Past Events

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To mark the 4th anniversary of violent regime repercussions against protesters after the presidential elections in Belarus, Belarusians of Boston and New England and the Davis Center will screen a film based on the true story “Under The Grey Sky."

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This workshop, hosted by the Global Studies Outreach Committee at Harvard University, will be offered in person on Harvard's Cambridge campus July 29-Aug. 1, 2024. 

Associate Director, Davis Center

Coordinator, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

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In his new book "Moscow’s Heavy Shadow" Isaac McKean Scarborough explores Tajikistan's descent into bloody civil war in the early 1990s and argues that armed conflict has accompanied the extended Soviet collapse since the beginning and until today.

Recording Available

Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University

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

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Two nights of performance draw on censored Soviet-era texts by iconic singer-songwriters Okudzhava and Vysotsky to explore intergenerational trauma in refugee experience and illuminate the sublime social power of poetic practices.

Assistant Professor, Northeastern University

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A new film by acclaimed Polish director Agnieszka Holland tells the story of refugees from the Middle East and Africa attempting to enter the EU through Alexander Lukashenko's Belarus. 

Associate Director, Davis Center

Postdoctoral Researcher, Freie Universität Berlin