Events

Book Talk | Elections, Protest, and Authoritarian Regime Stability: Russia 2008–2020

Humanity in Motion and Colombia: A Conversation with President Iván Duque

Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance

Traveling Black tells the story of what it was like to travel in Jim Crow cars, ride at the back of the bus, and navigate a myriad of discri...

Worlds Apart:A Documentary History of US-Iran Relations, 1978-2018

The first panel of the Global Middle East Seminar Series for the Fall 2021 semester, authors Malcolm Byrne and Kian Byrne will discuss their...

James H. Billington Lecture | Tamizdat Project and Contraband Russian Literature: The Case of Varlam Shalamov

What Happened in Canada’s 44th General Election

International Underground Railroad Month Event

The Wilson Center’s Canada Institute is commemorating International Underground Railroad Month through a panel discussion between historians...

Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons For Modern Resilience

On a popular view ancient Stoicism is not so much a philosophy as a collection of life hacks for overcoming anxiety, curbing anger, and find...

The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties

In The Last Good Neighbor, Eric Zolov proposes a revisionist interpretation of Mexican history during the 1960s.  He shows how Mexico's...

Book Launch: Mohammed bin Salman: The Icarus of Saudi Arabia?