Past Events

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We invite you to join us in celebrating and supporting the undergraduate research on Russian and Eurasian Studies. The Davis Center has hosted this colloquium since 1996, showcasing work by students from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton. 

Associate Professor of Russian; Chair of Russian Department, Wheaton College

Howard Mumford Jones Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica, Harvard University

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

Associate Director, Davis Center

Co-Director, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, and Adjunct Professor of the History of Urban Form, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

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Come for a special film screening of Waves, a period piece about the journalists of Czechoslovak Radio in the 1960s. The film was shortlisted shortlisted for Best International Feature Film at this year's (2025) Oscars. 

Senior Preceptor in Slavic Languages (Czech), Harvard University

Ph.D. Student in History, University of Chicago

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Join us for Dr. Lubin's presentation on the impacts of U.S. and international funding on corruption in Central Asia since the 1970s — has it helped fix problems or exacerbated them?

Recording Available

President, JNA Associates, Inc.

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

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Online

Our Program on Georgian Studies and Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute begin their series of seminars on Georgia-Ukraine parallels and connections with a panel discussion featuring journalists who have covered both countries.

Recording Available

Chief International Correspondent and Host, The World Deciphered

Associate Research Fellow, Henry Jackson Society

Nieman Fellow, Harvard; European Affairs Editor, The Washington Post

Director, Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Ph.D., George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution

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Join us for the discussion about the collectivization generation of the rural youth who participated in the transformation of Uzbekistan’s agricultural life in the 1930s. 

Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University

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