Past Events

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wood cut of the farmer in Central Asia, background orange and blue

Collectivization Generation: Oral Histories of a Social Revolution in Uzbekistan

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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. 

Marianne Kamp
Marianne Kamp

Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

Russia: In Search of a New Paradigm

Unfair Triangle: Ukraine-US-Russia

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What are the options for peace in Ukraine? A discussion with former national security official and Davis Center alumna Fiona Hill and International Crisis Group analyst Lucian Kim. 

Recording Available
Fiona Hill

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

Lucian Kim
Lucian Kim

Senior Analyst, International Crisis Group

Yevgenia Albats

Editor-in-Chief & CEO, The New Times

Secretary Rubio holds a meeting with Saudi Arabia and Russia.

Quiet Threats, Unseen Bargains: How the Ukraine War Reshapes Deterrence in the Middle East

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Join us to discuss how the Russo-Ukrainian war is impacting coercion and implicit threats in the Middle East.

Mikhail Troitskiy
Mikhail Troitskiy

Visiting Professor, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University

Thomas Remington
Thomas F. Remington

Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science (Emeritus), Emory University

detail from a map showing sea and territory with mountain range

Elevation and Depth: Touring the Caucasus in 1914

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From the 1830s onward, Baedeker guidebooks delivered the world to intrepid travelers. Learn how the 1914 Handbook for Russia presented the towns, coast, and countryside of Georgia, as well as the famous mountains to the north, to the European gaze.

Kelly O'Neill
Kelly O’Neill

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

Paul Vadan
Paul Vădan

Coordinator, Imperiia Project

Allison Hart

Coordinator, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

image of Kiyv in the background og flag colors

Kyiv Connection: The Strategic Use of Violence Against Civilians

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Online

Join us for the third talk of a new online speaker series, "Kyiv Connection: Disciplinary Dialogues on Ukraine."  

Recording Available
Eugene Finkel
Eugene Finkel

Kenneth H. Keller Professor of International Affairs, Johns Hopkins University

Ivan Gomza
Ivan Gomza

Professor of Political Science, Kyiv School of Economics

Alexandra Vacroux
Alexandra Vacroux

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