Past Events

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Film Screening: 'White Nights' (1985)

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Come see this classic Cold War film with dance greats Mikhail Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines, with a post-screening discussion led by Dr. Ilya Vidrin.

 


 

Ilya Vidrin
Ilya Vidrin

Assistant Professor, Northeastern University

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Infrastructure’s Long Shadow: From Central Asia to Ukraine

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Drawing on social science literature on infrastructure and 15 years of research in Central Asia, Till Mostowlansky will discuss concepts that might prove useful in studying Ukraine from a long-term perspective. 

Till Mostowlansky

Research Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Geneva Graduate Institute

Eve Blau
Eve Blau

Co-Director, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, and Adjunct Professor of the History of Urban Form, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Judge and student at Olympiada of Spoken Russian

Olympiada of Spoken Russian

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Russian language competition for high school students. 

Cris Martin
Cris Martin

Associate Director, Davis Center

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Book Launch: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Informal Problem-Solving in Human Life

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Join Davis Center fellow Malika Toqmadi for a discussion about the newest volume of The Global Encylopaedia of Informality.

Malika Toqmadi
Malika Toqmadi

Ph.D. Candidate, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London (UCL)

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'Dmitriev Affair' Screening with Film Director Jessica Gorter

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Deep inside Russia's forests, against the wishes of the authorities, 60-year-old Yuri Dmitriev searches for mass graves from Stalin’s Great Terror — until one day he is arrested and sentenced to 15 years. Following him closely, the film paints a shocking picture of the way the Russian state rewrites history and treats its citizens.

Jessica Gorter
Jessica Gorter

Filmmaker

Daria Khitrova
Daria Khitrova

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