Daviscalendar-list October 2006

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Territories of Terror: Mythologies and Memories of the Gulag in Contemporary Russian-American Art

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*Territories of Terror: Mythologies and Memories of the Gulag in Contemporary Russian-American Art * October 24, 2006 - January 14, 2007 OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, October 26, 6-8pm Boston University's 808 Gallery, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts Contemporary Russian Installation Artists Curated by Svetlana Boym of Harvard University, this exhibition is one of the first attempts to tackle the dual imperative of Gulag history and mythology, map and territory, through contemporary art. Seven internationally recognized contemporary artists--Vitaly *Komar* and Alexander *Melamid*, Leonid *Sokov*, Grisha *Bruskin*, Eugene *Yelchin*, Irina *Nakhova* and Vadim *Zakharov*--who grew up in the former Soviet Union have been given a "territory" in the gallery in order to confront the haunted space of the "zone" in history and in the individual psyche. They represent two generations of ex-Soviet non-conformist art: Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Leonid Sokov and Grisha Bruskin were born during Stalin's time and reflect with a mixture of nostalgia and irony on their totalitarian childhoods, while Irina Nakhova, Eugene Yelchin and Vadim Zakharov, born during Khrushchev's thaw, have a more alienated attitude vis-à-vis the totalitarian mythology. Their territories of terror are border zones that reflect their cross-cultural experience. What they capture in their installations is the legacy of terror that shaped structures of mentality, spatial imagination, utopian aspirations and claustrophobic anxieties that mirror the tragic paradoxes of twentieth century history. A companion exhibition, GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom, runs concurrently at Boston University's 808 Gallery. /*In addition, please join us for the following event: */ *Friday, October 27, 2006 Artist Panel* Join /Territories of Terror/ exhibit artists and the guest curator for a discussion of the Gulag and contemporary art. Grisha Bruskin, Artist Vitaly Komar, Artist Irina Nakhova, Artist Eugene Yelchin, Artist *Guest Curator:* Svetlana Boym, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University * *1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S010 1:00 - 4:00 pm -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Monday, 10/30: The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Historical Perspective: Reassessments after 50 Years

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/*Please note the following conference and program:*/ *Monday, October 30, 2006 Cold War Studies Conference */ //"The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Historical Perspective: Reassessments after 50 Years"/ ** 1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room #S250 9:00 am - 5:00 pm ___________________________________________________________________ THE 1956 HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 50th-ANNIVERSARY REASSESSMENTS Monday, 30 October 2006 9:00 a.m.--5:00 p.m. 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S250 PANEL 1: The Crises in Hungary and Poland 9:00 a.m. -- 10:30 a.m. Chair: Thomas W. Simons, Jr, former U.S. Ambassador to Poland "The Hungarian Revolution and the Role of the Churches" Nicolas Bauquet, Sciences Po (France) "Hungarian Students and the 1956 Revolution" Julius Várallyay, World Bank (retired), Hungarian student leader "Imre Nagy and the Hungarian Revolution" János Rainer, Institute of Study of the 1956 Revolution (Budapest) "The Poznan Crisis and the Polish 'October'" Mark Kramer, Harvard University __________________________________________________________ PANEL 2: The 1956 Crises and the Soviet Union 10:45 a.m. -- 12:15 p.m. Chair: Igor Lukes, Boston University "Khrushchev's Secret Speech and the Hungarian Revolution" William C. Taubman, Amherst College "The Hungarian and Polish Crises and the View from the Kremlin" Sergei Khrushchev, Brown University "The 1956 Crises and the Impact on Soviet Society" Vladislav Zubok, Temple University __________________________________________________________ PANEL 3: The Hungarian Revolution, the Soviet Bloc, and the West 1:45 p.m. -- 3:15 p.m. Chair: Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University "The 1956 Crises and the East German Regime" Hope M. Harrison, George Washington University "Mao, Khrushchev, and China's Reaction to the Hungarian Revolution" Lorenz Luthi, McGill University (Canada) "West European Communist Parties and the Hungarian Revolution" Silvio Pons, Gramsci Foundation (Rome) "U.S. Reactions to the Hungarian Revolution" Malcolm Byrne, National Security Archive ___________________________________________________________ PANEL 4: The Aftermath and Legacy of the Hungarian Revolution 3:30 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m. Chair: James G. Hershberg, George Washington University "Hungary in the Aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution" János Kornai, Budapest Collegium (Hungary) "The Hungarian Revolution in Historical Memory" Beverly James, University of Hew Hampshire "The Study of the Revolution in Hungary Today" Csaba Békés, Cold War History Research Center (Budapest) Open to the public. Coffee and refreshments will be available. -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Davis Center Seminar Calendar: 10/31-11/15

