The Prophet of Post-Communism: Vladimir Nabokov and Russian Politics
A lecture by Nina Khrushcheva (The New School)
Monday, March 31 at 4 PM in Devlin Hall 101, Boston College
Book signing to follow - free and open to the public
Sponsored by Boston College departments of Slavic and Eastern Languages,
Communication, Fine Arts, History, Political Science, the Honors
Program, and the Boston College Bookstore.
Nina L. Khrushcheva is associate professor in the Graduate Program of
International Affairs and senior fellow of the World Policy Institute at
the New School. Dr. Khrushcheva's articles have appeared in The New York
Times, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune and
other publications. She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia
Between Art and Politics, and is working on a new book, Russia’s Gulag
of the Mind. The great-granddaughter of former Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev, she lives in New York City.
For more information, please contact Prof. Maxim D. Shrayer at
shrayerm(a)bc.edu
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
/*Please note the following seminar title correction:*/
*Wednesday, April 2*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/ /
/"Putin, Bush and the Future of Nuclear Power"
/Paul Josephson, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of History,
Colby College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard
University Parking Services at
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follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or
problems, contact the
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
April 1-15, 2008__*
*__*
* *
*Tuesday, April 1*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/ /
/"Two Kinds of Theater: Natasha's Visit to the Opera in Tolstoy's /War
and Peace/ (Vol. II, Part Five, chapt. IX and X) and Young Krull's First
Visit to the Theater in /Thomas Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull,
Confidence Man/ (Book I, chapt. 5)"/
Horst-Jürgen Gerigk, Professor of Russian Literature, Slavisches
Institut, Heidelberg University, Germany
12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Room 133
4:15-6:00 p.m.
* *
* *
*Wednesday, April 2*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/ /
/"//Proletarian Aesthetics: Stalin and Technology in East Central Europe"
/Paul Josephson, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of History,
Colby College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
* *
* *
*Wednesday, April 2*
*Outreach Program Series*
/ /
/"//Islam in Central Asia"
/John Schoeberlein, Lecturer on Central Asia, Department of Near Eastern
Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
4:30-6:30 p.m.
*Thursday, April 3*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*//
/ /
/"Who Wants to Revise Privatization and Why? Two Surveys from the
Postcommunist World"
/Timothy Frye, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of Political
Science, Columbia University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, April 3*
*Wiktor Weintraub Memorial Lecture*
*Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures*
// /"Milosz and Brodsky: Poetry with a Foreign Accent"/
Irena Grudzinska-Gross, Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of
the Institute for Human Sciences, Boston University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Thursday, April 3 - Saturday, April 5*
*Symposium*
/"Aleksander Pushkin: An Historic Symposium at Harvard"/ / /
Exploring the Dual Heritage of Russia's Greatest Poet and Father of
Modern Russian Literature & the Black Russians of the 20^th Century
Thursday, April 3
Opening Reception, Poetry Recital & Opera Clips
12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Thompson Room
5:00-7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 4
Symposium
20 Quincy Street, Harvard Faculty Club, 2nd Floor Library
9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 5
Symposium
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
* *
/Advance Registration Requested: Online at
www.charleshamiltonhouston.org <http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org/>
or via email to lpaiewon(a)post.harvard.edu
<mailto:lpaiewon@post.harvard.edu>/
*Friday, April 4*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
* *
/"Heroic Literature in Kievan Rus': Beyond the Igor Tale"/
Susana Torres Prieto-Hay, Lecturer in Slavonic, Universidad Complutense
de Madrid, Spain; Postdoctoral Fellow, Universite Paris Sorbonne-Paris
IV, France
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, April 8 *
*Cold War Studies Seminar and Book Talk*
/
"//Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life as a Cold War Correspondent"/
Nicholas Daniloff, Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University;
Former Moscow Bureau Chief, U.S. News and World Report
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, April 8 *
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
*Co-sponsored by the Occasional Seminar*
/
//"The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev"/
Vladislav Zubok, Associate Professor of History, Temple University
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, April 9*
*Director's Seminar *//
/ /
/"Vladimir Putin- Well-Suited for the Number Two Role- A Behavioral
Movement Analysis"/
Brenda Connors, Senior Fellow, Strategic Research Department, U.S. Naval
War College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Thursday, April 10*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*//
/ /
/"(Un)happiness in Transition"
/Sergei Guriev, Associate Professor and Rector, New Economic School, Moscow
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
* *
*Thursday, April 10*
*Art Exhibition Opening Reception*//
/ /
/"Transitional Spaces: Destruction, Disintegration and Growth in
Post-Communist Hungary and Estonia"
/Amy Brouillette, Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center
Sara Rhodin, Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center
1737 Cambridge Street, Ground Level, Fisher Family Commons
5:00-7:00 p.m.
