Past Events

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panorama of Bukhara

Endemic Colonialism: Sovereignty, Public Health, and Pandemic in Pre-Soviet Bukhara

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This presentation examines the mutually constitutive relationship between colonialism and public health in the context of indirect rule.

James Pickett
James Pickett

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh

a square in Kazakhstan

Graduate Student Conference on Сentral Asia

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Please join the Graduate Student Conference on Central Asia at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

James Pickett
James Pickett

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh

Leora Eisenberg
Leora Eisenberg

Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University

Yipeng Zhou
Yipeng Zhou

A.M. in Regional Studies–REECA

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

Aruzhan Meirkhanova
Aruzhan Meirkhanova

Senior Analyst, Outpost Eurasia; Advisory Board Member, Harvard Alumni Kazakhstan

Muling He

A.M. in Regional Studies–REECA

Black and White photo of Giorgi Mikadze at a piano

Giorgi Mikadze Jazz Trio: The Great Georgian Songbook

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Join Georgian musician Giorgi Mikadze and his band for a concert of reimagined Georgian music.

Giorgi Mikadze
Giorgi Mikadze

Associate Professor, Berklee College of Music

Stanisław Lem meeting with the Soviet science fiction authors in Leningrad, including Ilya Varshavsky, Arkady Strugatsky, Ariadna Gromova. Circa early 1960s.

The Strugatskys and Beyond: The Secret Jewish Language of Soviet Era Science Fiction

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Online

The focus of this talk is the surprising, fascinating, and central, both in plain sight and masked, place of Jewishness in Soviet science fiction texts and their authors’ biographies.

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Marat Grinberg
Marat Grinberg

Professor of Russian and Humanities, Reed College

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College; Chair, Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center

a painting of Ukrainian woman in traditional outfit and war armour

Women and Wars in a Historical Perspective

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Online

The discussion illustrates diverse ways in which women participate in a war.

Alexis Peri
Alexis Peri

Associate Professor of History, Boston University

Olena Nikolayenko
Olena Nikolayenko

Professor of Political Science, Fordham University

Rochelle Ruthchild
Rochelle Ruthchild

Women's and Gender Studies Historian