Russia and Asia in the 20th & 21st Centuries

November 15 to 16, 2019

Location: Henry R. Luce Hall, Auditorium

This conference will address the main issues in Russian and Asian history and politics from the 1920s on, with an emphasis on the Cold War era and recent developments.

Faculty Hosts: Paul Bushkovitch (Yale University), David Engerman (Yale University), and Thomas Graham (Yale University)

Conference Schedule:

Day 1 | Friday, November 15

10 am — Coffee in Luce Common Room

10:30 am — Welcome and Introductory Remarks, Paul Bushkovitch (Yale University)

11 am — Panel I: Russia and Asia before 1945

Chair: Denise Ho (Yale University)

Discussant: Peter Perdue (Yale University)

Paul Bushkovitch (Yale University)
Katerina Clark (Yale University)
Alexander Pantsov (Capital University)

12:30 — Lunch in Luce Common Room

2 pm — Panel II: The USSR, Japan & South Asia

Chair: Edyta Bojanowska (Yale University)

Discussant: David Engerman (Yale University)

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Hari Vasudevan (University of Calcutta, India)
Ali Raza (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

3:30 pm — Break in Luce Common Room

4 pm — Panel III: Near East

Chair: Jinyi Chu (Yale University)

Discussant: Doug Rogers (Yale University)

Artemy Kalinovsky (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Masha Kirasirova (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Rossen Djagalov (New York University)

Day 2 | Saturday, November 16

11:30 am — Coffee in Luce Common Room

12 pm — Keynote Address, Odd Arne Westad (Yale University)

12:30 — Panel IV: The USSR and China

Chair/Discussant: Valerie Hansen (Yale University)

Xiaoyuan Liu (University of Virginia)
Sergey Radchenko (Cardiff University, UK)
Elizabeth McGuire (California State University, East Bay)

2 pm — Lunch in Luce Common Room

3 pm — Roundtable: Russia and Asia Today

Chair: Thomas Graham (Yale University)

Jeanne Wilson (Wheaton College)
Ivan Safranchuk (MGIMO University, Russia; Yale University)
Dmitri Trenin (Carnegie Moscow Center, Russia)
Mark N. Katz (George Mason University)
Georgy Toloraya (MGIMO University, Russia)

Conference Participants:

Keynote Speaker: Odd Arne Westad (Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs, Yale University)

Katerina Clark (Yale University)

Rossen Djagalov (New York University)

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Artemy Kalinovsky (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Mark N. Katz (George Mason University)

Masha Kirasirova (New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE)

Xiaoyuan Liu (University of Virginia)

Elizabeth McGuire (California State University, East Bay)

Alexander Pantsov (Capital University)

Sergey Radchenko (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)

Ali Raza (Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan)

Ivan Safranchuk (MGIMO University, Russia; Yale University)

Georgy Toloraya (MGIMO University, Russia)

Dmitri Trenin (Carnegie Moscow Center, Russia)

Hari Vasudevan (University of Calcutta, India)

Jeanne Wilson (Wheaton College)