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The cover of "Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War" with an inverted landscape silhouette with sunset background.

Global Economic Shocks and the End of the Cold War, 1970-1990

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The West and the Soviet bloc, despite their ideological differences, confronted a common set of economic shocks. The response to these shocks created a new international political economy that magnified U.S. power in unexpected ways and fractured the Soviet bloc.

Recording Available
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Michael De Groot

Assistant Professor of International Studies, Indiana University

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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Moscow 2025: Successes of Putin's Propaganda Machine

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Join us for our speaker series, "Russia: In Search of a New Paradigm—Conversations With Yevgenia Albats," featuring Peter Pomerantsev and Nina L. Khruscheva.

Recording Available
Peter Pomerantsev
Peter Pomerantsev

Journalist, and SNF Agora Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University

Nina L. Khruscheva
Nina L. Khruscheva

Professor of International Affairs at The New School and a Contributing Editor to Project Syndicate

Yevgenia Albats

Editor-in-Chief & CEO, The New Times

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History’s Many Voices: Learning How Visual Sources Speak

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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.  

Kelly O'Neill
Kelly O’Neill

Director, Imperiia Project / Lecturer on History, Harvard University

Cris Martin
Cris Martin

Interim Executive Director, Davis Center

Sandra Grudic
Sandra Grudić

Outreach Program Administrator, Davis Center

Abigail Lewis
Iva Sidash
Eleanor Roosevelt holding the Declaration of Human Rights, 1949

The Impact of the Cold War on International Human Rights Regimes

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

Recording Available
Nadia Boyadjieva
Nadia Boyadjieva

Professor of International Law and International Relations, Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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Book Talk: 'The President's Cat'

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In Guram Odisharia's novel "The President's Cat," the vibrant character Mikheil Bghazhba takes center stage.

Guram Odisharia

Writer

Natia Chankvetadze
Natia Chankvetadze

Director, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

Malkhaz Toria

Associate Professor, Ilia State University

A crowd of people passionately holding Ukranian flags and written signs, centered on a young woman being carried on someone's shoulders, high above the crowd.

Invisible Revolutionaries: Women’s Participation in Ukraine’s Euromaidan

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

Olena Nikolayenko
Olena Nikolayenko

Professor of Political Science, Fordham University

Emily Channell-Justice
Emily Channell-Justice

Director, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Warsaw Ghetto, Schooling in the Underground

Genocide Education: Webinar 1--The Dos, Don’ts, and Hows of Genocide Education

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

Sandra Grudic
Sandra Grudić

Outreach Program Administrator, Davis Center

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The Feeling Sonnets: Language Play, Translingualism, Situatedness

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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.

Eugene Ostashevsky
Eugene Ostashevsky

Clinical Professor, Liberal Studies Program, New York University

Stephanie Sandler
Stephanie Sandler

Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

St. Petersburg, Russia, 1834

Primary Sources in the Classroom: Webinar 1--Teaching with Maps

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

Sandra Grudic
Sandra Grudić

Outreach Program Administrator, Davis Center

Kelly O'Neill
Kelly O’Neill

Director, Imperiia Project / Lecturer on History, Harvard University

Vladimir Kara-Murza: The Real-Life Gulag

Vladimir Kara-Murza: The Real-Life Gulag

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 This conversation with recently released Russian political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza has been rescheduled for spring.

Recording Available
Vladimir Kara-Murza
Vladimir Kara-Murza

Vice-President, Free Russia Foundation; Senior Advisor, Human Rights First; Senior Fellow, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights

Yevgenia Albats

Editor-in-Chief & CEO, The New Times

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Russia's War Crimes in Its Invasion of Ukraine

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

Recording Available
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Dominika Uczkiewicz

Assistant Professor of International Law and History, Pilecki Institute (Poland)

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Patrycja Grzebyk

Associate Professor of International Law, University of Warsaw (Poland)

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

A Russian billboard featuring four women wearing dresses and bonnets.

Political Posters: Demasculinizing Russian “Politics of Loneliness”

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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.

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Sergei Akopov

Walter Benjamin Research Fellow, Cluster of Excellence SCRIPTS, Free University of Berlin

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Myra Marx Ferree

Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Book Talk: 'To Run the World'- Soviet Foreign Policy after 1945

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

Recording Available
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Sergey Radchenko

Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Serhii Plokhii
Serhii Plokhii

Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History / Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute , Harvard University

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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Russian-Speaking Latvians at the Borders of Global History

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

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Kevin M. F. Platt

Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Stephanie Sandler
Stephanie Sandler

Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Munich, 1932

Genocide Education: Webinar 2--The Camera as a Weapon

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

 

Sandra Grudic
Sandra Grudić

Outreach Program Administrator, Davis Center

Mind Against Religion

Using an Analytical Approach to Primary Sources in the Classroom

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This workshop will focus on understanding the origin, purpose, content, and value of various textual and visual primary sources.

Sandra Grudic
Sandra Grudić

Outreach Program Administrator, Davis Center

Cris Martin
Cris Martin

Interim Executive Director, Davis Center

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Primary Sources in the Classroom: Webinar 2--Primary Source Analysis Using the OPCVL Method

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

Sandra Grudic
Sandra Grudić

Outreach Program Administrator, Davis Center

Kelly O'Neill
Kelly O’Neill

Director, Imperiia Project / Lecturer on History, Harvard University

Past

We’ve hosted dozens of events, many of which we’ve recorded. Search past events for the topics you care about.

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DataBasics

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Start the new year by conquering your fear of data!

Kelly O'Neill
Kelly O’Neill

Director, Imperiia Project / Lecturer on History, Harvard University

Widener Memorial Library, Harvard University, General Reading Room, 1915

Postdoctoral Fellowship Q&A Session

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Join us for an information and Q&A session about applying for postdoctoral fellowships at the Davis Center.

Kate Flaherty
Kate Flaherty

Research Programs Coordinator

Black Sea Lab

Black Sea Lab: Conversations About Risk

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The Black Sea Lab is an exploratory collaboration across the research initiatives at the Davis Center.

Kelly O'Neill
Kelly O’Neill

Director, Imperiia Project / Lecturer on History, Harvard University

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center

Natia Chankvetadze
Natia Chankvetadze

Director, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

Paul Vadan
Paul Vădan

Coordinator, Imperiia Project

Allison Hart

Coordinator, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

Neil MacFarlane

Professor Emeritus, Oxford University

Irina Busygina
Irina Busygina

Independent Scholar

Nadia Boyadjieva
Nadia Boyadjieva

Professor of International Law and International Relations, Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Dana Masalimova
Dana Masalimova

Independent Scholar

Ewa Sulek
Ewa Sułek

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for East European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin

Gokcen Erkilic
Gokcen Erkilic

Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Christina Maranci

Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies
Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations
Department of History of Art and Architecture

Evangeline McGlynn

Disaster Studies Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

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How to Support Gender-Sensitive Environment in Georgian Schools

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This seminar offers an in-depth exploration of school-related gender-based violence with a special focus on educational institutions in the Kakheti region of Georgia.

Maia Araviashvili

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ilia State University

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Giorgi Urchukhishvili

Sociologist and Gender Researcher, Ilia State University

Allison Hart

Coordinator, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

Czech Republic

REECA Master's Program Info Session

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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). 

Donna Griesenbeck
Donna Griesenbeck

Student Programs Officer, Davis Center

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