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Democracy, Geopolitics, and the Future of US-Georgia Relations

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There are major geopolitical shifts afoot in the South Caucasus and Georgia is central to their outcome. What explains the strains in the Georgian-U.S. relationship and what are its prospects?

Kelly Degnan
Kelly Degnan

Former Foreign Policy Advisor to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

Neil MacFarlane

Professor Emeritus, Oxford University

Mamuka Tsereteli
Mamuka Tsereteli

Senior Fellow, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, American Foreign Policy Council; President, America-Georgia Business Council

Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones

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

Exchanging Notes: Songs and Stories from Tbilisi and Somerville

Exchanging Notes: Songs and Stories from Tbilisi and Somerville

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A celebration of songs and stories fusing Georgian and American themes, linking cultures, and demonstrating our common humanity.

Nana Abuladze
Nana Abuladze

Writer and Literary Scholar, Republic of Georgia

Maxwell Evrard
Maxwell Evrard

Choir Director and Music Teacher, Somerville High School

Aleksandre Kharanauli
Aleksandre Kharanauli

Georgian Folk and Rock Musician, TV Producer, Republic of Georgia

Owen Thomas

Writer and Educator, Boston

Alex Averbuch

Alex Averbuch: Readings from 'The Jewish King' and 'Of Rage and Longing'

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A poetry reading by Alex Averbuch, postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center and 2024 HURI research fellow at Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute, moderated by Oleh Kotsyuba.

Alex Averbuch
Alex Averbuch

Independent Scholar

Photo of Oleh Kotsyuba
Oleh Kotsyuba

Manager of Publications, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University (HURI)

Soviet-era photo of back-to-school day, Sept. 1

Fall Reception: Back-to-School Night at the Davis Center

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Join us for the Davis Center's version of back-to-school night!

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

Alexandra Vacroux
Alexandra Vacroux

Director, Scholars Without Borders, Davis Center; Vice President for Strategic Engagement, Kyiv School of Economics

old photo of Armenian family during Stalin era

Investigating Stalin's Terror Through Archival Photographic Evidence

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Scholars are using photographic evidence from archives in the former USSR to help fill in the stories of people killed during Stalin's Terror. A large effort is underway to assemble photographic evidence in a repository that will be permanently accessible not only to scholars but to the descendants of those who were killed.

Denis Skopin
Denis Skopin

Senior Scholar in Exile, Center for Contemporary History (Berlin); Former Professor of Political Science, St. Petersburg State University

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center