Events

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

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.

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. 

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

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.