Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
April 16-30, 2011
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.
Monday, April 18
Literature and Culture Seminar
"Writing after Yugoslavia: Literature in Politics and Politics in Literature"
Igor Štiks, CITSEE Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh; author of the novels A Castle in Romagna and Elijah's Chair
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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.
Wednesday, April 27
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
"Russian Jewry in Motion: Relations with Israel, the Kremlin, and Itself"
Yuri Kanner, President, Russian Jewish Congress
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 27
Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar
"Land and Power in Khorezm: Farmers, Communities and the State in Uzbekistan's Decollectivisation"
Tommaso Trevisani, Postdoctoral Fellow, Berlin Graduate School for Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250
4:15-6:00 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
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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 last session of this academic year's Study Group on Jews in Modern Europe at the Center for European Studies:
Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Topic: Jewish-Russian Poets Bearing Witness to the Shoah
Speaker: Maxim D. Shrayer, Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies, Boston College
Location: Goldman Room, Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
Sponsor: Study Group on Jews in Modern Europe<http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/studygroups/sg21.html>
Contact: Phyllis Albert, phyllisalbert(a)gmail.com<mailto:phyllisalbert@gmail.com>
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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 that this event will be held on Thursday, April 14 .
We are very pleased to announce that Slavenka Drakulić -noted Croatian journalist, essayist and novelist-will be at the Davis Center later this month 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 (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.
If you would like paper copies of the attached flyer for distribution or postering, 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
You are invited to a lecture by
Professor Bryan Rennie
Westminster College, PA,
Friday, April 8th, 2011, 4 PM
Davis Center, Room S354, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge Street
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA:
Mircea Eliade, facts and interpretations
Mircea Eliade, the great Romanian historian of comparative religion, wrote on Yoga, the ancient Balkan god Zalmoxis, alchemy, and many other subjects. He almost single-handedly invented the field of the study of shamanism; and edited the Encyclopedia of Religion during his tenure at the University of Chicago. He was also an important and prolific prose writer whose darkly surrealistic contrivances remind one of Borges, or of a new Gogol. Eliade's scholarly reputation has in recent years been overshadowed by discussion of his political activity before and during the Second World War in and on behalf of the fascist regime in Romania. Professor Rennie has devoted much of his career to the study of Eliade's voluminous corpus; and this lecture will address the philological, phenomenological, and political facets of Eliade's fascinating work and life. The lecture will be moderated by J.R. Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, and is supported by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard.
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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
We are very pleased to announce that Slavenka Drakulić -noted Croatian journalist, essayist and novelist-will be at the Davis Center later this month 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 (details below). Please share this announcement with your (current and former) students and colleagues as it's sure to be of interest to many.
Friday, 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.
If you would like paper copies of the attached flyer for distribution or postering, 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 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
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