Conferences

	Lectures held at conferences or other academic events worldwide
1	March 8-10, 2013: I was a speaker at international conference in Warsaw: “In the name of revolt: Forgotten Belorussian gene”. My title is “Forgotten democratization of Belarus in the late-eighties”.
2	April 19-22, 2015: I was speaking at European Expert Forum in Kiev – European thought leaders’ meeting for a sustainable democratic Ukraine”. My title: “Ukrainian-Hungarian Relations from a Central European Perspective.”
3	August 23-26, 2016: 21st Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies. The theme of my presentation is: “Chinese investments in the Russian Far-East.”
4	November 29, 2016: I was speaking at the Geopolitics of the Global South conference in Chile. The conference was held at the Universidad de Chile. The title of my presentation: “EEU, EU, AU, ASEAN, SCO and Mercosur – comparison of the processes of the global integration”
5	December 1, 2016: I was speaking at the Geopolitics of the Global South conference in Brazil. The conference was held at the Universidade de Sao Paulo. The title of my presentation: “EEU, EU, AU, ASEAN, SCO and Mercosur – comparison of the processes of the global integration”
6	June 4-7, 2017: Presentation at the Annual Studies Forum of the Regional Studies Association in Dublin, Ireland. The title of the conference was “The Great Regional Awakening: New Directions”. My title was “Disproportions and imbalances in the integration process of the post-soviet region”.
7	June 30, 2017: Participation at the conference entitled “Geopolitical Processes and their Potential Effects” in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Organizer: University of Pécs Doctoral School of Earth Sciences and Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania. Title of lecture: “Disproportions and imbalances in the integration process of the post-soviet region”
8	4-6 September 2017: I was speaking at the EUGEO conference organized by the Association of Geographical Societies in Europe, Brussels. At the conference, I gave a lecture on the following topic: “Russia 2050 – trends and visions of the future.”
9	December 18-19, 2017: I was a guest speaker the “Fourth High-Level Think Tanks Symposium of China and Central & Eastern European Countries” held in Beijing, China. I gave a lecture in the panel “How the 16 + 1 Cooperation Promotes the “Belt and Road” Initiative”.
10	June 3-7, 2018: I was speaking at the conference of the Regional Studies Association in Lugano, Switzerland. The title of my presentation: “Can the Eurasian Economic Union become one of the pillars of the new international world order?”
11	November 26, 2018: I was speaking at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The title of my lecture: “Regional cooperation in Eastern Europe and CEE countries.
12	November 27, 2018: I was speaking at the Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv. The title of my lecture: “Regional cooperation in Eastern Europe and CEE countries”.
13	November 28, 2018: I was speaking at the Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva. The title of my lecture: “Regional cooperation in Eastern Europe and CEE countries”.
14	April 7, 2020: „Scenarios for Eastern Partnership 2030”. Roundtable-discussion organized by Visegrad Insight and Res Publica on the topic of Easter Partnership.

 

 

