Writing. Convening. Teaching. Training. Modeling. Experimenting. Engaging. Across time zones and international boundaries, members of our community are at work. Our “Insights” gallery is a multimedia guide to intellectual life at the Davis Center.
With photos from Ukraine among its highlights, Harvard’s four-day summer workshop gives teachers tools to engage students’ imagination, analytical skills, and sense of justice.
The bitter foes seem close to a peace deal, our alum Joshua Kucera reports, but Baku insists Yerevan strip away a constitutional reference to "reunification" with Nagorno-Karabakh, the territory at the heart of their decades-old conflict.
After the 24-person prisoner exchange with Russia, our Cold War Studies director Mark Kramer explores the changing nature of such East-West trades over the decades, including the stark contrast between those whom Russia released and those it welcomed home, as well as the "moral hazard" this entails for the West.
Olympic games have often served as the backdrop for big foreign policy moves in Russia, including a previous high-profile prisoner release, Cris Martin writes for The Boston Globe.
“There is still a lingering stigma associated with socialism due to the Soviet experience,” a youth organizer told Ričards Umbraško, a Harvard student who spent the summer researching and writing in Georgia.
The Davis Center's Scholars Without Borders program has teamed up with Virginia Commonwealth University to give library access and research opportunities to Ukrainians whose work has been disrupted by war.
The Davis Center’s Graduate Student Conference on Central Asia showcases vibrant scholars eager to share and collaborate with others who study the region.
While Russian-speakers in Latvia are no monolith, recent polling on culpability for the war suggests splits in views along ethnolinguistic lines, writes our visiting scholar Māris Andžāns.
Davis Center postdoc Alex Averbuch has compiled a unique collection of photographs and letters sent home by so-called Ostarbeiters, or "eastern workers." Here, he discusses the conscripts’ creative ways of defying totalitarian control in communicating with loved ones.
