External Events

We promote events pertaining to Russia and Eurasia that are conducted in the Boston area and online. Please check out the links below for more information about upcoming events at affiliated institutions. Scroll further to find information about upcoming external events that might be of interest to the Fletcher community.

• Russia Matters
• Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University
• Ballets Russes Arts Initiative
• Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University
• WorldBoston
• Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University
• MIT Starr Forum
• Kennan Institute at Wilson Center
• Russia and Eurasia Program at CSIS
• Russia and Eurasia Program at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• Eurasia Program at FPRI
• Eurasia Center at Atlantic Council
• PONARS Eurasia
• Harriman Institute of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies at Columbia University

Greater Boston Area

Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University
The Budapest Memorandum After 30 Years: A Conversation with Eugene Fishel, John Herbst, and Serhii Plokhii
Monday, December 9, 2024 | 5:00 P.M. – 6:30 P.M. ET
Join a conversation with Eugene Fishel, Distinguished Fellow, Center for Security Policy Studies, George Mason University, John Herbst, Senior Director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center and former US Ambassador to Ukraine, and Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. Register here.

Online Events

The Wilson Center
Reading and Learning from Political Prisoners Today
Thursday, December 12, 2024 | 1:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. ET
As political imprisonment has once again become a mass experience in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, questions around how to narrate the memory of repressions, and which inherited plots to use in the process, are again becoming urgent. In this presentation, Billington Fellow Anastasiya Osipova will discuss why a pre-Gulag tradition of writing about political imprisonment may be becoming increasingly relevant now in the context of the intensifying repressions. She will focus on the legacy of the publishing activity of the Society of Political Prisoners and Exiled Settlers (1921-1935) and the lessons that it carries for Eastern European political prisoners today. Register here.