* *
* *
*Friday, April 11*
*Film Screening*
*Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute //*
/"Koryo Saram" /
Y. David Chung, Film Co-director/
/1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010
6:30 p.m.
/For more information, please visit: http://koryosaram.net////
*Monday, April 14*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
/ /
/"State Ownership and Rentierism in the FSU: Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan"/
Pauline Jones-Luong, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown
University
Papers are available on the web at
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. There is no presentation; all
participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the meeting.
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, April 15*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*//
/ /
/"//Coming to Terms with a Past: Electoral Turnovers and Coalitional
Commitments in Slovakia's Quest for a Lustration Law//"
/Jana Kunicova, Governance Specialist, World Bank
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton
Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard
University Parking Services at
http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml.
Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and
follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or
problems, contact the
Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
*/Please note the following change to our March seminar calendar:/
Monday, March 31*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights *
/"The Litvinenko Case"/
Alexander Goldfarb, Executive Director, International Foundation for
Civil Liberties, New York; Author
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
(Andrei Illarionov's talk, originally scheduled for this time, has been
canceled.)
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Friday, April 11 - Film Screening - Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute
and the Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies
"Koryo Saram" Co-directed by Y. David Chung and Matt Dibble
Y. David Chung, Film Co-director, in person
Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St., 6:30pm, Free
and open to the public
For more information on "Koryo Saram" please go to: http://koryosaram.net/
/Film synopsis:/
In 1937, Stalin began a campaign of massive ethnic cleansing and
forcibly deported everyone of Korean origin living in the coastal
provinces of the Far East Russia near the border of North Korea to the
unsettled steppe country of Central Asia 3700 miles away. This story of
180,000 Koreans who became political pawns during the Great Terror is
the central focus of this film. With political scientist and executive
producer Meredith Jung-En Woo and cameraman and co-director Matt Dibble,
Chung traveled to film the survivors of the deportation and their
descendants who still live in Kazakhstan today.
Koryo Saram (the Soviet Korean phrase for Korean person) tells the
harrowing saga of survival in the open steppe country and the sweep of
Soviet history through the eyes of these deported Koreans, who were
designated by Stalin as an "unreliable people" and enemies of the state.
Through recently uncovered archival footage and new interviews, the film
follows the deportees' history of integrating into the Soviet system
while working under punishing conditions in Kazakhstan, a country which
became a concentration camp of exiled people from throughout the Soviet
Union.
Today, in the context of Kazakhstan's recent emergence as a rapidly
modernizing, independent state, the story of the Kazakhstani-Koreans
situated within this ethnically diverse country has resonance with the
experience of many Americans and how they have assimilated to form new
cultures in our world of increasingly displaced people.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
*The Eighth Annual Harvard International History Graduate Student
Conference on Gender in International History will convene this Friday
and Saturday, March 14-15, 2008. The Conference will be at the Center
for European Studies on 27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way. For more
information see website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~conih/schedule.htm
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Econih/schedule.htm>*
* *
*«**FRIDAY*
*Registration and Luncheon* (11-1:30)
Dudley House, Fireside Room
*Panel I: Norms and Perceptions *(2-3:30)
Chair: Kristin Hoganson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Norman Domeier (European University Institute)
/The Thin Line: Sexology and Morality in the Eulenburg Scandal, 1906-1909/
Commentator, Lorenzo Benadusi (Brown University)
Gordon Andrews (Western Michigan University)
/'Lewd and Debauched Women': Race, Gender and the Transformation of
American Immigration Policy/
Commentator, Min Hyoung Song (Boston College)
Christine Ruth Watterson (Harvard University)
/Disagreeable Necessities: the Role of Newspaper Advertisements in
Regulating the Household in Eighteenth Century America and Ireland/
Commentator, Laura Lee Downs (EHESS)
