Daviscalendar-list March 2011

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CANCELED: Seminar with Gadi Heimann at 4:15

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Please note that the following seminar has been canceled: Tuesday, March 29 Cold War Studies Seminar "Charles de Gaulle and the Arab-Israeli Crisis of May-June 1967: A Reassessment" Gadi Heimann, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Apologies for the very late notice --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Reminder: TODAY Seminar time change and seminar addition

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Please note the change in time to the following seminar: Tuesday, March 29 Cold War Studies Seminar "Charles de Gaulle and the Arab-Israeli Crisis of May-June 1967: A Reassessment" Gadi Heimann, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Please note the following addition to the seminar calendar: Tuesday, March 29 Cold War Studies Seminar "Stalin and the Fate of Germany after World War II: Debate and Reassessments" Peter Ruggenthaler, Senior Research Fellow, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Study of War's Consequences Ol'ga Pavlenko, Professor of Political Science, Russian State Humanities University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Seminar Calendar, April 1-15, 2011

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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar Calendar April 1-15, 2011 For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php. Tuesday, April 5 Davis Center Inaugural Seminar in the History of Art and Architecture "Against 'Totalitarian Art'" Christina Kiaer, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Friday, April 8 Early Slavists' Roundtable Discussion Book launch for Portraits of Old Russia Peter B. Brown, Rhode Island College Michael S. Flier, Harvard University Hugh Olmsted, Harvard University Lawrence Langer, University of Connecticut Russell E. Martin, Westminster College Donald Ostrowski, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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3/29/11 Seminar time change and seminar addition

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3/29/11, 5 p.m. Svetlana Boym speaks on Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea

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The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard presents Svetlana Boym Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University on Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea With a response by Peter Gordon Professor of History at Harvard University Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 5 pm Harvard Hall, Room 202 Seating is limited. [cid:image001.png@01CBE3F8.D8F599C0] -- --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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3/30/11 Center for History and Economics Seminar on Imperial Russia

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Center for History and Economics Seminar "Family Forms and Economic Development: Evidence from Imperial Russia" Tracy Dennison Associate Professor of Social Science History, California Institute of Technology Date: March 30, 2011 Time: 5:00 pm Location: CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Room K354 Open to the public --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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3/24/11 addition to the seminar calendar

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Please note the following addition to the seminar calendar: Thursday, March 24 Literature and Culture Seminar "Numbers, Logic, and OBERIU" Eugene Ostashevsky, Ph.D, Master Teacher of Liberal Studies Program, New York 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<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Seminar Calendar, March 16-31, 2011

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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar Calendar March 16-31, 2011 For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php. Tuesday, March 22 Historians' Seminar "Materialy sovetskoi istorii v arkhive Sluzhby bezopasnosti Ukrainy" ("Materials for Soviet History in the Archives of the Security Service of Ukraine") Volodymyr Viatrovych, PhD, Senior Visiting Scholar, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *This lecture will be delivered in Russian* Tuesday, March 29 Cold War Studies Seminar "Charles de Gaulle and the Arab-Israeli Crisis of May-June 1967: A Reassessment" Gadi Heimann, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto 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<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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April 8 Conference: "Healing Paradigms and the Politics of Health in Central Asia"

