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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