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Public Policy Forum: Ukraine and the Russian Invasion

Public Policy Forum: Ukraine and the Russian Invasion

Event Venue:

Deakin Downtown 727 Collins StreetDocklands, VIC, 3008, Australia ( Map )

Most political analysts said that it made no rational sense for Vladimir Putin to transform an eight-year long low-intensity war in eastern Ukraine into a full-scale war of invasion.

Most political analysts said that it made no rational sense for Vladimir Putin to transform an eight-year long low-intensity war in eastern Ukraine into a full-scale war of invasion. After weeks of remarkably effective Ukrainian resistance, a surprisingly united Europe, and increasingly indiscriminate violence in the face of unexpectedly shambolic Russian war-fighting it is even harder to find sense. As this expert panel will discuss, however, Putin’s vainglorious, murderous, debacle was years in the making and all-too consistent with his toxic nationalism, mythmaking, and unbridled personal corruption.


You can attend this event either in person at Deakin Downtown (register), or tune in via Zoom (register). Please register your attendance either way.

We welcome you to join us at 5.30 pm for refreshments prior to the forum commencing at 6:00 pm if you are attending in-person.

Q&A

After some presentations and discussion between the panellists, you will have the opportunity to ask questions of the panel, whether you are in the room or tuning in via Zoom.


ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Julie Fedor

Dr Julie Fedor is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Melbourne’s School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. She obtained her PhD in History at King’s College, Cambridge. She is the author of Russia and the Cult of State Security: The Chekist Tradition from Lenin to Putin (Routledge 2011); co-author of Remembering Katyn (Polity Press 2012); co-editor of Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan 2013); and contributing co-editor of Memory, Conflict and New Media: Web Wars in Post-Socialist States (Routledge 2013) and War and Memory in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (Palgrave Macmillan 2017). Since 2015 she has been General Editor of the Journal of Soviet & Post-Soviet Politics & Society (www.jspps.eu).

 

 

 

Robert Horvarth

Dr Robert Horvath is Senior Lecturer in Politics at La Trobe University and a specialist on Russian Politics. He is the author of Putin’s Fascists: Russkii Obraz and the Politics of Managed Nationalism in Russia (Routledge, 2021), examining a neo-nazi organization that became a major force on Russia’s radical nationalist scene in 2008-10; and of Putin’s ‘Preventive Counter-Revolution (Routledge, 2013), a study of the programme of reforms and repression that transformed the face of Russian politics during Vladimir Putin’s second term as president.

Read his recent article for The Conversation, ‘Putin’s fascists: the Russian state’s long history of cultivating homegrown neo-Nazis (March 22, 2022).

 

 

 

Filip Slaveski

Dr Filip Slaveski Lecturer in Russian and Soviet East European History at the Australian National University and Senior Research Fellow at ADI, Deakin. He is the author of Remaking Ukraine after World War II: The Clash of Local and Central Soviet Power (Cambridge Uni Press, 2021); and of The Soviet Occupation of Germany: Hunger, Mass Violence and the Struggle for Peace, 1945-1947 (Cambridge Uni Press, 2013). Filip has just finished a book with the renowned Ukrainian historian Yurii Shapoval, provisionally titled, Defying Stalinism in Death, the Case of Oleksandr Shumskyi (HURI- Harvard University Press, forthcoming).

 

 

 

 

Greg Barton (Moderator)

Prof Greg Barton is Research Professor in Global Islamic Politics at the Alfred Deakin Institute, and Senior Fellow at Hedayah, Abu Dhabi. Greg is a regular media commentator on matters of national security and violent extremism in Australia and abroad.

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