Events
The Havighurst Center hosts a number of events every semester, as well as acts as co-sponsor for events related to our focus organized by other departments and units. Please check back for changes, updates and additions.
September 23-November 18
The Havighurst Center Colloquia Series (follow link for full schedule)
Mondays, 11:40am - 1:00pm
Friday, October 18
Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna
On Freedom
Harrison Hall 111, 12:00pm
In conversation with Havighurst Center director Stephen Norris, historian and author Timothy Snyder will discuss his latest book, On Freedom, as well as his upcoming projects: one on the history of Ukraine and its current crisis, and one a history of Eastern Europe. The first 100 attendees will receive a free copy of On Freedom.
Wednesday, October 23
Ukraine, War, Love: Stories of Donetsk and Odesa
Olena Stiazhkina and Ira Lupu
Ira Lupu
Ira Lupu is a photographer and visual artist based between Ukraine and New York City. She graduated from the International Center of Photography (NYC), and Viktor Marushchenko’s School of Photography (Kyiv).
Her work has been exhibited through Christie’s London and Paris, Wembley Park, Manifesta Biennial, Copenhagen Photo Festival, Rotterdam Art Week, published in the New York Times, the Economist, Libération, Guardian, Vogue, the British Journal Photography, and acquired by Bonnefanten Museum and Ethan Cohen Gallery, among others. A member of Diversify.Photo, Women Photograph, American Photographic Artists, and Kintzing Licensing, Ira is represented on Artsy.com through Darling Pearls Gallery, London. She held panels and talks with Magnum Photos, Tim Hetherington Trust, Imperial Wars Museum, The Piedmontese Institute for the History of the Resistance. She received project support from Rory Peck Trust, Aperture, and Google. Ira's latest project Spovid' (Confession), produced with Odesa Photo Days and Magnum Photos in summer 2024, contemplates the collective war experience among young Ukrainians who remained in the country during the hostilities.
In 2022-2023, Ira curated and organized exhibitions of Ukrainian photography in New York City, London, Bratislava, Budapest, and the Hague.
The City at War: Everyday Life in Kharkiv 2022 – 2024
In 2022, the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv found itself almost on the front line. The outskirts of the city were devastated by Russian artillery. Following the successful counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army in autumn 2022, almost the entire region was liberated. However, Russia continues to regularly bomb Kharkiv. As the residents themselves say, first they hear the explosion of a rocket, and then the air raid alarm.
How do we imagine everyday life in a city located 15-30 km from the front line? In Kharkiv, you can visit the theater and buy a variety of products, including delicacies, but you must accept that your life could end at any moment.
What is life like in a city near the front line? How does it affect people's daily lives and alter their reactions and coping strategies? In this lecture , a researcher and historian from Kharkiv, will share her insights into the motivations behind people's decision to stay in this city.
Out of the Marshes and into the Nuclear Age: The Politics of Modernisation in Late Soviet Belarus, 1965-1980
Upham Hall 167, 10:05am
Belarus emerged from the ashes of the Second World War to become the third most important Soviet republic. Previously a peasant borderland, it experienced a spectacular industrialisation leap in the first two post-war decades, which bore fruit and continued during the leadership of Petr Masherau, the Belarusian communist party’s chief in 1965-1980. While historians have focused on war memory as the most important tool of Soviet Belarusian nation-building, Chernyshova argues that in the long 1970s, the politics of modernisation in Belarus became not only the centrepiece of the Soviet regime’s legitimacy, but also a centrepiece of national Belarusian identity. Understanding its dynamics helps us understand how the late-Soviet empire functioned; it also helps explain Belarus’ post-socialist trajectory.