The Davis Center at Harvard University Podcast
1) The MapMaker: Episode 7 - The Black Sea in (Poly)Crisis
Dr. Kelly O'Neill sits down with Anastasiia Pereverten and Markus Vaher to learn more about the cascading effects of the war waged in the Black Sea that is reshaping the way we think about regionalism...Show More
2) Eurasia from the East, 2024
As we approach the third year of the war in Ukraine, the ripples from the conflict go deeper and further into the fabric of international relations. This seminar brings together three scholars from Ja...Show More
3) Amb. Krol (Ret): America Discovers Central Asia, Central Asia Discovers America
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan George Krol will discuss the development of relations between the United States and the Central Asian states...Show More
Amb. Krol (Ret): America Discovers Central Asia, Central Asia Discovers America
1:15:29 | Oct 24th, 2024
4) The MapMaker: Episode 6 - The Day Watermelons Almost Toppled the Russian Empire
Dr. Kelly O'Neill recounts the convoluted events of the so-called Watermelon Rebellion, a little-known episode in Russian imperial history full of intrigue, deception, espionage, personal animosities,...Show More
The MapMaker: Episode 6 - The Day Watermelons Almost Toppled the Russian Empire
1:04:26 | Sep 9th, 2024
5) The MapMaker: Episode 5 - Water, Memory, and the Steppe
REECA alumna Jackie Erlon-Baurjan talks with Kelly about water: about how it was conceptualized and managed on the Kazakh steppe in the 19th century, and about how it (or the lack of it) shaped her ow...Show More
6) The MapMaker: Episode 4 - Shakespeare versus Stalin: Why Place Names Matter
Graduate student Valerie Browne shares her research into the history of Crimean place names. She explains how Stalin attempted to remake the map after World War II and how Wikipedia allowed her to rec...Show More
The MapMaker: Episode 4 - Shakespeare versus Stalin: Why Place Names Matter
29:23 | Aug 13th, 2024
7) The MapMaker: Episode 3 - The Antidote to Misinformation
Lily and Kelly discuss an enterprising official of the East India Company and how he turned a dusty old Russian military map into a game-changing weapon for the British Army.
8) MapMaker: Episode 2 - The Art of Map-Listening
Lily and Kelly dig into what it was like to live in Crimea as a subject of the Russian Empire. They explore power-relations, the survival of local practices, imperial ideology, and yes, the art of map...Show More
9) MapMaker: Episode 1 - Crimea as Queen Victoria Saw It
In our first episode, Dr. O'Neill goes to the Harvard Map Collection with high-school student Lily Grodzins to investigate a map of Crimea produced in 1855 and dedicated to Queen Victoria. What they f...Show More
10) How to Kill a Superpower: Episode 5 - Scrambled Beans
The signatories of the Belavezha agreement believe it should serve as a consensus model for the world—an example of diplomacy, civil discourse, and nonviolent means of conflict resolution. The events ...Show More