# Events ## Events Seminars, lectures, conferences, and other events are generally public and recorded. ![attendees recording an event](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_21_9__1920x825/public/2025-07/DSC_89473.jpg?itok=KbhCIM3E) ## Upcoming Events [### Art Exhibit: Davyd Chychkan, "With Ribbons and Flags,” 2022-2024 ](/event/art-exhibit-davyd-chychkan-ribbons-and-flags-2022-2024?occ_id=0)Jan. 29 - Aug 9, 2026 | 9:00AM - 5:00PM EST | IN-PERSON In Person “With Ribbons and Flags” is the last project by Ukrainian artist and activist Davyd Chychkan (1986-2025). He created "With Ribbons and Flags" in 2022-2024, before volunteering to fight on the frontline himself. ![Davyd Chychkan. Ukrainian soldiers with ribbons](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-01/2026%20Chychkan%20Exhibition-1920x1536-web-thumbnail.png?h=bcdfea21&itok=k4PSWjEW) [### Home-Making in Displacement Among Ukrainians in Europe and North America: Collective Memories and Re(Dis)Located Heritages in the Wake of Russian Aggression ](/event/Eleonora-Narvselius-home-making-displacement-among-ukrainians-europe-north-america-collective-memories?occ_id=0)July 1, 2026 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT | IN-PERSON AND ONLINE Hybrid A lecture by Eleonora Narvselius, HURI Visiting Scholar and Associate Professor of European Studies at Lund University, Sweden !["The Emigrant" Statue Created by Armando Barbon](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/2026.07.01%20Narvselius-2-1920x1536-web-thumbnail.jpeg?h=1078b1a2&itok=-vN45qSc) [### Back to the USSR—and Farther: Russia’s War Against Ukraine, Mnemonic Abuse, And Memoricide ](/event/Nataliya-Shpylova-Saeed-back-ussr-farther-russias-war-against-ukraine-mnemonic-abuse-and-memoricide?occ_id=0)July 8, 2026 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT | IN-PERSON AND ONLINE Hybrid A lecture by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University ![A collage featuring traditional Slavic symbols and a protesting crowd](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/2026.07.08%20Shpylova-Saeed-2-1920x1536-web-thumbnail%20%281%29.jpeg?h=7b62ce87&itok=xiyzfFRB) [### David and Goliath: Understanding the Russo-Ukrainian War ](/event/Serhii-Plokhii-david-goliath-understanding-russo-ukrainian-war?occ_id=0)July 15, 2026 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT | IN-PERSON AND ONLINE Hybrid A lecture by Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University ![Rock, cover of Plokhii's book David and Goliath](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-06/2026.07.15%20Plokhii-2-1920x1536-web-thumbnail%20%282%29.png?itok=-Qx1oFF7) [### The Carpathians: Periphery or Center? ](/event/Patrice-M-Dabrowski-carpathians-periphery-or-center?occ_id=0)July 22, 2026 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM EDT | IN-PERSON AND ONLINE Hybrid A lecture by Patrice M. Dabrowski, a HURI Associate, a member of the Board of Directors of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, and editor of H-Poland ![The Carpathian Mountains](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-05/2026.07.22%20Dabrowski-2-1920x1536-web-thumbnail%20%281%29.jpeg?h=9c93cd76&itok=XMD8FPj5) - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page") [ View All Upcoming Events arrow\_circle\_right ](/calendar) ## Recent Events [### Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters ](/event/silence-dressed-cyrillic-letters-iya-kiva-amelia-glaser-yuliya-ilchuk?occ_id=0)May 13, 2026 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | ONLINE Virtual Book launch and discussion of *Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters* with author Iya Kiva and translators Amelia Glaser and Yuliya Ilchuk ![Book cover of Silence Dressed in Cyrillic Letters](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/2026.05.13%20Kiva-4-1920x1536-web-thumbnail.jpeg?itok=L5POesVl) [### Furious Harvests ](/event/furious-harvests-book-talk-discussion-alex-averbuch-oksana-maksymchuk-max-rosochinsky?occ_id=0)May 6, 2026 | 2:00PM - 3:30PM EDT | ONLINE Virtual Book launch and discussion of *Furious Harvests* with author Alex Averbuch and translators Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky ![Book cover of Furious Harvests](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/2026.05.06%20Averbuch-5-1920x1536-web-thumbnail.jpeg?itok=jW9BYCtg) [### Culture and Resistance: Why is it Time for a New History of Soviet Dissent? ](/event/tatsiana-astrouskaya-culture-and-resistance-why-it-time-new-history-soviet-dissent?occ_id=0)May 5, 2026 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | IN-PERSON @ HURI In Person A lecture by Tatsiana Astrouskaya, HURI Research Fellow at Harvard and Research Fellow at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg ![A building under construction seen in the distance through the legs of a statue](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/2026.05.05%20Astrouskaya-2-1920x1536-web-thumbnail.png?h=0547e1f9&itok=6E1I61ZS) [### Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian "Harvard Miracle" ](/event/andrii-portnov-omeljan-pritsak-and-intellectual-origins-ukrainian-harvard-miracle?occ_id=0)April 30, 2026 | 2:00PM - 3:30PM EDT | ONLINE Virtual Book launch and discussion of *Omeljan Pritsak and the Intellectual Origins of the Ukrainian "Harvard Miracle"* with author Andrii Portnov ![Book Cover of Omeljan Pritsak](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/2026.04.30%20Portnov-2-1920x1536-web-thumbnail%20%282%29.png?itok=PVWufQWo) [### Citizen Participation in Soviet Political Policing: Reinventing the Mass Informer Network and Developing the Skilled Informer, 1934-1965 ](/event/sophia-horowitz-citizen-participation-soviet-political-policing-reinventing-mass-informer-network?occ_id=0)April 28, 2026 | 12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT | IN-PERSON @ HURI In Person A lecture by Sophia Kalashnikova Horowitz, Ph.D. candidate in History at Harvard University ![The cover of an informer's file](/sites/g/files/omnuum4931/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/2026.04.28%20Horowitz-2-1920x1536-web-thumbnail.jpeg?itok=3ZLbWkGM) [ View All Past Events arrow\_circle\_right ](https://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar/past_events) [**Sign up for our newsletter and receive information about upcoming events**](https://mailchi.mp/fas.harvard.edu/huri-subscribe)