Past Events

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Europe in a Time of War: A Conversation With Fiona Hill

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Fiona Hill is the first speaker in a new collaborative event series, "The Forum: Europe in a Time of War."

Recording Available
Fiona Hill

Senior Fellow, Center on the United States and Europe, Foreign Policy Program, Brookings Institution

Steven Solnick
Steven Solnick

Executive Director, Davis Center

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Nauryz in Kazakhstan: Reinvention from Colonial Times to the Late Soviet Era

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Join us to learn how the Nauryz celebration (traditional Kazakh New Year) has changed over time, how it reflects broader changes in Kazakh society—from colonial rule to socialist modernization—and how traditions are reshaped to fit new political and cultural realities.

Ulan Bigozhin
Ulan Bigozhin

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Nazarbayev University

Gulzada Xan
Gulzada Xan

Russian Language Associate, Carleton College; Journalist, Manshuq Media, Kazakhstan

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

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Bringing the Sounds of Eastern Europe and Eurasia Into the Classroom

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Discover engaging ways to bring the vibrant musical traditions of Eastern Europe and Eurasia into your K–12 classroom with ready-to-use activities and cross-curricular connections.

Recording Available
Danielle Sekel

Interseminars Project Coordinator, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Humanities Research Institute

Sandra Grudic
Sandra Grudić

Program Administrator, Educator Outreach, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

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REECA Master's Program Info Session

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Join us for a session to learn about the REECA Master's Degree Program. 

Donna Griesenbeck
Donna Griesenbeck

Student Programs Officer, Davis Center

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The 5 Worlds of Teodor Shanin

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Join Russian-Israeli sociologist Victor Vakhshtayn as he combines eyewitness testimony with historical and sociological analysis to paint a vivid portrait of Teodor Shanin (1930–2020), the distinguished sociologist and founder of the Moscow School for the Social and Economic Studies (‘Shaninka’).

Recording Available
Victor Vakhshtayn
Victor Vakhshtayn

Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Montenegro); Senior Research Fellow, Center for Russian Studies, Tel Aviv University (Israel)

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

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