Partnerships and Programs

Ab Imperio is an affiliated journal of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) Since 2017, Ab Imperio is published in consortium with the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies and the College of Arts and Sciences of Miami University

“In 2023 the Center hosted Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, the National Leader of Belarus. During her visit, Director Stephen Norris announced that the Havighurst Center will sponsor lectures, events, and other activities focused on Belarusian history, culture, and democratic politics. 

In fall 2024, we will welcome Natalya Chernyshova to campus to speak about her current research project dedicated to Soviet Belarus between 1965 and 1980.”

Creative Horizons is a collaboration between the Havighurst Center, Arizona State University’s Melikian Center, and the Institute on Russia at the University of South Florida. Building on separate experiments in virtual programming since Spring 2020, this joint venture gives audiences in Arizona, Florida, Ohio and beyond the opportunity to hear from working artists in the region as they discuss their methods, perspectives and aspirations. The series features videos produced in collaboration by the featured artists and videographer Ari Gajraj, followed by online discussions featuring the artist and moderated by regional specialists from ASU, USF or Miami University.

Videos and discussions are available on the Melikian Center's Creative Horizons Vimeo page.

The Lithuania Program was founded in 2018, formalizing several scholarly and educational activities that had been taking place for the previous ten years under the leadership of Dr. Neringa Klumbytė, the Director of the Lithuania Program at the Havighurst Center, and Dr. Stephen Norris, the Director of the Havighurst Center, as well as the Havighurst Faculty Associates.

For more information, visit the Lithuania Program page or contact the program's director Dr. Klumbytė, or the Center’s Director, Dr. Stephen Norris.

Since its founding, the Havighurst Center has worked with King Library to build research collections available to students and faculty. This partnership has helped to acquire, catalog, and add to the Andre de Saint-Rat Collection of Russian History, Literature, and Art as well as add the digital archives of Pravda, The Moscow News, and Iskusstvo kino to the library’s collections.

The Center has also helped bring important collections to King Library, including the 2022 donation of 50 prints from Ukrainian photographers associated with the Kharkiv School of Photography and a major donation from Miami alumnus Steven Marks of rare books. In 2022-23 the Center helped to purchase a major collection of late Soviet propaganda posters that will be digitized and made available to students and researchers.

Former Havighurst Center Teaching Fellow Emily Channell-Justice donated her collection of 3000 photographs taken during the 2013-14 Euromaidan Revolution in Kyiv, Ukraine. The photographs are available through King Library’s digital collections and a public-facing website.