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.
Our guest speakers will discuss Iran's and Türkiye’s interests in the South Caucasus, their political and economic perspectives on the region, and the implications for Georgia.
Professor and Principal Research Scholar, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Visiting Scholar and Lecturer, Princeton University; Associate, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
Two years into Russia's war against Ukraine, military analyst Pavel Luzin will consider what we know about Moscow's troop numbers, recruitment, officer corps, mercenaries, and more.
Join the Program on Georgian Studies for a screening of "Repentance" and a subsequent discussion with Nana Janelidze. Nana Janelidze was the assistant director, screenwriter and musical designer for the movie.
Join us for a screening of the documentary film Two Poets and a River. The film explores the lives and musical poetry of the two most prominent and innovative Wakhi musicians in Central and South Asia: Qurbonsho in Tajikistan and Daulatsho in Afghanistan. Following the screening, there will be time for questions for Richard K. Wolf, Harvard professor and the film’s director, and Afghan musician Dawood Pazhman.
The talk will chart the birth of Muslim atheism in Central Asia in the 1950s and its development into a diverse and rapidly expanding body of literature in the 1960s.
Deep inside Russia's forests, against the wishes of the authorities, 60-year-old Yuri Dmitriev searches for mass graves from Stalin’s "Great Terror" — until one day he is arrested and sentenced to 15 years. Following him closely, the film paints a shocking picture of the way the Russian state rewrites history and treats its citizens.
Irina Busygina will present the key arguments from her recently published book “Non-Democratic Federalism and Decentralization: A post-Soviet Perspective” (Routledge, November 2023, co-authored with Mikhail Filippov).
The Balet Polski Reprezentacyjny’s German tour provides new insight into the Second Polish Republic’s utilization of art and performance in its foreign affairs in the 1930s, and the precarity of identity in the Second Polish Republic’s national self-expression.
Emigrate or stay in Russia? The question so central to Russian intellectual discussions nowadays was also Anna Akhmatova’s dilemma one hundred years ago.
Using recently declassified materials from Russian archives, historian Oleg Budnitskii examines atrocities committed by Red Army soldiers at home as well as abroad.
This seminar will discuss the changing relations between the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea from 1949 through 1991 and the way these earlier relationships affect the close interactions between Russia, China, and North Korea today.
This talk will consist of three parts: the impetus leading to the erection of the statue and the numerous hurdles that had to be overcome, its destruction during World War II and subsequent reconstruction, and its historical and symbolic significance since 1959, when Chopin concerts began to take place around the statue.
With evidence from Kosovo, Serbia, and North Macedonia, this seminar will explore several issues, including protest behavior and state bureaucracies in postwar Balkan countries.
Two nights of performance draw on censored Soviet-era texts by iconic singer-songwriters Okudzhava and Vysotsky to explore intergenerational trauma in refugee experience and illuminate the sublime social power of poetic practices.
This workshop, hosted by the Global Studies Outreach Committee at Harvard University, will be offered in person on Harvard's Cambridge Campus July 29-August 1, 2024.
Theory meets practice as the panelists draw on empirical evidence and lived experiences to elucidate viable interventions aimed at empowering Ukrainian women in their quest for stability and belonging amid the tumult of displacement.
Global MIT At-Risk Fellows (GMAF) Program Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorary Professor, Academy of Labour, Social Relations and Tourism, Ukraine
This Cambridge Forum event considers what future prospects exist for Russia, post-Navalny, pre-election, and what the global response should be in light of America’s ambivalence about the future of NATO.
On International Women's Day Marta Havryshko will discuss her research about sexual violence in Ukraine during the Holocaust and the current Russian invasion.
Political scientist Maria Snegovaya's new book examines the rise of populism in postcommunist Europe and elsewhere, arguing that left-wing parties' neoliberal economic policies have alienated their traditional supporters.
Senior Fellow, Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service