Please note the following seminar TOMORROW!
Thursday, April 28
Cold War Studies Seminar
"The Origins of China's 'Independent' Foreign Policy, 1978-1982"
Sergey Radchenko, Assistant Professor of History, University of Nottingham (Ningbo campus)
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.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.495.4037
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http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
The Outreach Program at the Davis Center is pleased to announce a one-day workshop commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The workshop will feature lectures devoted to the political, historical and ecological consequences of the disaster, as well as comparisons between the event in Chernobyl and the recent nuclear disaster in Japan (for more details, please see complete agenda below). The workshop is free and open to the public. Full day attendance is not required. RSVPs are also not required, but are appreciated.
Workshop, Chernobyl: 25 Years Later
Sponsored by the Davis Center Outreach Program
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
9am--4pm
1730 Cambridge Street, S450
9:00-9:30 AM Welcome and Introductions
Cris Martin, Davis Center
9:30-11:00 AM Lecture: History of the Chernobyl Disaster
Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University
11:00-11:15 AM Break
11:15-12:45 PM Lecture: Ecological Consequences of Chernobyl Disaster
Paul Josephson, Professor of History and Chair, Colby College
12:45-1:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30-2:30 PM Lecture: Chernobyl's Impact on Local Life and Politics
Tammy Lynch, Independent Researcher
2:30-4:00 PM Lecture & Discussion: Nuclear Power in the 21st Century
Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government
5:00-7:00 PM Opening Reception: Photo Exhibit, "...the day the Ferris wheel stood still..."
Tania D'Avignon, Photographer
The exhibit, sponsored by Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute, will be held in Fischer Commons in the Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA.
For more information about this workshop, please contact Cris Martin at clmartin(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:clmartin@fas.harvard.edu>
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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
Please note the following addition to the seminar calendar:
Thursday, April 28
Cold War Studies Seminar
"The Origins of China's 'Independent' Foreign Policy, 1978-1982"
Sergey Radchenko, Assistant Professor of History, University of Nottingham (Ningbo campus)
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.
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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
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
May 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, May 3
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Cars and Commissars. Everyday Practices of Elite Mobility in Communist Hungary, 1956-1980."
György Péteri, Professor of Contemporary European History, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, May 4
Cold War Studies Seminar
"The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan: A Long Goodbye"
Artemy Kalinovsky, Assistant Professor of History, University of Amsterdam
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Friday, May 6
Historians' Seminar
"Minarets after Marx: Gender, Islam and the Headscarf Debate in Postsocialist Bulgaria"
Kristen Ghodsee, Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Friday, May 13
Early Slavists' Seminar
"The Adventure of the Dancing Men: Professor Ševčenko's Theory of the Origin of Glagolitic"
Olga Strakhov, Independent Scholar
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250
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.
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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
The following seminar has been cancelled:
Tuesday, April 26
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Dealing with a Communist Dictatorship: U.S. Policy and the Softening of Soviet-Style Rule"
László Borhi, Visiting Professor of History, Indiana University; Senior Fellow, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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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
Please join us for today's special events:
Friday, April 15, 2011
Davis Center Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies
Opening Remarks / 1:00 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Terry Martin, Director, Davis Center; George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University
Panel I / 1:15-2:45 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Svetlana Dotsenko, Harvard College, State Capacity, Political Commitment, and Health: A Comparative Study of Tuberculosis in Post-Soviet States, 1990-2009
Annemarie Hanson, Wheaton College, The "War of Memories:" Post-World War II Observations in Russian-Estonian Ethnicity Expectations and Geopolitical Relations
Paul Sawyier, Harvard College, Extremism and Neo-Nazism in Russia, 1990s to Present
Alena Svobodova, Wheaton College, The Terrorism in the Caucasus and Its Influence on the Russo-Georgian Relations
Alex Welles, Wheaton College, The Soviets and Weimar: Rearmament and Revolution
Chair: Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University
Panel II / 3:00-4:15 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Beth Bryant, Wellesley College, Abortion in the Soviet Union
Ivana Djak, Harvard College, Women's Organizations in Post-Conflict Periods: The State and Nationalism in the Balkans
Erin Ryan, Wheaton College, Conflict, Peace, and Nongovernmental Actors in Nagorno-Karabakh
Kaitlin Terry, Harvard College, Milada Horáková: A Story of Past and Present
Alice Underwood, Harvard College, Rights on Parade: The Russian LGBT Community's March toward Equality
Chair: Jeanne Wilson, Professor of Political Science, Wheaton College
Panel III / 4:30-5:45 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Jordan Bryant, Harvard College, Russia's Appian Way: How the Classics Shaped Imperial Identity from Peter I to Alexander I
Anne Burke, Wellesley College, Examining the Igor Tale and Its Authenticity
Jessica Flakne, Harvard College, The Role of Religion in the Thought of T.G. Masaryk: An Inquiry into the Implications of Religion on Theories of Democracy and Nationalism
Danielle Guillette, Harvard College, Perceptions and Realities: Solidarity through the Lens of Media and the Soviet Politburo
Aseem Shukla, Harvard College, Spoken Identities: Trends of Language Choice in the Ukrainian Parliament
Chair: Thomas Hodge, Professor of Russian, Wellesley College
Friday, April 15, 2011
Images of Eternal and Evolving Eurasia
Photography Exhibition Opening
Student photographers from Harvard, Wellesley and Wheaton
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level
5:45-6:45 p.m.
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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
Please join us for a very special event!
