Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Seminar Calendar
November 1-15, 2011

For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website.

Friday, November 4

Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group

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

“The New Façade of Autocracy: Putin and Hypermasculinity, 1999 to the present”

Elizabeth Wood, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Associate, Davis Center

1730 Cambridge Street, 4^th Floor, Room S450

2:00-3:30 p.m.

Wednesday, November 9

Russian and East European Jewish Studies Seminar

“Jews and East European Cities” Series, Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies; Modern Jewish Worlds Workshop; Study Group on Jews in Modern Europe, Center for European Studies; and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute

“In the Shadow of the Shtetls in Soviet Podolia: Jewish Memory in Eastern Europe”

Jeffrey Veidlinger, Professor of History; Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies; Director, Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University

1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354

12:15-2:00 p.m.

Thursday, November 10

Informing Eurasia Seminar

“There Is No Such City as London’: The Idea of the West in Polish Film Pre- and Post-1989”

Justyna Beinek, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University

1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354

4:00-6:00 p.m.

Papers will be distributed in advance. Contact Robyn Angley (rangley@fas.harvard.edu) for more information.

Sunday, November 13

Film Screening

Boston Jewish Film Festival screening sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Lenin in October

The Boston Jewish Film Festival presents Lenin in October, an off-beat comedy directed by Evgeny Ruman (2010, 50 min.), and The Decision Maker directed by Yagil (2010, 41 minutes).

Films introduced by Sasha Senderovich, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Tufts University

2:45 p.m.

Alfond Auditorium

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue

Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5523 Tel: 617-267-9300

Free and open to the public. For more information: http://bjff.festivalgenius.com/2011/films/lenininoctober_evgenyruman_bjff2011

Sunday, November 13

Special Event

Conference on the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora

Welcoming Remarks & Roundtable Discussion: “The Russian-Speaking Jewish Immigrants: Impressions from the Field”

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

Moderator: Zvi Gitelman, Conference Co-Chair and Professor, Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan

Pinchas Goldschmidt, Chief Rabbi of Moscow; President of the Conference of European Rabbis

Barry Shrage, President, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Boston

Sergey Lagodinsky, Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin

Vladimir Khanin, Chief Scientist, Israeli Ministry of Immigrant Absorption; Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University

1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010 (Tsai Auditorium)

7:30-9:00 p.m.

Free and open to the public.

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