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.
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 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, paying particular attention to settler colonial violence and the loss of Muslim sovereignties in Central Asia.
Join us for an evening with acclaimed Kazakhstani filmmaker Olzhas Bayalbayev and a screening of his captivating short film "GOK," depicting the dramatic takeover of a mining and ore-processing plant in northern 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.
Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats, a friend of Navalny’s for 20 years,citing his letters from prison, tells the story of the slain Russian opposition leader and what it means for the future of the country.
This panel discussion will focus on Russia's ongoing annexation of Belarus, a crisis that has been overshadowed by other global events but holds profound implications for regional security, NATO's strategic position, and the future of the Belarusian people.
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.
Migrants often encounter hostility and pressure to assimilate from host-country populations. This research measures whether such pressure accelerates assimilation.
With evidence from Kosovo, Serbia, and North Macedonia, this seminar will explore several issues, including protest behavior and state bureaucracies in postwar Balkan countries.
Agnieszka Holland's new film, "Green Zone" tells the story of refugees from the Middle East and Africa attempting to enter the EU through Alexander Lukashenko's Belarus.
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, willbe offered in person on Harvard's Cambridge campus July 29-Aug. 1, 2024.
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.
The legislation making its way through Georgia's parliament is widely seen as a challenge to democracy in the country. What does the so-called foreign agents bill say? What are its implications? Is it a danger to Georgia’s EU candidacy?
Using recently declassified materials from Russian archives, historian Oleg Budnitskii examines atrocities committed by Red Army soldiers at home as well as abroad.