Past Events

Event Format
A crowd of people passionately holding Ukranian flags and written signs, centered on a young woman being carried on someone's shoulders, high above the crowd.

Invisible Revolutionaries: Women’s Participation in Ukraine’s Euromaidan

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In person

Olena Nikolayenko discusses the various motivations and manifestations of women's participation in revolution as featured in her newly published book. 

Olena Nikolayenko
Olena Nikolayenko

Professor of Political Science, Fordham University

Emily Channell-Justice
Emily Channell-Justice

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

window to the sea

Book Talk: 'The President's Cat'

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In person

After finding themselves on opposing sides of the Georgia-Abkhazia conflict, writers Guram Odisharia and Daur Nachkebia chose to publish their respective novels under one cover in a powerful literary endeavor that’s now available in English.

Guram Odisharia

Writer

Natia Chankvetadze
Natia Chankvetadze

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

Malkhaz Toria
Malkhaz Toria

Associate Professor, Ilia State University

photo of Daur Nachkebia
Daur Nachkebia

Writer

Map of Europe showing NATO (blue) and the Warsaw Pact (red) ca. 1982.

European Cold War Neutrality in the Kremlin's Perspective: Historical and Present Implications

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Online

The seminar will discuss the changing Russian understanding of European neutrality in historical perspective.

Recording Available
Wolfgang Mueller
Wolfgang Mueller

Professor of Modern East European and Russian History, University of Vienna

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

a woman dressed in paper textiles in the field of hay

Monika Plioplyte: From Baltic Myth to Structure

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In person

Monika Plioplyte will discuss her exhibition, "I For Nested Pattern," currently on view at the Davis Center. 

Monika Plioplyte
Monika Plioplyte

Artist

Gediminas Urbonas
Gediminas Urbonas

Artist and Professor, Program in Art, Culture, and Technology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Laura A. Sargent
Laura A. Sargent

Events Manager, Davis Center

A Panorama of Lviv

Hearing Lviv Out of War, 1939: Sonic Evidence and Its Sung Limitations

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In person

This talk draws attention to a three-and-a-half-minute sound recording made in December 1939 at a German POW camp for Polish officers.

Andrea Bohlman
Andrea Bohlman

Associate Professor of Music, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Aleksandra Kremer
Aleksandra Kremer

Alfred Jurzykowski Professor of Polish Language and Literature, Harvard University