Daviscalendar-list March 2009

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seminar postponement (3/12/09) and cancellation (3/13/09)

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/*Please note the following changes to the March seminar calendar.*/ /*The following seminar has been postponed until further notice:*/ ** *Thursday, March 12* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* *Co-sponsored by the Cold War Studies Seminar* * * /The Soviet Hydrogen Bomb Controversy: A Discussion of /The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation Roundtable Discussion: David Holloway, Professor of International Relations, Stanford University Paul Josephson, Chair and Professor of Russian and Soviet History, Colby College Priscilla McMillan, Center Associate, Davis Center Chair: Mark Kramer, Program Director, Cold War Studies Project, Harvard 1737 Cambridge Street, Knafel Building, Concourse Level, Room K031 12:15-2:00 p.m. /*The following seminar has been canceled: */*Friday, March 13* *Director's Seminar* /"Belarus: Between East and West"/ Natalia Petkevich, First Deputy Head, Administration of the President of Belarus 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 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. ---------------------------------------------------- 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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additions to the March and April seminar calendars

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/*Please note the following additions to the March and April seminar calendars:*/ *Tuesday, March 31* *Historians' Seminar* * * /"A Cult of Personality in the Soviet Intelligentsia: Revolt Pimenov and his Entourage, 1949-1957"**/ Benjamin Tromly, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center 1737 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room K401 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Thursday, April 2* *Literature and Culture Seminar*// /"The 'Death' of the Homosexual, or the Limits of Polish Modernism"/ B?az.ej Warkocki, Assistant Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd 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 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. ---------------------------------------------------- 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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Seminar Calendar, April 1-15, 2009

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar April 1-15, 2009__* *__* */For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./* *__* *Thursday, April 2* *Comparative Politics Seminar*// / / /"Antifascism, Youth Scenes, and Urban Space: Findings from Recent Fieldwork in Provincial Russia"/ Mischa Gabowitsch, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts; Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Princeton University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Tuesday, April 7* *Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar*// /"Moral Reasoning and Intelligibility: Becoming Muslim in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan"/ Johan Rasanayagam, Lecturer on Anthropology, University of Aberdeen 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Wednesday, April 8* *Comparative Economics Seminar*// / / /"Russia Incorporated: The Market Economy in an FSB-Controlled State in the Twenty-First Century"/ Yuri Felshtinsky, Author and Historian 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. *Friday, April 10* *Early Slavists' Seminar* * * /"Kallisti: The Bride-Show and Muscovite Marriage Politics"/ Russell E. Martin, Associate Professor of History, Westminster College; President, Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture, Inc. (ASEC) 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Friday, April 10* *Historians' Seminar*// / / /"//Demographic Crisis and Gender in Russia after WWII"/ Elizabeth Brainerd, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Economics, Williams College Mie Nakachi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center// 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Tuesday, April 14 Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* /"Forced Labor and Human Trafficking in Today's Russia"/ Dmitry Poletaev, Sakharov Fellow, Davis Center; Senior Research Fellow, Council for the Study of Productive Forces, Russian Academy of Sciences 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Wednesday, April 15* *Comparative Economics Seminar*// / / /"Kazakhstan: Road to Independence"/ Ariel Cohen, Senior Research Fellow, Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Security, The Heritage Foundation// 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 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. ---------------------------------------------------- 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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Vera Pavlova at Boston College

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Dear Friends, Boston College will be hosting the 2009 Michael B. Kreps Memorial Readings on March 28, 2009. Vera Pavlova, a distinguished contemporary Russian poet and essayist, will read from and discuss her works. Born in Moscow in 1963 Vera Pavlova studied at the Schnittke College of Music and graduated from the Gnessin Music Academy with a degree in music history. Her first poems appeared in the Moscow monthly /Iunost'/ (/Youth/) in 1983. Ms. Pavlova has contributed hundreds of poems to leading periodicals in Russia. She is the author of twelve collections of poetry, including the recent book /Po obe storony potseluia/ (/On both Sides of the Kiss/, 2004), /Ruchnaia klad': Stikhi 2004-2005/ (/Hand Luggage: Poems 2004-2005/, 2006), /Pis'ma v sosedniuiu komnatu/ (/Letters to the Next Room/, 2007), /Mudraia dura/ (/Wise Fool/, 2008). Her work has been translated into fifteen languages and featured, in English translation, in /The New Yorker/. Winner of the 2000 Apollon Grigor'ev Prize, Ms. Pavlova divides her time between Moscow and New York. The reading will take place on Saturday, March 28th, at 7 PM in Gasson Hall 305 (Fulton Debating Room, on the Boston College main campus (a BC campus map is found at http://www.bc.edu/about/maps/s-chestnuthill.html). The event is conducted in Russian and is free and open to the public. For more information, please call Boston College's Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages at (617) 552-3910 or email shrayerm(a)bc.edu <mailto:shrayerm@bc.edu>. The event is cosponsored by the Boston College Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures and the Office of the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Maxim D. Shrayer Maxim D. Shrayer Professor of Russian & English Chair, Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures _http://fmwww.bc.edu/SL-V/ShrayerM.html_ 210 Lyons Hall, 140 Commonwealth Avenue Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3804 USA e-mail: _shrayerm(a)bc.edu_ <mailto:shrayerm@bc.edu> tel. 617-552-3911 fax. 617-552-3913

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Dassia Posner - Art Exhibition and Lecture