*Cocktails and Dinner** *(5:30-8)
Harvard Faculty Club (by invitation only)
with remarks by Nancy Cott (Harvard University)
*«**SATURDAY*
*Breakfast* (8-9)
*Panel II: Actors and Institutions *(9-10:30)* *
Chair: Akira Iriye (Harvard University)
Jessica Pliley (Ohio State University)
/Suppression of the Traffic: White Slavery and the League of Nations,
1919-1939/
Commentator, Susan Pedersen (Columbia University)
Steffen Rimner (Yale University/University of Konstanz)
/'To Make the World Safe against Opium': Four Women between America, the
League of Nations and International Opium Prohibition, 1919-1930/
Commentator, Erez Manela (Harvard University)
Karen Teoh (Harvard University)
/Gender, Education and the Colonial State: British Intervention in
Malayan Chinese Girls' Schools, 1920s-1950s/
Commentator, Ann Laura Stoler (The New School)
*Coffee Break* (10:30-11)
*Panel III*:* Solidarity and Action *(11-12:30)
Chair: Afsaneh Najmabadi (Harvard University)
Michael McGuire (Boston University)
/Ladies /and/ Gentlemen? Gender and American Humanitarian Relief Efforts
in France during the First World War, 1914-1919 /
Commentator, Judith Surkis (Harvard University)
Lindsey Churchill (Florida State University)
/Transnational Alliances: Radical US Feminist Solidarity and Contention
with Latin America, 1970-1989 /
Commentator, Brad Epps (Harvard University)
Xinxian Zheng (Peking University)
/Between Red Cross and Patriotic Blood: Florence Nightingaleism in the
Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945/
Commentator, Caroline Reeves (Emmanuel College)
*Luncheon *(12:30-2)
*Panel IV: Identities and Nations *(2:30-4)
Chair: Glenda Sluga (University of Sydney)
Shehnaz Hozaima (Trinity Western University)
/Women in the Making: Gender and Nation-Building in the
Israeli-Palestine Conflict/
Commentator, Susan Kahn (Harvard University)
Elisabetta Bini, (New York University)
/Cold War Masculinities: Gas Station Attendants Between Italy, the
United States and the Third World, 1945-1965 /
Commentator, Robert Dean (Eastern Washington University)
Megan Threlkeld (University of Iowa)
/'Make This Pan American Thing Go?' Interwar Debates about US Women's
Transnational Activism in the Western Hemisphere/
Commentator, Diana Williams (Wellesley College)
*Plenary Session: A Gendered World? Mapping the Intersections of Gender
and International History *(4-5:30)
Chair: David Armitage (Harvard University)
Robert Dean (Eastern Washington University)
Laura Lee Downs (l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales)
Kristin Hoganson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Glenda Sluga (University of Sydney)
Ann Laura Stoler (The New School)
*Reception*, Dudley House, Graduate Student Lounge (6-7)
/ /
/All sessions will take place at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for
European Studies, unless otherwise indicated./
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Dear friends,
We are delighted to announce that Hugh Truslow has accepted the position
of librarian for the Davis Center Collection at Fung Library. Hugh is a
recent graduate of Simmons College's Graduate School of Library and
Information Science. He also earned an undergraduate degree in Russian
language from the University of Vermont, spent a year at Moscow
University, and attended the Middlebury College Russian Language School.
As a matter of fact, in the early '90s he worked as an assistant at the
Russian Research Center before going on to work for /The New York
Times/. More recently, Hugh has done archival processing at the JFK
Presidential Library and Museum and the Gotlieb Archival Research Center
at Boston University.
Hugh's schedule is Tues. 9-4, Wed. 9-3:30, Thurs. 9-4, and he can be
reached at truslow(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:truslow@fas.harvard.edu> or
617-495-4030. He is very much looking forward to working with the Davis
Center community, so please do stop by and introduce yourself.
Lis
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
March 17-31, 2008
*
*Monday, March 17*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
/
Title TBA
/George Soroka, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard
University// / /
Papers are available on the web at
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. There is no presentation; all
participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the
meeting.
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, March 20*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/ /
/"'Tserkov' Merezhkovskikh: Istoriia intellektual'nogo dvizhenia"/
Margarita Pavlova, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Senior Scholar,
Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
/Please note: This talk will be delivered in Russian./
*Monday, March 31*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
/
//"Inequality and Democracy"/
Boriana Nikolova, Visiting Graduate Student, University of Chicago / /
Papers are available on the web at
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. There is no presentation; all
participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the
meeting.
