Past Events

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This talk argues language politics played an important role in the global Cold War.

Associate Professor of History, Tufts University

Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, Boston University

Ph.D. Student in History, University of Chicago

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Join visiting scholar Ewa Sułek to learn about the multiple transformations of an art center seized by Russia-backed militants and its turn to radical political activism amid the Russia-Ukraine war.

Postdoctoral Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin

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Hear filmmakers Levan Lomjaria and George Sikharulidze explore the historical trajectory of Georgian cinema and the challenges it faces today, including attempts at state control over artistic expression.

Producer

Chair, Georgian Studies Seminar, Davis Center

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Julia Nemirovskaya will discuss how translators and editors of bilingual anthologies such as Disbelief, Dislocation, and Rupture have created a repository of poems protesting the war and government persecution in Russia and Belarus, titled Kopilka. 

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Poet, Writer, and Senior Instructor in Literature, University of Oregon

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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This film sheds light on the stories of six women from a nuclear-affected community in Kazakhstan. It explores topics such as technology-driven and state-sponsored gender-based violence, as well as the social stigma faced by nuclear-test survivors, particularly women.

Filmmaker, Producer, and Co-Founder of Qazaq Nuclear Frontline Coalition

Women's and Gender Studies Historian