Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States
in Troubled and Troubling Times
A Forum for the Academy and the Public Pop-Up Roundtable
The central European region from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea continues to be in the news with Russia's ongoing war on Ukraine, the Trump administration's negotiations with President Putin, and questions about the European Union's response to both.
Three scholars - from Ukraine, Belarus, and Latvia - will give perspectives from their own countries in the face of these troubled and troubling times.
Sergii Glebov is a Professor of International Relations at the Mechnikov University in Odessa, Ukraine. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the UCI Political Science Department through UCI's Scholar at Risk program. Dr. Glebov's research interests include international relations in the Black Sea region, European and Euro-Atlantic security, international law, foreign policy of Ukraine, and Russia's foreign policy.
Mārtiņš Kaprāns is a Senior Researcher with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia. Over the previous decade, he has been involved in several large-scale research projects on Baltic labor migrants, Russian-speaking communities in the Baltic states, ideological polarization in Baltic societies, ethnic stereotypes and prejudices in Latvia, and historical politics in Baltic countries and central Europe.
Sasha Razo, a native of Belarus, received her PhD in Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies from UCLA. She is a lecturer in Germanic & Slavic Studies and Film & Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her research interests include avant-garde cinema and literature, Belarusian and Ukrainian culture, migration and diaspora studies.
Moderated by Amanda Swain, UCI Humanities Center executive director. She holds a PhD in Russian and East European History from the University of Washington. Her research interests include the Baltic countries, the Soviet Union, and the politics of history and memory.
Co-Sponsored by UCI Scholars at Risk, Humanities Center, Office of Global Engagement, Center for the Study of Democracy, Critical Theory, European Languages and Studies, Global & International Studies, and History.