Past Events

Event Format
grassy plains and mountains

Crony Capitalism along the Silk Road

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China’s Belt and Road Initiative, propelled by the government’s will and the allocation of financial resources, has changed Eurasian political and economic realities.

Recording Available
Alexander Cooley
Alexander Cooley

Claire Tow Professor of Political Science, Barnard College

Jonathan Hillman
Jonathan E. Hillman

Senior Fellow, Simon Chair in Political Economy, and Director, Reconnecting Asia Project, CSIS

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

lit natural gas stove burner

The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe

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With a dense network of pipelines linking Europe and Russia, natural gas serves as a bridge that unites the region through common interests.

Recording Available
Thane Gustafson
Thane Gustafson

Professor of Government, Georgetown University

Simon Blakey

Energy Consultant, SAB Global Energy

Rawi Abdelal
Rawi Abdelal

Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School

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Covid-19: Reopening -- Public Health and the Economy

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As global economies gradually reopen, how are governments balancing economic recovery with concerns for public health?

Recording Available
Winnie Yip
Winnie (Chi-Man) Yip

Professor of the Practice of International Health Policy and Economics, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Joseph Allen
Joseph Allen

Assistant Professor of Exposure Assessment Science, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Judyth Twigg
Judyth Twigg

Professor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Virginia Commonwealth University

Karl Lauterbach
Karl Lauterbach

Professor of Health Economics and Epidemiology, University of Cologne

Yasheng Huang
Yasheng Huang

Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management and Faculty Director of Action Learning, MIT Sloan School of Management

Véra Slonim and Vladimir Nabokov

The Marriage of Véra Slonim and Vladimir Nabokov as Jewish, Russian, and American History

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Author and scholar Maxim D. Shrayer brings to life rare and archival materials to explore the dynamics of mixed marriages and the boundaries of modern Jewish culture.

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

Rawi Abdelal
Rawi Abdelal

Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management, Harvard Business School

A Russian Immigrant banner

A Russian Immigrant: Translingual Pleasures and Literary Responses to COVID-19

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Maxim D. Shrayer—author, scholar, and translator—will discuss the lives and careers of translingual authors from the former USSR.

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

Alexandra Vacroux
Alexandra Vacroux

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