Past Events

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This webinar offers history and social studies teachers practical, classroom-ready ways to work with Cold War primary sources in a short professional learning session.

Associate Director of the UNC Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and Eastern European Studies at University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

Program Administrator, Educator Outreach, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Join us to hear Joseph Torigian tell the life story of Xi Zhongxun, a man who spent his entire life struggling to balance his own feelings with the Party's demands.

Recording Available

Associate Professor, American University (Washington DC)

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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Join us for the talk examining Soviet historical novels about Genghis Khan by Vasily Yan and Aleksei Kalashnikov as a site of ideological struggle over the meaning of the Mongol conquest and its place in Central Asian history. 

Head, Center for Central Asian Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland)

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

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The talk shows how late Soviet claims of cultural equality masked a Russocentric canon-making regime and how Georgian writers and critics both enabled and resisted it through competing strategies of universality and national self-assertion.

Research Fellow, Center for Literary and Cultural Research (Berlin); Professor, Ilia State University (Tbilisi)

Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature; Chair, Executive Committee, Institute for World Literature, Harvard University

Coordinator, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

Director, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

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Join us at the exhibition by the Ukrainian artist Alvetina Kakhidze, "Drawing the War" opening reception.