Modern History

A book talk by author Nataliya Kibita, a scholar of 20th-century Ukrainian history and institutional change and an academic visitor at the University of Oxford. Moderated by Emily Channell-Justice, Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at...

Serhii Plokhii will discuss his new book, The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival, in conversation with Mykhailo Soldatenko , international legal scholar and attorney in Ukraine and New York. About the Book The nuclear age came into...

A lecture by Bartłomiej Gajos , Senior Research Fellow at the Mieroszewski Centre, Poland Moderated by Serhii Plokhii , Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Department of History at Harvard About the Lecture This paper argues that the...

A lecture by Anna Bisikalo, Ph.D. candidate in History at Harvard University Moderated by Megan K. Duncan Smith, Programs Manager at HURI Attendees are invited to enjoy an informal lunch. Image: Detail of Cerkiew, 1990 by Jerzy Nowosielski, a Polish...

A lecture by Valentyna Savchyn , Associate Professor of Ukrainian Studies at Lund University and Lund-Harvard Visiting Fellow at HURI Moderated by Megan K. Duncan Smith, Programs Manager at HURI Attendees are invited to enjoy an informal lunch. About the...

A lecture and documentary film screening by Peter Straton Bejger , filmmaker, editor, and writer Moderated by Serhiy Bilenky, HUSI Program Director at HURI, Research Associate at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), University of Alberta...

A book talk and conversation with Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed, author of Russia’s Denial of Ukraine: Letters and Contested Memory (2024). In this book, a broader context for Russia’s denial of Ukraine’s rightful existence as a nation, which has erupted in the...

A lecture by historian John P. LeDonne, long-time associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and center associate at the Davis Center for Russian Studies, Harvard University. Moderated by Megan K Duncan Smith , Programs Coordinator at the...

A lecture by Serhiy Lepyavko, Professor of History at Nizhyn Gogol State University (Ukraine), Director of the NGO The Siverian Institute of Regional Studies in Chernihiv, Research Fellow at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University (February...

A lecture by historian Mie Nakachi, HURI Research Fellow (February – May 2025), Professor of Global Studies at Hokusei Gakuen University, and Research Associate at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center of Hokkaido University. Moderated by Megan K Duncan...