Past Events

Event Format
16th Rifle Division of the Red Army marching through the village of Stoniškiai, Lithuanian SSR in October 1944

'The Red Army Is Not Ideal': Soviet Soldiers’ Violence Against Civilians, 1941-1945

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Using recently declassified materials from Russian archives, historian Oleg Budnitskii examines atrocities committed by Red Army soldiers at home as well as abroad.

 

Oleg Budnitskii
Oleg Budnitskii

Fellow (2023-2024), National Humanities Center, North Carolina

Terry Martin
Terry Martin

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

Ambassador Sannikov

Screening and Conversation: 'This Kind of Hope'

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"This Kind of Hope" follows Belarusian human rights activist and former ambassador Andrei Sannikov.

Andrei Sannikov

Belarusian Politician, Diplomat and Activist

Jenya Mironava

Preceptor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

an old photograph of the Hebrew Writers in Odessa in late 19 century

Jewish Émigré Writers in Search of Identity

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Professor Boris Lanin will discuss the Jewish destinies of Russian-language émigré writers of the so-called third and fourth waves of emigration.

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Boris Lanin
Boris Lanin

Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College; Chair, Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center

Black and white photo of ballet dancers Nina Youshkevitch and Kari Karnakovski

Bronisława Niżyńska, Polish Ballet ‘Representative’ in Nazi Germany

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The Balet Polski Reprezentacyjny’s German tour provides new insight into the Second Polish Republic’s utilization of art and performance in its foreign affairs in the 1930s, and the precarity of identity in the Second Polish Republic’s national self-expression.

Jordan Lian
Jordan Lian

PhD candidate in Slavonic Studies at Clare College, University of Cambridge

Daria Khitrova
Daria Khitrova

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

U.S. military cargo ship in Poti, Georgia

Georgia and US Black Sea Strategy (Washington, DC)

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U.S. policymakers are navigating a new Black Sea strategy, focusing on the region's importance to U.S. strategic interests. This half-day event brings together experts and practitioners to share insights on regional security and Georgia's pivotal role in European-Central Asian connectivity.

Henry Hale
Henry E. Hale

Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University; Director, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School

Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones

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

Mamuka Tsereteli
Mamuka Tsereteli

Senior Fellow, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, American Foreign Policy Council; President, America-Georgia Business Council