Past Events

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Alex Averbuch

Alex Averbuch: Readings from 'The Jewish King' and 'Of Rage and Longing'

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A poetry reading by Alex Averbuch, postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center and 2024 HURI research fellow at Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute, moderated by Oleh Kotsyuba.

Alex Averbuch
Alex Averbuch

Independent Scholar

Photo of Oleh Kotsyuba
Oleh Kotsyuba

Manager of Publications, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University (HURI)

Soviet-era photo of back-to-school day, Sept. 1

Fall Reception: Back-to-School Night at the Davis Center

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Join us for the Davis Center's version of back-to-school night!

Eve Blau
Eve Blau

Co-Director, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, and Adjunct Professor of the History of Urban Form, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University

Alexandra Vacroux
Alexandra Vacroux

Director, Scholars Without Borders, Davis Center; Vice President for Strategic Engagement, Kyiv School of Economics

old photo of Armenian family during Stalin era

Investigating Stalin's Terror Through Archival Photographic Evidence

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Scholars are using photographic evidence from archives in the former USSR to help fill in the stories of people killed during Stalin's Terror. A large effort is underway to assemble photographic evidence in a repository that will be permanently accessible not only to scholars but to the descendants of those who were killed.

Denis Skopin
Denis Skopin

Senior Scholar in Exile, Center for Contemporary History (Berlin); Former Professor of Political Science, St. Petersburg State University

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

masked protestor with Molotov cocktail

Railway Partisans, Arsonists, and Vandals: Homegrown Saboteurs of Russia's War Against Ukraine

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A presentation of new research will share some contradictory results from a multi-pronged data-gathering project on antiwar sabotage.

Ania Aizman

Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Stephanie Sandler
Stephanie Sandler

Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

a soldier jumping over the wire fence

'Defectors': Conversation with Erik Scott

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Join the conversation with Erik Scott — University of Kansas history professor and author of the book Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World — and the director of the Davis Center's Cold War Studies Project, Mark Kramer.  

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Erik Scott
Erik Scott

Associate Professor of History and Director, Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, University of Kansas

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center