Writing. Convening. Teaching. Training. Modeling. Experimenting. Engaging. Across time zones and international boundaries, members of our community are at work. Our “Insights” gallery is a multimedia guide to intellectual life at the Davis Center.
While Russia still has a major impact on places once ruled from Moscow, these countries’ shared Soviet legacy does not determine their plans for the future. Big-picture reforms pursued by national elites vary hugely, writes our visiting scholar Irina Busygina, based on work by her team of student researchers.
The main theme will be environment, society, and power in the region. Submissions are welcome from any discipline and any level of graduate study. Deadline to apply is Feb. 9.
Reconstruction in Ukraine is already underway, despite ongoing fighting. Those involved are balancing urgent needs with long-term imperatives and completely new ways of working, writes Eve Blau, our faculty associate and a scholar of urban design.
After 30 years of remarkable stability in bilateral ties, Russia has become the biggest and most important unknown variable in Kazakhstan’s foreseeable future, writes Nargis Kassenova, director of our Program on Central Asia.
If you're attending this year's conference, come hear our scholars speak on Ukrainian refugees and Belarusian partisans, Russian imperial history, authoritarian rule in Georgia and Central Asia, and much more.
Early-career political scientists will be especially excited to hear about the reinstatement of a funded postdoctoral fellowship. Deadline for applications is Jan. 15!
As Donald Trump meets Central Asian leaders this week, our visiting scholar Dana Masalimova argues that, to hedge against China and Russia, Washington should invest in Kazakhstan as part of its critical-minerals supply chain.
Our library’s newest digitized archival resource offers a rare opportunity to explore the nobility’s final decades in the Russian empire, post-revolutionary exile in Europe, and Georgian diaspora life in the U.S.
