# Past Events Sort & Filters close ## Filters Events expand\_more - GSAS Lecture Series (17) - GSAS Workshops (69) - Literature and Culture Seminars (55) - Literary Colloquia (30) - Davis Center Events (10) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 498 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Alphabetical A-ZChronological sort list grid\_view ## 498 results [### Open House & Visitas ](/event/open-house-visitas-2026)April 27, 2026 | 1:00PM - 3:00PM EDT In Person Current and prospective undergraduates, please join us for our Open House and Visitas event on Monday, April 27, 2026 from 1:00-3:00 p.m. in the 3rd Floor Hallway, Barker Center. Enjoy a selection of regional snacks and learn about our program offerings... ![Illustrated event poster with pastel drawings of books, a yellow teapot, a bird, flowers, and a butterfly with event logistical information.](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/2026_4_27_Slavic_Visitas.jpg?h=c8f4533f&itok=l3pBRCv0) [### Nostalgias of the Future: The Materiality of Memory in Solaris and New York 2140 ](/event/nostalgias-future)April 21, 2026 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT In Person The Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages cordially invite you to the sixth annual Svetlana Boym Memorial Lecture. Speaker | David Damrosch Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature... ![Poster for the sixth annual Svetlana Boym Memorial Lecture: David Damrosch, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard, speaking on “Nostalgias of the Future: The Materiality of Memory in Solaris and New York 2140.” Event on Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at 5 PM in Harvard Hall 101, Cambridge; hosted by Harvard’s Departments of Comparative Literature and Slavic Literatures and Languages, open to all.](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/4.21.26%20Boym%20Memorial%20Lecture.jpg?h=8e1336b5&itok=wUPpakdI) [### 'In Other Words, It Was About Something Else Entirely': Poetry Reading and Discussion with Semyon Khanin ](/event/other-words-it-was-about-something-else-entirely-poetry-reading-and-discussion-semyon-khanin)April 16, 2026 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT In Person Semyon Khanin, Poet and Translator; Founding Member, Orbita Poetry and Multimedia Art Project Kevin M. F. Platt, Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania Moderator: Daria Khitrova, Professor of Slavic Languages and... ![Event poster for “In Other Words, It Was About Something Else Entirely” – Semyon Khanin: A Poetry Reading and Discussion, featuring Semyon Khanin, Kevin M.F. Platt, and Daria Khitrova, on Thursday, April 16, 5–6:30 PM at the CGIS South Building, Third Floor, Room S354, hosted by the Davis Center and Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/4.16%20Semyon%20Khanin.jpg?h=e0279e64&itok=Kp3DNgq3) [### Game Night ](/event/game-night-spring-2026)March 24, 2026 | 5:00PM - 7:00PM EDT In Person The Slavic Department invites undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, visiting scholars, and staff to a Game Night and Picnic on Tuesday, March 24, 2026 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. in the Thompson Room (111), Barker Center. Enjoy regional snacks and play... ![Illustrated event poster with a green grid background and colorful board-game imagery (playing cards, chips, dice, and game boards) at the top and bottom. Center text reads: “Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures – GAME NIGHT.” Event details below: “Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 5:00–7:00 PM, Thompson Room (110), Barker Center.” ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/2026_3_24_Slavic_GameNight.jpg?h=0e89d6a1&itok=WGcLMY89) [### Vladimir Nabokov and Russian Literary Traditions ](/event/vladimir-nabokov-and-russian-literary-traditions)March 12, 2026 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT In Person Alexander Dolinin, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison Moderator: Daria Khitrova, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures It would be hard to find a major Russian writer of the 20th... ![Blue background with speaker headshots and event logsitical information.](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/3.12%20Nabokov%20poster.jpg?h=d2ac93dd&itok=WjP45F-S) [### Ice Skating Outing ](/event/ice-skating-outing-2026)March 4, 2026 | 4:30PM - 