Melikian Center faculty affiliates will present their recent research and engage with audience questions in an upcoming event.

Come celebrate cultural diversity with CLI students learning Macedonian and Polish.

Global Forum focusing on empathy in diverse cultures through lectures and personal narratives aims to foster global understanding and compassionate behavior. Includes educational perspectives and is co-sponsored by ASU Melikian Center.

Iveta Silova researches globalization, democratization, and education policy 'borrowing' in post-socialist regions, focusing on gender equity, multicultural policies, and private tutoring impacts.

Rumena Buzarovska's latest book, a bestseller in North Macedonia, explores Macedonians' bleak emigration experiences through hyperrealist short stories, reflecting her status as a prominent European writer.

Ambassador Ilir Dugolli of Kosovo will discuss innovation, investment, AI's economic impact, and U.S.-Kosovo trade and investment relations at ASU. His diplomatic career includes posts in Turkey, Sweden, and Brussels, and academic involvement at the University of Prishtina.

ASU Jewish Studies and The Melikian Center are hosting a special lecture on Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies.

The Phoenix Committee on Foreign Relations collaborates with McCain Institute at ASU and ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law to host a speaker series on Great Power Competition.

Yasin Basaran, a Fulbright FLTA from Turkey at ASU, led a discussion on the Turkish TV drama 'Ethos' during 2020-21.

Spring 2021 Ukrainian Film Series curated by Jacob Lassin, a Postdoctoral fellow at the Melikian Center, showcased Ukrainian cinema.

Participants in the forum will have the opportunity to learn directly from Ukrainians and Ukrainian experts about the buildup to and subsequent invasions of Ukraine through a focus on the importance of art, artifacts, and testimony in the social justice reflections on current events.

The Melikian Center's Spring 2021 Ukrainian Film Series was curated by Jacob Lassin, a postdoctoral fellow at the center.