Past Events

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Colorful sketch by Kiril Zdanevich

Modernism and the Georgian Avant-garde in the Early 20th Century

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Dr. Ketevan Kintsurashvili will discuss art movements in Georgia in the early 20th century.

Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones

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

moscow

Never-ending War: Russian Myth, Yesterday and Today

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Greg Carleton will discuss how history and culture can be made to give Russia's pedigree status as an exceptional nation worldwide. Its roots, uses, and applications today to the war in Ukraine and beyond.

Gregory Carleton
Gregory Carleton

Professor of Russian Studies, Department of International Literary and Cultural Studies, Tufts University

Edythe Haber
Edythe Haber

Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Kazakhstan Parliament building in Astana

AMB. Yerzhan Ashikbayev: Kazakhstan's Development Strategy amidst Geopolitical Turbulence

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Join us for a conversation with Kazakhstan's Ambassador to the U.S., Yerzhan Ashikbayev to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing his country, as well as the future of the Kazakh-U.S. strategic partnership.

Yerzhan Ashikbayev
Yerzhan Ashikbayev

Ambassador of Kazakhstan to the USA, Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

Thomas W. Simons, Jr.
Thomas W. Simons, Jr.

U.S. Foreign Service Officer (1963-1998); U.S. Ambassador to Poland (1990-1993) and Pakistan (1996-1998)

Protests on a street in Tbilisi.

Can Georgian Democracy Survive?

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Online

Learn about the future of democracy in Georgia.

Portrait of Tornike Metreveli
Tornike Metreveli

Associate Professor in Sociology of Religions, Lund University

Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones

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

Natalie Sabanadze
Natalie Sabanadze

Former Diplomat; Senior Research Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Chatham House

A man on the street plays the violin in the hope of receiving food or money

Music in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940–1942: Jewish Identity, Culture, and Community in Crisis

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Online

This talk examines musical life in the Warsaw Ghetto, using song texts, diaries, and even concert reviews in ghetto newspapers to reconstruct its musical environment.

Recording Available
Jules Riegel
Jules Riegel

Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica, Harvard University

Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

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