Past Events

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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.

Vice President for Strategic Engagement, Kyiv School of Economics

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

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

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

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

Founding Director, Imperiia Project, Davis Center

Student Research Associate, Imperiia Project

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Mikhail Shishkin is one of contemporary Russian literature's most celebrated prose writers. He is in the US to mark the publication of his latest book, which will be the subject of this seminar.

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Russia's war against Ukraine has been accompanied by a return to Soviet-style repression in Russia. One notable feature of this autocratic crackdown has been a vigorous attack on the various institutions in Russia connected with the great Soviet dissident and human rights activist Andrei Sakharov. The panelists will discuss this campaign and the prospects for the future.

Recording Available

Independent Scholar

Associate Director, Major Gifts, Harvard Law School

Professor of International Law and International Relations, Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences; Professor of International Law at Plovdiv University

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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Join us for a conversation with Mikhail Krutikhin, a co-founder and leading analyst of RusEnergy, for a discussion on the business and politics of gas relations between Russia, China, and Central Asian countries.

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