Past Events

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Menorah Monument in Babyn Yar

Echo of Babyn Yar: Commemoration and Memorialization of the Holocaust in Kyiv

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Online

The commemoration of World War II and the Babyn Yar massacre was politicized in the Soviet Union from the beginning. After the collapse of the USSR, Ukraine recognized the Holocaust as a part of its national history. But commemorating the Babyn Yar massacre often provokes heated debates in Ukrainian society.

Victoria Khiterer
Victoria Khiterer

Professor of History, Millersville University

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies; Boston College; Chair, Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center

A church in Tbilisi

Churches in Conflict: Religion and Politics in Georgia

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Join the former Georgian Ambassador to the Vatican for a discussion of Church-State relationships.

Tamara Grdzelidze
Tamara Grdzelidze

Professor of Religious Studies and Political Science at Ilia State University, Georgia

Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones

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

US and Georgian flags waving in the wind

30 Years of Georgia-US Diplomatic Relations: What's Next in Georgia's Search for Peace and Security?

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In person

A conversation on the future of Georgia's diplomatic relationship with the US.

David Zalkaliani
David Zalkaliani

Georgian Ambassador to the US

Thomas W. Simons, Jr.
Thomas W. Simons, Jr.

U.S. Foreign Service Officer (1963-1998); U.S. Ambassador to Poland (1990-1993) and Pakistan (1996-1998)

two book on top of each other black and white hotograph

"Everburning Pilot" and "For the Shrew": Two Poets, Two Books, Three Translators

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In person

Anna Glazova's For the Shrew and Leonid Schwab's Everburning Pilot will appear in English translation this fall. Our seminar will welcome both poets and three of their translators -- Alex Niemi, Alexander Spektor, and Anton Tenser -- to read from the books and answer questions about the poems, the translations, and the current state of Russian poetry.

Anna Glazova
Anna Glazova

Independent Poet and Scholar, Visiting Professor, Dartmouth University

Leonid Shwab
Leonid Schwab

Poet, Independent Artist

Alex Niemi
Alex Niemi

Independent Artist, Translator, and a Bookbinder

Alexander Spektor
Alexander Spektor

Associate Professor, University of Georgia

Anton Tenser
Anton Tenser

Independent Translator and Poet

Stephanie Sandler
Stephanie Sandler

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

house of chamber in Japan

Eurasia from the East: Japanese Views

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In person
Online

This panel will be examining Russia from the East's point of view. 

Recording Available
Norihiro Naganawa
Norihiro Naganawa

Professor on Russian and Eurasian History, Hokkaido University

Shinichiro Tabata
Shinichiro Tabata

Professor on Russian Economy; Comparative Economics; Economy of the Russian Far East and North

David Wolf
David Wolff

Professor, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University

Timothy J. Colton
Timothy Colton

Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University