Events

U.S. policymakers are navigating a new Black Sea strategy, focusing on the region's importance to U.S. strategic interests. This half-day event brings together experts and practitioners to share insights on regional security and Georgia's pivotal role in European-Central Asian connectivity.

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.

Professor Boris Lanin will discuss the Jewish destinies of Russian-language émigré writers of the so-called third and fourth waves of emigration.

"This Kind of Hope" follows Belarusian human rights activist and former ambassador Andrei Sannikov.

Using recently declassified materials from Russian archives, historian Oleg Budnitskii examines atrocities committed by Red Army soldiers at home as well as abroad.

The presentation addresses school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) as a violation of human rights and a form of gender discrimination with harmful effects on physical, psychological, and educational well-being. 

Can this century's Central Asian leaders notch energy wins like their predecessors in a more challenging environment?

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.

Join us for an evening featuring an acclaimed filmmaker from Kazakhstan, Olzhas Bayalbayev. We will screen Bayalbayev’s captivating short motion picture ‘GOK’, depicting a dramatic takeover of a mineral mining plant in North Kazakhstan. 

Emigrate or stay in Russia? The question so central to Russian intellectual discussions nowadays was also Anna Akhmatova’s dilemma one hundred years ago.

This talk will examine how Russia employs the tactics of borderization and creeping occupation to gradually expand its control over Georgian territories.

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.

This seminar will discuss relations between Yugoslavia and the USSR after the end of World War II.

 In this workshop, participants will consider new ways of teaching about Imperial, Soviet and Post-Soviet Eurasia through the use of maps, data, oral histories and more.  

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.