Events

Monika Plioplyte will discuss her exhibition, "I For Nested Pattern," currently on view at the Davis Center. 

The seminar will discuss the changing Russian understanding of European neutrality in historical perspective.

This seminar will cover the origins of the major international human rights regimes that emerged after WWII and how the Cold War affected their implementation.

After finding themselves on opposing sides of the Georgia-Abkhazia conflict, writers Guram Odisharia and Daur Nachkebia chose to publish their respective novels under one cover in a powerful literary endeavor that’s now available in English.

Olena Nikolayenko discusses the various motivations and manifestations of women's participation in revolution as featured in her newly published book. 

Join us for a two-part webinar series on genocide education. 

This expert panel will explore the multifaceted dimensions of Black Sea security, focusing on its pivotal role in global stability. Discussions will address defense and military challenges, Russia’s aggression and its impact on regional stability, and the implications of the militarization of the Black Sea. Panelists will also examine the strategic importance of regional partnerships, NATO’s eastern flank, and countering hybrid threats such as cyberattacks, disinformation, and economic coercion.

In their new book Indulging Kleptocracy, John Heathershaw, Tena Prelec, and Tom Mayne offer an engaging inside account of the fight against kleptocracy in the UK.

Declassified archival materials from the United States and the former Soviet Union confirm memoir accounts of U.S. covert operations in Soviet Ukraine in the first several years after World War II. The seminar will explore what is now known about these operations, which proved unsuccessful.

Join a discussion on Western academia's perpetuation of historical, cultural, and political frameworks rooted in Cold War-era Sovietology. This talk will focus on the case of Belarus. 

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.

Join us for our upcoming Spring semester webinar series for educators devoted to using primary sources in the classroom. 
 

The seminar will unpack the puzzle of Russia’s seemingly growing influence in the Global South and explore how and to what extent these insights are applicable in making sense of the dynamic of Russia-Central Asia relations.

 This exhibition is a heartfelt manifesto to the city, offering a meticulously curated selection of colorized images of Old Tbilisi sourced from global archives, including Tbilisi, Paris, Washington, New York, and London. 

Join us for the second talk of a new online speaker series, "Kyiv Connection: Disciplinary Dialogues on Ukraine."  

This conversation with recently released Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza, rescheduled from the fall, will focus on his experience in today's gulag.

Through a comparative analysis of the 1944 pronatalist Family Law and Putin’s pronatalist measures, this talk attempts to identify both constant and shifting choices as well as forces that affect the politics of reproduction today. In addition to policymakers, the talk will address the roles of women, doctors, and the Russian Orthodox Church.

A new book offers a multidisciplinary examination of international crimes committed in the Russia-Ukraine war and the challenges of their prosecution and documentation.

Join two leaders from the Kyiv School of Economics for a discussion of the state of play in Kyiv, and their thoughts on what 2025 may bring.

The study examines the alienation of femininity as depicted in Russian street posters from before and shortly after Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine.

Sergey Radchenko's book provides a lengthy analysis of the evolution of Soviet foreign policy after 1945.

Kevin Platt presents his new book, Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians Between World Orders.

Join us for a two-part webinar series on Genocide Education. 

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. 

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.