Past Events

Event Format
Visiting Scholar Colloquium

Visiting Scholar Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Six scholars currently based at the Davis Center will present their research, ranging from Eurasian history to the Middle Corridor to visual art.

Khasan Redjaboev
Khasan Redjaboev

Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dana Masalimova
Dana Masalimova

Harvard Kennedy School Policy Analysis and Communications Exercise Coach

Ewa Sułek
Ewa Sułek

Postdoctoral Fellow, The Institute for East European Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin

Chia-Yun Po
Chia-Yun Po

Fellow at the Global Justice Program, Yale University

Natia Chankvetadze
Natia Chankvetadze

Ph.D. Candidate, George Mason University

Malkhaz Toria

Associate Professor, Head of the Memory Studies Center, Ilia State University

Terry Martin
Terry Martin

George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

Senior Fellow; Director, Program on Central Asia, Davis Center

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones

Director, Program on Georgian Studies, Harvard University; Professor of Modern Georgian History, Ilia State University, Tbilisi

Michał Matejko
Michał Matejko
Georgian-Russian Border

Shifting Boundaries, Unsettling Realities: Russia's Strategy of Borderization and Creeping Occupation in Georgia

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This talk will examine how Russia employs the tactics of borderization and creeping occupation to gradually expand its control over Georgian territories.

Portrait of Natia Gamkrelidze
Natia Gamkrelidze

PhD, Lecturer in Political Science, Linnaeus University
Researcher, Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research, Malmo University

Stephen Jones
Stephen Jones

Director, Program on Georgian Studies, Harvard University; Professor of Modern Georgian History, Ilia State University, Tbilisi

Anna Akhmatova Museum in Slobidka-Shelekhivska, Khmelnytskyi Oblast

CANCELED!! Three Emigrations of Anna Akhmatova

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Emigrate or stay in Russia? The question so central to Russian intellectual discussions nowadays was also Anna Akhmatova’s dilemma one hundred years ago.

Roman Timenchik
Roman Timenchik

Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Daria Khitrova
Daria Khitrova

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

"GOK" film poster.

Behind the Lens and Censorship

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Join us for an evening with acclaimed Kazakhstani filmmaker Olzhas Bayalbayev and a screening of his captivating short film "GOK," depicting the dramatic takeover of a mining and ore-processing plant in northern Kazakhstan. 

Olzhas Bayalbayev

Filmmaker

Dana Masalimova
Dana Masalimova

Harvard Kennedy School Policy Analysis and Communications Exercise Coach

Caravan of horses halted with hills rising in the background

Muslim Emigration From Late Tsarist and Early Soviet Central Asia

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This talk will explore developments that led to mass displacement, including the Central Asian revolt of 1916, civil war in 1917–23, Soviet reforms in the 1920s, and the Kazakh famine of 1930–33, paying particular attention to settler colonial violence and the loss of Muslim sovereignties in Central Asia.

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky

Assistant Professor of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara