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Keynote: Eurasia Unbound? Reflections on Empire, Geopolitics and Citizenship

September 14, 2024 at 4:30pm – 6:00pm

Maxwell Hall, Auditorium

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The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University is hosting the 2024 CESS Fall Conference, themed “Citizenship Unbound: Central Eurasia in a Changing World.” Organized by the Central Asia and the Caucasus Initiative (CACI) within Maxwell’s Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, the conference will explore the evolving challenges of citizenship in Central Eurasia. It seeks to expand on the school’s discussions on citizenship by bringing together Syracuse’s academic community and global scholars in Central Eurasian studies to examine the concept, practice and lived experience of citizenship in a rapidly changing world.

Keynote Speaker

Bhavna Davé
Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS University of London

Each major geopolitical event or crisis in the Eurasian region has animated discussions on whether the Central Eurasian region will overcome its condition as a periphery, cease being the ‘near abroad’ of the metropole, or become further entrenched within the authoritarian regional institutional framework under Sino-Russian partnership. The protracted nature of Russia’s war on Ukraine has once again brought these questions to the fore.

This lecture considers how Central Eurasian states are signaling their autonomy and agency by developing alternative visions of regional cooperation and integration, infrastructural and trade connectivity, membership of the regional structures. Using a critical geopolitical framework, the lecture will ask how the Central Eurasian region is being reconfigured by the peripheries through strategic cooperation with the metropole, while resisting its incorporation into a ‘Greater Eurasia’ espoused by Russia and cultivating engagement and partnership with multiple regional and inter-regional institutional frameworks.

Discussant

Natalie Koch
Department of Geography and the Environment | Syracuse University

This event was first published on September 5, 2024 and last updated on September 6, 2024.

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