[Daviscalendar-list] Friday, April 28, 2006 - Undergraduate Colloquium

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*Friday, April 28, 2006**
**Undergraduate Colloquium
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/Panelists from Harvard College, Wellesley College, and Wheaton College
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Rooms #S020 and #S050
2:00 - 5:45 pm


*Program of Events*
* *
*2:00 Welcome, Room #S010 *
Timothy J. Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and 
Russian Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center for Russian 
and Eurasian Studies

 
*2:10 Panel I, Room #S020 *
/*Chair: Marshall Goldman, Kathryn Davis Professor of Russian Economics, 
Emeritus, Wellesley College; Associate Director, Davis Center for 
Russian & Eurasian Studies */

Matthew Sullivan, Harvard College: "Beginning of a Balance? Explaining 
America's Decline in Central Asia, 2003-2006"
Myles Matteson, Wheaton College: "The ICTY and Judicial Reconstruction 
in Bosnia-Herzegovina"
Marina Turlakova, Wellesley College: "Determinants of Enterprise 
Performance in Russia and Other Transition Economies"
Nicholas Potter, Wheaton College: "Gazprom Diplomacy: How Gas Politics 
are Playing an Increasing Role in Russian Foreign Policy"
 

*2:10 Panel II, Room #S050 *
/*Chair: Julie Buckler, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, 
Harvard University */

Florence Graham, Wellesley College: "Quasi una Fantasia: An Alternate 
Ending to 'Family Happiness?'"
Mihaela Pacurar, Harvard College: "Purveying Literature: Literary 
Eclecticism in the Romanian Calendar-Book and the Creation of a Late 
Nineteenth-Century Reading Public"
Dorottya Mozes, Wellesley College: "The Modernist Myth of the City: F.M. 
Dostoevsky's and V.V. Nabokov's Subversion of the Petersburg Text"
Samuel Johnson, Harvard College: "Nikolai Nosov: A Translation and 
Analysis of Three Tales"
Zdenka Sturm, Harvard College: "From Divine Dignity to Gratuitous 
Grieving:  Reconstructing the Polish Cultural Consciousness after the 
Death of Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)"
 

*3:45 Refreshments**   *

 
*4:00 Panel III, Room #S020 *
/*Chair: David E. Powell, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Russian 
Studies, Wheaton College; Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian & 
Eurasian Studies */

Timothy McDonnell, Wheaton College: "Soviet Artillery Forces in the Cold 
War"
Jessica Saunders, Wellesley College: "A Childhood Lost: Polish and 
Jewish Children of Nazi Occupied Territories"
Duncan McCreery, Wheaton College: "Anti-Americanism in Russia: The 
Intersection of Doctrine and Public Opinion"
Kristin Coyle, Wheaton College: "The New Xenophobia in Russia: The Issue 
of 'Islamofascism'"
 
 
*4:00 Panel IV, Room #S050 *
/*Chair: Elena Campbell, Visiting Professor of History, Harvard University

*/James Honan-Hallock, Harvard College: "For Creator, Sovereign, 
Academy, and Science: Johann Anton Güldenstädt and the 1768-1775 Russian 
Expedition to the Caucasus"
Lucy Moore, Harvard College: "To Belgrade and Back: Representations of 
the Balkans in American Travel Writing"
Katherine Olson, Harvard College: "Lithic Legacies: Museums and 
Lithuanian National Identity"
David Kronig, Harvard College: "Shostakovich in Stalinist Russia: 
Resisting Totalitarianism and Maintaining Individuality through Music"
 
*5:45 Comments and Reflection by Timothy Colton, Room #S010***

 

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