Events

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Our guest speakers will discuss Iran's and Türkiye’s interests in the South Caucasus, their political and economic perspectives on the region, and the implications for Georgia. 

Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative, and Visiting Scholar, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School

Özgür Özkan is a research fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center

Senior Fellow, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute

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The Queer Focus series will address a variety of questions and themes regarding LGBTQIA+ issues within Eurasia and Eastern Europe.

Recording Available

Independent Researcher

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas

Professor and Principal Research Scholar, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Visiting Scholar and Lecturer, Princeton University; Associate, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Visiting Lecturer, Gender Studies, Mount Holyoke College

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This event will offer a rare insider look into the nexus of violence and identity politics in eastern Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast since 2014.

Professor, Ilia State University

Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University

Associate Director, Davis Center

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Two years into Russia's war against Ukraine, military analyst Pavel Luzin will consider what we know about Moscow's troop numbers, recruitment, officer corps, mercenaries, and more.

Recording Available

Visiting Scholar, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Executive Director, Davis Center

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This seminar will explore East Germany's policy implementation under the framework of both “horizontal” analysis ando top-down assessments.

Recording Available

Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, Malmö University, Sweden

Director, Cold War Studies Project

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Join the Program on Georgian Studies for a screening of "Repentance" and a subsequent discussion with Nana Janelidze. Nana Janelidze was the assistant director, screenwriter and musical designer for the movie.

Director, Program on Georgian Studies, Harvard University
Professor of Modern Georgian History, Ilia State University

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Join us for a screening of the documentary film Two Poets and a River. The film explores the lives and musical poetry of the two most prominent and innovative Wakhi musicians in Central and South Asia: Qurbonsho in Tajikistan and Daulatsho in Afghanistan. Following the screening, there will be time for questions for Richard K. Wolf, Harvard professor and the film’s director, and Afghan musician Dawood Pazhman.

Professor of Music and South Asian Studies

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This seminar will discuss the origins of Uzbek popular music, including where it comes from and how it developed.

Recording Available

Associate Professor, Botir Zokirov National Institute of Estrada Art

Member of Union of Composers of Uzbekistan

Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University

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Join the Program on Georgian Studies for a screening of "Will There Be a Theatre Up There?" followed by a discussion with the director.

Professor, Ilia State University

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The talk will chart the birth of Muslim atheism in Central Asia in the 1950s and its development into a diverse and rapidly expanding body of literature in the 1960s.

Recording Available

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, UNC Chapel Hill

Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center

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Join the Program on Georgian Studies for a screening of "Liza Go On" and a subsequent discussion with Nana Janelidze, director of this project.

Associate Professor, Head of the Memory Studies Center, Ilia State University

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Deep inside Russia's forests, against the wishes of the authorities, 60-year-old Yuri Dmitriev searches for mass graves from Stalin’s "Great Terror" — until one day he is arrested and sentenced to 15 years. Following him closely, the film paints a shocking picture of the way the Russian state rewrites history and treats its citizens.

Filmmaker

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

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Russian language competition for high school students. 

Associate Director, Davis Center

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Irina Busygina will present the key arguments from her recently published book “Non-Democratic Federalism and Decentralization: A post-Soviet Perspective” (Routledge, November 2023, co-authored with Mikhail Filippov).

Recording Available

Independent Researcher

Executive Director, Davis Center

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The Balet Polski Reprezentacyjny’s German tour provides new insight into the Second Polish Republic’s utilization of art and performance in its foreign affairs in the 1930s, and the precarity of identity in the Second Polish Republic’s national self-expression.

PhD candidate in Slavonic Studies at Clare College, University of Cambridge

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

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Professor Boris Lanin will discuss the Jewish destinies of Russian-language émigré writers of the Third and the Fourth waves of emigration.

Recording Available

Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies; Boston College; Chair, Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center

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Emigrate or stay in Russia? The question so central to Russian intellectual discussions nowadays was also Anna Akhmatova’s dilemma one hundred years ago.

Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

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"This Kind of Hope" follows Belarusian human rights activist and former ambassador Andrei Sannikov.

Belarusian Politician, Diplomat and Activist

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Using recently declassified materials from Russian archives, historian Oleg Budnitskii examines atrocities committed by Red Army soldiers at home as well as abroad.

 

Fellow (2023-2024), National Humanities Center, North Carolina

George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University

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This seminar will discuss the changing relations between the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea from 1949 through 1991 and the way these earlier relationships affect the close interactions between Russia, China, and North Korea today.

Recording Available

Senior Managing Director, Brock Securities

Director, Cold War Studies Project

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This talk will consist of three parts: the impetus leading to the erection of the statue and the numerous hurdles that had to be overcome, its destruction during World War II and subsequent reconstruction, and its historical and symbolic significance since 1959, when Chopin concerts began to take place around the statue.

Assistant Professor of the Practice, Russian and Slavic Studies, Boston College

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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This seminar will discuss relations between Yugoslavia and the USSR after the end of World War II.

Recording Available

Scholar-in-Residence, Philosophy Department, Duquesne University; Cultural Outreach Coordinator, Serb National Federation

Professor of International Law and International Relations, Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Director, Cold War Studies Project

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With evidence from Kosovo, Serbia, and North Macedonia, this seminar will explore several issues, including protest behavior and state bureaucracies in postwar Balkan countries.

Recording Available

Director of the Democracy and Governance Program and assistant professor of government

Director, Cold War Studies Project

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Two nights of performance draw on censored Soviet-era texts by iconic singer-songwriters Okudzhava and Vysotsky to explore intergenerational trauma in refugee experience and illuminate the sublime social power of poetic practices.

Assistant Professor, Northeastern University

Singer/Songwriter

Dance-Theater Artist

Scholar of Russian Literature and Culture

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This workshop, hosted by the Global Studies Outreach Committee at Harvard University, will be offered in person on Harvard's Cambridge Campus July 29-August 1, 2024. 

Associate Director, Davis Center

Program Coordinator, Educator Outreach and Program on Georgian Studies

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Theory meets practice as the panelists draw on empirical evidence and lived experiences to elucidate viable interventions aimed at empowering Ukrainian women in their quest for stability and belonging amid the tumult of displacement.

Recording Available

Global MIT At-Risk Fellows (GMAF) Program Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorary Professor, Academy of Labour, Social Relations and Tourism, Ukraine

CEO of Ukreate Hub and international projects lead at Open Lithuania Foundation

Activist and Founder of Open Nations

Research Scholar, Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University

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The Queer Focus series will address a variety of questions and themes regarding LGBTQIA+ issues within Eurasia and Eastern Europe.

Recording Available

Journalist

Co-Founder, Kazakhstan’s LGBTQ Feminist Initiative “Feminita”

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, American University of Central Asia

Post-Doctoral Scholar, Department of Women, Gender and Sexualities

Director of LGBTQ+ Initiatives, Colgate University

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This Cambridge Forum event considers what future prospects exist for Russia, post-Navalny, pre-election, and what the global response should be in light of America’s ambivalence about the future of NATO. 

Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins University

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On International Women's Day Marta Havryshko will discuss her research about sexual violence in Ukraine during the Holocaust and the current Russian invasion.

Recording Available

Visiting Fellow, Clark University Holocaust and Genocide Studies Center

Research Scholar, Women's Studies Research Center, Brandeis University

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Political scientist Maria Snegovaya's new book examines the rise of populism in postcommunist Europe and elsewhere, arguing that left-wing parties' neoliberal economic policies have alienated their traditional supporters.

Senior Fellow, Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service

Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, Georgetown University in Qatar