Past Events

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Join us for a seminar discussing the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, informed by new archival materials.

Professor Emeritus of Humanities, University of Pannonia, Hungary

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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Yulia Spiridonova's talk will reflect on her current exhibition, "The Space of Appearance: Shared Tongue," at the Davis Center. Photographed initially in Massachusetts and more recently in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the project traces the informal networks that emerge among immigrants through shared language and common experiences of relocation. 

Artist; Adjunct Faculty, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston

Scholar, Filmmaker, PhD Student, Yale University

Events Manager, Davis Center

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Join us for a discussion of new research from Hungary, offering insights into the 1956 Revolution. 
 

Associate Professor, Károli Gáspár University (Budapest)

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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Join two leading economists as they discuss the unexpected trajectories of Ukraine's and Russia's wartime economies and the forces shaping them as the conflict moves into a new phase.

President, Kyiv School of Economics; Former Minister of Economic Development, Trade, and Agriculture of Ukraine

Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Executive Director, Davis Center

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This panel revisits the dramatic end of the USSR, featuring firsthand accounts from top U.S. diplomats who navigated the complexities, challenges, and hopes of that transition in the Soviet/post-Soviet republics.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia (1997-2001)

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

Ret. U.S. Ambassador to the USSR

Ashton B. Carter Visiting Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

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