Past Events

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Monument to Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel’s Diary as Ego-Document: An Experimental Approach

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This talk will propose an experimental re-reading of Isaac Babel's 1920 Diary in line with recent theoretical musings on reading diaries as ego-documents. 

Recording Available
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Michael Stanislawski

Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Columbia University

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College; Chair, Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center

Photograph of Fiona Hill

The 'Improbable' Fiona Hill

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Fiona Hill, in conversation with Alexandra Vacroux, discusses her deeply personal new book, There Is Nothing for You Here.

Recording Available
Fiona Hill

Senior Fellow, Center on the United States and Europe, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution

Alexandra Vacroux
Alexandra Vacroux

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

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Connecting the World-Island: What will China’s PEACE cable bring to Pakistan and East Africa?

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The roundtable will discuss the technical, economic, and geopolitical implications of the China-led PEACE (Pakistan East Africa Connecting Europe) cable project.

Recording Available
Motolani Agbebi
Motolani Agbebi

University teacher, Faculty of Management and Business, University of Tampere (Finland)

Tayyb Safdar
Tayyab Safdar

Post-Doctoral Researcher, East Asia Centre & Department of Politics, University of Virginia

Roxana Vatanparast
Roxana Vatanparast

Affiliate, Center on Global Legal Transformation, Columbia Law School

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

James Evans
James Gethyn Evans

Ph.D. Student, Department of History, Harvard

Central Downtown Nur-Sultan: in center Bayterek tower

Kazakhstan’s e-Government and Its Partnership with Russian Sberbank: An Existential Choice?

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The roundtable will discuss technical, economic and political implications of Kazakhstan's government's decision to move e-government onto Russian Sberbank's "Platform V."

Recording Available
Wolfgang Drechsler
Wolfgang Drechsler

Professor of Governance, Ragnar Nurkse Department, Tallinn University of Technology

Anna Gussarova
Anna Gussarova

Director, Central Asia Institute for Strategic Studies

Oleg Shakirov
Oleg Shakirov

Senior Expert, Center for Advanced Governance (Russia)

Yahiya Tuleshov
Yahiya Tuleshov

Digitalization Expert

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

Judges' panel, Nuremburg Trials

Bearing Witness at Nuremberg: The Soviet Contribution to the Record of the Holocaust

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Join Francine Hirsch and Maxim Shrayer as they discuss the often overlooked role of the Soviet contribution at Nuremberg (along with other Soviet contributions to the International Military Tribunal).

Recording Available
Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College; Chair, Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center