Past Events

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The Queer Focus series will address a variety of questions and themes regarding LGBTQIA+ issues within Eurasia and Eastern Europe.

Recording Available

Independent Scholar

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas

Professor and Principal Research Scholar, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Visiting Scholar and Lecturer, Princeton University; Associate, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

Visiting Lecturer, Gender Studies, Mount Holyoke College

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Our guest speakers will discuss Iran's and Türkiye’s interests in the South Caucasus, their political and economic perspectives on the region, and the implications for Georgia. 

Research Fellow, Middle East Initiative, and Visiting Scholar, Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School

Özgür Özkan is a research fellow with the Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center

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Theory meets practice as the panelists draw on empirical evidence and lived experiences to elucidate viable interventions aimed at empowering Ukrainian women in their quest for stability and belonging amid the tumult of displacement.

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Global MIT At-Risk Fellows (GMAF) Program Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorary Professor, Academy of Labour, Social Relations and Tourism, Ukraine

CEO of Ukreate Hub and international projects lead at Open Lithuania Foundation

Activist and Founder of Open Nations

Women's and Gender Studies Historian

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Online

The Queer Focus series will address a variety of questions and themes regarding LGBTQIA+ issues within Eurasia and Eastern Europe.

Recording Available

Journalist

Co-Founder, Kazakhstan’s LGBTQ Feminist Initiative “Feminita”

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, American University of Central Asia

Post-Doctoral Scholar, Department of Women, Gender and Sexualities

Director of LGBTQ+ Initiatives, Colgate University

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This Cambridge Forum event considers what future prospects exist for Russia, post-Navalny, pre-election, and what the global response should be in light of America’s ambivalence about the future of NATO. 

Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins University