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.
Seeing Americans rally for her native country inspired REECA student Anastasiia Pereverten’s master's thesis. Read her story, published as part of Harvard's "Commencement 2026" series.
War reporter Paweł Pieniążek ('26) used his time in the REECA Program to augment his journalistic skills with rigorous training in the social sciences.
In a new report, Dr. Nargis Kassenova, director of our Program on Central Asia, describes Kazakhstan's emergence as a pragmatic middle power, hedging against both China and Russia while managing China-U.S. rivalry.
Learn about its winding journey — through censorship, fire, and revolution — from our Georgia scholars. And come see it for yourself at Houghton Library!
Our REECA student Alice Volfson — who investigates how Soviet Central Asian writers used state-run international conferences to critique the regime — interviews one of Kazakhstan’s most prominent poet-intellectuals.
For our Program on Central Asia, former U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan John O'Keefe recalls negotiations with Bishkek for the use of Manas Airport as a base for U.S. operations in Afghanistan after 9/11.
Mark Kramer, director of our Cold War Studies program, describes how the 1956 denunciation of Stalin reverberated through Poland’s Communist leadership, accelerating the distribution of a text that was supposed to have stayed secret.
The historian and Atlantic magazine staff writer weighs Ukraine’s future amid widespread threats to global stability — the third talk of a speaker series cohosted at Harvard by the Davis Center, the Ukrainian Research Institute, and the Center for European Studies.
