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.
Hear filmmakers Levan Lomjaria and George Sikharulidze explore the historical trajectory of Georgian cinema and the challenges it faces today, including attempts at state control over artistic expression.
This lecture invites you to explore 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
Julia Nemirovskaya will discuss how translators and editors of bilingual anthologies such as Disbelief, Dislocation, and Rupture have created a repository of poems protesting the war and government persecution in Russia and Belarus, titled Kopilka.
This film sheds light on the stories of six women from a nuclear-affected community in Kazakhstan. It explores topics such as technology-driven and state-sponsored gender-based violence, as well as the social stigma faced by nuclear-test survivors, particularly women.
Join us for a timely and thought-provoking conversation at the intersection of journalism, diplomacy, and war, discussing the making of the podcast "Escalation," sharing behind-the-scenes insights, and exploring what lies ahead for Ukraine.
This talk focuses on the history of the 1960s-1980s Festival of Cinemas of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, held in Soviet Tashkent — a unique historic cinematic formation irreducible to binaries of North-South, East-West, Orientalism, or Cold War.
Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University