Past Events

Event Format
Cuban flag on building

Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

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A harrowing account of the Cuban missile crisis and how the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear apocalypse.

Recording Available
Serhii Plokhii
Serhii Plokhii

Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University

Alexandra Vacroux
Alexandra Vacroux

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

Georgian houses viewed through modern bridge

Negotiate the Future of Georgia: Virtual Event

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In this exercise, you will take the role of international negotiators and mediators convening in Geneva to determine the future of Georgia once and for all.

Arvid Bell

Founder, Negotiation Task Force

white minivan parked on scrub terrain with blue sky and white clouds in background

25th Annual Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Join us for a dynamic series of student panels on Russian and Eurasian topics, featuring undergraduates from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton Colleges.

Alexandra Vacroux
Alexandra Vacroux

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

Kelly O'Neill
Kelly O’Neill

Director of Graduate Studies, REECA Program, and Director, Imperiia Project, Davis Center

Kremlin clock tower against blue sky

The Use and Abuse of Soviet History in Putin's Russia

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An exploration of how Soviet history has been abused by the Russian authorities to promote Putin's vision of Russia as a great power on the world stage.

Recording Available
Nina Tumarkin
Nina Tumarkin

Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies, Professor of History and Director of Russian Area Studies, Wellesley College

Ivan Kurilla
Ivan Kurilla

Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at Wellesley College

Nadia Boyadjieva
Nadia Boyadjieva

Professor of International Law and International Relations, Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Professor of International Law at Plovdiv University

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Socialist Sexualities: Expert Knowledge and Intimate Revolutions in Poland and Czechoslovakia

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Two presentations explore the politics of sexuality and gender freedoms in Cold War Poland and Czechoslovakia.

Recording Available
Agnieszka Kościańska
Agnieszka Kościańska

Leverhulme Visiting Professor, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies; Associate Professor, Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw

Kateřina Lišková
Kateřina Lišková

Associate Professor of Sociology, Masaryk University, Czech Republic

Kristen Ghodsee
Kristen Ghodsee

Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania