Past Events

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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

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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

Vice President for Strategic Engagement, Kyiv School of Economics

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A Half-Century of Jewish Emigration from the Former Soviet Union: Demographic Aspects

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For many years, Soviet Jews, like all other citizens of the USSR, had no real possibility to emigrate in sizeable numbers, but this changed in the 1970s.

Mark Tolts
Mark Tolts

Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

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

Itzik Feffer, Albert Einstein and Solomon Mikhoels, 1943

Great Russian Jews: Solomon Mikhoels (1890–1948)

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In person

This panel discussion examines the remarkable contributions of the great actor and Jewish activist Solomon Mikhoels.

Recording Available
Gennady Estraikh
Gennady Estraikh

Clinical Professor, New York University

Vassili Shchedrin
Vassili Shchedrin

Alfred and Isabel Bader Post-Doctoral Fellow in Jewish History, Queen's University

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

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