Past Events

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Suitcase Artifacts and Translating Memory: Feminist Interventions in Writing Iranian-Armenian Diasporic Histories

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Join the talk examining the (im)possibilities of reconstructing contemporary Irano-Armenian diasporic histories through the lens of doubly minoritized women’s activism and elusive archives.

Houri Berberian
Houri Berberian

Professor of History, Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies, and Director of the Center for Armenian Studies, University of California, Irvine

Talinn Grigor
Talinn Grigor

Professor of Art History, University of California, Irvine

Feruza Aripova
Feruza Aripova

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

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Europe in a Time of War: Conversation With Anne Applebaum

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Come hear a Pulitzer-winning historian and journalist discuss autocracy and Russia's ongoing aggression against Ukraine at our speaker series"The Forum: Europe in a Time of War," a collaboration by the Davis Center, Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute, and the university's Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies.

Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum

Senior Fellow of International Affairs and Agora Fellow in Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies; Co-Founder, Democracy Lab (Foreign Policy/Legatum Institute); Adjunct Fellow, Center for European Policy Analysis; Staff Writer, Atlantic

Serhii Plokhii
Serhii Plokhii

Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University

Mariya Prymachenko

From Lullabies to Naive Art: Culture, Memory, and Resilience

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Online

Discover how art becomes a powerful tool of memory, identity, and resistance in times of conflict in this compelling session of The Arts of Eastern Europe and Eurasia webinar series.

Nataliia Bondarenko

International Education Program Coordinator, The Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Sandra Grudic
Sandra Grudić

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

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NEW DATE! The Tale of Kings in the Land of the Soviets: The Ferdowsi Millennium of 1934

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In person

Join us to explore the Soviet celebration of Persian epic poet Ferdowsi, a landmark cultural event that reshaped literary politics from Moscow to Central Asia.

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Diego Benning Wang
Diego Benning Wang

Adjunct Professor, Kean University

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

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Film Screening: 'The Activist' (Lithuania, 2025)

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In person

Join us for a screening of The Activist, a gripping Lithuanian film noir–drama that follows a young man who infiltrates a radical neo-Nazi group in a desperate search for the killer of his LGBT+ activist boyfriend. The screening will be followed by a conversation with director and producer Romas Zabarauskas, offering behind-the-scenes insight into the film’s urgent themes and creation.

Romas Zabarauskas
Romas Zabarauskas

Filmmaker and Producer, Lithuania

Feruza Aripova
Feruza Aripova

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