Past Events

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Join us for an exhibition opening and artist talk by Farrah Karapetian to view and learn about her ongoing  project "Fieldwork," which represents people involved in the cotton harvest in Uzbekistan and Mexicali.

Recording Available

John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography, Harvard Art Museums

Events Manager, Davis Center

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The Cold War was waged on many fronts, in nations and whole continents, in the oceans and outer space, from hockey rinks to chess boards. In this talk, Michael Kunichika considers how it played out in the study of prehistory when Western and Soviet scholars debated the origins of art—and of the human—as they contested who would be the best interpreter and, thus, inheritor of the past. 

Professor of Russian, Amherst College

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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Join a discussion with Davis Center scholars about the impact of rapid U.S. policy shifts on the foreign policies of the EU, Russia, and Central Asian countries.

Independent Scholar

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

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Join us for a book talk with visiting scholar Irina Busygina, who will discuss how a specific combination of geographic and institutional variables largely determined Russia's domestic and foreign policy, including its war against Ukraine. 

Independent Scholar

Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University

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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. 

Howard Mumford Jones Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 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