Past Events

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Three workers hold pick axes in a still from Salt for Svanetia

Screening of Salt for Svanetia and Nail in the Boot

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Two experimental short films: avant-garde experiments on steroids meet early Stalinist austerity distilled to the state of absolute ether.

Secretary Blinken speaks at the podium in the background of American flags

U.S. Foreign Policy Challenges in Central Asia: A Practitioner’s View

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Ambassador George Krol will discuss the challenges the U.S. has faced and currently faces in its relations with the five states of Central Asia.

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George Krol
George Krol

Retired Diplomat; Adjunct Professor, U.S. Naval War College

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

Ukraine flag in the fray cracking background

The War in Ukraine: Context for the K-14 Classroom

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The war in Ukraine is has and will continue to have a global impact. This workshop will help teachers bring new understanding of the conflict to their students. 

 

Serhii Plokhii
Serhii Plokhii

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

Emily Channell-Justice
Emily Channell-Justice

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

Irina Busygina
Irina Busygina

Independent Researcher

Cris Martin
Cris Martin

Associate Director, Davis Center

Ukrainian and US flags

The Russia-Ukraine War, Geopolitics, and U.S. National Security

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Lieutenant Colonel Alex Vindman, who is defending his doctoral dissertation on the topic of U.S. Foreign Policy towards Ukraine from 1991-2004, will provide his perspective on the Russia-Ukraine war, U.S. Policy for and geopolitical consequences of the war, and U.S. National Security.

Alexander Vindman
Alexander Vindman

Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army (Retired); Former Director for European Affairs, United States National Security Council

Emily Channell-Justice
Emily Channell-Justice

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

painting of czapski

Weintraub Lecture in Polish Literature and Culture: A Painter Emerges: The Quest for Czapski

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Join us for the Weintraub Lecture in Polish Literature and Culture, "A Painter Emerges: The Quest for Czapski," presented by Eric Karpeles on Tuesday, October 18, 2022, at 6:00 pm in the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Room B04

Eric Karpeles
Eric Karpeles

A Fellow of the Czesław Miłosz Institute at Claremont College, Painter and Writer