Daviscalendar-list April 2009

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5/7 and 5/12 additions to the May seminar calendar

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/*Please note the following additions to the May seminar calendar:*/ * Thursday, May 7* *Comparative Politics Seminar*// /"Russian Policy toward the Commonwealth of Independent States: Recent Trends and Future Prospects"/ Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Harvard 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Tuesday, May 12* *Comparative Economics Seminar*// /"A Family History of a Russian Journalist: A Century of Wars, Revolutions and Peace"/ Andrei Zolotov, Jr., Nieman Fellow, Harvard; Founding Editor, /Russia// Profile / 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

14 years, 12 months

Seminar Calendar, May 1-15, 2009

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar May 1-15, 2009__* *__* */For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./* *__* *Friday, May 1* *Early Slavists' Seminar* *Co-sponsored by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute//* / / /"Imia i vlast: Iazyk dinasticheskih imen v Drevnei Rusi"/ Fjodor Uspenskij, Institute for Slavonic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *__* *__* *Monday, May 4* *Historians' Seminar & Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar* /"The Alash Orda between Siberia, the Urals, and Turkistan: Imperial Legacy and Political Geography during the Revolution and Civil War"/ Tomohiko Uyama, Professor of Central Asian Studies, Slavic Research Center, University of Hokkaido 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * *Tuesday, May 5* *Historians' Seminar* / / /"Beyond 'Replacing the Dead': The Soviet Postwar Reproductive Regime and the End of Soviet Demography"**/ Mie Nakachi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center// 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, May 6* *Comparative Economics Seminar*// /"Talking about the Gas Crisis: Vladimir Putin's Press Conference of January 9, 2009"/ Michael Moser, Associate Professor, Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Vienna 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. * * *__* *Wednesday, May 6* *Occasional Seminar*// / / /"The European Jewish Spiritual Leadership Confronting the Communist Regimes in Romania and Soviet Russia"/ Pinchas Goldschmidt, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies; Chief Rabbi, Choral Synagogue, Moscow Comments by: Steven J. Zipperstein, Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford 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

15 years

Friday, April 24, 2009: Davis Center's Fourteenth Annual Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies

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** Please join us Friday, April 24, 2009 for the Davis Center's Fourteenth Annual Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies. * Schedule of Events* *Opening Remarks / 1:00-1:10 p.m. / **1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Room S020* Timothy J. Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University ----------------------- *Panel I / 1:15-2:45 p.m. / **1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Room S020* Jorina Gjinari, Wheaton College, /The Dissolution of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro/ Katherine Peisker, Harvard College, /The Post-Communist Development of Church-State Relations in Russia and Ukraine/ Amy Boyle, Wheaton College, /United States Missile Defense in Poland/ Scott Gill, Wheaton College, /Liberalism and the Post-Soviet Russian Experience/ Chair: Timothy J. Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University ----------------------- *Panel II / 1:15-2:45 p.m. / **1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Room S050* Liise Lehtsalu, Wellesley College, /Female Deportees' Exile Experiences in USSR, 1939-1956/ Anna Whittington, Harvard College, /At the Mercy of Ostpolitik? West German-Soviet Relations, NGOs, and Ethnic German Emigration, 1955-1982/ Gina S. Lentine, Wellesley College, /National Identity and Political Liberalism in the Former Soviet Space: The Cases of Solidarity in Poland and Pora in Ukraine/ Chair: Nina Tumarkin, Professor of History, Wellesley College; Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University ----------------------- ** *Panel III / 3:15-4:45 p.m. / **1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Room S020* Daniel J. Schulte, Harvard College, /The "Erotic Utopia" Reinterpreted: Nabokov, Soloviev, and Fin De Siecle St. Petersburg/ Olga Zhulina, Harvard College, /Love between Languages: Franco-Russian Translation in Andreï Makine's /Le testament français Juli Min, Harvard College, /Love in Writing: Memory, Time, and Anticipation in Nabokov and Proust/ Emmett McDermott, Harvard College, /The Death of Satire: Satiric Atrophy and /The Master and Margarita Chair: Jonathan Bolton, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University ----------------------- *Panel IV / 3:15-4:45 p.m. / **1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Room S050* Abigail Lees, Wellesley College, /Policy toward Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health in Russia, 1985-Present/ Jan Zilinsky, Harvard College, /Why Slovakia Needs a Health Care Reform/ Georgina Cannan, Wheaton College, /Forgotten in the System: The Russian Orphan Crisis/ Chair: David Powell, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Russian Studies, Wheaton College; Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University ----------------------- *Film Screening / 4:45-5:15 p.m. / **1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Room S010* * * Alexander Berman, Harvard College, /Songs from the Tundra/ ----------------------- *Exhibition Reception / 5:30-6:30 p.m. / **1737 Cambridge Street, CGIS Knafel Building, Fisher Family Commons* / / /Encountering Eurasia: Portraits of Student Experience / 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

15 years

4/20 seminar location change

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/*Please note the following seminar location change:*/ /* */*** ****Monday, April 20* *Historian's Seminar* *Co-sponsored by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute//* / / /"Should Cossacks be Allowed to Sell Their Lands? A Contribution to Russo-Ukrainian Relations"/ John P. LeDonne, Center Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, *3rd Floor, Room S354 (from S050)* 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

