Events

Join visiting scholar Ewa Sułek to learn about the multiple transformations of an art center seized by Russia-backed militants and its turn to radical political activism amid the Russia-Ukraine war.

This talk argues language politics played an important role in the global Cold War.

Join us to learn about (and taste the work of) Russian confectioners and chocolatiers!

The 2025 Davis Memorial Lecture, held this year at Wheaton College, explores the works of poets born in the USSR, who moved to the United States in their childhood or youth, and switched to writing poetry in English, including Olga Livshin, Ilya Kaminsky, and Eugene Ostashevsky.

Kevin Platt presents his new book, Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians Between World Orders.

Join veteran risk analyst Charles Hecker for a talk on the always complex, frequently unstable, and never boring relationship between foreign investors and Russia, based on his new book, Zero Sum.

Join us for the second in our two-part webinar series on genocide education as we explore the power of photography in teaching.

Join the new initiative "Spark! Mini Talks from the Davis Center!", which highlights a small part of the diverse and exciting research being undertaken by various Davis Center affiliates. 

Join us in discussing the core arguments of Intercommunal Warfare and Ethnic Peacemaking by Joldon Kutmanaliev.

An opportunity to explore the past, present, and future of Ukrainian studies in the context of contested memories and current cultural politics, with a focus on a recent book by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed.

In this workshop we will learn a method of historical analysis that capitalizes on AI’s capacity to speculate (wildly, at times). The exercise is designed to teach participants to develop a better sense of what we can and cannot know about the past. 

Kyrgyzstan’s populist mobilization in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic can be better understood as a story of re-politicization of a depoliticized polity.

Russian language competition for high school students. 

Join us for the third talk of a new online speaker series, "Kyiv Connection: Disciplinary Dialogues on Ukraine."  

Join us to discuss how the Russo-Ukrainian war is impacting coercion and implicit threats in the Middle East.

Join us for a discussion about Hungary during World War II and Joseph Stalin's impact on the country.

Join us for the spring semester's fourth event of our speaker series, "Russia: In Search of a New Paradigm — Conversations With Yevgenia Albats," featuring Dr. Fiona Hill and Senior Analyst Lucien King. 

Join us for the discussion about the collectivization generation of the rural youth who participated in the transformation of Uzbekistan’s agricultural life in the 1930s. 

The Cold War was waged on many fronts, in nations and whole continents, in the oceans and outer space, from hockey rinks to chess boards. In this talk, Michael Kunichika considers how it played out in the study of prehistory when Western and Soviet scholars debated the origins of art—and of the human—as they contested who would be the best interpreter and, thus, inheritor of the past. 

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.

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

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

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.