Past Events

Event Format
Statue of Stalin outside a museum in Gori, Georgia

Georgian and Soviet: Entitled Nationhood and the Specter of Stalin in the Caucasus

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In person

Claire Kaiser will discuss her new book on the impact of Stalin in Georgia.

Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones

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

damaged houses by shelling and the head of Lenin, Ukraine

Discourse and Decolonization: Perspectives from Outside the Anglophone Academy

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Online

Discourse and Decolonization: Perspectives from Outside the Anglophone Academy is the second panel of the Decolonization in Focus Series.

The series has 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. All sessions will be convened using Zoom, live-streamed via YouTube, and recorded to be made available for later viewing.

Recording Available
book cover with the title Kilometer 101 in the background of abstract painting

Reimagining the Russian Short Story: A Conversation with Maxim Osipov

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In person

Maxim Osipov will read from his new book KILOMETER 101 and discuss his work and the state of the Russian short story more generally.

Julie Buckler
Julie Buckler

Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

damaged houses by shelling and the head of Lenin, Ukraine

Decolonization: Why Does It Matter?

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Online

Decolonization: Why Does It Matter? is the first panel of the Decolonization In Focus series. This session will broach the question of why decolonizing Slavic studies is an important exercise and the impact it may have on scholars and the field more largely.

 

 

flags of Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Germany, EU

Central Asian Regional Cooperation on Water, Energy and Climate Change: Ways Forward

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Online

The roundtable will discuss the current state of regional cooperation on water, energy, and climate change in Central Asia, opportunities and constraints, and ways forward.

Recording Available
Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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