15 years

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

15 years

Seminar Calendar, April 16-30, 2009

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar April 16-30, 2009__* *__* */For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./* *__**__* *Thursday, April 16* *Cold War Studies Seminar*// / / /"Solidarity and Lech Walesa: Historical Assessments and Controversies"/ Michael Szporer, Professor of Communications, Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland University College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Friday, April 17* *Early Slavists' Seminar*// / / /"A Study of Russian Book Culture: 'Kurbsky Miscellanies' and Their Contexts"/ Konstantin Erusalimskii, Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute; Assistant Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Monday, April 20* *Historian's Seminar* *Co-sponsored by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute//* / / /"Should Cossacks be Allowed to Sell Their Lands? A Contribution to Russo-Ukrainian Relations"/ John P. LeDonne, Center Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, April 22* *Comparative Economics Seminar*// / / /"World Economic Recession: How We See It in Moscow"/ Visiting Student Group, Moscow State University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, April 23* *Comparative Politics Seminar*// / / /"Determinants of Regional Democracy Variations in Russia: Geography, Development, and the Forgotten Legacies of Western Engagement"/ Tomila Lankina, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public Policy, De Montfort University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *__* *__* *Thursday, April 23* *Literature and Culture Seminar*// /"Cultural Identity and Community in the Art of Boris Chaliapin"/ Dassia Posner, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center; Lecturer in Theater, Boston College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *__* * * *Friday, April 24* *Undergraduate Colloquium* *on Russian and Eurasian Studies* * *Multidisciplinary research presentations and film screening by advanced undergraduates from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges. 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level 1:00--5:30 p.m. ** *Thursday, April 30* *Cold War Studies Seminar*// / / /"Molotov and the Cold War: A Revisionist View"/ Geoffrey Roberts, Professor of Modern History, University College Cork 1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * *Thursday, April 30* *Literature and Culture Seminar*// / / /"Catherine's Retinue: Old Age and Historical Thought in Pushkin and Turgenev"/ Luba Golburt, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley 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

15 years

[Huri-events-list] HURI USG - April 9, 2009

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*The Ukrainian Research Institute invites members of the Harvard community and the general public to the following lecture presented as part of the HURI Ukraine Study Group series:* _* *_* Slavic and East European Studies in Switzerland /Historical Context and Recent Developments/ Peter Collmer * */Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Zurich Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies/* *Thursday, April 9, 2009 12:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Omeljan Pritsak Memorial Library Ukrainian Research Institute 34 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138* * * */Upcoming Lectures and Presentations of Interest: Unless indicated otherwise, events are held from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in Room S-050 of CGIS Building South./* *Monday, April 13 -/ Petro Jacyk Memorial Symposium/* Gogol and Ukraine: On the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Nikolai Gogol _/Session 1/_/: Gogol and Ukraine: Biography and Literary Analysis/ 4:00-6:00 p.m., Room S-050 (Concourse Level), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. _/Session 2/_/: Gogolian Inspirations: An Evening of Literary Readings/ (Presented in English and Ukrainian) 7:30-9:30 p.m., Public Gathering Room (Room S-030), CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. _Participants include_: Volodymyr Dibrova, Amelia Glaser, George G. Grabowicz, Olena Haleta, Halyna Hryn, Tamara Hundorova, Vasyl Makhno, Alexander J. Motyl, Robert Romanchuk, and Yuriy Tarnawsky *Monday, April 20* Should Cossacks Be Allowed to Sell Their Lands? A Contribution to Russo-Ukrainian Relations (1820s) John LeDonne /Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University/ */~ 4:00-6:00 p.m., Room S-354, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St. ~/* *Thursday, April 23 - /Ukraine Study Group/* Stalin's Manipulation of Ukraine in His International Relations: Nationality, Population and Territory, 1944-1949 David Wolff /Professor of Eurasian History, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan/ /Visiting Scholar, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies/ */~ 12:15-2:00 p.m., Omeljan Pritsak Memorial Library, Ukrainian Research Institute ~/*/* */ *Monday, April 27* Literary Anthologies and Their Role in Shaping Ukrainian Identity Olena Haleta /Associate Professor of Literature and Director, Center for the Humanities, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv/ /Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute/ *Thursday, April 30 - /Ukraine Study Group/* Soviet Patriotism and the Problem of Identities in the Postwar Ukrainian Intelligentsia Benjamin Tromly /Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies/ /Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA/ */~ 12:15-2:00 p.m., Omeljan Pritsak Memorial Library, Ukrainian Research Institute ~/*/* */ *Monday, May 4* Taras Shevchenko and the Modern Ukrainian Literary Language: A Revisit and New Assessment Michael Moser /Associate Professor, Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Vienna /*/_Other events of Interest_: /Wednesday, April 8 ~ Harvard Ukrainian Student Society ~ * /*Ukrainian Egg Painting Workshop - Pysanky*/ All pysanka making equipment and instructions will be provided. Invite your friends and share in the tradition! (For more information, visit the HUSS website: http://isites.harvard.edu/huss) */~ 6:00-8:00 p.m., Dudley House (Private Dining Hall, next to the Fireside Room)/* * Program subject to change. To check for changes to the HURI Seminar schedule, please visit our website: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html Please note: HURI now utilizes Harvard's list server. For more information, please visit our list at: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/huri-events-list * For further information on HURI events, please contact us at: Tel.: 617-495-4053 Fax: 617-495-8097 E-mail: huri at fas.harvard.edu <mailto:huri@fas.harvard.edu> -- ------------------------- Ukrainian Research Institute Harvard University 34 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Tel: 617-495-4053 Fax: 617-495-8097 Web: http://www.huri.harvard.edu E-mail: huri(a)fas.harvard.edu ------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Huri-events-list mailing list Huri-events-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/huri-events-list

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