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.
Fall 2026 Events
September 30
Sergiy V. Kostrikov, Karazin University
Ukraine and Karazin University in Wartime: A View from Within
Harrison Hall 204, 4:30 p.m.
October 1
Joachim Wintzer, Bryn Mawr College
From Reunification to Populism: Why Eastern Germany Turned Right
Harrison Hall 002, 1:15 p.m.
October 5
Rikki Brown, University of California, Santa Cruz
Wines, Vines, and a Land as Old as Time: Georgian Wine, Mythology, and the Political Economy
Irvin Hall 242, 11:40 a.m.
October 6
Andrew Ryvkin, Journalist
Pop-Propaganda: How the Kremlin Markets Its War Like Disney and Coca-Cola
Bachelor Hall 1042, 4:30 p.m.
"Pop Propaganda" treats today’s Kremlin messaging not as agitprop or “information war,” but as mass culture—built around influencers, streaming platforms (including the Kremlin’s own “Netflix”), branded narratives, and entertainment-first politics. The talk draws a line from the 1990s Moscow art scene to today’s public-private propaganda ecosystem, showing how pop aesthetics, commercialization, and political messaging collapsed into a single system.
Co-sponsored with the Department of Media, Journalism and Film’s Diana Stark Lecture Series
October 12
Larysa Iarovenko, University of Toronto Scarborough
A discussion of the film Mama’s Voice
304 Harrison Hall, 10:00 a.m.
November 11
Annual Havighurst Lecture—Diplomacy During the Russo-Ukrainian War: A Conversation with Marie Yovanovitch, Ambassador to Ukraine, (2016–2019), Armenia (2008–2011) and Kyrgyzstan (2005–2008) and Lynne Tracy, Ambassador to Russia (2023–2025) and Armenia (2019–2022)
