Daviscalendar-list April 2010

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Seminar reminders (4/29 and 4/30) and correction (5/12)

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/*Please note the following seminar reminders (4/29 and 4/30) and *//*title correction (5/12)*//*: */*Thursday, April 29* *Literature and Culture Seminar* /"The Unknown History of Soviet Music"/ Simon Morrison, Visiting Professor of Music, Harvard University; Professor of Music, Princeton University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, April 30* *Early Slavists' Seminar* /"The Beginnings of Modernity? Confession among the East Slavs in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century"/ Nadieszda Kizenko, Associate Professor of History, State University of New York at Albany 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Wednesday, May 12* *Comparative Economics Seminar * * * /"China: A New Player in the Petroleum Market"/ Øystein Tunsjø, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University; Senior Fellow, Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, Oslo 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl. If you need to register a new visitor login in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. -- ---------------------------------------------------- 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

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Reminder: 4/28/10 and 4/29/10 special events

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/*Please note the following special events reminder:*/ *Wednesday, April 28* *Book Talk/Director's Seminar* /"Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts"/ (Oxford University Press, 2009) * * David Engerman, Associate Professor of History, Brandeis University; Center Associate, Davis Center Discussant: Andrew Jewett, Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Thursday, April 29* *Book Talk/Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar* /"The Spectacular State: Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan"/ (Duke University Press, 2010) Laura Adams, Program Co-Director, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Davis Center; Center Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl. If you need to register a new visitor login in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. -- ---------------------------------------------------- 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

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Seminar Calendar, May 1-15, 2010

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar May 1-15, 2010__* *__* */For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./* *__* *Wednesday, May 5* *Comparative Economics Seminar* /"Business Prospects in Russia: The View from Inside"/ Students from Moscow State University, Moscow 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, May 6* *Comparative Politics Seminar* /"The Politics of Regulatory Reform under Putin and Medvedev" / Mikhail Pryadilnikov, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, May 12* *Comparative Economics Seminar * * * /"China: A New Player in the Petroleum Market"/ Øystein Tunsjø, PhD candidate in International Relations, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Friday May 14* *Early Slavists' Seminar* /"Looking Anew at the Time of Troubles, the Smolensk War, the Southern Frontier, and the Late 17th-Century Turkish and Crimean Campaigns through the Prism of the Muscovite Command-and-Control Debate"/ Peter B. Brown, Professor of History, Rhode Island College 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl. If you need to register a new visitor login in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. -- ---------------------------------------------------- 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

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World Day of Prayers Celebration 2010 at Harvard University Sanders Theatre May 6 2010

