Contemporary Ukraine

Karl Schlögel, Serhii Plokhii, and Elena Kostyuchenko in conversation Winner of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade Karl Schlögel will join Serhii Plokhii, former Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, in a conversation...

A book talk and discussion with Artem Chapeye, author of Ordinary People Don't Carry Machine Guns ( published in Ukrainian as Не народжені для війни ). Part of the TCUP Book Club This is a private event for book club members only. For more information...

Full event information may be found here. The artist Alevtina Kakhidze invites viewers into the intimate, raw space where everyday life and wartime reality collide. Living in Ukraine throughout Russia’s full‑scale invasion, Kakhidze works from the...

2026 Petryshyn Memorial Lecture by Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University Moderated by Terry Martin , George F. Baker Professor of Russian Studies, Department of History, Harvard University and Director...

About the Workshop Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine recently entered its fifth year. The effects of the war in both countries cannot be fully assessed until the conflict ends, but at this point there is no doubt that four years of warfare — the...

A lecture by Volodymyr Kravchenko, HURI Research Fellow and Professor of History, Classics, and Religion at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) Moderated by Megan K. Duncan Smith , HURI Programs Manager...

"Female Civilian Captives: Rights Violations, Return, and Justice for Ukrainians Held by Russia" is organized by the HKS Ukraine Caucus , a Harvard student organization, and co-sponsored by HURI. Please visit the registration page for full information...

Dr. Oleksandra Tarkhanova, Research Associate at the University of St. Gallen and Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard, presents her current research. Chaired by Dr. Emily Channell-Justice, Director of HURI's Temerty Contemporary...

A lecture by Natalia Kudriavtseva, HURI Research Fellow and Professor of Linguistics and Translation Studies at Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, Ukraine Moderated by Laada Bilaniuk , HURI Research Fellow Attendees are invited to enjoy an informal...