END OF TRANSITION ARMENIA 25 YEARS ON, NOW WHAT?
A two-city conference that seeks to investigate the transitional and post-transitional processes in Armenia and the post-Soviet region.
Renowned diplomats, area specialists, and young scholars will present on the multitude of issues that have influenced 25 years of transition in Armenia.
APRIL 9-10, 2017
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
AMBASSADOR JACK MATLOCK
Jack Matlock is a career diplomat who served on the front lines of American diplomacy during the Cold War and was the last U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union when the Cold War ended.
HANS GUTBROD
Hans Gutbrod runs Transparify, an initiative to increase the transparency of policy research and advocacy. Based in Tbilisi, Georgia, Hans works as a Caucasus analyst and holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
AMBERIN ZAMAN
Amberin Zaman is a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC. Until recently, she was the Turkey correspondent for the Economist.
ROBERT ENGLISH
Professor Robert English is a graduate of Princeton and served as the Director of the USC School of International Relations from 2013 to 2016. He specializes in Russian and post-Soviet international relations, political economy, and nationalism in post-communist countries.
DARON ACEMOĞLU
Daron Acemoğlu is Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His areas of research include political economy, economic development and growth, human capital theory, network economics and learning. He is the author of Why Nations Fail.
KHACHIG TÖLÖLYAN
Khachig Tölölyan is a Professor in and Director of the College of Letters at Wesleyan University, where he teaches comparative literature, history, and philosophy. In 1991, Professor Tölölyan founded Diaspora: a journal of transnational studies, the pre-eminent publication in the world that is devoted to the topic.
LOCATIONS
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
APRIL 9: Town & Gown
APRIL 10: University Club
YEREVAN, ARMENIA
VENUE: Cafesjian Center for the Arts
DATE: May 23-24, 2017
For information, write to armenian@usc.edu or call 213.821.3943.