Events

This collection of photographs is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The people pictured here have in common the Russian language and the experience of leaving their home countries due to political repression, the collapse of personal freedoms, the erosion of civic life, or war.  

Join us for a seminar that reassesses the history of dramatic arts in the Soviet bloc through the lens of gender and surveillance.

Why do foreign fighters join wars in other countries? Moving beyond characterizations of foreign fighters as either profit-driven mercenaries or transnational terrorists, this event develops a theory of foreign fighters motivated by vicarious identification and ontological security.

Nazi policy in occupied Crimea and the North Caucasus was pulled in two different directions, creating a unique chance for survival for local groups associated with Jewish ancestry or Judaism.

This panel revisits the dramatic end of the USSR, featuring firsthand accounts from top U.S. diplomats who navigated the complexities, challenges, and hopes of that transition in the Soviet/post-Soviet republics.

Join two leading economists as they discuss the unexpected trajectories of Ukraine's and Russia's wartime economies and the forces shaping them as the conflict moves into a new phase.

Yulia Spiridonova's talk will reflect on her current exhibition, "The Space of Appearance: Shared Tongue," at the Davis Center. Photographed initially in Massachusetts and more recently in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the project traces the informal networks that emerge among immigrants through shared language and common experiences of relocation. 

Join us for a seminar discussing the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, informed by new archival materials.

The Davis Center is proud to announce a new significant collection of materials on American diplomacy in Central Asia, donated by retired U.S. Ambassador Richard E. Hoagland.

Explore open-access resources and classroom-ready strategies for teaching the Cold War with archival sources.

Discover new ways to bring Russian industrialization to life in your classroom through economic, gender, and data-driven perspectives in this interactive K–14 educator workshop.