Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 6.30pm to 8.30pm PDT
Join the Oxford & Cambridge Society of San Diego for a Parlour Talk featuring Mikhail Alexseev (an Oxford alumnus) on March 12 at the Mangelsen Gallery in La Jolla at 6:30pm. Mikhail is currently the Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. You can read more about him below.
Mikhail will speak on the history of the Ukraine, current affairs and possible outcomes over the next few months and years. His research focuses on threat assessment in interstate and internal wars, ethnic relations, and nationalism.
Mikhail has taught at SDSU since 2000. Mikhail was previously a Senior Correspondent with News from Ukraine and interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin, Francois Mitterrand, George Shultz.
In-person pre-talk Social: Starts at 6:30pm PDT
Parlour Talk: Starts at 7:00pm PDT
You can join the talk either in-person or virtually via Zoom.
To register via Zoom, please indicate this in your email when RSVPing.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Mikhail Alexseev
Mikhail Alexseev (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1996) is Professor of political science at San Diego State University, where he has taught since 2000 and served as the Bruce E. Porteous Chair. His research has focused on threat assessment in interstate and internal wars, ethnic relations, nationalism, and immigration in Russia/Eurasia and is currently concentrated on Ukraine’s democratic resilience in the face of Russia’s military invasions since 2014. He has directed a multiyear opinion survey project in collaboration with Ukraine’s National Academy of Science, including a unique study of sociopolitical effects of war tracking a broadly representative sample of Ukraine’s residents from 2021 through 2024 in five survey waves, with the 2023-2024 phase funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation RAPID program. In his 2024 article published in Perspectives on Politics, one of the two flagship journals of the American Political Science Association, Alexseev (with co-author, Serhii Dembitskyi) pioneered a theoretical explanation of democracy support as “geosocietal,” with far-reaching implications for the analysis of variation in democratic futures globally.
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