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Dear Friends and Colleagues, As many of you know, I have been researching the artist Boris Chaliapin (son of the singer) this year. The first exhibit (for which I have been historical consultant) of his unpublished covers for TIME Magazine opens this week. For those of you nearby, I thought you might like to come to the opening or to my lecture on April 5. For those of you too far away, I thought you would enjoy hearing about this exciting exhibit of Boris's works. All best, Dassia Dassia N. Posner, Ph. D. Postdoctoral Fellow Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street; Cambridge, MA 02138 dassia2(a)gmail.com dposner(a)fas.harvard.edu (617) 495-9605 ********************************************************* BORIS CHALIAPIN: FACES OF HISTORY Unpublished Time Magazine Covers & Paintings by Time Magazine's Most Prolific Artist March 19-May 6, 2009 Opening Reception: Thursday, March 19, 6-8 pm Gallery Hours: Mon.-Wed. 10-5; Thurs. 10-8; Fri. Sat., 10-5; Sun. 1-5 FLINN GALLERY Greenwich Library, Second Floor 101 West Putnam Avenue Greenwich, CT 06830 203-622-7947 _www.flinngallery.com_ Lectures: *Saturday, March 28, 2 pm */Time & the Smithsonian /James Barber, Historian & Curator of TIME Collection, National Portrait Gallery *Sunday, April 5, 2 pm */The Life and Art of Boris Chaliapin /Dassia Posner, Ph. D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University *Sunday, April 26, 2 pm */TIME: 85 Years of Great Writing /Christopher Porterfield, Former TIME Executive Editor /Boris Chaliapin: Faces of History /has been curated by York Baker, Debra Fram, and Barbara Richards. This exhibition is made possible through the support and generosity of the late Helcia Chaliapin, the estate of Helcia Chaliapin, Dassia Posner, Gabriella Salvatore, the Schwartz Family, TIME Magazine & the Friends of the Greenwich Library.

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Zipperstein Talk - April 1 at Radcliffe

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Dear Colleagues, I would like to call your attention to a talk being given at Radcliffe Institute on April 1: *STEVEN J. ZIPPERSTEIN */On Rewriting the Cultural History of Russian Jewry /*Wednesday, April 1, 2009 3:30 PM *Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship Program Radcliffe Gym, Radcliffe Yard 10 Garden Street, Cambridge Steven J. Zipperstein, the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University, will publish his latest book -- Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing -- with Yale University Pres in mid-April. A historian of modern European Jewry, he has written four books, including /The Jews of Odessa/, /Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism, /and /Imagining Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity, /and has edited several others. He has won the National Jewish Book Award, the Smilen Prize, the Leviant Prize from the Modern Language Association. In 2002, he was Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the US Memorial Holocaust Museum, and has taught at universities in England, France, Poland, and Israel. He is the author more than fifty articles, and has published in The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, Partisan Review, Dissent, and the New England Review. Currently, he is writing a cultural history of Russian Jewry, under contract with Houghton Mifflin. Beginning his book in the late nineteenth century and continuing until the present day, Zipperstein will use the tools of anthropology, ethnography, literature, and history to examine the experiences of Jews in Russian with sources in Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, and other languages. Much of contemporary Jewish self-understanding (Jewish liberalism, Jewish socialism, Zionism, modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature) were forged in Russia, and he hopes to provide an explanation for its unprecedented impact on the shaping of contemporary Jewish life. His lecture will concentrate on the etiology of a rhetoric of catastrophe used widely, beginning in the early twentieth century, with regard to the Jews of Russia. He will trace, in particular, how a riot at the Russian empire's most remote southwestern edges, in Bessarabia's Kishinev, became -- and surprisingly quickly -- the prime metaphor for Russian oppression of Jews. Zipperstein will weave into his presentation how the Kishinev pogrom intersected with the first traces of organized Jewish self-defense in Russia, and elsewhere, the first version of /The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, /and much else. /For more information, call the Institute Reception Desk, 617-495-8212./ Phyllis Albert, Ph.D. Center for European Studies Harvard University 617 969 7745

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3/31 seminar addition

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/*Please note the following addition to the March seminar calendar:*/ *Tuesday, March 31* *Director's Seminar* * * /"Will Systemic Law Enforcement Abuse Turn Russia into a Failed State?"/ Leonid Nikitinsky, Russian Journalist, Winner of the Paul Klebnikov Fund's 2009 Integrity in Journalism Award 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 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. ---------------------------------------------------- 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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3/31 seminar title addition

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/*Please note the following title addition to the March seminar calendar:*/ *Tuesday, March 31* *Director's Seminar* * * /"Will Systemic Law Enforcement Abuse Turn Russia into a Failed State?"/ Leonid Nikitinsky, Russian Journalist, Winner of the Paul Klebnikov Fund's 2009 Integrity in Journalism Award 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 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. ---------------------------------------------------- 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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Friday, March 13, 2009 4:00 pm, Here Be Giants: The Book (to-be)

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Friday, March 13, 2009 4:00 pm Here Be Giants: The Book (to-be) Please join Gwendolyn Stewart for an informal workshop and preview of photographs to be included in her upcoming book. Public feedback and insights on people and places depicted in the photographs will be welcome. Gwendolyn Stewart is a photojournalist and political scientist specializing in political leadership in Russia, China, and the United States. She is an Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Associate in Research of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Please visit http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~gestewar/hbg.html for more information about the book. CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, S153 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. ---------------------------------------------------- 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 to the March calendar: 3/19/09 seminar with Richard Taruskin

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/*Please note the following addition to the March seminar calendar:*/ *Thursday, March 19* *Literature and Culture Seminar* *Co-sponsored by the GSAS Central and East European Society*// / / /"Poetics of Music"/ Richard Taruskin, Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley Common Room, Dudley House 4:00-6:00 p.m. (See attached poster) 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. ---------------------------------------------------- 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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