[Daviscalendar-list] Friday, April 28, 2006 - Undergraduate Colloquium

*Friday, April 28, 2006** **Undergraduate Colloquium */ /Panelists from Harvard College, Wellesley College, and Wheaton College 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Rooms #S020 and #S050 2:00 - 5:45 pm *Program of Events* * * *2:00 Welcome, Room #S010 * Timothy J. Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies *2:10 Panel I, Room #S020 * /*Chair: Marshall Goldman, Kathryn Davis Professor of Russian Economics, Emeritus, Wellesley College; Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies */ Matthew Sullivan, Harvard College: "Beginning of a Balance? Explaining America's Decline in Central Asia, 2003-2006" Myles Matteson, Wheaton College: "The ICTY and Judicial Reconstruction in Bosnia-Herzegovina" Marina Turlakova, Wellesley College: "Determinants of Enterprise Performance in Russia and Other Transition Economies" Nicholas Potter, Wheaton College: "Gazprom Diplomacy: How Gas Politics are Playing an Increasing Role in Russian Foreign Policy" *2:10 Panel II, Room #S050 * /*Chair: Julie Buckler, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University */ Florence Graham, Wellesley College: "Quasi una Fantasia: An Alternate Ending to 'Family Happiness?'" Mihaela Pacurar, Harvard College: "Purveying Literature: Literary Eclecticism in the Romanian Calendar-Book and the Creation of a Late Nineteenth-Century Reading Public" Dorottya Mozes, Wellesley College: "The Modernist Myth of the City: F.M. Dostoevsky's and V.V. Nabokov's Subversion of the Petersburg Text" Samuel Johnson, Harvard College: "Nikolai Nosov: A Translation and Analysis of Three Tales" Zdenka Sturm, Harvard College: "From Divine Dignity to Gratuitous Grieving: Reconstructing the Polish Cultural Consciousness after the Death of Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)" *3:45 Refreshments** * *4:00 Panel III, Room #S020 * /*Chair: David E. Powell, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Russian Studies, Wheaton College; Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies */ Timothy McDonnell, Wheaton College: "Soviet Artillery Forces in the Cold War" Jessica Saunders, Wellesley College: "A Childhood Lost: Polish and Jewish Children of Nazi Occupied Territories" Duncan McCreery, Wheaton College: "Anti-Americanism in Russia: The Intersection of Doctrine and Public Opinion" Kristin Coyle, Wheaton College: "The New Xenophobia in Russia: The Issue of 'Islamofascism'" *4:00 Panel IV, Room #S050 * /*Chair: Elena Campbell, Visiting Professor of History, Harvard University */James Honan-Hallock, Harvard College: "For Creator, Sovereign, Academy, and Science: Johann Anton Güldenstädt and the 1768-1775 Russian Expedition to the Caucasus" Lucy Moore, Harvard College: "To Belgrade and Back: Representations of the Balkans in American Travel Writing" Katherine Olson, Harvard College: "Lithic Legacies: Museums and Lithuanian National Identity" David Kronig, Harvard College: "Shostakovich in Stalinist Russia: Resisting Totalitarianism and Maintaining Individuality through Music" *5:45 Comments and Reflection by Timothy Colton, Room #S010*** -- -------------------------------------------------- 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