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.

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Join us for the fifth installment of our new speaker series to hear journalists Susan Glasser and Peter Baker discuss the new U.S. administration and foreign policy towards Russia.

Recording Available

Chief White House Correspondent, The New York Times

Staff Writer, The New Yorker

Editor-in-Chief & CEO, The New Times

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Wrap-up session!

Director, Imperiia Project / Lecturer on History, Harvard University

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This webinar will take a look at how Armenian diplomacy evolved over the centuries and how the lessons learned from the past help Armenia navigate modern geopolitical uncertainties.

Senior Lecturer, Russian-Armenian University; Second Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia

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The discussion will explore how emerging technologies and regional influences are shaping the future of Georgian Startups and how local founders navigate the US market.

Director of Investor Programs, Greentown Labs

Founder and CEO, Theneo

Graduate Student, Harvard Kennedy School

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In his talk, Stuart Goldberg will present a working definition of the sincere voice in poetry and a semiotic framework to elucidate how sincerity is inscribed and read.

Professor of Russian, Georgia Institute of Technology

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

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Memories of the Second World War became politically important during the Brezhnev era in the USSR.  The speakers will address numerous aspects of public memory and official memories of the war.

Recording Available

Professor of History, Università di Napoli Federico II

Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies, Professor of History and Director of Russian Area Studies, Wellesley College

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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

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This seminar brings together three scholars from Japan to analyze the impact of the war in Ukraine and its meaning outside Eastern Europe.

Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University

Professor on Russian and Eurasian History, Hokkaido University

Professor, Department of Slavic-Eurasian Studies, Hokkaido University

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

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The roundtable will discuss the impact of climate change on Central Asian hydro-politics, the implications of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) for the economies of the region, and local carbon pricing efforts.

Senior Research Fellow, Graduate School of Development, University of Central Asia

Researcher, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Academy and Visiting Professor at Center for International Development and Environmental Research (ZEU) at Justus Liebig University, Germany

Research Analyst, International Monetary Fund

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

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Join us to hear recently released Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza speak about his experience in the modern-day gulag.

Recording Available

Vice-President, Free Russia Foundation; Senior Advisor, Human Rights First; Senior Fellow, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights

Editor-in-Chief & CEO, The New Times

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This seminar recounts the controversial status of displaced Soviet citizens after WWII and the divergent outcomes of resettlement in the early postwar period. 

Recording Available

Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Russian History, University of Chicago

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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How do individuals' experiences of violence and their geographical proximity to theaters of war affect their identity expression?

Associate Professor of Political Science, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Associate Professor of Government, William & Mary

Associate Professor, Ilia State University

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Vladimir Gel’man will explore the origins of Russia's assault on Ukraine and provide an explanation for its failure to achieve its objectives.

Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

Independent Scholar

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Day-long workshop for educators interested in exploring the intersection of ecology and historical narratives in Ukraine.

Interim Executive Director, Davis Center

Outreach Program Administrator, Davis Center

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

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Transpatial Modernity offers the first in-depth account of the triangular relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian literature and culture in the modern era.

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University

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The talk will discuss the durable impacts of Russia's attempted recolonization of Ukraine on Eurasia's economic and supply chain integration.

Visiting Professor of Urban Studies and Post-War Reconstruction, Kyiv School of Economics

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

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Kalb's new book moves through exciting stories of the building Khrushchev/Kennedy confrontation, from the Bay of Pigs to the Cuban missile crisis. 

Recording Available

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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This seminar will cover the origins of the major international human rights regimes that emerged after WWII and the way 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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Join us for a brief overview of the Master's Degree Program in Regional Studies—Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (REECA). 

Student Programs Officer, Davis Center

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This seminar offers an in-depth exploration of School-Related Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV) with a special focus on educational institutions in the Kakheti region of Georgia.

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ilia State University

Sociologist and Gender Researcher, Ilia State University

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 In this workshop, participants will consider new ways of teaching about Imperial, Soviet and Post-Soviet Eurasia through the use of maps, data, oral histories and more.  

Director, Imperiia Project / Lecturer on History, Harvard University

Interim Executive Director, Davis Center

Outreach Program Administrator, Davis Center

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Eugene Ostashevsky will offer a personal take on questions of translation, immigration, and language by discussing poems on the siege of Leningrad from his latest collection.

Clinical Professor, Liberal Studies Program, New York University

Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

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

Outreach Program Administrator, Davis Center

Interim Executive Director, Davis Center

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This event will showcase the poetry of Lyuba Yakimchuk, an award-winning Ukrainian poet, screenwriter, and playwright, from her widely acclaimed collection Apricots of Donbas to her most current works. 

Poet, Playwright, and Screenwriter, Kiyv, Ukraine

Ph.D. Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Assistant Professor of Ukrainian Literature and Culture, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

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Our speakers will delve into crucial questions about recent parliamentary elections to illuminate the contested results' impact on the country as it moves forward.

Director, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

Senior Director for Russia and Eurasia, National Endowment for Democracy

Professor, Ilia State University

Professor of Psychology, Tbilisi State University

Salome Tsereteli-Stephens, President of Georgian Association

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

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Information design is an art and a science. 

Director, Imperiia Project / Lecturer on History, Harvard University

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This talk will bring us up to date on the state of the war in Ukraine and assess the potential impact of the U.S. presidential election on the conflict.

Executive Director, Davis Center (On Leave 2024-2025); Vice President for Strategic Engagement, Kyiv School of Economics

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“Akhmatova's Orphans. Disassembly” follows four Leningrad poets after the death of their inspiration, Anna Akhmatova. It is a story of memory, poetry, and the passage of time.

Professor, Princeton University

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University