::World Affairs Council of Houston Presents::
The Putin Generation: How Russian Youth See Their World
Ok, maybe you are not as fascinated with Russia as we are. Much so, to the point that a Tori Amos song spiraled us into a year long quest for researching the Romanovs and the mysterious rumors of Anastasia sightings worldwide. Ok, so maybe you're not the super Russia fan we are, but you gotta like Vodka, right? Right?
Tonight's World Affairs Council of Houston presentation features speakers Sarah Mendelson, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Ted Gerber, University of Wisconsin - Madison.
How do the youth of Russia see their future? Do they support or resist Putin's pull-back on democratic reforms? A year-long survey of the Russian people by scholars Sarah Mendelson and Ted Gerber reveals some surprising answers.
Sarah Mendelson is a senior fellow with the Russia and Eurasia Program and the director of the Human Rights and Security Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
In 1994 and 1995, she served on the staff of the National Democratic Institute's Moscow office, where she worked with Russian political activists. In addition to numerous published articles and guest commentating appearances, she is the author of Barracks and Brothels: Peacekeepers and Human Trafficking in the Balkans (CSIS, 2005) and Changing Course: Ideas, Politics and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan (Princeton, 1998). Mendelson received her B.A. in history from Yale University in 1984 and her Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 1993.
Ted Gerber is professor of sociology and director of the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research examines socio-economic stratification, labor markets, demographic processes, public opinion, institutional change, HIV/AIDS, and science in contemporary Russia and Ukraine.
He has developed (in whole or in part) sixteen large-sample surveys in Russia and Ukraine since 1998, and has also conducted numerous focus groups and in-depth interviews. Gerber received his Ph.D. in Sociology at UC Berkeley in 1995.
-Counting the tears of 10,000 men.
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tonight, January 9th
The Junior League Ballroom | 1811 Briar Oaks Lane
Registration: 6pm
Program: 6:30pm-7:30pm
Members: Free
Non-members: $20
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