Daviscalendar-list October 2005

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Nov. 16 Literary Study Group event - changed to Nov. 14

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*Please note time and date change:* * Monday, November 14 Literary Study Group* " /'Kamennyi Gost' Pushkina i traditsiia frantsuzskogo libertinazha/" Igor Nemirovskii, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Visiting Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Senior Researcher, Institute of Russian Literature, St. Petersburg 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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International Conference Dedicated to the 1600th Anniversary of St. Mesrops Mashtots

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*Friday, October 28 - Saturday, October 29 **International Conference Dedicated to the 1600th Anniversary of St. Mesrops Mashtots, Inventor of the Armenian Alphabet* //(Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies/Davis Center/Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations) Speakers include Prof. Michael Stone (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Prof. Robert Thomson (Oxford University), Prof. Karen Yuzbashian (Russian Academy of Sciences), Dr. Gohar Muradyan (Matenadaran, Erevan), Prof. John Huehnergard (NELC, Harvard), and Prof. Abraham Terian (St. Nersess Seminary). Papers will consider the origins and paleography of Armenian script, the work of Mashtots, the early translators, and his hagiographer Koriun, and the writing systems of neighboring Near Eastern languages. 1730 Cambridge Street, Auditorium, South Concourse Free and open to the public. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~nelc/stmesropsmashtotsconference.htm <http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Enelc/stmesropsmashtotsconference.htm>. -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies - November Seminar Calendar

