Past Events

Event Format
Queer Focus: Gender and Sexualities in Eastern Europe and Eurasia

Queer Focus: Migration (Panel 5)

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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
black and white photo of sergei parajanov behind the bars

Purging Queerness in Soviet Ukraine: The Prosecution of Sergei Parajanov

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In person

Alex Averbuch will introduce hitherto unknown archival materials from Parajanov's case file, discussing how the authorities employed sexual dissent as a pretext for political purging.

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National Movements in Russia and the USSR: Georgian-Polish Parallels and Peculiarities

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In person

Professor Darchiashvili will examine the history of both Polish and Georgian nationalism to elucidate the parallels and differences between them.  

Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones

Chairman, Advisory Board, Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center; Professor of Modern Georgian History, Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia)

flags of Azerbaijan and Armenia

Armenian-Azerbaijani Normalization and the Gap Between Theory and Practice of Peace

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Online

This webinar will consider the most recent developments between Armenia and Azerbaijan, emphasizing changes over the last three years and expectations for the foreseeable future.

Recording Available
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Entangled Worlds of Europe's Wildest Forest: Notes From the Polish-Belarusian Borderland

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In person

This talk will examine selected Polish ecopoetic texts to reflect on the challenges and possibilities of literary imagination attempting to cross various borders.

Aleksandra Kremer
Aleksandra Kremer

Alfred Jurzykowski Professor of Polish Language and Literature and Chair, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University