Modern History

A lecture by Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University Moderated by Serhiy Bilenky, HUSI Program Director at HURI IN-PERSON and ONLINE via Zoom Webinar (live). Please register to attend in-person using the...

A lecture by Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, Preceptor in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University Moderated by Serhiy Bilenky, HUSI Program Director at HURI IN-PERSON and ONLINE via Zoom Webinar (live). Please register to attend in-person using...

A lecture by Eleonora Narvselius, HURI Visiting Scholar and Associate Professor of European Studies at Lund University, Sweden Moderated by Emma Mateo , Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and HUSI 2026 instructor IN...

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 Moderated by Andrea Graziosi , Jacyk Distinguished Fellow at HURI. Attendees are...

A lecture by Sophia Kalashnikova Horowitz, Ph.D. candidate in History at Harvard University Moderated by Tatsiana Astrouskaya , HURI Research Fellow. Attendees are invited to enjoy an informal lunch. This event is organized by HURI as part of the Ukraine...

A lecture by Emma Mateo, Mihaychuk Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Moderated by Emily Channell-Justice , Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at HURI. Attendees are invited to enjoy an informal lunch. This...

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...

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...