Representatives of the CASE Program and ISE-Center took part in the 40-th annual „American Association for Advancement of Slavic Studies“, which were held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA on November, 20-23, 2008

The researches of the CASE program and ISE-Center officials participated in two sessions of the conference: „International Migration Patterns in Russia and Abroad“ and „Russian Cooperation in Higher Education: Present and Future Opportunities“.

The recent publications of the CASE universities and ISE center were presented at the exhibit hall of the convention.

Official site of AAASS http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~aaass/.

The following participants took part in the work of the „International Migration Patterns in Russia and Abroad“ roundtable:

Chair: William Eric Pomeranz, The Kennan Institute, Deputy Director.

Part.:

• Victor Apryschchenko, PhD in History, Associate Professor, Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, Southern Federal University;
• Mikhail Vandyshev, PhD in Social Sci, Chair of Theory and History of Social Science, Ural State University;
• Alexander Koss, PhD in Law, Associate Professor, Chair of European International Law, Immanuel Kant State University;
• Svetlana Lebedeva, PhD in History, Deputy Dean, Faculty of International Relations, Voronezh State University.

The panel on Russian Cooperation in Higher Education was attended by these CASE representatives:

Chair: Andrei Kortunov, President of the ISE-Center.

Part.:

• Larisa Deriglazova, PhD in History, Associate Professor, Faculty of History, Tomsk State University;
• Oleg Zayachkovskiy, PhD in Law, Dean, Faculty of Law, Kaliningrad State University;
• Elena Terpugova, PhD in Philology, Deputy Dean, Faculty of Linguistics and Journalism, Irkutsk State University;
• Irina Laktionova, PhD in Political Science, Chief Executive of the ISE-Center.