Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies (CERES)

Celebrating Professor Thane Gustafson, who marked his retirement with the lecture “A Tale of Two Books, Two Wars, and One Climate — Russia and Ukraine/Iran.”

We are deeply grateful for his decades of scholarship, teaching, and service to Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. His contributions to the field and to generations of students will be felt for years to come!

CERES hosted its annual conference on Central Asia last Friday. 𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑝𝑒 𝐷𝑖𝑒𝑚, 𝐶𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎: 𝐴𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑟𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝐺𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑃𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 featured two panels of experts.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and to our incredible speakers for such thoughtful and engaging discussions. CERES would also like to thank the Chevron Corporation for sponsoring this conference.

If you couldn’t join us last week, Legacies of the Gulag: Russian Camps Past and Present is now live on our YouTube channel, with Michael David-Fox and Vladimir Kara-Murza discussing the lasting legacy of the Gulag in Russia today.

Legacies of the Gulag: Russian Camps Past and Present Join leading historian of the Soviet Union Michael David-Fox in conversation with Russian opposition figure and former political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza...