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.

Great power competition in the Global South is heating up, writes Davis Center alumna Angela Stent, and Moscow has a major advantage — poorer countries’ deep skepticism about the West, especially the U.S.

Official statistics indicate that more than 30,000 Russians left Georgia in 2023, slashing the number of wartime immigrants by almost one-third, writes Davis Center alum Joshua Kucera.

Economist Andrei Yakovlev considers three possible drivers behind Russia’s latest redistribution of property.

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.