Past Events

Event Format
Port in Istanbul, Turkey

Trading and Cultural Gateways Across the Water: The Ports of the Black Sea

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Online

The Black Sea is a critical location in contemporary politics, economics, and trade. Learn about its ports!

Gokcen Erkilic
Gokcen Erkilic

Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 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)

Kelly O'Neill
Kelly O’Neill

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

an image of the bag stuffed with passports, dog, notebooks

Immigrant Baggage: Scenes from a Translingual Life

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In person

Please join us for an afternoon with acclaimed author and Boston College professor Maxim D. Shrayer as he reads from and discusses his new book, Immigrant Baggage.

Recording Available
Maxim Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer

Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College; Chair, Seminar on Russian and Eurasian Jewry, Davis Center

Alexandra Vacroux
Alexandra Vacroux

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

damaged houses by shelling and the head of Lenin, Ukraine

Syllabus Design and Critical Pedagogies in the Classroom: How Do We Teach Differently?

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Online

Syllabus Design and Critical Pedagogies in the Classroom: How Do We Teach Differently? is the fifth panel of the Decolonization in Focus Series. The series will have six wide-ranging panels featuring speakers from various disciplines and institutions. Panelists and participants will be encouraged to consider why decolonizing Russian & Eurasian studies matters, how to implement concrete change in their classrooms, and how to conceive of the future of expertise within the field.

Recording Available
Louis Porter
Louis Porter

Assistant Professor, History, Texas State University

Shoshana Keller
Shoshana Keller

Chair and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of History, Director of Russian Studies, Hamilton College

Caress Schenk
Caress Schenk

Associate Professor of Political Science, Nazarbayev University

OSCE parlament

The OSCE and Central Asia: Engagement in Times of Crises

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Online

The panel will reflect on the three decades of the OSCE engagement in Central Asia, current challenges facing the organization, and suggest options for OSCE cooperation with Central Asian participating states.

Recording Available
Alexandra Dienes
Alexandra Dienes

Senior Researcher, Friedrich Ebert Foundation

Pál Dunay
Pál Dunay

Professor of NATO and European Security Issues, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies

Stefan Wolff
Stefan Wolff

Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham

Yerkin Tukumov
Yerkin Tukumov

Director of Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

map of uzbekistan and kazakhstan

Revisiting the Social Contract: Reforms in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

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Online

This panel will discuss ongoing socio-economic reforms in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, focusing on barriers and opportunities for structural change.

Recording Available
Saltanat Janenova
Saltanat Janenova

Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Bristol (UK) and Professor, Public Administration Academy under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Saltanat Janenova
Bakhrom Radjabov

Head of the Office, Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Uzbekistan

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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