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.

This seven-part virtual event series will examine queer studies within Eurasia through a variety of disciplines and themes. Runs from Jan. 19 through March 22, 2024.

Are you a graduate student writing about Central Asia? Submit your application for the Davis Center Graduate Student Conference by Jan. 31, 2024!

You don't need to go to space to make history! If you have documentation on U.S.-Soviet exchanges and/or the rise of new post-Soviet institutions in the 1990s, you can help build up the Davis Center's archives.

Economist Sergei Guriev explores the links between Russia’s economic performance, regime legitimacy, different sorts of dictatorship, Western sanctions, and the country’s future.

The three-week residency allows a Georgian filmmaker to engage with the Harvard community in spring 2024. Application deadline is Dec. 15.

Each summer two students immerse themselves in the country through transformative eight-week internships. In 2023, they wrote about civic activism and NATO ties, while traveling from capital to coast to mountains.

With voters taking part in what could be the most consequential election in Poland’s modern history, Davis Center alum Mike Smeltzer explains the swift decline of democracy under the Law and Justice Party.

Had Moscow not used aggression, Ukrainian politics would have likely stayed divided between supporters of a pro-Western course and of closer ties with Russia, writes Tufts professor and Davis Center associate Oxana Shevel.

The Davis Center's Imperiia team is working with the Harvard Map Collection to study biodiversity and show why metadata is a scholar's best friend.