Past Events

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This webinar offers practical, inclusive strategies to help all students access and comprehend complex social studies texts through vocabulary support, text structure instruction, graphic organizers, and multisensory techniques.

Psychology/ Social Studies Teacher

Program Administrator, Educator Outreach, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Join us for a talk exploring Vladimir Nabokov as a bilingual writer whose work is deeply rooted in the Russian literary tradition. This talk examines how his shift from Russian to English transformed this tradition.

Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Join us for a timely conversation with political scientists Adam N. Stulberg and Mikhail Troitskiy, who challenge conventional nuclear deterrence theory. Drawing on three recent high-stakes episodes from 2022 to 2024, they introduce a new distinction between risk-taking and opportunistic coercive strategies to show how mismatched approaches have at times defused tensions and averted nuclear confrontation.

Sam Nunn Professor, Chair, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech

Principal Scientist, The Hague Center for Strategic Studies (HCSS), Netherlands

Executive Director, Davis Center

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A study of Kazakhstan’s telecom sector shows how China's seemingly unified strategy of building an alternative to U.S.-dominated internet infrastructure is appropriated by local actors and shaped by local forces.

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Reader in Global Digital Cultures, King’s College London

Lead Researcher, DigiSilk, King's College London

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

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A workshop on Mkhedruli Georgian calligraphy that explores its expressive, living form as both writing and art.