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*Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies _October 31 - November 15, 2006 Seminar Calendar_* * Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies * /"Jewish Life in Moscow Today" / Yevgenia Albats, Professor of Political Science, State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow; Independent Journalist and RadioHost, Ekho Moskvy Broadcasting Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, Chief Rabbi, Moscow 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm * * *Monday, November 6, 2006* *Occasional Seminar* /"'Ideologists' and 'Image Makers': The Russian Orthodox Church and Its Penetration in the Sphere of Ideology in Russia" / Philip Kazin, Research Director, Baltic Research Center, Saint Petersburg 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm * * *Wednesday, November 8, 2006* *Literary Study Group* /"Pasternak, the Shoah and the Creation of Apostasy"/ Maxim D. Shrayer, Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Russian and English, Co-Director of Jewish Studies, Boston College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm * * * * *Thursday, November 9, 2006*** *Early Slavists' Seminar* *Co-sponsored by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI)* **** /"Light on the Vistula: The Polish Reformation"/ Peter Klassen, California State University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Thursday, November 9, 2006* *Literature and Culture Seminar* /"Dostoevsky's Seance: Modern Spiritualism and Russian Literature in the Age of Realism"/ Ilya Vinitsky, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm *Thursday, November 9, 2006*** *Historians' Seminar* /"The Middle Ground of Law: Litigation, Supervision, and Agencies of Change in Late Imperial Russia"/ Jane Burbank, Professor of History, New York University 1730 Cambridge Street, 1^st Floor, Room #S153 4:15 - 6:00 pm ** ****** To purchase a parking permit at the Broadway Garage (located at the intersection of Broadway & Felton St. in Cambridge, MA), please visit Harvard University Parking Services at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml. Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or problems, contact the Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772. -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Maria Gough, October 23, 2006

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Public Lecture 318 Sackler Museum Harvard University Monday, October 23rd, 5:30pm "Back in the USSR: Heartfield, Klucis, Tret'iakov"* Maria Gough*, Professor of Art History, Stanford University (Professor Gough works on modern and contemporary art, with particular emphasis on the Russian and Soviet avant-gardes, French modernism, and Weimar Germany.) -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Addition, Davis Center Seminar Calendar: October, 2006

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*/ Please note the following addition to the October seminar calendar:/ * *Monday, October 16, 2006 Comparative Economics Seminar * *Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center* * */"The Transformation of the Economies of China, India, and Russia: A Comparative Perspective" / Prem Shankar Jha, Visiting Fellow, Fairbank Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153 12:00 - 2:00 pm To purchase a parking permit at the Broadway Garage (located at the intersection of Broadway & Felton St. in Cambridge, MA), please visit Harvard University Parking Services at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml. Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or problems, contact the Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772. -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Title Correction, Davis Center Seminar Calendar: October 13-31, 2006

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*/ Please note the following title correction:/ Tuesday, October 17, 2006 Historians' Seminar* * * /"//A Plot of One's Own: Women, Property Rights, and Privatization in Russia, Past & Present"/ Esther Kingston-Mann, History Department, UMass Boston 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153 4:00 - 6:00 pm To purchase a parking permit at the Broadway Garage (located at the intersection of Broadway & Felton St. in Cambridge, MA), please visit Harvard University Parking Services at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml. Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or problems, contact the Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772. -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Territories of Terror: Mythologies and Memories of the Gulag in Contemporary Russian-American Art

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*Territories of Terror: Mythologies and Memories of the Gulag in Contemporary Russian-American Art * October 24, 2006 - January 14, 2007 OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, October 26, 6-8pm Contemporary Russian Installation Artists Curated by Svetlana Boym of Harvard University, this exhibition is one of the first attempts to tackle the dual imperative of Gulag history and mythology, map and territory, through contemporary art. Seven internationally recognized contemporary artists--Vitaly *Komar* and Alexander *Melamid*, Leonid *Sokov*, Grisha *Bruskin*, Eugene *Yelchin*, Irina *Nakhova* and Vadim *Zakharov*--who grew up in the former Soviet Union have been given a "territory" in the gallery in order to confront the haunted space of the "zone" in history and in the individual psyche. They represent two generations of ex-Soviet non-conformist art: Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, Leonid Sokov and Grisha Bruskin were born during Stalin's time and reflect with a mixture of nostalgia and irony on their totalitarian childhoods, while Irina Nakhova, Eugene Yelchin and Vadim Zakharov, born during Khrushchev's thaw, have a more alienated attitude vis-à-vis the totalitarian mythology. Their territories of terror are border zones that reflect their cross-cultural experience. What they capture in their installations is the legacy of terror that shaped structures of mentality, spatial imagination, utopian aspirations and claustrophobic anxieties that mirror the tragic paradoxes of twentieth century history. A companion exhibition, GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom, runs concurrently at Boston University's 808 Gallery. /*In addition, please join us for the following event: */ *Friday, October 27, 2006 Artist Panel* Join /Territories of Terror/ exhibit artists and the guest curator for a discussion of the Gulag and contemporary art. Grisha Bruskin, Artist Vitaly Komar, Artist Irina Nakhova, Artist Eugene Yelchin, Artist *Guest Curator:* Svetlana Boym, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University * *1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S010 1:00 - 4:00 pm -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Davis Center Seminar Calendar: October 13-31, 2006

