Maxim D. Shrayer will read from and discuss his new book, YOM KIPPUR IN
AMSTERDAM, The Harvard Coop Bookstore, 1400 Massachusetts Avenue,
Cambridge, MA, on 1 December 2009 @ 7 pm. For more information, please
visit www.shrayer.com <http://www.shrayer.com>
Maxim D. Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer
Professor of Russian, English, & Jewish Studies
Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures
Boston College
_http://fmwww.bc.edu/SL-V/ShrayerM.html_
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
December 1-15, 2009__*
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_**/For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit
our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./*
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*Tuesday, December 1*
*Historians' Seminar*
/"The Nation That Wasn't There? The Rise and Fall of the Soviet People
and 'Passport Ethnicity', 1953-1983"/
Sener Akturk, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, December 2*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"Women and Men Entrepreneurs in China, Russia, France, and the United
States"/
Bat Batjargal, Center Associate, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of
Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Guanghua School of Management, Peking
University, China
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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*Tuesday, December 8*
*Historians' Seminar*
/"Soviet Jewish Officers' Encounter with Germany, 1945"
/Oleg/ /Budnitskii, Senior Scholar, The Center for Advanced Holocaust
Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Professor of History,
Department of Jewish Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies,
Moscow State University//
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, December 9*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"Turkish-Russian Relations: The Role of Energy"/
Tuncay Babali, Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
Harvard University; Counselor, Embassy of Turkey, Washington, D.C.
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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*Friday, December 11*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
"/Where is Ashkenaz? Legacies of the Eurasian Trade System in the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth"/
Cherie Woodworth, Fellow, Center for Comparative Research, Yale University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Monday, December 14*
*Historians' Seminar*
/"In the Vineyards of Medical Sociology and Sovietology: Revisiting
One's Life"/
Mark Field, Center Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd 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
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parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and
enter department code 2020 on the online registration form.
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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
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
November 16-30, 2009__*
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*/For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit
our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./* *_
_**Monday, November 16*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
/"Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment"/
Stephen Kotkin, Professor of History, Princeton University
Charles Maier, Professor of History, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Monday, November 16*
*Committee on **Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lunchtime Lecture*
/"Between Reform and Revolution: Islamic Debates in Early Soviet Central
Asia"/
Adeeb Khalid, Professor of Asian Studies and History, Carleton College//
1730 Cambridge Street, 2^nd Floor, Room S250
1:00-2:00 p.m.
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*Monday, November 16*
*Occasional Seminar*
/"Historicizing Violence against Women: Current Challenges for the
Women's Movement in Russia"**/
Marianna Muravyeva, Associate Professor of Law and Political and Legal
Theories, Herzen State Pedagogical University; Researcher, Helsinki
Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
1730 Cambridge Street, 1^st Floor, Room S153
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Tuesday, November 17*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"Yukos: The Everybody Does it Defense vs. the State"/
Alan Siegel, Retired Senior Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, November 18*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"Integration and Disintegration in the Post-Soviet Area"/
Sobirjon Kurbonov, Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, November 19*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"Quality of Institutions and Length of Presidential Terms"/
Maria Snegovaya, Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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*Friday, November 20*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
Roundtable discussion:/ "Bureaucratic 'Modernization' in 18th-Century
East Central Europe"
/
Peter Collmer, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Post-Doctoral Fellow,
University of Zurich
Alison Frank, Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard
University
Iryna Vushko, Shklar Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Monday, November 23*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
/"Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Achievements and Limits of
Non-Violent Action during the Cold War"/
Adam Roberts, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Oxford
University
Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of Politics, Oxford University
with commentaries by
Merle Goldman, Professor Emeritus of History, Boston College
Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center
Charles Maier, Professor of History, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 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
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parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and
enter department code 2020 on the online registration form.
