For Middle School, High School, and Community College Educators Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Thomson Hall 317, University of Washington, Seattle 100 Years Since World War I: The Making of Modern Europe The Jackson School welcomes educators to participate in the 2018 Summer Master Teacher Workshop, which will focus on the 100-year anniversary

On April 26, 2018, Timothy Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and bestselling author, spoke at the University of Washington on his book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, which reads as a survival manual for present times in view of the past with instruction on how to

Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University, a member of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and a permanent fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. His book, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Tim Duggan Books; February 28, 2017),

As part of the 44th Annual Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies is sponsoring “The Bottomless Bag” – a Russian film directed by Rustam Khamdamov. The Bottomless Bag d. Rustam Khamdamov Russia 2017, 104 min — Enter into a shimmering black and white fairytale world

On Saturday, April 28th the Ellison Center at the University of Washington held their 24th Annual Northwest Regional Conference for Russian, East European and Central Asian studies (REECAS NW). In previous years, the conference has been hosted at other universities such as Portland State University (2014), the University of Puget Sound (2016), and Reed College

Lauren McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at UMass, Amherst. In response to a growing human trafficking problem and domestic and international pressure, human trafficking and the use of slave labor were criminalized in Russia in 2003. In this talk, Lauren McCarthy explains why Russian police, prosecutors, and judges have largely ignored this

“Looking Back, Looking Forward” In celebration of 100 years of Independence in the Baltic States, the Scandinavian Studies Department and the Baltic Studies Program at the University of Washington hosted lectures from: Lauri Lepik, Ambassador of Estonia to the USA Andris Teikmanis, Ambassador of Latvia to the USA Evelina Petrone, Political Officer at the Embassy

Monday, Apr. 16, 2018 | 12:30 p.m. | LAW 117 In response to a growing human trafficking problem and domestic and international pressure, human trafficking and the use of slave labor were criminalized in Russia in 2003.  In this talk, Lauren McCarthy explains why Russian police, prosecutors, and judges have largely ignored this new weapon

Matthew Rojansky is Director of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. He is an expert on U.S. relations with the states of the former Soviet Union, and has advised governments, intergovernmental organizations, and major private actors on conflict resolution and efforts to enhance shared security throughout the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian

Dr. Gerard Toal (Gearóid Ó Tuathail)discusses the current geopolitical antagonism between NATO and Russia. He uses a series of critical geopolitical concepts: geopolitical field, geopolitical culture & geopolitical condition. In doing so, reviews the histories of Russia’s invasions of Georgia and Ukraine. Gerard Toal is a Professor in the School of Public and International Affairs