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Dear Sir or Madam, It is with great pleasure that I write to inform you about the unique performance and American premiere of the play "Budzyn.” This first-ever performance is being produced as a tribute to Holocaust victims celebrating the World Day of Prayer 2010 at Harvard University. At the conclusion of the performance, there will be a prayer ceremony to celebrate unity and diversity in working for a world of peace and justice, and to commemorate the recent tragedy for Poland with the loss of the President Mr. Lech Kaczynski and government officials as well. The Mayor of Cambridge, Mr. David P. Maher, Harvard University Associate Provost for Arts and Culture, Mrs. Lori Gross, President of the New England Holocaust Memorial, Mr. Rick Mann, Honorary Consul of the Republic of Poland, Mr. Marek Lesniewski-Laas, Consul of Israel in Boston, Mrs. Rony Yedidia will honor us with their participation. The production will feature the Irving Fine Society Singers & Ensemble performing music by Holocaust victim composer Edwin Geist, dances by choreographer Cherina Eisenberg and special artistic collaboration of famous actress Barbra Streisand. This performance, which unites more than 40 people from 8 years old to 88 years old, working together on stage, will take place on Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 8:00 P.M. at Sanders Theatre at Harvard University. Please visit our website at www.budzyntheplay.com <http://www.budzyntheplay.com/>. We would be extremely grateful if you could spread the word about this meaningful event. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you need more information. Sincerely, Sasha Yakhkind Public Relations Director budzyntheplay(a)gmail.com 617-816-0131 ............................................................................... * “Budzyn”* *based on a recollection by Henry S. Newmann* *produced and directed by Guila Clara Kessous* *adapted by vanda Gyuris* *assistant directed by betty rosen* * * *A tribute to Holocaust victims* *Celebrating the World Day of prayer 2010* * * *Thursday, May 6, 2010, 8:00 P.M.* *Sanders Theatre at Harvard University* *45, Quincy Street* *Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138* *Tickets: $12; students: $8* *Ticket Reservations: 617-496-2222* * http://www.budzyntheplay.com *Please send email inquiries to budzyntheplay(a)gmail.com <mailto:budzyntheplay@gmail.com>* * * This first-ever performance is being produced as a tribute to Holocaust victims and to mark the World Day of Prayer 2010, celebrating unity in diversity and working for a world of peace and justice. The production will feature survivors, performers, musicians and dancers featuring music composer Edwin Geist performed by The Irving Fine Society Singers & Ensemble.  “Budzyn” awakens our consciences to the question of theatrical representation dealing with religious identity. The story takes place at the Nazi controlled Budzyn labor camp in Poland, where the commander was well known for subjecting the prisoners to particularly cruel tortures and told as seen through the eyes of one of its survivors, Henry S. Newman,  The commander, knowing that the young Mr. Newman had studied dramatic arts in order to become a director, asks him to organize a small performance with the prisoners in order to entertain him. The catch, however, was that if the Commander didn't laugh, he would humilate Henry in front of the other prisoners before cutting his throat and assuring that he die in slow agony.  Visionary director Guila Clara Kessous uses all forms of art to transmit the testimony of this survivor while overcoming the simple reference to the Shoah by attacking the crucial question of theatrical representation. * * SYNOPSIS The voices begin on April 19, 1943. It is Passover in the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazis occupy a young family. Only Henry and Benjamin remain together; the rest are lost, forced to exist only in memory. The two young brothers are taken to the Labor Camp Budzyn near Krasnik in Poland run by a cruel and vulgar Kommandant Feix. We find out that Henry has studied to become a stage director at the university and is soon asked by Feix to direct a play for his own enjoyment. The catch: Feix presents Henry with an ultimatum; either create a play that humors him and live, or fail to capture the commander’s attention and perish. Henry struggles with limited resources and time to cultivate a play from scratch. The night before the play is supposed to premier for the camp twelve prisoners are hung and it is up to Henry to save those still alive. Can he succeed? Will he live on, or will he fall victim to the war’s atrocities and become a memory? NOTE FROM THE DIRECTOR: What intrigues me in this testimony is the fantastic use of theater as a communication tool. This commander, who has full power over his prisoners, who has the right to keep them alive or dead and who takes full advantage of his position savagely to satisfy his drive for violence by playing all sorts of sadistic games, is somehow aware of his own inhumanity. He lacks opportunities to laugh as well as the power of distraction because he is “bored”. I am fascinated by the idea that this commander, who spends his time imagining new refinements in the way he is going to condemn to death his next victim, could feel bored. In one way, through his request to Henry, he is trying to regain access to what he has lost and what he knows the prisoners keep: a piece of humanity. The ability to laugh, to forget the exterminator and exterminated, is only accessible through the experience of staging. Once again, it is thanks to the dramatic arts that Henry is able to survive, as he writes, “To hear people laugh in this unholy place was the greatest gratification anyone could ask for.” If there is one thing I have restrained myself from doing since I began working with the theme of the Shoah, it is to speak for the survivors. My work is to engage with the survivor’s testimony and attempt to use theater to reconcile historical truth with artistic impression. My work is first of all a work of transmission and not of appropriation or even of creation. Creativity is only good if it adds to the veracity of the testimony. After the work that I have done with Elie Wiesel and the numerous discussions I was able to have with the concentration camps’ survivors, I sensed an emotional paradox. It is a kind of lassitude mixed with a profound desire to go forward in fixing the Shoah’s place in societal and historical consciousness once and for all. Rosian Zerner, a Shoah survivor and former vice president of the World Federation of Jewish Child Survivors of the Holocaust, confided to me that "We no longer want to lock ourselves up in a past history. We want to live, contribute to the society, enjoy the company of our children and our grandchildren, telling them what happened, commemorating the Shoah but not wallowing in the pain of memory. Our experience has to reach beyond the Jewish community in order to enable us to touch as many people as possible." I wished to open this theatrical event on this theme in order to reach a wider audience and escape the idea of an episode of a Jewish story lived by Jews and performed for a Jewish public. By performing this play during the World Day of Prayer, my goal is to reach beyond the idea of community to present the idea of universality. The prayer that will end this performance isn’t addressed to a divine power but to ourselves, as responsible humans with a duty to be responsible towards one another…. - Guila Clara Kessous, PhD Producer & Director Download press packet at www.budzyntheplay.com under the Press Section -- 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

