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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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

Historian, Director of the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine

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A new book,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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Using sources never before examined together from Armenia, Georgia, Byzantium, and Russia, our speaker investigates the entanglement of saints, gender, and politics from late antiquity to the imperial period.

Professor of the History of Religion and Political Thought and Dean of Social Sciences, Free University of Tbilisi

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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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Please join us to watch part V, "The Stadoff" of The Unfinished Time (2024), and discuss with producer Abigail Honor and director Yan Vizenberg. This episode focuses on the implications of Boris Yeltsin’s economic reforms and the events leading up to the 1993 constitutional crisis in Russia.

Writer, Director, Producer

Assistant Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School, Tufts University

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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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Please join the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University for the second film screening and conversations about Russia in the 1990s. We will watch Part VII, "Vote or Lose,"  at Tufts University. The episode reflects on the circumstances of Yeltsin’s reelection campaign in the 1996 presidential election in Russia. Refreshments will be served following the conversation.

Writer, Director, Producer

Assistant Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School, Tufts University

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As our society struggles with the onslaught of AI-powered disinformation, a small country in the Caucasus offers insights we can all learn from.

Marvin Kalb Professor of Global Communications and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Department of Government

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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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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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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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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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RESCHEDULED for March 4, 2025: This conversation with recently released Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza has been rescheduled for spring.

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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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