The Integration of Russia Into the International Academic Community

“The Integration of Russia Into the International Academic Community:

Perspectives from Russian Education and Scholarship”

Russian Centers For Advanced Study and Education (CASEs) Conference

September 30 – October 1, 2003

Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Tuesday, September 30

8:15

Meet Kennan staff member in hotel lobby to walk to Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

8:45-9:15

Welcoming Remarks

Andrei Kortunov, ISE Center, Moscow

Blair Ruble, Kennan Institute

9:15-9:45

Introduction: What are the CASEs?

Deana Arsenian, Carnegie Corporation of New York

Robert Huber, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research

Andrei Kortunov, ISE Center, Moscow

Tatiana Zhdanova, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

CHAIR: Blair Ruble, Kennan Institute

9:45-11:15

Siberia and the Russian Far East

Andrei Alexandrov, Far Eastern National University

Tatiana Skrynnikova, Institute of Mongolian, Buddhist, and Tibetan Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; and Irkutsk CASE Academic Council Chair

DISCUSSANT: Nancy Ries, Colgate University

CHAIR: Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University

11:15-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-1:00

Cultural Communications and Tolerance

Elena Ishchenko, Voronezh State University; and Voronezh CASE Coordinator

Maxim Khomiakov, Urals State University; and Urals CASE Director

Sergey Kropotov, Urals State University

DISCUSSANT: Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh

CHAIR: Maria Carlson, University of Kansas

1:00-2:00

Lunch

2:00-4:00

The Nature of Russian Political Power in Regional Perspectives

Artem Rykoun, Tomsk State University; and Tomsk CASE Academic Council Member

Galina Lashkova, Saratov State University

Margarita Zakovorotnaya, Rostov State University

DISCUSSANT: Robert Orttung, American University

CHAIR: Jeffrey Hahn, Villanova University

4:00-4:15

Coffee Break

4:15-5:45

Russia and the West

Sergey Devyatkin, Novgorod State University; and Novgorod CASE Director

Gennady Fedorov, Kaliningrad State University; and Baltic CASE Director

DISCUSSANT: Dan Davidson, American Councils: ACTR/ACCELS

CHAIR: Angela Stent, Georgetown University

6:00-7:30

Reception for conference participants

Wednesday, October 1

9:30-11:30

Panel on the Future of Russian Education and Scholarship

Harley Balzer, Georgetown University

Mark Johnson, Colorado College

Andrei Kortunov, ISE Center, Moscow

Mikhail Strikhanov, Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation

William Zimmerman, University of Michigan

CHAIR: Robert Huber, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research

12:00-1:30

Lunch with keynote remarks

Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation of New York

Lee H. Hamilton, President and Director of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Mikhail Strikhanov, Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation

1:30-3:30

Panel on How Russian Education and Scholarship Can be Integrated into Global Education Space

Robert Huber, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research

Blair Ruble, Kennan Institute

Gerson Sher, Civilian Research and Development Foundation

Tatiana Zhdanova, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

CHAIR: Andrei Kortunov, ISE Center, Moscow

Additional Russian Participants

Vladimir Baranovsky, Academic Curator, Baltic CASE

Alexei Bogaturov, CASE Program Expert

Leonid Ionin, Academic Curator, Irkutsk CASE

Artem Malgin, CASE Program Editor-in-Chief

Maria Popova, Voronezh State University

Elena Shestopal, Academic Curator, Saratov and Novgorod CASEs