Past Events

Join us for a timely conversation with political scientists Adam N. Stulberg and Mikhail Troitskiy, who challenge conventional nuclear deterrence theory. Drawing on three recent high-stakes episodes from 2022 to 2024, they introduce a new distinction between risk-taking and opportunistic coercive strategies to show how mismatched approaches have at times defused tensions and averted nuclear confrontation.

A study of Kazakhstan’s telecom sector shows how China's seemingly unified strategy of building an alternative to U.S.-dominated internet infrastructure is appropriated by local actors and shaped by local forces.

A workshop on Mkhedruli Georgian calligraphy that explores its expressive, living form as both writing and art.

Join the talk examining the (im)possibilities of reconstructing contemporary Irano-Armenian diasporic histories through the lens of doubly minoritized women’s activism and elusive archives.

Come hear a Pulitzer-winning historian and journalist discuss autocracy and Russia's ongoing aggression against Ukraine at our speaker series"The Forum: Europe in a Time of War," a collaboration by the Davis Center, Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute, and the university's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.