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Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed (right), preceptor in Slavic Languages & Literatures, and Bohdan Tokarskyi, assistant professor of Ukrainian literature and culture, at a panel at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies in April.

Cultural Memory Amid Russia's Denial of Ukraine

“I wanted to analyze how this pursuit to eliminate Ukrainians as a nation shaped the way Ukrainians remember themselves,” Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed of Harvard's Slavic Department says of her new book about contested memory.

Reimagining Regional Studies

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The present-day Davis Center fosters understanding through dialogue, research, and scholarly exchange. Although geopolitical harmony has eluded us for many decades, we have always hoped for and promoted peaceful mutual understanding. Simmering violence in eastern Ukraine and elsewhere in the post-Soviet world has been alarming for years, but the Russian invasion of Ukraine marks a definitive change in the political trajectory of the region.

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Statement on Russia’s War against Ukraine