	Lectures held at conferences or other academic events in Hungary
1	February 11, 2010: guest speaker at the panel organised by the Hungarian Institute of Foreign Affairs. Event title: “Quo vadis Ukraine? Presidential elections 2010 ”.
2	March 8, 2012: Expert round table discussion on the evaluation of Russian presidential elections organized by the Hungarian Institute of Foreign Affairs. Participants: András Rácz, Zoltán Bíró, and Anton Bendarjevskiy
3	September 25, 2014: moderating Russian panel of a conferenceorganized by Central European University (CEU), CENS. The title of the conference is “Engagement or Containment. Relationship of EU and Russia in turbulent times ”.
4	September 8, 2015: Dwa bratanki: Search for common foreign policy goals of Poland and Hungary. English conference organized by the Polish Embassy, ​​CEID and Polish PISM. I was the speaker at the panel: The Implications of the Ukrainian Crisis on the Bilateral Relations of Poland and Hungary. ” More details.
5	February 24, 2016: I was a guest speaker at the panel discussion on the situation in Ukraine organized by the US Embassy, ​​the Ukrainian Embassy and the Embassy of the United Kingdom. Conference title: “Ukraine: two years on from Maidan”.
6	April 20, 2016: I was the organizer and moderator of the geopolitical oxford style debates organized by PAGEO – GeoDebates I. – “Is China colonizing Africa?”
7	September 8, 2016: Dwa bratanki: Search of common foreign policy goals of Poland and Hungary. English conference organized by the Polish Embassy, ​​CEID and Polish PISM. At the conference, I talked about Russian foreign policy, which affects the Central Eastern European region. More details.
8	November 16, 2016: Ambassador’s Forum at the National University of Public Service. Round table discussion with Vladimir Nikolayevich Sergeyev – Russian ambassador to Hungary and Andras Racz, associated professor of Pázmány Péter Catholic University and senior researcher at SVKK..
9	February 15, 2017: Ambassador’s Forum at the National University of Public Service. Round table discussion with Liubov Nepop, ambassador of Ukraine to Hungary, and  László Póti, senior researcher at Institute of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
10	May 5, 2017: Presentation at a PhD workshop at the Pallas Athena University in Kecskemét. Title of the presentation: “EEU, EU, AU, ASEAN, SCO and Mercosur – comparison of the processes of the global integration”.
11	May 22, 2017: I was the organizer of the European Forum for Belt and Road Cooperation and was the moderator of the “Prospect of EU-China Relations on the Belt & Road Initiative” panel.
12	November 6, 2017: I was one of the moderators of “16 + 1 High-Level Academic Forum: The Opportunities and Challenges of the Belt and Road Initiative”. In addition to this, I was one of the co-organizer of the forum together with the Institute for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade and the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau of China.
13	November 20, 2017: “China-CEE Think Tanks Network” conference moderator “The next five years of 16+1 cooperation – challenges and opportunities.”
14	November 29, 2017: I was the organizer of the international geopolitical conference, “The New World Order”. At the conference, I gave a lecture “Attitudes and interests of the Hungarian population towards global foreign policy, USA, EU and China”. Besides that, I was the moderator of the panel “Role of the international institutions and political dimensions of the world order”.
15	January 1918: I was a moderator of a workshop conference called “The Old World – The New Silk Road China Initiative” at the Corvinus University of Budapest.
16	March 21, 2018: The next event of the GeoDebates discussion series, “Can the global development gap be overcome by the technological advancements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution?”. I was one of the organizers of the event, and I led and moderated the event.
17	March 22, 2018: I was a guest speaker at the security policy Conference organized by the Hungarian Defence Forces at the Stefánia Palace – “Russia after the presidential election”. The title of my lecture: “What’s next for Eurasian integration?”.
18	April 13, 2018: I was speaking at the “Geopolitical Processes from Central European Perspective” conference at the Óbuda University. The title of my presentation: “Russia’s foreign policy transformation from 2000 to the present”.
19	April 21, 2018: I was a speaker and commentator at the roundtable discussion at book presentation event at the Budapest International Book Festival, organized by József Antall Knowledge Center. The title of the books introduces: Jakub J. Grygiel – A. Wess Mitchell: “The Unquiet Frontier: Rising Rivals, Vulnerable Allies, and the Crisis of American Power” and Joseph S. Nye, Jr .: “Is the American Century Over?”
20	May 15, 2018: I was organizing the international conference held in Budapest – Belt and Road Forum. I was also moderating one of the panels and also gave a lecture entitled “Mapping the Eurasian Economic Corridor”.
21	May 23, 2018: I was a moderator of a conference organized at Corvinus University, “International conference on border crossing cooperations, strategies and planning”.
22	June 19, 2018: I was one of the organizers and moderators of the fifth GeoDebates Oxford-style debate series: “Bridge or Collision Zone? The role of Central and Eastern Europe in East Asia”.
23	October 11, 2018: I was one of the organizers and moderators of the sixth GeoDebates Oxford-style debate series: “Freight transport over land vs. sea”
24	November 8, 2018: I was the organizer of an international geopolitical conference, The New World Order. The 2018 conference focused on integration and multipolarity. At the conference I held a lecture entitled “Future prospects of Eurasian Economic Union”. Besides this, I was the moderator of the panel entitled “Geopolitics of integrations”
25	January 24, 2019: I was one of the organizers and moderators of the seventh GeoDebates Oxford-style debate series: “Who will be the winner of the power struggle for Central Asia: Russia or China?”
26	May 7-8, 2019: I was a speaker at the conference organized by the Hungarian Defense Forces, Defence Command Center Research Center. The title of the lecture: “Cooperation, integration, annexation? Russia’s integration efforts and foreign policy in the post-Soviet region”.
27	May 20, 2019: I was the moderator of the first panel of the conference “EU-Russia relations: What are common denominators in the era of rivalry?” organized by the Central European University (CEU).
28	December 19, 2019: „Partners in Eastern Europe: Multiple Crossroads. Politics and Rule of Law in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine” conference. The event was organized by Danube Institute, and I was the moderator of the event.
29	December 27, 2020: „The end of Lukashenka era? Political crisis in Belarus.” Roundtable discussion organized by the Strategic Defence Institute of University of Public Service.
30	March 31, 2021: “The revaluation of Central Asia in international politics”- a round table discussion organized by the Institute of Foreign Affairs and Trade, of which I was one of the participants and speakers.
31	October 5, 2021: “BLA|arena – Gas conflict in the triangle of Hungarian-Ukrainean-Russia relations.“. Round table discussion organized by Batthyány Lajos Foundation on the gas conflict around Ukraine and Hungary.
32	December 1, 2021: “30 Years of Neighborliness: the Ups and Downs of Hungarian-Ukrainian relations”- a round table discussion organized by the Institute of Foreign Affairs and Trade, of which I was one of the participants and speakers, together with Dmytro Tuzhanskyi, Attila Demko and György Illyas.
33	December 11, 2021: “The post-soviet world”, conference organized by the Modern East-Asia Research group of Pázmány Péter Catholic University. I was speaking about the historic relations of Baltic-states, Poland and Belarus.

