Past Events

Event Format
Portraits of Stalin and Tito at May 1st Celebratory events in 1946.

The USSR and Yugoslavia After 1945: Alliance, Confrontation, Nonalignment, and European Security

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In person

This seminar will discuss relations between Yugoslavia and the USSR after the end of World War II.

Recording Available
Miloš Rastović
Miloš Rastović

Scholar-in-Residence, Duquesne University; Founder and President, American Council for Eastern Europe

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

ukrainian refugees

SWB Virtual Talk: Separatism, Displacement, and the Ukraine War

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This talk will examine the role of IDPs and refugees in the Ukraine conflict, their impact on the war, reintegration challenges, and scenarios for the future of Donbas separatism.

Danilo Mandic
Danilo Mandic

Lecturer in Sociology, Harvard University

Daniel Epstein

Assistant Director, Scholars Without Borders, Davis Center

Frédéric Chopin statue in Royal Baths (Łazienki Królewskie) Park in Warsaw

Performing a Nation: Chopin Statue and Concerts in Warsaw’s Łazienki Park

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In person

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.

Tony Lin
Tony Lin

Assistant Professor of the Practice, Russian and Slavic Studies, Boston College

Edythe Haber
Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

China–North Korea–Russia tripoint memorial in Fangchuan, China

Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang — Cold War Allies, Cold War Enemies, and the Implications for Today

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Online

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.

Recording Available
Jongsoo James Lee
Jongsoo James Lee

Senior Managing Director, Brock Securities

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

Visiting Scholar Colloquium

Visiting Scholar Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies

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In person

Six scholars currently based at the Davis Center will present their research, ranging from Eurasian history to the Middle Corridor to visual art.

Khasan Redjaboev
Khasan Redjaboev

Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dana Masalimova
Dana Masalimova

Harvard Kennedy School Policy Analysis and Communications Exercise Coach

Ewa Sułek
Ewa Sułek

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

Chia-Yun Po
Chia-Yun Po

Fellow at the Global Justice Program, Yale University

Natia Chankvetadze
Natia Chankvetadze

Ph.D. Candidate, George Mason University

Malkhaz Toria

Associate Professor, Head of the Memory Studies Center, Ilia State University

Terry Martin
Terry Martin

George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones

Director, Program on Georgian Studies, Harvard University; Professor of Modern Georgian History, Ilia State University, Tbilisi

Michał Matejko
Michał Matejko