You are invited to attend:
Poetic Urbanisms and Multimedia: Artists Talks
Thursday, February 24, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Arts @ 29 Garden
Brian House discusses Periplurban and other urban media arts with Jesse Shapins
Svetlana Boym offers a guided tour of Hydrant Immigrants, Portable Homes and Phantasmagorias
This is the last chance to see the show, which closes on Monday, February 28!
For gallery hours, please contact Bess Paupeck, paupeck(a)fas.harvard.edu, or Svetlana Boym, boym(a)fas.harvard.edu
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
March 1-15, 2011
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.
Tuesday, March 1
Sakharov Human Rights Book Seminar
"The Chechen Struggle: Independence Won and Lost"
Ilyas Akhmadov, Former Foreign Minister of Chechen Separatist Government
Miriam Lanskoy, Senior Program Officer, Central Asia and the Caucasus National Endowment for Democracy
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 2
Director's Seminar
"Russian Traditional Media vs. Blogosphere - Parallel or Perpendicular"
Mikhail Gusman, First Deputy Director-General ITAR-TASS
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*This lecture will be delivered in Russian and translated into English*
Thursday, March 3
Historians' Seminar
"Stalin and the Origins of the Second World War Revisited"
Gabriel Gorodetsky, Fellow, All Souls College Oxford; Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Friday, March 4
Early Slavists' Seminar
"Representing the Murder of Andrei Bogoliubskii: Art versus Science"
Michael S. Flier, Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology; Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 8
Historians' Seminar
"Equality and Revolution: Women's Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917"
Rochelle Ruthchild, Professor Emerita of Graduate Studies, The Union Institute and University; Center Associate, Davis Center
Moderator: Elizabeth Wood, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Center Associate, Davis Center
Discussant: Philippa Hetherington, PhD candidate, History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 15
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Foreigners in the Soviet Gulag, 1945-1953"
Stefan Karner, Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for War Research (Austria); Professor of Modern History, University of Graz
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<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
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Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.495.4037
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
February 16-28, 2011
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.
Tuesday, February 22
Comparative Economics Seminar
"Smart Power in European and U.S. Diplomacy"
Jiří Payne, Adviser to the President, Office of the President of the Czech Republic
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 24
Book Talk
"Sovereign Debt and the IMF: The Case of Russia"
Martin Gilman, Director, Centre for Advanced Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics; author of No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia's 1998 Default (The MIT Press, 2010)
Moderator: Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Monday, February 28
2010-2011 August Zaleski Lecture in Modern Polish History
Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Harvard Club of Poland
Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, will be speaking on the topic of European Security
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010
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<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to 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
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.495.4037
F 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Student "Site Officers" Sought for U.S.-Russia Media Conference, March 2-4, 2011
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies is calling for applications from Harvard students to serve as informal "site officers" at the U.S- Russia Media Conference to be held in and around the Cambridge area on March 2-4 2011. This is a great opportunity for students with an interest in the 21st-century media revolution and/or U.S.-Russia relations to get hands-on experience.
The U.S. Department of State and the Davis Center, which are jointly organizing the event, require students who are familiar with the Cambridge area, have good working knowledge of spoken Russian, and enjoy offering personal assistance to experts on international journalism, technology, and diplomacy to perform a range of tasks at the conference. These tasks may include staffing information desks at the conference site and/or hotel, coordinating vehicle departures and accompanying individual conference participants - Russian or American - on official business, and assisting with special requests.
To apply, please email a brief cover letter and CV or résumé to daviscenter(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu>. Priority will be given to applications received by February 23. Be sure to indicate your availability (dates, times and desired total number of work hours). The conference will be held Wednesday (12 noon - 8 p.m.), Thursday (7 a.m. - 11p.m.), and Friday (7 a.m. - 3 p.m.). These positions will be paid at an hourly rate of $14.00.
Please see the attached document for additional information.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.495.4037
F 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Please see the following announcement from Davis Center faculty associate Svetlana Boym:
Dear Friends: I hope you're well in the new year! I would like to invite you to our experimental exhibit at Harvard's newest art space--still a work-in-progress. west art space--still a work-in-progress. The opening is Feb. 4, 6-8 at Arts@29 Garden (entry from 30 Chauncy, from the ground floor). The exhibit includes three of my projects: Hydrants Immigrants, Phantasmagorias and Portable Homes as well as an experimental media art project of poetic mapping of Cambridge that we did with my students. I very much hope you can make it. Party Needs you! All very best, Svetlana
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
POETIC URBANISMS
an experimental exhibition at Arts @ 29 Garden, Harvard's newest arts space
February 4 - 25
OPENING RECEPTION AND PROJECT INTRODUCTION
by Svetlana Boym and Jesse Shapins
Friday, February 4, 6-8pm
Arts @ 29 Garden, entrance at 30 Chauncy Street, Cambridge, MA
(corner of Garden and Chauncy Street)
Tel: 617.496.2455
New Urban Language of Poetic Estrangement
An urban media arts project by Professor Svetlana Boym's Comparative Literature 273 Approaches to Modernity: Metropolis (Fall 2008) + Comparative Literature 256 Archaeology of Modernity and Visual Culture (Spring 2010) in collaboration with Periplurban.org. Concept, code, and design by Brian House and Jesse Shapins. Print design by Greg Mihalko
Hydrants Immigrants, Portable Homes and Urban Phantasmagorias
Media art projects by Svetlana Boym
Curated by Dan Borelli
Poetic Urbanisms explores ruins, construction sites and immigrant homes of the twenty-first century city. The exhibition is a collective experiment in critical and creative estrangement that allows us to map overlooked spaces, discover the untold stories of our everyday environments and re-imagine the public realm of the city.
The exhibition is an inauguration of a semester -long project in conjunction with the new course CL 242 Image, Text and Public Realm, taught by Svetlana Boym. The project will culminate with the student presentations and performances that would imagine an identity for Arts@29 Garden as a creative interface between the university and the city of Cambridge.
Credits:
Poetic Urbanisms is made possible with HUCA Grant for art making at Harvard.
With students from CL 273 and CL 256: Kameron Collins, Mark Davis, Sophie Duvernoy, Miguel Morcuende Gonzalez, Lucy MacKinnon, Garrett Dash Nelson, Jon-Mark Overvold, Christopher Rogacz, Katherine Rose, Serge Ryappo, Aditi Sen, Jamie Smith, Zach Smith, and Olga Zhulin
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.495.4037
F 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Hello all,
Based on the e-mail from Deans Smith and Kirwan that was sent out earlier today, Nancy, Kazuko, and I have agreed that the Fung Library will be closed all day tomorrow.
Thanks, Hugh
Hugh K. Truslow
Librarian for the Davis Center Collection
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.495.4037
F 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Please note that the following seminar has been canceled due to weather:
Wednesday, February 2
Comparative Economics Seminar
"Doing Business with Russia"
Tatyana Kuzmina, Director, Centre for Intercultural Communication and International Relations
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<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to 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
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.495.4037
F 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
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Laura Beshears
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.384.8438
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