The Master of Arts in Regional Studies—Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (REECA) is a two-year program that offers advanced training in the history, politics, culture, society, and languages of this region.
We are the only dedicated Georgia program at a U.S. university, advancing the study of Georgia, the South Caucasus, and the Black Sea region through research, teaching, scholarly and cultural exchanges, and outreach.
Over four sessions we will work with a beautiful, highly detailed plan of Odesa/Odessa published in 1894. We will study the map’s structure and content and go through the process of pulling it apart (and putting it back together again).
This book talk centers on the work of Ales Bialiatski, a Belarusian human rights activist, current political prisoner and the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Central Asia can become a major global supplier of selected critical materials for clean energy technologies. The seminar will discuss the economic and geopolitical aspects of this development.
Dr. Gerard Libaridian will talk about his new book, A Precarious Armenia: The Third Republic, the Karabakh Conflict, and Genocide Politics (Gomidas Institute Books, 2023).
History professor and director of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute, Dr. Serhii Plokhii, will speak about his new book The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History.