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*Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies**_ November Seminar Calendar_* *Tuesday, November 1 Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar * /"Spin-Doctoring the Uyghurs: Recent Developments in Cultural Policy in Xinjiang"/ Arienne Dwyer, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Kansas 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm *Wednesday, November 2 Comparative Economics Seminar */ "Czars to Kommisars and Back Again"/ Murray Seeger, Former Bureau Chief, /Los Angeles// Times/ 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153 12:30 - 2:00 pm *Monday, November 7 Central **Asia** and the **Caucasus** Seminar */ "//Kyrgyzstan//'s Democratic 'Revolution' and its Implications for //Central Asia//"/ Steve Young, Office of the Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of State; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic 1737 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room N262 4:15 - 6:00 pm *Monday, November 7 Sakharov Seminar, Book Talk */ "The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov /(Yale University Press, 2005)" A talk with the editors: Joshua Rubenstein, Associate, Davis Center; Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International USA Alexander Gribanov, Literary Scholar and Archivist Chair: Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm *Monday, November 7 **Co-sponsored by Literature and Culture Seminar, **Davis** **Center**, and Politics and the Arts Seminar, **Humanities** **Center* * */ "Public Interiors Between Two Cultures: A Conversation with Russian-American Artist Irina Nakhova" /Moderator: Svetlana Boym, Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, Harvard University Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Room 133 6:00 - 7:30 pm */Reception following./* *Tuesday, November 8 Cold War Studies Seminar / /*/"Spies, Solidarity, and the Aftermath of the 1980-1981 Polish Crisis: A Reassessment Based on the Archives of the Polish Intelligence Services"/ Idesbald Goddeeris, Professor of History, University of Leuven, Belgium 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Wednesday, November 9 Comparative Economics Seminar */ "The Siloviki and the Oligarchs: Implications for the Russian Economy"/ Vladislav Inozemtsev, Editor-in-Chief, /Svobodnaia mysl/; Former Chairman, Moscow Paris Commercial Bank 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153 12:30 - 2:00 pm *Thursday, November 10 Literature and Culture Seminar */ "Confessions of a Sinner: Author and Antihero in Russian and American Traditions" /Lily Alexander, Professor, Hofstra University and New York University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm *Monday, November 14 Comparative Economics Seminar */ "The //Moscow// Mortgage Market -- It's About Time, But is it Safe?" /Yuri Kudimov, President and Chairman of the Board, Russian National Reserve Bank 1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250 12:30 - 2:00 pm *Monday, November 14 Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop* Yoshiko Herrera, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University /"Conditional Norms: Bureaucratic Reform and Internationalization of Russian Statistics" / Papers are available on the website at www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/ <http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Epostcomm/>. There is no presentation; all participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the meeting. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30 - 2:00 pm *Tuesday, November 15 Cold War Studies Seminar */ "Reevaluating the //USSR//, 1917-1991: The Contours of Soviet History"/ Andrea Graziosi, Professor of Modern History, University of Naples, Italy 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Wednesday, November 16 Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies* /"A discussion of Yuri Slezkine's /The Jewish Century/ (//Princeton// //University// Press, 2004)"/ Zvi Gitelman, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.; Professor, Political Science, Judaic Studies, University of Michigan Terry Martin, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Associate Professor of History, Harvard University Steven Zipperstein, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor, Jewish Culture and History; Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm */Participants are requested to read the book prior to the seminar./* *Wednesday, November 16 Literary Study Group* " /'Kamennyi Gost' Pushkina i traditsiia frantsuzskogo libertinazha/" Igor Nemirovskii, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Visiting Lecturer, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Senior Researcher, Institute of Russian Literature, St. Petersburg 1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450 4:15 - 6:00 pm * * *Thursday, November 17 Comparative Politics Seminar* /"The Prospects for Free and Fair Elections in //Russia// in 2008"/ Leonid Nevzlin, Former Senior Executive, Yukos 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm *Thursday, November 17 Literature and Culture Seminar */ "He Writes Like a Woman: Briusov's Nelli" /Olga Hasty, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Kresge Room (Room 114) 4:15 - 6:00 pm** *Friday, November 18 Early Slavists' Seminar */ //"The Making of the Ruthenian Nation, 1569-1648" /Serhii Plokhii, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Visiting Professor of History, Harvard University; Associate Director, Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Monday, November 28 Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop* Xi Chen, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University /"The Institutional Conversion of the Appeals and Petitions System in //China//"/ Papers are available on the website at www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/ <http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Epostcomm/>. There is no presentation; all participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the meeting. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30 - 2:00 pm *Wednesday, November 30 Comparative Politics Seminar */"Symposium on Post-Communist Politics and Economics: What Have We Learned From the Success Stories in //East-Central Europe//?"/ Hilary Appel, Associate Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College /On Ideas and Economics / Grzegorz Ekiert, Professor of Government, Harvard University /On Civil Society and Mobilization / Anna Grzymala-Busse, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan /On Party Politics and Institutions/ 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:00 - 2:00 pm *Wednesday, November 30 Comparative Economics Seminar */ "Charting //Poland//'s Economic Course: Between Old and New //Europe//"/ Wojciech Bienkowski, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Warsaw School of Economics, Poland 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153 12:30 - 2:00 pm** * * For questions about any Davis Center sponsored events, please contact Penny Skalnik at daviscrs(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:daviscrs@fas.harvard.edu> or 617.495.4037. -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Barrington Moore

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We regret to inform you that Barrington Moore, Jr., long time senior fellow at the Russian Research Center (now Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies), passed away on Sunday, October 16th at the age of 92. Barrington Moore worked as a policy analyst for the U.S. government during World War II before coming to Harvard, where he also taught sociology from 1951 until 1979. There will be a memorial service in his honor at the Center for European Studies on Tuesday, November 1, at 5 p.m. The Harvard Gazette will run a full obituary next Thursday. -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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new October calendar additions

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please note the following additions to the Davis Center October calendar: *Tuesday, October 25* *Special Session of the Central Asia & Caucasus Working Group* /"The National Ideal and New Migrants: Encounters in Kazakhstan"/ Tsypylma Darieva, Research Fellow, Department for European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:10 - 6:00 pm *Thursday, October 27 Comparative Economics Seminar */ //"Health Reform in //Russia//: Has it Improved the Medical System or the Population's Health?" /Chris Davis, Reader in Command and Transition Economies, Wolfson College, University of Oxford 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15 - 6:15 pm -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Seminar Cancellation- Comparative Economics, Wednesday, October 19

