15-070 Bartos Theater

20 Ames Street, Cambridge

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October 10, 2019

The Lands in Between: Russia vs. The West and the New Politics of Hybrid War

4:30 pm to 6:00 pmE40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room
March 14, 2019

Starr Forum: From Cold War to Hot Peace

4:30 pm to 6:00 pm26-100 Compton Laboratories

Access via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge

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February 26, 2019

"Putinism"

4:30 pm to 6:00 pmE40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room
November 1, 2018

Focus on Russia: Russia's Place in the New World Order

4:30 pm to 6:00 pmE40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room
May 3, 2018

Focus on Russia: "Cold War 2.0"

4:30 pm to 6:00 pmE40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room
March 20, 2018

Starr Forum: US-Russian Relations: What's Next?

4:30 pm to 6:00 pmE25-111 Whitaker College45 Carleton Street, CambridgeWatch videoRead transcript
February 22, 2018

Focus on Russia: "Russia and Turkey: Strategic Alliance or Partnership of Convenience?"

4:00 pm to 6:00 pmE40-496, Lucian Pye Conference Room
November 13, 2017

100 Shades of Red: Perceptions of the 1917 Revolution and Politics Today

5:00 pm to 6:30 pm2-190
September 14, 2017

Starr Forum: The Trump-Putin Phenomenon

5:00 pm to 6:30 pm26-100 Compton LaboratoriesAccess Via 60 Vassar Street, CambridgeWatch videoRead transcript
May 1, 2017

US-Russian Relations in the Trump Era

4:00 pm to 6:00 pmE40-496 Pye Room
March 9, 2017

Moscow and the Middle East: What Does Putin Want?

4:00 pm to 6:00 pmE40-496
September 29, 2016

Starr Forum: The Warming Arctic: Site of a New "Cold War"?

4:30 pm to 6:00 pm4-270 Maclaurin Building182 Memorial Drive, CambridgeWatch video