Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Calendar of Events

April 1-15, 2013

Tuesday, April 2

Cold War Studies Seminar

“The USSR, the USA, and the Outbreak of the Cold War”

Michael Dobbs, Author and Former Moscow Bureau Chief, The Washington Post

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354

12:15-2:00 p.m.

Tuesday, April 2

Special Event

2013 REECA Thesis Colloquium

The REECA M.A. thesis colloquium presents the results of the thesis research done by second year students in the Russian, East European, and Central Asian Regional Studies Program. A diverse range of topics will be covered in a series of 20 minute presentations.

Erin Hutchinson, Education and Empire: Examining Nostalgia for the Soviet Union in Gagauzia

Alexander Tedeschi, Nation-building in contemporary Russia: the implications and challenges of integrating religious education into public schools

Molly Perkins, A Vote for Putin: Youth, Elections, and Protest in Voronezh, Russia

Tanvir Hussain, Implementation of Mental Health Law in Kyrgyzstan: A Policy Recommendation for Mental Healthcare Reform through Integration of Folk and Medical Traditions

Sierra Perez-Sparks, Focus on the Farmer: Lending strategies to promote sustainable development of key agricultural sectors in Uzbekistan

Anastasiya Prymovych, Ukraine's Accession to the European Energy Community: Pre-2008 Power Networks to Return, Naftogaz to Default, Dependence on Russia to Evolve

Edward Charlton-Jones, The Sultan of Jazz and the Carpenter: White Russian Émigrés in Constantinople

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K262

2:00-6:00 p.m.

Thursday, April 4

Literature and Culture Seminar

“Gogol as a Reader (and a Gardener), 1842-1852”

Bella Grigoryan, Assistant Professor, Yale University

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354

4:15-6:00 p.m.

Friday, April 5

Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group

Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics and Society Working Group, Center for European Studies

“From Kursk Nightingale to Stalin's Singing Spy: Gender and the Performative Life of Nadezhda Plevitskaia”

Pamela Jordan, Independent Scholar

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153

2:00-4:00 p.m.

Saturday, April 6

Special Event

Human Rights in the USSR & Putin's Russia: Elena Bonner Memorial Symposium

“Human Rights in the USSR and Putin's Russia: A Symposium in Memory of Elena Bonner”

Please join us for a symposium in memory of human rights activist Elena Bonner (1923-2011). Focusing on human rights issues in both the Soviet Union and Putin's Russia, the symposium will feature two panels discussing the role and experiences of Soviet human rights activists, as well as the modern-day legacy of Bonner and her husband, the renowned dissident and physicist Andrei Sakharov. The event will conclude with a commemorative presentation by Bonner's daughter, Tatiana Yankelevich.

Lessin Lecture Hall (room G115) in Maxwell Dworkin, Harvard University campus

33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

1:00-5:30 p.m.

Tuesday, April 9

Cold War Studies Seminar

“Constraining Allies: The United States, the Soviet Union, and Nuclear Nonproliferation during the Cold War”

Eugene Kogan, Research Fellow, Brandeis University

CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354

12:15-2:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 10

Humanities Center Seminar on Jewish Cultures and Societies

Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University, the Jews in Modern Europe Workshop, and the Literature and Culture Seminar

“Transfer of Goods - Transfer of Knowledge: The Tobacco Monopoly and the Rise of the Modern Jewish Intellectual in the Hapsburg Monarchy”

Louise Hecht, Senior Lecturer in Jewish History, Palacký University, Olomouc; Fulbright Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

Mahindra Center for the Humanities, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Mahindra Center Room, Room 133

4:00 p.m.

Friday, April 12

Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies

Opening Remarks | 1:45-2:00 p.m.

Terry Martin, George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center

Panel I | 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Angela Lee, Made in the Kremlin: Nashi and the Artificial Pro-Regime Youth Movement, 2005-2012

Nicole Carter, Chechen-Russian Relations in Moscow

Maria Smerkovich, Treading Water in the Ibar: The Paradox of State-Building under Kosovo’s Status Neutral

Emily Keamy-Minor, Civil Society and the Politics of HIV Prevention in Russia

Chair: Timothy J. Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, and Chair of the Government Department, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center

Panel II | 3:15-4:15 p.m.

Alexander Herbert, Reinterpreting Byzantine/Russian Relations and the Medieval Russ

Aparajita Tripathi, Uncovering a Socratic Phenomenology of Dissent: Jan Patočka on Moral Responsibility

Samantha Barchard, Russia in Space

Chair: Jonathan Bolton, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center

Panel III | 4:30-5:30 p.m.

Michael Goncalves, Dialectal Variation in Adyghe: A Language Contact Analysis

James Salamon, Alexander Scriabin: The Sound of Russia

Jesse Nee-Vogelman, Dimitry Krymov and Kama Ginkas: Adaptation in Contemporary Moscow Theater

Christine Herrmann, Witches, Healers, and Shamans - Figures in Russian and Siberian Folklore

Chair: Thomas Dolack, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Wheaton College

1730 Cambridge Street, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room) and Concourse

1:45-5:30 p.m.

Friday, April 12

Student Photography Exhibition Opening

“Traversing Eurasia”

Photographs by Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton students

1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse

5:30-6:30 p.m.

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