Past Events

Event Format
Frédéric Chopin statue in Royal Baths (Łazienki Królewskie) Park in Warsaw

Performing a Nation: Chopin Statue and Concerts in Warsaw’s Łazienki Park

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This talk will consist of three parts: the impetus leading to the erection of the statue and the numerous hurdles that had to be overcome, its destruction during World War II and subsequent reconstruction, and its historical and symbolic significance since 1959, when Chopin concerts began to take place around the statue.

Tony Lin
Tony Lin

Assistant Professor of the Practice, Russian and Slavic Studies, Boston College

Edythe Haber
Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

China–North Korea–Russia tripoint memorial in Fangchuan, China

Moscow, Beijing, Pyongyang — Cold War Allies, Cold War Enemies, and the Implications for Today

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Online

This seminar will discuss the changing relations between the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea from 1949 through 1991 and the way these earlier relationships affect the close interactions between Russia, China, and North Korea today.

Recording Available
James Jongsoo Lee
James Jongsoo Lee

Senior Managing Director, Brock Securities

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

Georgian-Russian Border

Shifting Boundaries, Unsettling Realities: Russia's Strategy of Borderization and Creeping Occupation in Georgia

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In person

This talk will examine how Russia employs the tactics of borderization and creeping occupation to gradually expand its control over Georgian territories.

Natia Gamkrelidze
Natia Gamkrelidze

Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program, The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones

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

Visiting Scholar Colloquium

Visiting Scholar Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Six scholars currently based at the Davis Center will present their research, ranging from Eurasian history to the Middle Corridor to visual art.

Khasan Redjaboev
Khasan Redjaboev

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

Dana Masalimova
Dana Masalimova

Independent Scholar

Ewa Sulek
Ewa Sułek

Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for East European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin

Chia-Yun Po
Chia-Yun Po

Yale Law School, Yale University

Natia Chankvetadze
Natia Chankvetadze

Ph.D., George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution

Malkhaz Toria
Malkhaz Toria

Associate Professor, Ilia State University

Terry Martin
Terry Martin

George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies and Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, 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)

Michał Matejko
Michał Matejko
Anna Akhmatova Museum in Slobidka-Shelekhivska, Khmelnytskyi Oblast

CANCELED!! Three Emigrations of Anna Akhmatova

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In person

Emigrate or stay in Russia? The question so central to Russian intellectual discussions nowadays was also Anna Akhmatova’s dilemma one hundred years ago.

Roman Timenchik
Roman Timenchik

Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Daria Khitrova
Daria Khitrova

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University