Past Events

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Join us for the talk to learn how the leaders of the Soviet Union and the United States managed the Cuban Missile Crisis to prevent it from spinning out of control. 

Researcher, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tel Aviv

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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Drawing on two years of ethnographic research on the crossings of the Gali people, this presentation examines how people develop anticipatory tactics, spatial knowledge, and creative resourcefulness to generate manageable lives in a zone where livelihoods are dependent on a shifting, militarized boundary line.

FWO Postdoctoral Fellow, KU Leuven

Coordinator, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

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Join us for a talk to explore how Lithuanian archives influence the country today. 

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Chief Archivist, Lithuanian Central Archives; Assistant Professor of Modern History, Vilnius University

Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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This webinar offers practical, inclusive strategies to help all students access and comprehend complex social studies texts through vocabulary support, text structure instruction, graphic organizers, and multisensory techniques.

Psychology/ Social Studies Teacher

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

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Join us for a talk exploring Vladimir Nabokov as a bilingual writer whose work is deeply rooted in the Russian literary tradition. This talk examines how his shift from Russian to English transformed this tradition.

Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University