Davis Center Events

Victor Martinovich, Associate Professor, Dept. of Humanities and Arts, European Humanities Universities (EHU) Moderator: Jenya Mironava, Preceptor, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University What will happen if we combine oral histories with...

Since 1996, the Davis Center has organized the annual Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies to showcase outstanding work by students from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges. Please join us and our student presenters, faculty...

Poetry and Translation Symposium: Contemporary Translation in Transition: English, German, and Russian Poetry Harvard University March 6-7, 2020, 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Barker Center, Thompson Room Organization team: Maria Khotimsky, Friederike Reents...

ATTENTION: Due to the recently implemented travel policy prohibiting University-related non-essential travel, this Literature and Culture Seminar has been canceled. How does writing for money affect what is written? Dr. Jonathan Paine’s talk draws on the...

Memorial Church, Harvard Yard Please join us for a memorial service celebrating the life of Professor Richard E. Pipes (1923-2018). RSVPs to daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-4037 are welcome. Co-sponsored by the Pipes family, the Davis Center for...

Speaker(s): Chaired by Rochelle Ruthchild, Professor Emerita of Political Science, UMass-Boston; Davis Center Associate Valerie Sperling, Professor of Political Science, Clark University; Davis Center Associate Kevin Moss, Professor of Modern Languages...

Monday, November 6, 6:00pm – 7:30pm: "How Can a Work of Art Be Revolutionary? Case Studies in the History of the Left" Leah Dickerman, Menschel Hall

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, S153 The contemporary Russophone Israeli literature is no longer émigré, minor, or marginal. In the world where globalism and cultural neonativism converge, literature reveals new possibilities of expression...

Emma Widdis, Reader in Russian Studies, Trinity College, University of Cambridge Free admission, but passes are required. Passes will be given out at the door, beginning at 5 p.m., at the Broadway entrance. Co-sponsored by Department of History of Art and...