The Master of Arts in Regional Studies—Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (REECA) is a two-year program that offers advanced training in the history, politics, culture, society, and languages of this region.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
This seminar recounts the controversial status of displaced Soviet citizens after WWII and the divergent outcomes of resettlement in the early postwar period.
Transpatial Modernity offers the first in-depth account of the triangular relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian literature and culture in the modern era.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our speakers will delve into crucial questions about recent parliamentary elections to illuminate the contested results' impact on the country as it moves forward.
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.
“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.