We are pleased to announce that Slavenka Drakulić -noted Croatian journalist, essayist and novelist-will be at the Davis Center today to discuss her new book, A Guided Tour through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, & a Raven. In his review of the book in The New republic, Tim Snyder argues "...Slavenka Drakulić summons her own group of animals, each with its own literary genre, and each with a story to tell about life in a communist country... these stories are not really fables (despite the subtitle's promise) because the animals do not reveal the problems of human nature through their own actions, foolish or wise. Instead they are there to instruct us, and what they are all saying, in their different ways, is: remember. At bottom this book is the work of a very gifted novelist who is using every imaginable trick, and some fairly unimaginable ones, to help us recall what seems like the very recent past."
To learn more about this new work, please attend Slavenka's book talk today (details below). Please share this announcement with your (current and former) students and colleagues as it's sure to be of interest to many.
Thursday, April 14
Book Talk
Sponsored by the Davis Center Outreach Program
A Guided Tour through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, & a Raven
Slavenka Drakulić, Author
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room)
4:00-6:00 p.m.
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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
The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute invites members of the Harvard community and the general public to the following special events:
The Social Roots of Belarusian Dictatorship
A lecture by Pavel Tereshkovich (European Humanities University, Vilnius/Minsk)
Tuesday, April 12, 12:15-2:00
HURI, 34 Kirkland St.
Pavel Tereshkovich is a historian and cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on nationalism, identity, ethnic minorities and cultural hybridity in the western Eurasian borderlands (Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova). He is Director of the Center for Advanced Studies and Education for the Western Eurasian Borderlands (CASE) and Chair of the Department of History at the European Humanities University, an independent Belarusian university-in-exile that has been based in Vilnius, Lithuania since its closure by the Belarusian authorities in 2004.
The State of Social Science Research and Free Inquiry
in the Western Eurasian Borderlands:
Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova
A panel discussion with Pavel Tereshkovich and other scholars affiliated with
the Center for Advanced Studies and Research for the Western Eurasian Borderlands (CASE) at the European Humanities University (Vilnius/Minsk)
Tuesday, April 12, 5:00-7:00
CGIS North K105, 1737 Cambridge St.
Other panelists:
Olga Breskaya, a leading scholar in the field of religious studies and the sociology of religion in Eastern Europe, holds dual appointments as assistant professor for the Department of Cultural and Religious History at Brest State University (BrSU) in Belarus and at the European Humanities University in Vilnius.
Elena Matusevich, CASE Deputy Coordinator, currently serves as lecturer at the European Humanities University (Vilnius/Minsk) and guest lecturer at Humboldt State University in California. Dr. Matusevich's research interests include the media and cultural identity in Belarus, multiculturalism and intercultural communication, postcolonial theory and border studies.
Milana Nikolko, an anthropologist and specialist in social and political philosophy, has held numerous teaching and research positions in Ukraine, the United States, and Canada. Her current research focuses on social capital formation in multi-ethnic Crimea. She also serves as director of the Institute for Social Anthropology, a Ukraine-based NGO that promotes local scientific discourse with the aim of improving research on matters of social importance in the post-Soviet region.
Alexandr Osipian, a historian, currently serves as associate professor of history as well as Secretary of the university Senate at Kramatorsk Institute of Economics and Humanities in Ukraine. His research focuses on the uses of history in politics and nation-building.
Please join us for the following special events:
Friday, April 15, 2011
Davis Center Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies
Opening Remarks / 1:00 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Terry Martin, Director, Davis Center; George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University
Panel I / 1:15-2:45 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Ellen Bryson, Harvard College, Victim and Accomplice: Poland and Italy in the Danube Basin, 1938
Svetlana Dotsenko, Harvard College, State Capacity, Political Commitment, and Health: A Comparative Study of Tuberculosis in Post-Soviet States, 1990-2009
Annemarie Hanson, Wheaton College, The "War of Memories:" Post-World War II Observations in Russian-Estonian Ethnicity Expectations and Geopolitical Relations
Paul Sawyier, Harvard College, Extremism and Neo-Nazism in Russia, 1990s to Present
Alena Svobodova, Wheaton College, The Terrorism in the Caucasus and Its Influence on the Russo-Georgian Relations
Alex Welles, Wheaton College, The Soviets and Weimar: Rearmament and Revolution
Chair: Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University
Panel II / 3:00-4:15 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Beth Bryant, Wellesley College, Abortion in the Soviet Union
Ivana Djak, Harvard College, Women's Organizations in Post-Conflict Periods: The State and Nationalism in the Balkans
Erin Ryan, Wheaton College, Conflict, Peace, and Nongovernmental Actors in Nagorno-Karabakh
Kaitlin Terry, Harvard College, Milada Horáková: A Story of Past and Present
Alice Underwood, Harvard College, Rights on Parade: The Russian LGBT Community's March toward Equality
Chair: Jeanne Wilson, Professor of Political Science, Wheaton College
Panel III / 4:30-5:45 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Jordan Bryant, Harvard College, Russia's Appian Way: How the Classics Shaped Imperial Identity from Peter I to Alexander I
Anne Burke, Wellesley College, Examining the Igor Tale and Its Authenticity
Jessica Flakne, Harvard College, The Role of Religion in the Thought of T.G. Masaryk: An Inquiry into the Implications of Religion on Theories of Democracy and Nationalism
Danielle Guillette, Harvard College, Perceptions and Realities: Solidarity through the Lens of Media and the Soviet Politburo
Aseem Shukla, Harvard College, Spoken Identities: Trends of Language Choice in the Ukrainian Parliament
Chair: Thomas Hodge, Professor of Russian, Wellesley College
Friday, April 15, 2011
Images of Eternal and Evolving Eurasia
Photography Exhibition Opening
Student photographers from Harvard, Wellesley and Wheaton
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level
5:45-6:45 p.m.
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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