Insights

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 historical look at the geopolitical vulnerability of this small country tucked between Ukraine and the EU, by Davis Center alum Isabelle DeSisto and Prof. Grigore Pop-Eleches.

In addition to his anti-regime activism, the opposition politician often embraced nationalist positions central to beliefs espoused by Vladimir Putin, writes REECA alum Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon.

A Russian Harvard student reflects on the struggle between hope and despair.

Former presidential bodyguard Alexei Dyumin has long been mentioned as a candidate to one day succeed his boss. Who is he? REECA’s Olga Kiyan gives a snapshot.

The online collection, including about 200 prints from the Davis Center Library, vastly expands opportunities to study a legacy of state-backed messaging and disinformation that reverberates worldwide today.

Davis Center experts consider the opposition activist’s rise, poisoning, and fateful clash with the Russian regime.

The Davis Center's Program on Georgian Studies and the Somerville Arts Council call for dancers, choreographers, drummers, and other percussionists to apply to the Exchanging Notes Project. Selected applicants will travel to Tbilisi, Georgia, and the Boston area and receive a stipend of $2,000. Application deadline for Georgian artists has been extended to April 1, 2024.

The Harvard Gazette reports on efforts by the Davis Center’s Scholars Without Borders program to provide networking support and professional development to academics exiled and endangered by the war.

Davis Center visiting scholar Rahat Sabyrbekov explores the region’s climate change challenges, spotlighting original work on decarbonization efforts in the region.