Past Events

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Join us to hear Joseph Torigian tell the life story of Xi Zhongxun, a man who spent his entire life struggling to balance his own feelings with the Party's demands.

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Associate Professor, American University (Washington DC)

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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Join us for the talk examining Soviet historical novels about Genghis Khan by Vasily Yan and Aleksei Kalashnikov as a site of ideological struggle over the meaning of the Mongol conquest and its place in Central Asian history. 

Head, Center for Central Asian Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland)

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

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The talk shows how late Soviet claims of cultural equality masked a Russocentric canon-making regime and how Georgian writers and critics both enabled and resisted it through competing strategies of universality and national self-assertion.

Chair, Georgian Studies Seminar, Davis Center

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Join us to explore an exhibition by the Ukrainian artist Alevtina Kakhidze, who brings viewers into the intimate, raw space where everyday life and wartime reality collide. 

REECA, Class of '26

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Explore an exhibition by the Ukrainian artist Alevtina Kakhidze, who brings viewers into the intimate, raw space where everyday life and wartime reality collide. 

REECA, Class of '26