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*Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies _October 13-31, 2006 Seminar Calendar_* * * *Friday, October 13, 2006 Early Slavists' Seminar * /"'Thus Their Allegiance to Us Will Be Great and They Will Receive Our Favor': Diplomatic Hostages (Amanaty) and Russian Empire Building in the Caucasus"/ Sean Pollock, Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Monday, October 16, 2006 Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop * * */"The Nexus of Institutions and Unexpected 'Unintended Consequences' in China's Fiscal Reform"/ Victor Shih, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University Papers are available on the website at www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. There is no presentation; all participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the meeting. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S#354 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Monday, October 16, 2006 *Sakharov Seminar* * /"The Rise of Racial Violence in Russia"/ Nickolai Butkevich, Research and Advocacy Director, Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union (USCJ) 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm * * * * *Tuesday, October 17, 2006 Historians' Seminar* * * /"//Women, Property Rights and Privatization in Russia"/ Esther Kingston-Mann, History Department, UMass Boston 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153 4:00 - 6:00 pm *Thursday, October 19, 2006 Director's Seminar* /"The Impact of American Foreign Policy on Democracy and the Media in Russia"/ Evgeni Kiselev, Independent Political Analyst 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Thursday, October 19, 2006 Literature and Culture Seminar Poetry Reading * Katia Kapovich, Poet Vladimir Gandelsman, Poet 12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Room #359 4:15 - 6:00 pm */Note: Reading will be given in Russian./* *Friday, October 20, 2006* *Literary Study Group* // ///"Unravelling a Secret in Pushkin's Poem"/ Sonia Ketchian, Center Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 3:00 - 5:00 pm ** *Tuesday, October 24, 2006* *Cold War Studies Seminar* /"Confronting Armageddon: How Close Was the Cuban Missile Crisis to Nuclear War?"/ Michael Dobbs, Senior Staff Writer, The Washington Post; Visiting Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Wednesday, October 25, 2006 Comparative Economics Seminar */ //"Myth and Reality about Life and Politics in Belarus"/ Yaraslau Kryvoi, LL.M. Candidate, Research Assistant, Harvard Law School 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:30 - 2:00 pm *Friday, October 27, 2006 Artist Panel* * Featuring artists whose works can be seen in the /Territories of Terror/ exhibit at Boston University Art Gallery* Join artists and the guest curator for a discussion of the Gulag and contemporary art. Grisha Bruskin, Artist Vitaly Komar, Artist Irina Nakhova, Artist Eugene Yelchin, Artist *Guest Curator:* Svetlana Boym, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University * *1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S010 1:00 - 4:00 pm *Monday, October 30, 2006 Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop * /"Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice after Communism" / Monika A. Nalepa, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rice University; Harvard Academy Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Papers are available on the website at www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. 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 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Monday, October 30, 2006 Cold War Studies Conference */ //"The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Historical Perspective: Reassessments after 50 Years"/ *Panelists:* Nicolas Bauquet, Sciences Po (France) Hope Harrison, George Washington University James G. Hershberg, George Washington University Beverly James, University of Hew Hampshire Sergei Khrushchev, Brown University János Kornai, Budapest Collegium (Hungary) Mark Kramer, Harvard University** John Lukacs, Chestnut Hill College Lorenz Luthi, McGill University (Canada) Silvio Pons, Gramsci Foundation (Rome) János Rainer, Institute for the Study of the 1956 Revolution (Hungary) William C. Taubman, Amherst College Julius Várallyay, World Bank (retired), Hungarian student leader in 1956 Vladislav Zubok, Temple University *Chairs*: Igor Lukes, Boston University Charles Maier, Harvard University Mark Mazower, Columbia University Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room #S250 9:00 am - 5:00 pm To purchase a parking permit at the Broadway Garage (located at the intersection of Broadway & Felton St. in Cambridge, MA), please visit Harvard University Parking Services at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml. Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or problems, contact the Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772. -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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