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In recognition of the one year mark of Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, join the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs and Northwestern Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences' Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Research Program (REEES) for an online panel discussion on the past year of war in Ukraine and the direction the conflict may be headed. 

About the panelists:

Jordan Gans-Morse is an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Faculty Director of the Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies Program at Northwestern University, where he conducts research on corruption, the rule of law, and property rights. He is the author of the book Property Rights in Post-Soviet Russia: Violence, Corruption, and Demand for Law and was a 2016–17 Fulbright scholar in Ukraine.

Olga Kamenchuk, Ph.D., is an Associate Research Professor in the Institute for Policy Research and an Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Communication at Northwestern University. She has 15 years of professional polling and public opinion research experience in the Former Soviet Union and is a leading expert on Russian public opinion. Her scholarship focuses on international public opinion and strategic public diplomacy.
  
Ian Kelly is Ambassador in Residence at Northwestern University and a retired senior foreign service officer who most recently served as the U.S. ambassador to Georgia from 2015 to 2018. Previously he served as the U.S. ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from 2010 to 2013. Prior to these ambassadorships, Kelly held a variety of high-level positions at the U.S. State Department, including serving as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s spokesperson (2009–2010). He has extensive experience working on issues relating to NATO, Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Balkans.

Volodymyr Kulyk is Head Research Fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He is also Professor at the Ukrainian Free University and Associate at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University. His research fields include the politics of language, memory and identity in contemporary Ukraine, media and discourse studies, on which he has widely published in Ukrainian and Western journals and collected volumes.

Tymofiy Mylovanov is a President of Kyiv School of Economics and an advisor to Ukraine's presidential administration. He has taught at a number of European and American universities, including Rheinische Friedrich–Wilhelms–Universität Bonn, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh. Tymofiy’s research interests cover such areas as theory of games and institutional design. He has been published in leading international journals, including Econometrica, American Economic Review and the Review of Economic Studies.

Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern is the Crown Family Professor of Jewish Studies and a Professor of Jewish History in the Department of History at Northwestern University. He teaches a variety of undergraduate- and graduate-level courses in the History Department and the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies that include early modern and modern Jewish History, East European Jewish History, Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah; Origins of Zionism; History and Culture of Ukraine and Slavic-Jewish Literature. 

William Reno is a Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Political Science Department at Northwestern University, where he specializes in the study of the causes of political violence, comparisons of conflict in Africa with warfare elsewhere, the organization and behavior of insurgent groups and the politics of authoritarian regimes. He has almost thirty years of field work experience conducting research and interviews in conflict zones.
  
Michael Rogers is a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Professor in the Kellogg Executive Leadership Institute. He retired from the U.S. Navy in 2018 after nearly 37 years of naval service rising to the rank of four-star admiral.  He culminated his career with a four-year tour as Commander, U.S. Cyber Command and Director, National Security Agency.  In those roles he worked with the leadership of the U.S. government, the U.S. Department of Defense and the intelligence community as well as their international counterparts in the conduct of cyber and intelligence activity across the globe.
  
Juliet Sorensen is a Clinical Professor of Law associated with the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law's Center for International Human Rights, where her teaching and research interests included international criminal law, corruption, and health and human rights. Professor Sorensen is also the director and founder of the Northwestern Access to Health Project, an interdisciplinary partnership that analyzes access to health in resource limited settings. From 2017-2019, Professor Sorensen served as the Associate Dean for Clinical Legal Education and Director of the Bluhm Legal Clinic.
  
About the Moderator:
  
Annelise Riles is Northwestern University’s Associate Provost for Global Affairs and Executive Director of the Northwestern Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. Her scholarship spans a wide range of substantive areas including human rights, managing and accommodating cultural differences, and the regulation of global financial markets. Dr. Riles is also the founder and director of Meridian 180, a forum for multilingual dialogue and scholarship.  
 

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