**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.**  

Join Professor Oxana Shevel, President of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies and Political Science Professor of Tufts University, for a discussion of the reasons behind Russian president Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's determined resistance, and how the war might end. While the war is often analyzed through the lens of US-Russia geopolitical competition, this talk will emphasize the importance of alternative factors: changes in national identity in Ukraine and of divergent political regime dynamics in Russia and Ukraine. Learn more about Professor Shevel HERE.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Presented in collaboration with the Watertown Free Public Library. 

NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 24 hours of the program.