5:30PM EST In Person Faculty, undergraduates, graduate students, and staff, join us for an afternoon of Slavic music and ice skating fun on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. at the Somerville Veterans Rink (570 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA 02143)! Skates provided... ![Blue background with white ice skates and snowflakes, and event logistical information.](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-08/2026_3_4_Slavic_IceSkating.jpg?h=4d7d6f95&itok=9ifiSWeT) [### Exploring Fields of Study (now March 2) ](/event/exploring-fields-study-2026)March 2, 2026 | 2:00PM - 3:30PM EST In Person Undergraduates! Join the Slavic Department for Exploring Fields of Study on Monday, March 2, 2026 (note date change from 2/23) from 2:00-3:30 p.m. on the 3 rd floor of the Barker Center to learn more about the Slavic concentration and secondary field... ![Stylized green and pink blotches and black swirls with stacks of colourful books and event logistical information.](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/2026_3_2_Slavic_ExploringFields.jpg?h=6e9bb9e7&itok=Bk2mHU0f) [### Reading Sterne in Stalin's Russia ](/event/reading-sterne-stalins-russia)February 26, 2026 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM EST In Person Petr Budrin, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Queen Mary University Moderator: Daria Khitrova, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures This talk discusses the 1920s and 1930s as a critical juncture in... ![Blue background with speaker headshots and event logsitical information.](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-02/2.26_sterne%20poster.jpg?h=0ee7b6f5&itok=351s-Oyv) [### Crafternoon ](/event/crafternoon-fall-2025)November 13, 2025 | 5:00PM - 7:00PM EST In Person Harvard undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff, please join us for an evening of traditional international craftmaking with Slavic Language Program faculty on Thursday, November 13, 2025 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. in the Thompson Room (110)... ![Purple background with image of crafting materials (scissors, washi tape, paper, pens, pencils) and event logistical information.](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-07/2025_11_13_Slavic_Crafternoon.png?h=d185a0ad&itok=KkUoGjmy) [### What (Polish) Novels Can Do: Global Formalism, Free Indirect Discourse, and Olga Tokarczuk ](/event/what-polish-novels-can-do-global-formalism-free-indirect-discourse-and-olga-tokarczuk)November 6, 2025 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM EST In Person Weintraub Lecture | Literature & Culture Seminar Katarzyna Bartoszyńska, Associate Professor, Ithaca College Moderator: Aleksandra Kremer, Alfred Jurzykowski Professor of Polish Language and Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures What... ![Cream background with abstract art, speaker headshot, and event logistical information.](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-10/2025_11_6_Slavic_Weintraub.jpg?h=e561fdc0&itok=m2JjMivF) [### The Palimpsest of Disobedience: St. Petersburg’s Literary Culture of Resistance, 2022-2025 ](/event/palimpsest-disobedience-st-petersburgs-literary-culture-resistance-2022-2025)October 30, 2025 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT In Person Image: " Dining room 1 (Akhmatova Museum) ," Lumaca, CC BY-SA 4.0 , cropped for "landscape wide" setting. Olga Voronina, Professor of Russian, Bard College Moderator: Daria Khitrova, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic... ![Dining room with orange walls and ceiling light, brown wooden table and chairs, white tablecloth and fireplace.](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/Dining_room_1_%28Akhmatova_Museum%29.jpg?h=9d21ba2c&itok=_V4Z2XtI) [### Memory Burn ](/event/memory-burn)October 20, 2025 | 5:30PM - 7:00PM EDT In Person Marek Torčík, Poet, Writer, Publicist Moderators: Jonathan Bolton, Howard Mumford Jones Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures Veronika Tuckerová, Senior Preceptor in Czech Language, Department of... ![Cream background with black old-fashioned typewriter and event logistical information.](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-09/2025_10_20_Slavic_Czech_MTorcik_0.jpg?h=a263f895&itok=jBkbJ9y_) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 42 ](?page=41 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")