Tag: Celeste A. Wallander

The Russian Studies Program at Yale will host a conference titled “Regime Evolution, Institutional Change, and Social Transformation in Russia: Lessons for Political Science” on Friday-Saturday, April 27-28. The conference will feature Russian, European, and North American scholars who will discuss Russia’s political institutions and culture, the impact of Soviet legacies, and the future of global order. It will be held in Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. The event is free and open to the public. The first day of the conference will focus on some of the most widely debated questions in current social scientific study of the Russian federation. The first panel will assess the current state of Russian studies in the political science discipline. The third panel will address the issue of social mobilization in Russia’s less-than-democratic regime. The first day will wrap up with the keynote panel on the future of U.S.-Russian relations featuring Celeste A. Wallander, who served as former special assistant to President Barack Obama and senior director for Russia and Eurasia on the National Security Council. The next two panels will look at institutional reforms in the post-Soviet context and Russia’s public opinion formation, respectively. Campus & Community International