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.
Register at
elenabonnersymposium.eventbrite.com.
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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