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.
A major conference, co-organized by the Davis Center, considers how to rethink and revise historical narratives for a region that has traditionally been viewed as a realm of inter-imperial competition.
A newly published study from Davis Center instructor George Soroka investigates how Russians and Ukrainians differed in their perceptions of Soviet-era history prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, providing an important baseline for interpreting shifts since then.
Bringing educational backgrounds from anthropology and literature to political science and public relations, the REECA class of 2027 has come to campus.
Dr. Steven Solnick will begin in his new role next month, bringing 35+ years of leadership experience in education and philanthropy and building on a decades-long connection to Harvard and the Davis Center.
Since 2018, our alumna Alisa Sopova and photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind have been documenting ordinary Ukrainian lives transformed — but not defined — by the violence of Russia’s invasion. Now all the work from their visual storytelling project, “5K From the Frontline,” has a new home online.
Far from being the sudden product of a late-life religious crisis, Tolstoy’s theory of radical nonviolence stemmed from views that had remained remarkably consistent since the 1860s, writes our 2025 Kathryn W. Davis Prize winner Anya Tseitlin.
For over 30 years, U.S. and Russian scientists collaborated in the Bering Strait to study and protect wildlife, habitats, and food sources. With Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, this stopped. A new report from Harvard's Belfer Center shows the dramatic consequences of the hiatus and shares suggestions for restarting cooperation in some form.
According to recent polls, 80% of Russians believe Moscow should mend fences with the U.S., even though 66% also believe that relations with the West will always be based on mistrust, writes Davis Center associate Simon Saradzhyan.
