Past Events

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Many Voices; Many Shapes: An Empire Re-envisioned

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Join us to see how the Imperiia Project weaves together pieces of the past.

Kelly O'Neill
Kelly O’Neill

Director of Graduate Studies, REECA Program, and Director, Imperiia Project, Davis Center

Yipeng Zhou
Yipeng Zhou

A.M. in Regional Studies–REECA

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Charles Pflieger

Student Research Associate, Imperiia Project

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Vivian Wei

Research Associate, Imperiia Project

Abigail Gipson
Abigail Gipson

A.M. in Regional Studies–REECA

Davit Gasparyan
Davit Gasparyan
Jackie Erlon-Baurjan
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Regional Governance and Center-Region Relations in Russia

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Davis Center visiting scholars Irina Busygina and Andrey Yakovlev discuss developments in the quality of Russian regional governance, Moscow's policies toward the regions and regional responses.

Recording Available
Irina Busygina
Irina Busygina

Independent Scholar

Andrei Yakovlev
Andrei Yakovlev

Fellow, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg

Thomas Remington
Thomas F. Remington

Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science (Emeritus), Emory University

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Kто на хлопок? Representations of Agency on the Cotton fields

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Karapetian will speak about her own work in co-created representation in Uzbekistan in June 2022 and how it quotes and departs from other forms of representation by both insiders and outsiders of the post-Soviet state.

Recording Available
Farrah Karapetian
Farrah Karapetian

Artist; Associate Professor, University of San Diego

Feruza Aripova
Feruza Aripova

Lecturer in Modern Political, Social, and Cultural History in Global Context, The Cooper Union (NYC)

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Chekhov's Fictions of the End

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Please join the Davis Center for a conversation with Robin Miller about Chekhov's writings. 

Robin Miller
Robin Feuer Miller

Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities and Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University

Edythe Haber
Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

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Re-examining the Nuclear Past of Kazakhstan and Ukraine Through the Prism of the War

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Two new books reveal previously untold nuclear histories of Kazakhstan and Ukraine: how the Soviet military used Kazakhstan for nuclear tests, why Kazakhstan and Ukraine disarmed, and what their decisions mean for today and the future of the global nuclear order.

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Mariana Budjeryn
Mariana Budjeryn

Mariana Budjeryn, Senior Researcher, Center for Nuclear Security Policy, Security Studies Program, MIT

Togzhan Kassenova

Senior Fellow, Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft, Center for Policy Research, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York (Washington, DC) Nonresident Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, DC)

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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