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TALK | Changing Security Dynamics in the North: A View from Finland by Hiski Haukkala, Director of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Thursday, May 22, 2025, 6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Kane Hall, Room 225 (Walker Ames Room)
University of Washington

BOOK RELEASE | Post-Soviet Graffiti: Free Speech in Authoritarian States by Alexis Lerner

Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 1:30 – 3 p.m.
Thomson Hall, Room 317
University of Washington
Free and open to the public

Film Screening: "How I Learned to Fly" ("Leto kada sam naučila da letim") with Director Radivoje Andrić

Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 6 – 9 p.m.
Kane Hall, Room 210
University of Washington

TALK | The Geopoliticization of Critical Raw Materials: Undermining a Just Global Green Transition by Anni Kangas, Tampere University (Finland)

Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Thomson Hall, Room 317
University of Washington

TALK | Social Protests and Electoral Authoritarianism in Kazakhstan by Masaaki Higashijima, University of Tokyo

Monday, June 2, 2025, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
Thomson Hall, Room 317
University of Washington

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