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The Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies serves as the focal point at the University of California at Berkeley for students and faculty who conduct research and teaching on the geographic region of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Currently the Institute has 45 core UCB faculty members and over 150 affiliated graduate students. Read more... 

Webcast: The Presence of the Past: Legal Dimensions of Armenian-Turkish Relations

Morning Session
Afternoon Session

The webcast from this symposium, which took place on October 2, 2011, is now available online. This symposium explores three contentious issues which are preventing Armenian-Turkish rapprochement.
Speakers: Stephan Astourian, The University of Claifornia, Berkeley; Alfred de Zayas, Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations; Susan Karamanian, The George Washington University Law School; Catherine Kessedjian, University Pantheon-Assas, Paris II; Raymond Kevorkian, Institut français de géopolitique, Université Paris-VIII-Saint-Denis; Serge Sur, University Pantheon-Assas, Paris II.

ISEEES Fall 2011 Newsletter Available Online

The Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies would like to wish you a happy new year. We are also pleased to present our Fall 2011 issue of the ISEEES newsletter, including articles by Ph.D. candidates Theocharis Grigoriadis and Mark Keck-Szajbel.

Starting with this issue, we are moving to an electronic format of the newsletter, and notice of availability will be sent through our ISEEES listservs and posted on our website. If you're interested to join the ISEEES email listserv and receive announcements about upcoming events and conferences, as well as about new podcasts and newsletters, send us an email to iseees [at] berkeley[dot]edu

2011 Romani Studies Conference Video Now Online

The 2011 Inaugural Conference in Romani Studies took place on November 10th, 2011. The conference, co-sponsored by ISEEES, gathered established and emerging scholars engaging new methodological approaches within the field of Romani Studies, a burgeoning and interdisciplinary field that explores the history, culture and politics of Romanies (Gypsies) in global contexts. A video recording of the conference is now available online here. For additional information about the conference, see the conference's webpage.

Annual Colin Miller Memorial Lecture Podcast Available

Our Annual Colin Miller Memorial Lecture was delivered this year by Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor in Chief of the Journal Russia in Global Affairs. The title of his talk was Russia in a Changing World: Unpredictable Challenges Ahead. A podcast of the talk is available online at this link (recording number 7). Users need to have iTunes installed on your computer to download or listen to this podcast. 

Fyodor Lukyanov is editor-in-chief of the journal Russia in Global Affairs, published in Russian and English with the participation of Foreign Affairs magazine. He has an extensive background in different Russian and international media, in which he worked from 1990 to 2002 as a commentator on international affairs. Lukyanov now widely contributes to various media in the US, Europe and China. His monthly "Geopolitics" column appears in the Russian edition of Forbes magazine. He is a member of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, an independent organization providing foreign policy expertise, and is also a member of the Presidential Council on Human Rights and Civic Society Institutions.