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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Our Georgia program's 2025 Artist in Residence Mishiko Sulakauri will take us through his artistic process and share a curated selection of Soviet archival materials that have found a place in this art.  

Director, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

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This event introduces the first ever English-language anthology of contemporary Crimean Tatar poetry and prose. The volume encapsulates the story of indigenous resistance to injustice, violence, humiliation, and eradication as chronicled by those who continue to endure it.

Recording Available

Founder, Crimean Fig Literary Project; Member, PEN Ukraine

Co-founder, Crimean Fig Literary Project; Member, PEN Ukraine

Associate Professor of Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Founder of Arrowsmith Press; Professor of English, University of Massachusetts-Boston

Preceptor in Ukrainian, Harvard University

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This event will gather experts from academia, government, technology sectors, and policy research, offering unique insights into AI’s evolving role in international affairs and domestic governance.

Minister of Science and Higher Education, Kazakhstan

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

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The Exchanging Notes program is where art, culture, and creativity collide, forging deep connections between Georgian and Somerville artists.

Founder, Warehouse XI

Director, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

Cultural Director, Somerville Arts Council

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Join us for a discussion of how U.S. policymakers reacted to close ties between the Soviet Union and Iran in the 1950s.

Recording Available

Professor Emeritus of Modern History, Baku State University

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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'Democracy Noir': Hungary's Orbanization is a riveting film documenting how Hungarian leader and U.S. conservative darling, Victor Orban, consolidated his authoritarian dictatorship. 

Filmmaker, Clarity Films

Women's and Gender Studies Historian

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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

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

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

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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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

Salome Tsereteli-Stephens, President of Georgian Association

Director, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

Librarian for the Davis Center Collection, Harvard University

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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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This 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 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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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 Bolashak scholar Gulnur Makulbayeva and postdoctoral fellow Valerii Otiakosvkii for the Davis Center's final Visiting Scholar Seminar of the year.


 

Associate Professor, Academy of Public Administration Under the President of Kazakhstan

Independent Scholar

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Join us for a talk by alum Luke Mackle ('17), now with the OECD, on the pace and direction of the low-carbon transition in Eurasia, looking at ways that legacy and industry across the region create both imperatives for reform and significant barriers to action.

Political Economist, OECD

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Join us for the talk to hear Dr. Artemy present how social scientists, both within and outside government, influenced Central Asia countries' transition from state socialism in the 1980s and 1990s. 

Professor of Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet Studies, Temple University

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Join us for Dr. McGraw Olive's presentation on how President Trump instigated international crises and tariff levies that will affect American interests and domestic political developments in this strategically located and endowed region. 

Professorial Lecturer, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

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Come hear more than 20 outstanding young scholars present on topics as diverse as energy, child care, migration, managed successions, and much, much more.

Professorial Lecturer, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Professor of Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet Studies, Temple University

Artist; Associate Professor, University of San Diego

Political Economist, OECD

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

A.M. Candidate in Regional Studies—REECA

Events Manager, Davis Center