Events Upcoming EventsFeatured Events Toggle Featured Events Annual Alexander Dallin LectureStanford-Berkeley ConferencePast EventsEvent Media Event Media Does History Matter in the Russian-Ukrainian War? How to Win in Putin’s Propaganda War Historical Moments and Movements in Ukrainian Art and Film: From Medieval to Contemporary Voices from Ukraine Luka Nakhutsrishvili: "Oaths against Dams: Environmental Protests in Contemporary Georgia" Andrew Kuchins: "Fear and Loathing in Kyrgyzstan: An American Story" Bathsheba Demuth: "Do Whales Judge Us: Interspecies History and Ethics" Pauline Jones: "Trust in Religious Leaders & Voluntary Compliance: Social Distancing during COVID-19 in Central Asia" “I Say It Burns”: Poet/post-rock musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski in Conversation with Cynthia Haven Yevgenia Albats: "Institutional Persistence: The Role of the Political Police in the USSR and Present Day Russia" Andrey Kurkov: "From Violence to Vaudeville: How War Has Brought Comedians to Power" Pey-Yi Chu: "The Life of Permafrost: A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science" Eliot Borenstein: The Annual Alexander Dallin Lecture - "Plots against Russia: The Uses of Conspiracy after the Soviet Collapse" Bojana Videkanic: "Nonaligned Modernism: Socialist Postcolonial Aesthetic in Yugoslavia, 1945-1985" Kathryn Ciancia: "On Civilization's Edge: A Polish Borderland in the Interwar World" Francine Hirsch: "Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after WWII" Erica Marat: "Technological Solutions for Complex Problems: Emerging Electronic Surveillance Regimes in Eurasia" Dominique Kirchner Reill: "The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire" "The Nagorno Karabakh Crisis: Global, Regional and Domestic Perspectives" Vladislav Zubok: "Reformed to Death: The Strange End of the USSR" Nikita Petrov: "The Eyes and Ears of the Party: The KGB in the Soviet Political System" Viktoriya Sereda: "Region, Nation, and Beyond" Mykola Riabchuk: "Examined by War: New Bonds and Old Cleavages in Post-Maidan Ukrainian Society" Lilia Shevtsova: "Russia as a Global Challenge" Lena Jonson: "Art and Protest in Putin's Russia" Karen Dawisha: "Is Putin’s Russia a Kleptocracy? And if so, so what?" Zoran Amar: "Cinema on the Urban Edge" Nina Bunjevac: "Fatherland: A Family History" Michael McFaul: "A New Cold War? Causes and Consequences of Confrontation with Russia" Volodymyr Dubovyk: "Ukraine: What is the Fight All About?" "Contextualizing the Holodomor: 80th Anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933" Taras Koznarsky: "Shevchenko and His Readers" Zelimir Zilnik: "One Woman, One Century" Mikhail Iampolski: "Anthropology of Cultural Models: Two Ways of Appropriating History in the 1920s" Back to Top