If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking
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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
The Cold War Studies Project at the Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies (Harvard University), in cooperation with the Institute
for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes and Security Services Archive in
Prague, Czech Republic, is pleased to announce a special exhibition:
*Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police*
November 15 - December 21, 2009
Harvard University
Center for Government and International Studies
South Building, Concourse Level
1730 Cambridge Street
*Opening reception: Sunday, November 15, 4:30 p.m.*
Please circulate to anyone who may be interested. All are welcome.
*Twenty Years After the Demise of Czechoslovakia's Communist Regime, an*
*Exhibition of Secret Police Surveillance Photographs Opens at Harvard
University*
A one-of-a-kind exhibition of photographs and films taken by the
surveillance unit of the Czechoslovak secret police in the 1970s and
1980s, "Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police," will soon make
the second stop on its U.S. tour when it opens at Harvard University on
Sunday, November 15. The exhibition, which had its U.S. premiere in
Washington, DC, at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
this summer and fall, will be on view at Harvard's Center for Government
and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street, through December 21.
The exhibition, sponsored by the Cold War Studies Project of Harvard's
Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
Studies, coincides with the twentieth anniversary of the Velvet
Revolution that led to the Communist regime's demise.
"Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police" introduces the visual
products of the activities of a special unit of the Communist secret
police (/Státní bezpec(nost/, or StB) -- the Surveillance Directorate of
the Interior Ministry -- which carried out surveillance of Czechs,
Slovaks, and foreigners whom the Communist regime deemed hostile or
suspicious in any way. The secret police succeeded in capturing on film
not only these "subjects of interest," but also the likeness of the city
of Prague during the period known as "normalization" that followed the
Soviet-led occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and lasted through the
collapse of the regime in late November 1989.
The exhibition and accompanying bilingual English-Czech publication,
which features a much more extensive selection of photographs as well as
complementary texts, are the work of two Czech institutions created by
the Czech government in 2008 to disclose and evaluate the repressive
state mechanisms used by former regimes to sustain power -- the
Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR) and the Security
Services Archive (ABS). The ÚSTR focuses on research and analysis,
publication, exhibitions, and education, and the ABS concentrates and
makes accessible to the public the state security documents themselves.
The Archive holds roughly 280 million pages worth of documents,
amounting to over 18 kilometers of material. The ÚSTR and ABS are
further mandated by law to digitize all of the documents in their
possession. Institutions with a similar mission exist in many of the
other countries of the former East Bloc.
One of the exhibition's aims is to show those who never experienced life
in a Communist dictatorship what the secret police actually did at the
behest of Czechoslovakia's Communist regime. The repressive functions of
the secret police, carrying out arrests, beatings, and executions, are
well known, but the surveillance function has often been unappreciated.
"These photographs illustrate both the strength and the weakness of
Czechoslovakia's Communist regime --- strength in being able to keep
constant track of anyone who fell under suspicion, and weakness in being
so obsessed by people who could not conceivably pose any threat," said
Mark Kramer, Director of the Cold War Studies Project at Harvard's Davis
Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, who is also a member of the
ÚSTR's Advisory Board.
"Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police" opens in the Concourse
Gallery of the South Building of Harvard's Center for Government and
International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street, on Sunday, November 15,
and will be on view through December 21. The exhibition is free and open
to the public on weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. For further
information about the exhibition, including information about how to
obtain publication-quality reproductions of exhibition photographs,
please contact Laura Beshears (daviscenter(a)fas.harvard.edu
<mailto:lbeshear@fas.harvard.edu>), 617-495-4037, at the Davis Center.
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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
/*Please note the following addition to the seminar calendar**:*/
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**Wednesday, November 4*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"Quality of Institutions and Length of Presidential Terms"/
Maria Snegovaya, Fellow, Davis Center
1737 Cambridge Street, 2^nd Floor, Room K262
12:30-2:00 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
https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl.
If you need to register a new visitor login in order to purchase a
parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and
enter department code 2020 on the online registration form.
If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking
Services Office at
617-495-3772.
