Please join us for two very special events!
Friday, April 13
Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies
Multidisciplinary research presentations by advanced undergraduates from Harvard,
Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges
Opening Remarks / 1:00 pm / Room S020
Timothy J. Colton, Department Chair and Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government
and Russian Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate,
Davis Center
Panel I / 1:15-2:15 p.m. / Room S020
Lavinia Mitroi, Harvard, From the Orfanotrofia to the Institutions for Irrecoverables:
Tracing the Origins of Institutional Care for Orphaned and Abandoned Children in Romania
Angela Lee, Wellesley, Making Tea or Making Plans? Soviet Dissident Kitchens as Networking
Spaces
Erica Sheftman, Harvard, A Cold-War Pas de Deux: Soviet-American Cultural Diplomacy
through the Lens of the Iconic Bolshoi Ballet
Krista Williamson, Wheaton, Buddhism and the Revival of a Cultural Identity
Chair: Rossen Djagalov, Tutor in the Committee on History and Literature, Harvard
University
Panel II / 2:30-3:15 p.m. / Room S020
Katie A. Mosher, Wheaton, Managing Migrantophobia: The Human Security Approach and Central
Asian migration to the Russian Federation
Andrew Badger, Harvard, Learning Democratic Norms by Fire: The IRPT in Tajikistan Since
1997
Julia Gall, Wellesley, Russians Living and Leaving Uzbekistan in Post-Soviet Times
Chair: Laura Adams, Director, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Davis Center;
Lecturer on Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Panel III / 3:30-4:15 p.m. / Room S020
Ke Feng, Wheaton, Perceptions of Democracy in Post-Communist Era-- A Comparison between
Russia and China
Ross Ford, Harvard, The Enigmatic Year: Neorealist Politics, Nationalism, and Irredentism
in the First Balkan War
Lela Jgerenaia, Wellesley, Ethnic Diversity in the Caucasus and its Role in Post-Soviet
Conflicts
Chair: Jeanne Wilson, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Russian Studies and Department
Chair, Wheaton College; Center Associate, Davis Center
Panel IV / 4:30-5:30 p.m. / Room S020
Talia Lavin, Harvard, Towards the Essence of Poetry: A Collection of Essays by Micah Yosef
Berdichevsky, Translated, Annotated and Prefaced by Talia Lavin
Stephanie Antetomaso, Wheaton, A Computational Analysis of Nabokov's Works
Emma W. Wood, Harvard, Fleeing the Poetic Convent: Elena Shvarts's Works and Days and
Problems of Female Authorship in the Late-Soviet Literary Underground
Jasper N. Henderson, Harvard, Mystical Imagination: The Literary Icons of Vladimir
Nabokov
Chair: Maria Khotimsky, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room) and Concourse
1:00-5:30 p.m.
Friday, April 13
Student Photography Exhibition Opening
"Enigmatic Eurasia"
Photographs by Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton students
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse
5:45-6:45 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>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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