Past Events

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Kremlin tower in the background of the red-pink sky

International Business in Russia: Feverish Past, Tortured Present, Uncertain Future

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Join veteran risk analyst Charles Hecker for a talk on the always complex, frequently unstable, and never boring relationship between foreign investors and Russia, based on his new book, Zero Sum.

Charles Hecker
Charles Hecker

Independent Consultant and Writer; Former Journalist, The Miami Herald and The Moscow Times

Craig Kennedy
Craig Kennedy

Independent Scholar

Georgian village

The Perception and Meaning of Homeland and Identity Among Muslim Meskhetians in Diverse Cultural Contexts

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This seminar will explore the perception and meaning of homeland and identity among Muslim Meskhetians in Central Asia and the United States. 

Ekaterine Pirtskhalava
Ekaterine Pirtskhalava

Associate Professor, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University

Shota Bekadze
Shota Bekadze

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington

Plane on a lawn

Russian-Speaking Latvians at the Borders of Global History

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Kevin Platt presents his new book, Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians Between World Orders.

Image of Kevin Platt, University of Pennsylvania
Kevin M. F. Platt

Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Stephanie Sandler
Stephanie Sandler

Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

an old Russian and English dictionary; stand alone in white background

Writing Across Languages: Translation and Translingual Poetry of Post-Soviet Literary Diaspora

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In person

The 2025 Davis Memorial Lecture, held this year at Wheaton College, explores the works of poets born in the USSR, who moved to the United States in their childhood or youth, and switched to writing poetry in English, including Olga Livshin, Ilya Kaminsky, and Eugene Ostashevsky.

Maria Khotimsky
Maria Khotimsky

Senior Lecturer in Russian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Prjaniki

Sweet Things: Interactive Map Launch

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In person

Join us to learn about (and taste the work of) Imperial confectioners and chocolatiers!

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

Olive Coles
Olive Coles

REECA, Class of '26