Past Events

Event Format
Kiss of Judas

How to Let Paintings Talk: Stories of Arts for Humanities

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Victor Martinovich, an art historian and writer from Belarus, will present his Fulbright research about recent developments in his native country. 

Victor Martinovich
Victor Martinovich

Associate Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Arts, European Humanities Universities (EHU)

Jenya Mironava

Preceptor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Hodge

Lessons From Turgenev's Laboratory: Toward a Companion to 'Fathers and Children'

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Thomas Hodge will discuss how Turgenev’s Fathers and Children (a.k.a. Fathers and Sons) evolved from initial musings in 1860 into the book that was published in 1862.

Thomas Hodge
Thomas Hodge

Professor of Russian, Wellesley College

Edythe Haber
Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Albats Kotkin

Russia: Back to the USSR or Back to the Tsarist Empire?

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Please join the inaugural event in our new speaker series to hear historian Stephen Kotkin and journalist Yevgenia Albats discuss Russia's latest shift to aggressive militarism.

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Stephen Kotkin of Stanford University
Stephen Kotkin

Kleinheinz Senior Fellow, Stanford University; Birkelund Professor of History and International Affairs Emeritus, Princeton University

Yevgenia Albats

Editor-in-Chief & CEO, The New Times

Ice Atlas

Mapping Sea Ice: Spatial Data 101

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Sea ice isn’t easy to measure, let alone map.

Kelly O'Neill
Kelly O’Neill

Director of Graduate Studies, REECA Program, and Director, Imperiia Project, Davis Center

The movie poster for "Under The Grey Sky," a sketch of a bird on a gray background

Film Screening: 'Under The Grey Sky'

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To mark the 4th anniversary of violent regime repercussions against protesters after the presidential elections in Belarus, Belarusians of Boston and New England and the Davis Center will screen a film based on the true story “Under The Grey Sky."