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

 

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