Past Events

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youth in traditional Georgian clothing sitting on the floor with music instruments

Echoes of the Cultural Crossroad: Shaping Identity in Georgian Culture

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Join musicologist Nana Sharikadze to hear about the history of Georgian cultural influences, performance styles, and national identity. The talk will kick off this year's Exchanging Notes program, culminating in an evening of drums and dance on Sept. 21.

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. 

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.

Recording Available
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