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Feb. 8-9 / Conference: Spoils of War v. Cultural Heritage

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*Friday, February 8 - Saturday, February 9* *Spoils of War v. Cultural Heritage: The Russian Cultural Property Law in Historical Context* *Sponsors: *Harvard Law School Arts & Literature Law Society Commission for Art Recovery Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University Foundation for International Cultural Diplomacy Harvard Law School European Law Research Center /Free and open to the public with online// /*/registration <http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/martin/art_law/russian_registration.php> /*/(space permitting)/ Location: Langdell South Classroom, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA For more information, please visit http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/martin/art_law/russian_law.htm or contact lawlibr(a)law.harvard.edu <mailto:lawlibr@law.harvard.edu> or 617-495-3170. After WWII, Soviet authorities, seeking reparations for the extensive costs of Nazi aggression, used special "Trophy Brigades" to empty museums, castles, and salt mines in Germany and Eastern Europe, transporting millions of cultural treasures to the USSR. These included German state-owned cultural objects, cultural objects taken from churches and synagogues, as well as a great deal of private property that had been looted by the Germans from individuals. The art works taken back to the Soviet Union were held in relative secrecy for years, until the final years of glastnost. As European countries started to demand their cultural treasures and archives, Russian legislators passed a law that potentially nationalizes all cultural treasures brought to Russia at the end of World War II. In 1999 the Constitutional Court issued an opinion basically upholding the law if amended before implementation. How do these actions comport with international law? What are the chances for restitution of these displaced cultural valuables? *Program* *Friday, February 8, 2008* 1:00 p.m. - Welcome * The Evolution of Cultural Property Protection in International Law * Restitution of Cultural Property at the End of WWII * Stalin's Decrees and Soviet Trophy Brigades * Legality of Soviet Displacement of Cultural Valuables under International Law 5:30 p.m. - Reception *Saturday, February 9, 2008* 8:30 a.m. - Continental breakfast * The Post-1991 Political Search to Legalize 'Compensation': the Long Battle over the Russian Law on Displaced Cultural Valuables * The Legality and Constitutionality of the Russian /Federal Law on Cultural Valuables Displaced to the USSR as the Result of the Second World War and Located on the Territory of the Russian Federation/ * The Constitutionality of the Russian Federal Law on Cultural Valuables * Status of the Russian Law under International Law Lunch * Russian-German Negotiations over Displaced Cultural Valuables * The Legal Situation with regard to German "Trophy Art" in Russia -- a German Perspective' * Non-Restitution under the Law: the Baldin-Bremen Case * Archives: the Forgotten Restitution Achievements under the Law * Trophy Art, Art Loans and Immunity From Seizure in both the US and UK 5:00 p.m. - Conclusions */- Appropriate breaks with refreshments will be provided - /*

16 years, 2 months

Seminar Calendar, February 1-15, 2008

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar February 1-15, 2008__* *Monday, February 4* *Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*// / / /"//Competing Nationalisms and the Populist Moment in Contemporary Polish Politics" /Peter Vermeersch, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard; Associate Professor, University of Leuven Papers are available on the web at http://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 p.m. * * *Monday, February 4* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights * /"The Duma Elections and the General Situation of Human Rights and Rule of Law in Russia"/ Lev Ponomarev, Chairman, Movement for Human Rights, Russia 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. ** *Tuesday, February 5* *Occasional Seminar* / //"Politics of Environmental Reforms: Impact on the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM)"/ Nick Aladin, Head of the Brackish Water Hydrobiology Laboratory, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * ********** * *Wednesday, February 6* *Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies * / / /"Borderline Experiences: Reinterpreting the Jewish Mass Migration from Eastern Europe, 1880-1930"// /Tobias Brinkmann, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard; Lecturer, History Department and Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton, UK 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, February 6* *Outreach Program Series* / / /"//Islam in the West" /Jocelyne Cesari, Director of the Islam in the West Program, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 4:30-6:30 p.m. * ** * *Friday, February 8 ** **Early Slavists' Seminar* / "//The Russian and Slavonic Languages in Sixteenth-Century Muscovy"/ Charles J. Halperin, Visiting Scholar, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Wednesday, February 13* *Comparative Economics** Seminar* / //"The Transdniestrian Conundrum and Moldovan-Russian Relations"/ Paul D. Quinlan, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of History, Providence College Robert Weiner, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *** * * **** * *Wednesday, February 13* *Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies and Book Talk* / / /"The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories/" (Indiana University Press, 2007) / /Joshua Rubenstein, Center Associate, Davis Center; Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International USA Ilya Altman, Co-chairman, Research and Educational Holocaust Center, Russia 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. /Reception to follow./ *Thursday, February 14* *Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*// *Co-sponsored by the Comparative Politics Seminar* / / /"How Ethnicity Shapes Insurgent Violence: A Matched Analysis of `Sweep' Operations in Chechnya/" Jason Lyall, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University; Olin Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard Papers are available on the web at http://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 p.m. *Thursday, February 14* *Literature and Culture Seminar* / / /"Viktor Krivulin vs. Dmitrii A. Prigov: Two Strategies of the Underground from the Soviet Period to the Present"/ Mikhail Berg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, February 15 * *Historian**s' Seminar* / //"Progress through Power? Medical Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century Russia as Imperial Elite"/ Andreas Renner, Professor of East European History, University of Tübingen 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), 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 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

16 years, 3 months

Seminar Calendar, January 16-31, 2008

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar January 16-31, 2008* *__* *Tuesday, January 22* *Cold War Studies Seminar* / "//Cold War Conflicts and Security in the Balkans"/ Nadia Boyadjieva, Professor of International Relations and International Law, Plovdiv University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Monday, January 28 * *Occasional Seminar* / "//Russia//'s Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed"/// (Peterson Institute, 2007) Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Wednesday, January 30* *Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies* / "//Ethnicity and Terror: Jews and Others in the NKVD during the Great Purge"/ Zvi Gitelman, Director of Academic Programs, Judaic Studies Program; Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), 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 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

16 years, 3 months

Seminar Calendar: January 1-15, 2008

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar January 1-15, 2008* *__* *Friday, January 11 Cold War Studies Seminar * /"The Russian Electorate in Ukraine: Politicization of Ethnicity"/ Olga Volkogonova, Professor of Political Philosophy, Moscow State University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), 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 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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