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
* *
*Monday, March 31*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights *
"/On the Russian Presidential Elections of March 9, 2008"/
Andrei Illarionov, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and
Prosperity, Cato Institute; President, Institute of Economic Analysis,
Moscow
1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton
Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard
University Parking Services at
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Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and
follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or
problems, contact the
Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
The Davis Center is pleased to welcome six new visitors. Their
biographies are below. To get in touch with any of our visitors, please
contact Joan Gabel at jgabel(a)fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-4038.
Paul Josephson
Visiting Scholar
Prof. Josephson comes to the Davis Center from Colby College where he
serves as an associate professor of history and chair of international
studies. Having first been affiliated with the Davis Center in 1991-92,
he returns as a Visiting to continue research on his project “Stalin,
Soviet Engineering and Technology in Eastern Europe, 1945-1964.” In
1999-2000 he was a Fellow of the Davis Center. Prof. Josephson recently
published a book entitled: An Environmental History of Russia and
articles in Technology and Culture, and Slavonic and East European
Review. He participates in Central European University’s Russian
Environmental History project, and the Tensions of Europe: History of
Technology Project.
Natalya Kadatskaya
Open Society Institute Fellow
Ms. Kadatskaya is a lecturer in the department of world history and
international relations at the E.A. Buketov State University in
Karaganda, Kazakhstan where she is a Ph.D. candidate in the department
of archaeology, ethnology and history. Her dissertation focuses on the
role of migration in changing the demographic characteristics of the
German people in Kazakhstan at the end of 20th century. Her research
interests include problems of ethnic migrations and problems of identity
in the post-Soviet space. Ms. Kadatskaya will be researching her project
"The Identity of Germans as a Factor of Migration between Kazakhstan and
Germany."
Jane Lezina
Sakharov Fellow for Human Rights
Currently, Ms. Lezina is a Ph.D. candidate at the IMT Lucca Institute
for Advanced Studies in Italy. Her thesis project is entitled
“Strategies for Overcoming a Totalitarian System: the Post-Nazi Federal
German Republic and Post-Soviet Russia, a Comparative Perspective.” In
2006-2007, she coordinated several art exhibitions on human rights in
Russia, including “Political Justice and Political Prisoners in Today’s
Russia” (2006) and “Contemporary Art and Taboos.” She has presented
lectures at Russian universities and human rights organizations on the
history of repression and resistance in the USSR, overcoming the
totalitarian past, and the relationship between the state and the
individual. At Harvard, she plans to get acquainted with the work of
civic education organizations in the US and to gather material for a
course on civic education, specifically on political culture and civil
society, to be introduced in Russia.
Asel Murzakulova
Open Society Institute Fellow
Ms. Murzakulova is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the
Kyrgyz-Russian University in Kyrgyzstan. Her dissertation work analyses
the main trends of nation-state building in Central Asia. She also
serves as an expert advisor to the president of Kyrgyzstan through the
International Institute of Strategic Research (IISR). Recently, she has
published a paper entitled “The Problems of Borders in Central Asia:
History, Tendencies, and Context.” During her stay at the Davis Center,
her research will focus on the symbolic production of “nation” in the
political narrative of Central Asia.
Eliza Musaeva
Sakharov Fellow for Human Rights
Currently, Dr. Musaeva is a consultant for the International Helsinki
Federation for Human Rights. In this capacity, she has published
numerous human rights reports including: “The Decimation of the Human
Rights Community in Uzbekistan” and “The Flawed Amnesty Process in
Chechnya” (forthcoming). In 2000-2004, she was head of the
Chechnya/Ingushetia office of the Human Rights Center “Memorial” which
documents human rights violations in the region. In 1996-2004 she served
as an assistant professor of psychology at the Chechen Pedagogical
College. At Harvard, she intends to study the mechanisms that ensure the
state's respect for human rights, to conduct a comparative analysis of
the "War on Terror" in the Russian Federation and in other countries,
and to study the use of preventive counter-terrorism measures in
countries outside Russia.
Margarita Pavlova
Senior Fellow
Dr. Pavlova is a senior scholar and archival specialist in the
manuscript department of the Institute of Russian Literature
(Pushkinskii Dom) at the Russian Academy of Sciences. She completed her
doctoral thesis in 2006 on the biography and prose of Fyodor Sologub.
She specializes in the history of Russian symbolism and Russian culture
in the early 20th century. Dr. Pavlova will be joining the Davis Center
to continue research on her project, “The Idea of a ‘New Religious
Consciousness’ and its Realization in the Neo-Christian Commune of the
Merezhovsky Circle.”
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
