Events

Are you looking to be in conversation with the world of Russian and Eurasian studies? You have come to the right place — pull up a seat.

Looking for a recording of a past event? Browse prior listings below, or see all of our event videos on our YouTube channel.

Event Format

Upcoming

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Join us to discuss the role of regional powers and the impact of energy resources on Caspian security with H.E. Ambassador Khazar Ibrahim.

Recording Available

Ambassador to the United States, Republic of Azerbaijan

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

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In person

This educator workshop will focus on understanding the origin, purpose, content, and value of various textual and visual primary sources.

Program Administrator, Educator Outreach, Davis Center

Interim Executive Director, Davis Center

Associate Professor of History, Boston University

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Join the Program on Georgian Studies for A Heritage Remembered: The Georgian Diaspora in America — a special event taking place in Washington, DC on the 17th of May.

Director, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

President, Georgian Association in the USA

Senior Researcher, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center; Professor of Modern Georgian History, Ilia State University, Tbilisi

Innovation Fellow, Program on Georgian Studies

Harvard College Student

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ilia State University

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Online

Join us for our upcoming Spring semester webinar series for educators devoted to using primary sources in the classroom. 
 
 

Program Administrator, Educator Outreach, Davis Center

Director, Imperiia Project / Lecturer on History, Harvard University

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In person

This educator workshop, hosted by the Global Studies Outreach Committee at Harvard University, will be offered in person on Harvard's Cambridge Campus July 28-31, 2025. 

Program Administrator, Educator Outreach, Davis Center

Interim Executive Director, Davis Center

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Join us for a talk about the Smolensk Region during the 1930s–40s, where residents navigated life under both Stalinist and Nazi brutal rule. 

Recording Available

Director, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies, Georgetown University

Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History / Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute , Harvard University

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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In person

Presentation of outcomes of the research project "Past as a Source of Democratic Growth in the Present (The Politics of History in Georgia)."

Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Associate Professor, Ilia State University

Senior Researcher, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center; Professor of Modern Georgian History, Ilia State University, Tbilisi

President, Georgian Association in the USA

Director, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

Librarian for the Davis Center Collection, Harvard University

Former Foreign Policy Advisor to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

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Come hear key findings from a unique comparison of institutional reforms enacted or proposed by elites, opposition groups, and other actors in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Moldova.

Recording Available

Independent Scholar

A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies—REECA

A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies—REECA

A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies—REECA

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Join us for a Hungary-focused discussion about individual human responses to state-run oppression and terror flowing from arbitrary, unbridled power.

Recording Available

Peter A. Kadas Professor of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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"Hive" tells the powerful true story of Fahrije, a woman living in post-war Kosovo who, after the disappearance of her husband during the war, struggles to provide for her family in a patriarchal village still reeling from loss. 

Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Davis Center; Research Fellow, CERGE-EI

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This seminar will cover the origins of the major international human rights regimes that emerged after WWII and how the Cold War affected their implementation.

Recording Available

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

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center