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Russian Language Table

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*Wednesdays April 21, 28 and May 5* *Russian Language Table* An hour-long weekly Russian-only conversation forum for anyone from beginner to native 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Lounge area outside room S354 5:00-6:00 p.m. Table administrator: Alex Groce, Ph.D. Candidate in Slavic Languages and Literatures, amgroce(a)fas.harvard.edu -- 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

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CANCELED: 4/22/10 Occasional Seminar with Mark Solonin

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**/*Please note the following seminar cancellation:*/ *Thursday, April 22* *Occasional Seminar * /"The Cask and the Hoops: Why Did Stalin's Army Collapse during the First Days of Operation Barbarossa?"/ Mark Solonin, Author 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl. If you need to register a new visitor login in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. -- ---------------------------------------------------- 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

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4/19/10 seminar title addition

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/*Please note the following seminar title addition:*/ *Monday, April 19* *Comparative Economics Seminar * * * /"Think You are Gutsy? Try Setting Up Your Own Business in Russia"/ Evgeniya Shamis, Fellow, Eisenhower Foundation; Founder and CEO of "Personnel Touch" Training and Consulting Bureau, Moscow 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl. If you need to register a new visitor login in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. -- ---------------------------------------------------- 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

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Oleg Dorman at Boston College

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Oleg Dorman (filmmaker and professor, Higher Courses of Filmmaking, Moscow, Russian Federation) will discuss his work at Boston College on April 26, 2010 at 7:30 PM in Fulton Hall 511. The presentation will include fragments of Mr. Dorman's award-winning documentary "Podstrochnik" and will be moderated by Boston College professors John Michalczyk and Maxim D. Shrayer. For more information, go to: https://events.bc.edu/cgi-bin/publish/webevent.cgi?cmd=showevent&cal=cal3,c… === ------ Maxim D. Shrayer Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures Boston College http://fmwww.bc.edu/SL-V/ShrayerM.html -- 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

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Friday, April 23, 2010: Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies and Exhibition Opening

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*/Please join us for the following special events:/ Friday, April 23, 2010*** *Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies* * * *Opening Remarks / *1:15 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050** *Julie Buckler*, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Executive Committee Member, Davis Center *Panel I / *1:30-3:00 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050 * * *Jorina Gjinari*, Wheaton College, /Climate for Foreign Direct Investments in Albania/ *Zachary Ginsburg*, Wheaton College, /Constitutional Courts and Democratic Consolidation in Eastern and Southeastern Europe / *Matthew Ghazarian*, Harvard College, /Not "Low-hanging" Fruit But "Uncontested" Fruit: Determining Western Support for Post-communist Self-determination Movements/ *Brian Mack*, Wheaton College, /Sovereignty and Tatarstan/ *Benjamin Brown*, Wheaton College, /Russia//'s Sovereign Economy / * * Chair: *Jeanne Wilson*, Chair and Professor of Political Science, Wheaton College; Center Associate, Davis Center** / / *Panel II / *3:30-5:00 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050 * * *Anna Shabalov*, Harvard College, /Long Road in the Dunes: Latvia and the Soviet Historical Narrative/ *Linda Lee*, Wellesley College, /An Officer and a...Lady?: The Role of Soviet Women in Combat during World War II/ *Molly Moses*, Harvard College, /Shamans, Mermaids, Songs and Spells: Ethnographic Research in the North Baikal Region of the Republic of Buryatia/ *Emily S(aras*, Wellesley College, /Folk Songs in Flux: The Use of Music in the Ongoing Construction of Lithuanian Identity/ * * Chair: *Serhii Plokhii*, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University; Executive Committee Member, Davis Center ** *Friday, April 23, 2010*** *Exhibition Opening * /Eurasian Exposure: Engaging the Old and New/ Student photographers from Harvard, Wellesley and Wheaton 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level 5:00-6:00 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl. If you need to register a new visitor login in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. -- ---------------------------------------------------- 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

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Correction: Next week's special events at the Davis Center

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*/Please note the correction to the following film information:/ ** Tuesday, April 20* *Special Event in Commemoration of the Victims of the Recent Polish Tragedy* *Co-sponsored by The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University */ /*Roundtable Discussion * Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Davis Center Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History, International Relations Department, Boston University Terry D. Martin, Acting Director, Davis Center; Professor of Russian Studies, History Department, Harvard University Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Lecturer, Government Department, Harvard University; Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan and Poland 4:15-5:45 p.m. *Film* / Katyn /by *Andrzej Wajda* (2007) In Polish with English subtitles 6:30-8:30 p.m.** Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Room LL1 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl. If you need to register a new visitor login in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. -- ---------------------------------------------------- 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

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