 

	Lectures held at universities in Hungary
1	April 2009: Public lecture held at the University of Pécs: “Belarus – the last dictatorship in Europe. ”
2	March 10, 2010: Public lecture at the University of Pécs entitled “Kuropati – mass grave of a nation”.
3	May 2015: Guest lecture at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. The title of the lecture: “The democratization of Belarus”.
4	July 4-12, 2015: I was a lecturer at the Summer University organized by St. Ignatius Jesuit College. Title of the course: “Interdisciplinary understanding of normativeism in economic research.” Title my presentation was: “Informational Warfare”.
5	August 18, 2015: I was a lecturer at the Pécs Debate Academy 2015 organized by the University of Pécs. My title was “The heritage of Chernobyl”.
6	November 5, 2015: Presentation and seminar for the editors and journalists of the media outlets of Faculty of Sciences of the University of Pécs. Title of the lecture: “Situation of foreign policy media in the world”.
7	November 18, 2015: Guest lecture at the Corvinus University International Studies Department course. The title of the lecture was “War in Ukraine”.
8	May 4, 2016: Guest lecture at Corvinus University, Department of Geography, MA students. The title:: Geopolitical Transformation of Ukraine and Belarus”
9	May 2016: Guest lecture at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. The title of the lecture was: “The geopolitical transformation of Belarus.”
10	November 2016: “Russia’s geopolitics in Eurasia” lecture at Eötvös Loránd (ELTE) University.
11	September 29, 2017: Presentation at Corvinus University, “Geostrategy” course. Title of my presentation: “Russia’s foreign policy from the 2000s to nowadays”.
12	October 6, 2017: Presentation at Corvinus University, “Geostrategy” course. Title of my presentation: “Integration projects in the post-Soviet area”.
13	March 27, 2018: A lecture at ELTE University, “Geopolitical Examination of Asia’s Gripping Roads” course, entitled “Russia’s Asian geopolitics”.
14	April 10, 2018: A lecture at ELTE University, “Geopolitical Examination of Asia’s Grievous Roads” course, entitled “Integration Processes in the Post-Soviet Area”.
15	October 2018: lectures at Corvinus University, “Geostrategy” course. Lectures were held on Russian foreign policy and Eurasian integration.
16	March 2019: lectures at Corvinus University. Lectures were held on Russian geopolitics in Eurasia and projects of integration in Eurasia.
17	Spring semester, 2019: “Theory of international relations” course at Pázmány Péter Catholic University.