Past Events

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An Image of Moscow, Russia, featuring the Kremlin building at sunset.

US Policy and the Former USSR: From Gorbachev to the Early Post-Soviet Years

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Four former U.S. State Department officials discuss the evolution of U.S. policy during the Gorbachev era and in the first few years after the Soviet Union ended. 

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Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

Remezov Puzzle detail

Imperiia Puzzle Night: Into Siberia

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Take a journey into the dark forests and icy rivers of seventeenth-century Siberia.

Kelly O'Neill
Kelly O’Neill

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

Queendom's main character, Jenna, dressed in dramatic red on the film's poster.

Film Screening: 'Queendom'

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In defiance of Russia’s anti-LGBTQ laws, a queer, 21-year-old artist risks her life performing in surreal costumes throughout Moscow. Jenna Marvin’s radical public performances blend artistry and activism in this SXSW documentary.

Feruza Aripova
Feruza Aripova

Lecturer in Modern Political, Social, and Cultural History in Global Context, The Cooper Union (NYC)

An image of WWII-era Germany, where a building crumbles ahead of a group of soldiers.

POSTPONED: German Blood, Slavic Soil: Königsberg-Kaliningrad as Epicenter of the German-Soviet Apocalypse

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Nicole Eaton’s book reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union transformed a single city and the people who lived there.

Nicole Eaton
Nicole Eaton

Assistant Professor of History, Boston College

Rochelle Ruthchild
Rochelle Ruthchild

Women's and Gender Studies Historian

Emily Hackett
Emily Hackett

Ph.D. Student in History, University of Chicago

abstract image of the poster, devided in blue adn yellow. Sky adn fire.

Film Screening: 'The Master and Margarita'

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Come see this controversial 2024 film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic satire of Stalinist-era Soviet dictatorship, followed by a conversation with the director.