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 visiting scholar Ewa Sułek to learn about the multiple transformations of an art center seized by Russia-backed militants and its turn to radical political activism amid the Russia-Ukraine war.
The 2025 Davis Memorial Lecture, held this year at Wheaton College, explores 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.
Kyrgyzstan’s populist mobilization in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic can be better understood as a story of re-politicization of a depoliticized polity.
Join us for the spring semester's fourth event of our speaker series, "Russia: In Search of a New Paradigm — Conversations With Yevgenia Albats," featuring Dr. Fiona Hill and Senior Analyst Lucien King.
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.
The Cold War was waged on many fronts, in nations and whole continents, in the oceans and outer space, from hockey rinks to chess boards. In this talk, Michael Kunichika considers how it played out in the study of prehistory when Western and Soviet scholars debated the origins of art—and of the human—as they contested who would be the best interpreter and, thus, inheritor of the past.
This event introduces the first ever English-language anthology of contemporary Crimean Tatar poetry and prose. The volume encapsulates the story of indigenous resistance to injustice, violence, humiliation, and eradication as chronicled by those who continue to endure it.
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.
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.
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.