Past Events

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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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Online

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.

Recording Available
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

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

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In person

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

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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