Past Events

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Black and White photo of Giorgi Mikadze at a piano

Giorgi Mikadze Jazz Trio: The Great Georgian Songbook

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In person

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

Slovenia

27th Annual Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies

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In person

The annual Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies, made possible with the support of the Davis family, showcases multidisciplinary research by students from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton Colleges.

Alexandra Vacroux
Alexandra Vacroux

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

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

Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones

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

Francoise Rosset
Francoise Rosset

Associate Professor of Russian; Chair of Russian Department, Wheaton College

Nina Tumarkin
Nina Tumarkin

Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies, Professor of History and Director of Russian Area Studies, Wellesley College

A map from the Library of Congress

CANCELED: Degrees/Minutes/Seconds, Ep. 2: What To Do When 4,000 Maps Take Over Your Life

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Online

Learn about how the Imperiia Project is dealing with 4,000 historical maps.

Kelly O'Neill
Kelly O’Neill

Director of Graduate Studies, REECA Program, and Director, Imperiia Project, Davis Center

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Charles Pflieger

Student Research Associate, Imperiia Project