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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
* <http://www.educationalbridgeproject.org>***
The 15th festival held in Russia last May was our largest and most
ambitious venture measured by the number of participants, events,
venues, new contacts, and the outpourings of appreciation. More than two
hundred people participated in the Festival, and more than twenty events
took place over a period of sixteen days. Continuing our long standing
tradition of involving former festival participants in new collaborative
initiatives, we are most proud of the fact that a number of these
participants who had met at previous festivals, met again. Young
American composers Matt Van Brink and Ramon Castillo hosted young
composers from St. Petersburg back in 2001. Now no longer students but
teachers and recognized composers, they were reunited with their Russian
counterparts. As in past years, Americans shared the concert stage with
Russians, and American professors worked with the students of St
Petersburg.
Boston University violinist in Red Square, 2002
International collaboration in culture and education is the mission of
the Educational Bridge Project <http://www.educationalbridgeproject.org>
which was first established in 1997 by Professor Ludmilla Leibman to
foster the exchange of music and musicians between Boston and St.
Petersburg. Fifteen festivals have brought together more than 500
musicians, artists and educators to collaborate in performances, share
ideas in discussions, and learn about new teaching methods in
composition and interpretation. Through these initiatives the Project
has contributed to building artistic, educational and humanitarian
bridges between the United States and Russia. Their performances have
delighted audiences of music lovers of both countries, from
schoolchildren to college students to community groups.
This fall the Educational Bridge Project's sixteenth Russian-American
festival will begin on Tuesday, October 27th and continues through
Thursday, November 12th in Boston. The festival plans to feature
representatives of the prestigious artistic and educational institutions
of St. Petersburg, the cultural capital of Russia, and includes
collaborative concerts, lectures, and multi-media presentations.
Selected events:
*November 3, **5 p.m*. Elena Kiyko's presentation on the history of the
St. Petersburg Radio (Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences,
725 Commonwealth Avenue, room 224)
*November 10, **5 p.m*. "The Russian School of Literary Translation" -
presentation by St. Petersburg University Professor Nina Zonina (Boston
University, College of Arts and Sciences, 725 Commonwealth Avenue, room
224)**
*November 11, 7 p.m.* "Conversations on Russian Music" -- talk by
Ludmilla Leibman on Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" and
performance of the masterpiece by St. Petersburg pianist Igor Uryash
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Elizabeth Parks Killian Hall,
Rm. 14W-111, Hayden Library Bldg, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge)
*November 12, 7 p.m.* Piano recital by Maestro Uryash -- Rachmaninov
"Variations on Corelli's Theme" and "Variation on Chopin's Theme" and
Mussorgsky "Pictures at an Exhibition." Pre-concert talk by Professor
Margarita Ufimtseva, author of the book, "St. Petersburg Pianist Igor
Uryash" (Harvard Musical Association, 57A Chestnut St., Beacon Hill)
Russian chorus performing American composition, 2009
The list of American institutions which have participated in the
Educational Bridge Project's festivals includes Boston University,
Harvard University, Brandeis University, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Yale University, Tufts University, the New England and
Boston Conservatories. Among their Russian counterparts are the St.
Petersburg and Moscow Conservatories, St. Petersburg University, the
Mariinsky Theater, the Hermitage Museum, and the Moscow Cultural
Foundation. All programs of the Festival are free and open to the public.
For an updated schedule of events and concerts visit:
www.educationalbridgeproject.org/current festival
Ludmilla Leibman <mailto:Ludmilla.leibman@gmail.com>
Executive Director
The Educational Bridge Project
65 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02215
Ludmilla.leibman(a)gmail.com <mailto:Ludmilla.leibman@gmail.com>
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Dr. Ludmilla Leibman
Executive Director
Educational Bridge Project
65 Bay State Road Suite 6
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
1.617.867.0017
1.617.512.1712 (c)
www.educationalbridgeproject.org <http://www.educationalbridgeproject.org>
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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