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*The following seminar has been canceled:* * Wednesday, October 19 Comparative Economics Seminar */ //"The Soviets and Other Economic Peculiarities at the UN" /Pedro A. Sanjuan, Former Appointee to the UN Secretariat 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153 12:15 - 2:00 pm -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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changes to Comparative Economics Seminar on Tuesday, October 25, 2005

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*please note the speaker changes to the seminar listed below: * * * *Tuesday, October 25* *Comparative Economics* *Seminar* /"Political and Legal Implications of the Khodorkovsky Case"/ The Khodorkovsky international legal team Maria P. Logan, Senior Associate, Greenberg Traurig LLP, McLean, VA A. John Pappalardo, former US Attorney for Massachusetts Sanford M. Saunders, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Washington, D.C. 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010 4:15 - 6:00 pm -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Belarus Symposium, Film Screening, and Theater Performances

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A number of Belarus-related events are going on right now, with more to come through Friday, October 21. Please see below for details. *"The Arts, National Identity and Cultural Politics in **Belarus**"* *A Symposium at Harvard University, October 14-15, 2005* Harvard University's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is pleased to announce a symposium on "The Arts, National Identity and Cultural Politics in Belarus" to be held at Harvard on October 14-15, 2005, in conjunction with the first North American performances by the Jakub Kolas Academic Theatre at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, Massachusetts (please see announcement below for further information about the performances). The symposium will focus on the role of literature and the arts in the construction of competing visions of Belarusian national and cultural identity, and the ways in which the Lukashenka regime has sought to shape post-Soviet Belarusian society through state intervention in the cultural sphere. Presentations are planned on contemporary Belarusian literature, theatre, music, visual arts and film, as well as cultural and educational policy in Belarus under Lukashenka. In addition, there will be a screening and discussion of the recent, critically acclaimed film "Occupation: Mysterium" (2004) by the Belarusian director A. Kudzinenka (banned in Belarus for its unflattering portrayal of Soviet partisans during WWII), a reading of contemporary Belarusian poetry, and an exhibit of Belarusian visual arts and photography. A preliminary schedule of the symposium and related events is appended below. For further information, please contact Dr. Curt Woolhiser (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University) by e-mail at cwoolhis(a)fas.harvard.edu. * The Arts, National Identity and Cultural Politics in **Belarus* Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (Harvard), The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Orsa-Romano Cultural and Educational Foundation, and the North American Association for Belarusian Studies. Wednesday, October 12-Friday October 21 *Exhibits of contemporary Belarusian visual arts and photography* (Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall (Harvard) and Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown) *Thursday, October 13* 2:30-3:30* Meeting with members of the Jakub Kolas Theatre* at Harvard (Humanities Room, Barker Center 133) 4:00-7:00* Screening of "Mysterium: Occupation"* (Belarus/Netherlands 2003) followed by discussion (Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard University) 8:00* Performances of "Chagall...Chagall..." and "The Arrest"* by the Jakub Kolas Theatre, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown *Friday, October 14* *Session I* (Humanities Room, 133 Barker Center, Harvard University) 3:30-3:40 Opening remarks 3:40-4:20 Arnold McMillin (University of London) "Aspects of Belarusian Literature since 1994" 4:20-5:00 Zina Gimpelevich (Waterloo U, Ontario) "Vasil Bykau: My Biography is in My Books" 5:00-5:40 Paula Survilla (Wartburg College, Iowa) "Back in the BSSR, or And the Beat Goes On: Adaptations in Sound and Vision in the Belarusan Rock Movement, 1989-2005" 5:40-6:00 Thomas Bird (CUNY-Queens College) -- discussant 6:00-6:30 presenters' responses, questions and discussion 8:00* Performances of "Chagall...Chagall..." and "The Arrest"* by the Jakub Kolas Theatre, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown *Saturday, October 15* *Session II* (Humanities Room, 133 Barker Center, Harvard University) 10:00-10:40 Grigory Ioffe (Radford U, Virginia) "Cultural Wars, Soul-Searching and Belarusian Identity" 10:40-11:20 Iryna Vidanava (Johns Hopkins) "The State vs. the Nation: Lukashenka