Past Events

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Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario will give Houghton Library's virtual Spring 2022 Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on the Art of the Book.

Photojournalist

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The Soviet Union saw ferocious fighting during WWII. Join us for a conversation with Drs. Alexis Peri and Regina Kazyulina, who specialize in this research. 

Associate Professor of History, Boston University

Assistant Director, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Salem State University

Professor of History and Chair, Department of History, Government and Economics, North Shore Community College

Professor, North Shore Community College

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Join us for a discussion of Russia's aggression in Ukraine. Our featured experts will address the historical roots of the conflict, Western responses to the war, and prospects for peace.

Senior Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard

Non-Resident Fellow, Brookings Institution; Senior Advisor and Director Emerita, Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies, Georgetown University

Director, Davis Center; Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Government; Senior Scholar, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Harvard University

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Eight months into Taliban rule, this panel will discuss the pressing risks faced by Afghan women and girls and discuss policy options.

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Academy Fellow in Human Rights at the Queen Elizabeth II Academy for Leadership in International Affairs, Chatham House

Visiting Fellow at the Wellesley Centers for Women

Associate Director of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch

Chairperson of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC)

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Authors Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman discuss their new book Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century.

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Professor of Political Science, University of California / Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research

Director, Scholars Without Borders, Davis Center; Vice President for Strategic Engagement, Kyiv School of Economics