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Columbia University's Global Health Research Center of Central Asia (GHRCCA) began a Culture, Religion, and Communication Unit (CRC) in 2010 that attempts to unite a diverse group of professionals to foster culturally-specific and culturally-inspired approaches to health-related research in Central Asia. It is their hope that policy can become more fruitful and sustainable through a direct investment in a region's history, cultures, religions, and languages. On April 8th, they will sponsor their first conference, "Healing Paradigms and the Politics of Health in Central Asia," with Columbia Global Centers, the Harriman Institute, and Columbia University Seminars. This conference will highlight notions of spirituality in health and how practices can conflict with state agendas. Please see the abstracts listed below for more information. _________________________________________________________________________ The Culture, Religion, and Communications Unit of the Global Health Research Center of Central Asia at Columbia University Presents its First Annual Conference: Healing Paradigms and the Politics of Health in Central Asia Kellogg Center, Columbia University 420 West 118th Street, 15th floor April 8, 2011 PLEASE RSVP TO: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=48012 9:00-9:40 Breakfast (provided for participants & audience) 9:45-9:50 Welcome: Allen Zweben, Associate Dean, Columbia University School of Social Work 9:50-10:00 Introductory Remarks: Valentina Izmirlieva, Director of the Culture, Religion, and Communications Unit, Global Health Research Center of Central Asia 10:00-11:15 Key-Note Lecture: Salmaan Keshavjee (Harvard University), "Bleeding Babies in Badakhshan: The Political Economy of Culture and Illness" 11:15-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-1:15 Panel I: Healing Paradigms: Biomedicine and Its Ethno-Religious Alternatives Presenters: Devin DeWeese (Indiana University), "The Locus of Healing in Islamic Central Asia: Shrines, Sufism, 'Shamanism,' and the Boundaries of Religion" Danuta Penkala-Gawecka (Adam Mickiewicz University), "Mentally Ill or Chosen by Spirits? Illness Concepts and the Revival of Spiritual Healing in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan" Jeff Sahadeo (Carleton University), "Cholera and Colonialism in Central Asia: The Tashkent Riot of 1892" Respondent: Paula Michaels (University of Iowa) 1:15-2:30 Lunch (provided for participants & audience) 2:30-4:15 Panel II: The Politics of (Global) Health: Intervention, Control, and Institutional Power Presenters: Alisher Latypov (University College London), "The Opium War at the 'Roof of the World': The Administration of Addiction in Soviet Badakhshan" Erica Johnson (University of North Carolina), "Health Care as a Tool of Authoritarian Survival in post-Soviet Central Asia" Erin Koch (University of Kentucky), "Illness, Marginalization, and Global Health Interventions in Post-Soviet Eurasia" Respondent: Richard Elovich (Columbia) 4:15-4:45 Closing Remarks: Valentina Izmirlieva (Columbia) 4:45-6:00 Reception Conference Participants: Devin DeWeese is a Professor in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University. His research interests include Islamic Central Asia, Soviet Central Asia, Sufism, Islamization, religions and Inner Asia, and Islamic hagiography, and he has recently taught courses on religion and power in Islamic Central Asia, Islam in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and on the Islamic hagiography of Central Asia. Among his publications is the book Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tükles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994 Series "Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions"). Richard Elovich, a research scientist at the Insitute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) at Columbia University, holds a Ph.D. in medical sociology and a Masters in Public Health. He is a specialist in policy and program development on HIV/AIDS and substance use with over fifteen years experience in the U.S. and internationally. Since 2003, he has led needs assessments and developed HIV programs for international donors, UN agencies, and non-governmental organizations throughout the former Soviet Union and Asia, with a particular focus on most at risk populations. Erica Johnson is Lecturer and Director of Master's Studies in Global Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching interests are in comparative politics and political economy, with particular focus on post-Soviet state-society relations. Before joining the UNC faculty, Erica was a post-doctoral fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies. She holds an MA (2005) and PhD (2009) in Political Science from University of Washington in Seattle and an MA (1997) in Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies from UW. Salmaan Keshavjee received his Ph.D. in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard in 1998 and his MD from Stanford in 2001. Dr. Keshavjee is now an Assistant Professor in Social Medicine and in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and a Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He conducted doctoral research in medical anthropology at Harvard University on the health transition in post-Soviet Tajikistan. He currently works with the Division of Global Health Equity and Partners In Health on the implementation of a multidrug-resistant TB treatment program in Tomsk, Russia, and a program to treat patients co-infected with HIV and multidrug- resistant TB in Lesotho. Erin Koch is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Kentucky. Her research and teaching interests include postsocialism, medical anthropology, science and technology studies, and global health and humanitarianism. Koch?s prior research in the Republic of Georgia examined the effects of Soviet collapse on tuberculosis and responses to tuberculosis in Georgia. Her current research in Georgia investigates health effects of war and displacement, medical interventions, and politics of care. Alisher Latypov, MA (Tajik State National University), MHS (Johns Hopkins University), MA (University College London) is a PhD student at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL. His doctoral thesis is entitled "The Administration of Addiction: The Politics of Medicine and Opiate Use in Soviet Tajikistan, 1924-1958." He has also served in the Tajik Presidential Drug Control Agency, directed the country office of Global Initiative on Psychiatry in Tajikistan and assisted UNDP as Sub-Regional Drug Epidemiology Expert for Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. He is a corresponding member of the Reference Group to the United Nations on HIV and Injecting Drug Use and has published broadly on the politics of health and healing in Central Asia. Paula Michaels is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa. She is the author of Curative Powers: Medicine and Empire in Stalin?s Central Asia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003), winner of the Association of Women in Slavic Studies? Heldt Prize and a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award. Michaels has published numerous articles on the history of medicine, women's history, and film history. With funding from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEH, and the NIH, she is currently working on an international history of the Lamaze method of childbirth. Danuta Penkala-Gawecka is Professor of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. She is currently the Deputy Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology. Her areas of expertise include medical anthropology and Central Asian studies. She conducted fieldwork in Afghanistan, Kazakhstan and Poland. Her interests focus on medical pluralism, traditional and complementary/alternative medicines in Central Asia and the connections between medicine and religion. She published books: Traditional Medicine in Afghanistan and its Transformations, Wrocaw 1988; Complementary Medicine in Kazakhstan: The Force of Tradition and the Pressure of Globalisation, Poznan 2006. She is editor of the oldest Polish ethnological journal "Lud" founded in 1895. Jeff Sahadeo is an Associate Professor of Political Science and European & Russian Studies at Carleton University. He received his Ph. D. from the Universityp of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His teaching interests include diaspora, migration, and empire in Eastern Europe and Asia. He also works on issues of colonialism, nationality, frontiers, and borders in relations of power and the creation of identities and states. A specialist on Central Asia, Dr. Sahadeo has conducted extensive work in Uzbekistan. He also teaches courses on the eastwards expansion of the European Union. Dr. Sahadeo's current research focuses on issues of migration and interethnic contact between Asian populations of the (former) Soviet Union and majority Russians in the cities of Leningrad/ St. Petersburg and Moscow in the post World War II era. For more information: http://ghrcca.columbia.edu/en/node/118 or email crc2011conference(a)gmail.com<mailto:crc2011conference@gmail.com> Please RSVP to: https://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/register.php?eventID=4801 --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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3/8/11 and 3/15/11 additions to the seminar calendar

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Please note the following additions to the seminar calendar: Tuesday, March 8 Special Event Co-sponsored by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute "Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin" Timothy Snyder, Professor of History, Yale University Commentary by: Terry Martin, George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center Devin Pendas, Associate Professor of History, Boston College Serhii Plokhii, Professor of History, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center Henry Rosovsky, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University 1737 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room K354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 15 Celebrate Nowruz Thompson Room, Barker Center 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 5:15-6:45 pm Join the Davis Center Outreach Program, the Outreach Center, the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School, along with a broad partnership of the Harvard community, in celebrating the Persian New Year, Nowruz. The event will feature Persian sweets and drinks, classical music and poetry, and a presentation on Nowruz and the haft seen table. To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard University Parking Services<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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