and Educational Policy" 11:20-12:00 Elena Gapova (European Humanities University, Minsk/Vilnius) "The Cultural as the Political in Belarusian Intellectual Journals" 12:00-12:20 Timothy Snyder (Yale) -- discussant 12:20-12:40 Vital Zajka (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York) -- discussant 12:40-1:30 presenters' responses, questions and discussion 2:00* Performances of "Chagall...Chagall..." and "The Arrest"* by the Jakub Kolas Theatre, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown 4:30-5:30 Poetry reading in Belarusian and English translation by Valzhyna Mort (Humanities Room, 133 Barker Center) 5:30-6:30 Business meeting of the North American Association for Belarusian Studies (Humanities Room, 133 Barker Center) 8:00 Performances of "Chagall...Chagall..." and "The Arrest" by the Jakub Kolas Theatre, Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown *Performances by the Jakub Kolas Academic Theatre (Viciebsk, Belarus) at the Arsenal Center for the Arts, Watertown, Massachusetts, October 13-15, 2005* The Jakub Kolas Academic Theatre is the second-largest theatre company in Belarus and the country's premiere touring company. With funding from the Trust for Mutual Understanding (New York), Harvard University, and the Orsa-Romano Cultural and Educational Foundation, on its first North American tour the Jakub Kolas Theatre will be performing two of their most popular pieces, Uladzimir Drazdou's "Chagall... Chagall..." and Sakrat Janovich's "The Arrest", at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown, Massachusetts, October 13-15, 2005. Both plays will be performed in the original Belarusian with projected English supertitles. "Chagall" is the theatre's most internationally acclaimed and recognized production, having been performed at the East Goes West Festival in London; at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe where it was awarded the "Fringe First" award by the Scotsman; at the Espace Pierre Cardin in Paris at the behest of Mr. Cardin himself; at Mittelfest in Cividale del Friule, Italy; at the International Festival "Contact" in Toruº, Poland; and at the Baltic Home Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Scotsman writes: "'Chagall, Chagall...', from Vitebsk in Belarus, is a staggeringly beautiful show about the early life of the artist Marc Chagall, as he remembers it in his dying moments. Born in Vitebsk in 1887, Chagall was entirely shaped as an artist by the life of the city's Jewish community and by his love for the little city he never left in his imagination....Here, nine magnificent actors from the Jakub Kolas Academic Theatre recreate that life in a series of ten exquisite, tableau-like scenes that shimmer with respect for the world Chagall knew, and with sorrow for the horrors that were to sweep it away." The second production, "The Arrest," a unique example of the theatrical mastery of Artistic Director Vital Barkouski, is an exploration of Belarusian identity and the modern Belarusian experience based on episodes from the life of the Belarusian scholar, educator and political activist Branislau Tarashkevich (imprisoned by the Poles in the 1920s as a "Soviet agent," and later executed by the Soviets as a "Polish spy"). As in Drazdou's "Chagall," in Janovich's "The Arrest" the viewer is made acutely aware of Belarus's historical role as a contested cultural and political borderland -- a role that was to have particularly tragic consequences over the course of the 20th century. For more information about the Jakub Kolas Theatre's performances at the Arsenal Center, as well as about possible performances in other cities during the theatre's first North American tour, please contact the theatre's international manager, Mr. James Mallinson, at james(a)mallinsonarts.com.

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Annc for Davis Ctr. E-mail calendar list: Central Asia Seminar- Giorgi Kandelaki, The Rose Revolution, Oct. 17

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Monday, October 17 Central Asia Seminar "The Rose Revolution: Causes and Consequences" Giorgi Kandelaki, Senior Advisor, Analytics Group of the Office of the President of Georgia Co-Founder, Kmara! (Enough!), Georgian Youth Organization 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:10 - 5:30 pm -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 <http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu>http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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October Seminar Calendar- Second Addition

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*Tuesday, October 18 Comparative Economics Seminar */ //"A Visit to the //Silk Route//: The Economics, the Politics, and the Culture"/ Marshall Goldman, Associate Director, Davis Center; Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S040 12:30 - 2:00 pm -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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