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Visiting Scholar Colloquium on Russian & Eurasian Studies

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Join us for an afternoon of panels and discussion as six of our current visitors present on the work they’ve been doing at Harvard.

Mikhail Troitskiy
Mikhail Troitskiy

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

Rashmini Koparkar
Rashmini Koparkar

Assistant Professor, Center for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Gulnur Makulbayeva
Gulnur Makulbayeva

Associate Professor, Academy of Public Administration Under the President of Kazakhstan

Malkhaz Toria
Malkhaz Toria

Associate Professor, Ilia State University

Deniz Dinc
Deniz Dinç

Independent Scholar

Khasan Redjaboev
Khasan Redjaboev

Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Timothy J. Colton
Timothy Colton

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

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones

Chairman, Advisory Board, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center; Professor of Modern Georgian History, Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia)

Irina Busygina
Irina Busygina

Independent Scholar

Linda Cook
Linda J. Cook

Professor Emerita of Political Science and Slavic Studies, Brown University

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The Unfinished Time: 'The Standoff' (Episode 5)

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In person

Join us for two documentary screenings and conversations about Russia in the 1990s. Part 5 of the 10-episode series "The Unfinished Time" focuses on Yeltsin’s economic reforms and the lead-up to Russia’s 1993 constitutional crisis.

Image of Abigail Honor, producer of 'The Unfinished Time'
Abigail Honor

Producer

Image of Yan Vizinberg, writer and director of 'The Unfinished Time'
Yan Vizinberg

Writer, Director, Producer

Arik Burakovsky
Arik Burakovsky

Assistant Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, The Fletcher School, Tufts University

The cover of "A Different Russia: Khrushchev and Kennedy on a Collision Course."

Book Talk: A Different Russia

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Online

Kalb's new book moves through exciting stories of the building Khrushchev/Kennedy confrontation, from the Bay of Pigs to the Cuban missile crisis. 

Recording Available
Marvin Kalb via Brookings Institution Press
Marvin Kalb

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

The Village-Fortress of Shaili in Georgia surrounded by green mountains and running water

Sanctity, Gender, and Power in the Medieval Caucasus

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In person

Using sources never before examined together from Armenia, Georgia, Byzantium, and Russia, our speaker investigates the entanglement of saints, gender, and politics from late antiquity to the imperial period.

Nikoloz Aleksidze
Nikoloz Aleksidze

Professor of the History of Religion and Political Thought and Dean of Social Sciences, Free University of Tbilisi

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The Silk Road After the Russo-Ukraine War: A New Vision for Eurasian Integration

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In person

The talk will discuss the durable impacts of Russia's attempted recolonization of Ukraine on Eurasia's economic and supply chain integration.

Recording Available
Nathan Hutson
Nathan Hutson

Visiting Professor of Urban Studies and Post-War Reconstruction, Kyiv School of Economics

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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