Past Events

Event Format
The cover of "Transpatial Modernity" by Xiaolu Ma

'Transpatial Modernity': Chinese Cultural Encounters With Russia via Japan (1880-1930)

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Online

A new book,Transpatial Modernity, offers the first in-depth account of the triangular relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian literature and culture in the modern era.

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Xiaolu Ma

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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David Wang

Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University

Fragment of Ivan Franko Park, Lviv 1955

Sources From Ukraine: (Re)structuring Place, Memory, and Nature

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In person

Day-long workshop for educators interested in exploring the intersection of ecology and historical narratives in Ukraine.

Cris Martin
Cris Martin

Associate Director, Davis Center

Sandra Grudic
Sandra Grudić

Program Administrator, Educator Outreach, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Ivanna Cherchovych
Alexander Langstaff
Victoria Donovan
Igor Ekstajn
Igor Ekštajn

Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Sofia Dyak
Sofia Dyak

Historian, Director of the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, Lviv, Ukraine

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Russia’s Gamble: The Domestic Origins of International Assault, February 2022

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In person

Vladimir Gel’man will explore the origins of Russia's assault on Ukraine and provide an explanation for its failure to achieve its objectives.

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Vladimir Gel’man

Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

Irina Busygina
Irina Busygina

Independent Scholar

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

Paradoxes of Proximity: Geography and Identity Expression in Georgia

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In person

How do individuals' experiences of violence and their geographical proximity to theaters of war affect their identity expression?

Julie A. George

Associate Professor of Political Science, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

Daniel Maliniak

Associate Professor of Government, William & Mary

Malkhaz Toria
Malkhaz Toria

Associate Professor, Ilia State University

Ruins of the Church of All Saints in Vyborg September 12, 1941

Resettlement of Displaced Soviet Persons After May 1945

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In person

This seminar recounts the controversial status of displaced Soviet citizens after WWII and the divergent outcomes of resettlement in the early postwar period. 

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Sheila Fitzpatrick

Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of Russian History, University of Chicago

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center