The Master of Arts in Regional Studies—Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (REECA) is a two-year program that offers advanced training in the history, politics, culture, society, and languages of this region.
Join the Program on Georgian Studies for a screening of "Will There Be a Theatre Up There?!" — a film about the impact of Stalinism on the people of Georgia — followed by a discussion with the director Nana Janelidze.
Unlike centrally promulgated Soviet atheism, the atheism encountered in Central Asian languages was far more contradictory, often embracing Islam and denigrating it at the same time. This talk will chart the phenomenon's birth in the 1950s and its development as a body of literature in the 1960s.
Join the Program on Georgian Studies for a screening of "Liza Go On" — a controversial film on the 1992-1993 war in Georgia's Abkhazia region — and a subsequent discussion with film director Nana Janelidze.
Deep inside Russia's forests, against the wishes of the authorities, 60-year-old Yuri Dmitriev searches for mass graves from Stalin’s Great Terror — until one day he is arrested and sentenced to 15 years. Following him closely, the film paints a shocking picture of the way the Russian state rewrites history and treats its citizens.
Drawing on social science literature on infrastructure and 15 years of research in Central Asia, Till Mostowlansky will discuss concepts that might prove useful in studying Ukraine from a long-term perspective.
Director, Davis Center
Adjunct Professor of the History of Urban Form, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Co-Director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative
Irina Busygina will present the key arguments from her recently published book “Non-Democratic Federalism and Decentralization: A post-Soviet Perspective” (Routledge, November 2023, co-authored with Mikhail Filippov).
The Davis Center has hosted this colloquium since 1996, showcasing work in the field by students from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton. We invite you to celebrate undergraduate research and engagement in the region.
Director, Davis Center
Adjunct Professor of the History of Urban Form, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Co-Director of the Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative
The Balet Polski Reprezentacyjny’s German tour provides new insight into the Second Polish Republic’s utilization of art and performance in its foreign affairs in the 1930s, and the precarity of identity in the Second Polish Republic’s national self-expression.
Emigrate or stay in Russia? The question so central to Russian intellectual discussions nowadays was also Anna Akhmatova’s dilemma one hundred years ago.
Using recently declassified materials from Russian archives, historian Oleg Budnitskii examines atrocities committed by Red Army soldiers at home as well as abroad.
Come hear more than 20 outstanding young scholars present on topics as diverse as energy, child care, migration, managed successions, and much, much more.
This talk will explore major developments that led to mass displacement, including the Central Asian revolt of 1916, civil war in 1917–23, Soviet reforms in the 1920s, and the Kazakh famine of 1930–33, while paying particular attention to settler colonial violence and the loss of Muslim sovereignties in Central Asia.
This seminar will discuss the changing relations between the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, and North Korea from 1949 through 1991 and the way these earlier relationships affect the close interactions between Russia, China, and North Korea today.
This talk will consist of three parts: the impetus leading to the erection of the statue and the numerous hurdles that had to be overcome, its destruction during World War II and subsequent reconstruction, and its historical and symbolic significance since 1959, when Chopin concerts began to take place around the statue.
With evidence from Kosovo, Serbia, and North Macedonia, this seminar will explore several issues, including protest behavior and state bureaucracies in postwar Balkan countries.
Two nights of performance draw on censored Soviet-era texts by iconic singer-songwriters Okudzhava and Vysotsky to explore intergenerational trauma in refugee experience and illuminate the sublime social power of poetic practices.
This workshop, hosted by the Global Studies Outreach Committee at Harvard University, will be offered in person on Harvard's Cambridge Campus July 29-August 1, 2024.
Join us for a screening of the documentary 'Two Poets and a River.' The film explores the lives and musical poetry of the two most prominent and innovative Wakhi musicians in Central and South Asia: Qurbonsho in Tajikistan and Daulatsho in Afghanistan. Afterward, join the Q&A with film director and Harvard professor Richard K. Wolf and Afghan musician Dawood Pazhman.
Join the Program on Georgian Studies for a screening of the iconic glasnost-era film "Repentance" and a subsequent discussion with assistant director and screenwriter Nana Janelidze.
Two years into Russia's war against Ukraine, military analyst Pavel Luzin will consider what we know about Moscow's troop numbers, recruitment, officer corps, mercenaries, and more.