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'OtherWise': An Evening of Song, Dance, and Poetry

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Two nights of performance draw on censored Soviet-era texts by iconic singer-songwriters Okudzhava and Vysotsky to explore intergenerational trauma in refugee experience and illuminate the sublime social power of poetic practices.

Ilya Vidrin
Ilya Vidrin

Assistant Professor, Northeastern University

Alec Hutson

Singer/Songwriter

Jessi Stegall

Dance-Theater Artist

Vera Koshkina

Scholar of Russian Literature and Culture

Valeria Solomonoff

Dramaturg

1990 Dushanbe Riots

Moscow’s Heavy Shadow: The Violent Collapse of the USSR

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In his new book "Moscow’s Heavy Shadow" Isaac McKean Scarborough explores Tajikistan's descent into bloody civil war in the early 1990s and argues that armed conflict has accompanied the extended Soviet collapse since the beginning and until today.

Recording Available
Isaac McKean Scarborough
Isaac McKean Scarborough

Assistant Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies, Institute for History, Leiden University

Leora Eisenberg
Leora Eisenberg

Ph.D. Candidate in History, Harvard University

Nargis Kassenova
Nargis Kassenova

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

Mural "Breath Life," part of the Grove Hall Mural Project By Rob “ProBlak” Gibbs

Imagining a Better World: Arts, Activism, and Social Justice: A Workshop for Educators

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This workshop, hosted by the Global Studies Outreach Committee at Harvard University, will be offered in person on Harvard's Cambridge campus July 29-Aug. 1, 2024. 

Cris Martin
Cris Martin

Associate Director, Davis Center

Allison Hart

Program Coordinator, Educator Outreach and Program on Georgian Studies, Davis Center

Soviet stamp

Understanding History's Many Voices Through Sources

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 In this workshop, participants will consider new ways of teaching about Imperial, Soviet and Post-Soviet Eurasia through the use of maps, data, oral histories and more.  

Kelly O'Neill
Kelly O’Neill

Director, Imperiia Project / Lecturer on History, Harvard University

Cris Martin
Cris Martin

Associate Director, Davis Center

Past

We’ve hosted dozens of events, many of which we’ve recorded. Search past events for the topics you care about.

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Film Screening: 'Green Border'

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A new film by acclaimed Polish director Agnieszka Holland tells the story of refugees from the Middle East and Africa attempting to enter the EU through Alexander Lukashenko's Belarus. 

Cris Martin
Cris Martin

Associate Director, Davis Center

Ewa Sułek
Ewa Sułek

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

Kosovo Albanian refugees in 1999

Western Balkans After the Yugoslav Wars: Dilemmas and Tradeoffs in Establishing Democracy and Human Rights

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With evidence from Kosovo, Serbia, and North Macedonia, this seminar will explore several issues, including protest behavior and state bureaucracies in postwar Balkan countries.

Recording Available
Elton Skendaj
Elton Skendaj

Director of the Democracy and Governance Program and assistant professor of government

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

Speyer, Germany

SWB Virtual Talk: How Local Hostility Shapes the Integration of Refugees: Evidence From Germany

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Migrants often encounter hostility and pressure to assimilate from host-country populations. This research measures whether such pressure accelerates assimilation.

Daniel Epstein

Assistant Director, Scholars Without Borders, Davis Center

Marco E. Tabellini
Marco E. Tabellini

Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Airborne troops of Russia in Belarus

The Other Annexation: Gradual Takeover of Belarus by Russia

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This panel discussion will focus on Russia's ongoing takeover of Belarus, a crisis that has been overshadowed by other global events but holds profound implications for regional security, NATO's strategic position, and the future of the Belarusian people.

Recording Available
Karen Donfried
Karen Donfried

Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Valery Kavaleuski
Valery Kavaleuski

Representative for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Head of Cabinet, United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus

George Krol
George Krol

Retired Diplomat; Adjunct Professor, U.S. Naval War College

Oxana Shevel
Oxana Shevel

Associate Professor of Political Science, Tufts University

Christopher Smith
Christopher Smith

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Eastern Europe and Policy and Regional Affairs, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Navalny memorial, burning candles

CANCELED: Alexei Navalny: Russia's Lost Chance

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Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats, a friend of Navalny’s for 20 years, citing his letters from prison, tells the story of the slain Russian opposition leader and what it means for the future of the country.

Yevgenia Albats
Yevgenia Albats

Editor-in-Chief & CEO, The New Times

Mark Kramer
Mark Kramer

Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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