*/Please note the following calendar addition:/
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*Monday, December 11, 2006**
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights**
*
*/"Reviewing Sentences in Russian Criminal Procedure"///
Natalia Sidorova, Sakharov Fellow, Davis Center; Professor of Law, Tomsk
State University, Russia
/"Domestic Violence: Protection and Prevention Mechanisms"/
Ksenia Tishkova, Sakharov Fellow, Davis Center; Graduate Student, Altay
State Medical University, Russia
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
To purchase a parking permit at the Broadway Garage (located at the
intersection of Broadway & Felton St. in Cambridge, MA),
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.
/Please note the following calendar addition:/
*
Wednesday, December 13
Literature & Culture Seminar and The Slavic Department Present: *Roman
Timenchik, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, "Anna Akhmatova's Poetics
Revisited." 4:15 p.m. in the Kresge Room (Barker 114). Please note
that this lecture will be presented /in Russian/.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
*Public Address*
Friday, December 8, 2006
3:00 p.m.
"/Three Years After the Rose Revolution: Reform and Results in Georgia"
/*His Excellency Zurab Nogaideli, Prime Minister of the Republic of Georgia*
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Littauer building, 5th floor, Malkin Penthouse (bags and backpacks will
not be allowed into the Malkin Penthouse on December 8).
/
Sponsored and organized by the Black Sea Security Program, Harvard
University./
/*
Please note: bags and backpacks will not be allowed into the Malkin
Penthouse on December 8.*/
/*
Please note the following seminar reminder:*/
** ***Wednesday, December 6, 2006
**Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
/"Re-writing East European Jewish Urban History?" /
Elissa Bemporad, Historian of Russian and Yiddish Collections,
Gruss-Lipper Project on Jewish Life in Poland, YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research
Rebecca Kobrin, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Columbia
University
Discussant:
Steven Zipperstein, Associate, Davis Center; Professor in Jewish Culture
and History, and Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford
University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
invites you and your family to our annual
*Holiday Party*
*Thursday, **December 7, 2006***
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S030
4:30 - 6:30 pm
/RSVPs appreciated: /
/daviscenter(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu> or
(617) 495-4037/
/
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The Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University cordially invites
you to a special event:
*Monday, December 4, 2006**, **6:00 PM** TONIGHT!!!*
*Post-Totalitarian Societies: the Case of **Albania***
*Fatos Lubonja*
/Editor and publisher of Pepjekja ("Endeavor"), //Albania//'s leading
critical social/political journal, author, human rights activist, and
former political prisoner/
Respondent: *Michael Kaufman*
/Author and former /New York Times/ reporter, foreign correspondent,
columnist, and editor/
Colloquium Room
Boston University Photonics Center
8 Saint Mary's Street, 9th Floor
*Fatos Lubonja* is one of Albania's most outspoken human rights
activists. He graduated from Tirana University in theoretical physics in
1974 and was arrested in the same year and sentenced to seven years
imprisonment for "agitation and propaganda against the state" because of
his political writings. In 1979, while serving his first sentence, he
was charged again and sentenced to another ten years in prison and labor
camps. He was released in 1991 with most of Albania's political
prisoners and co-founded Albania's first ever human rights group, which
later became the Albanian Helsinki Committee. Since 1994 he has been
both editor and publisher of Pepjekja ("Endeavor"), Albania's leading
critical social/political journal. He is the author of three books,
including a novel he wrote while in prison.
*Michael Kaufman* spent close to forty years at The New York Times as a
reporter, foreign correspondent, columnist, and editor. He has won the
George Polk Award for foreign reporting and has received a Guggenheim
Fellowship. He is the author of six books, including, most recently, a
biography of financier George Soros.
Reception to follow
All events are free and open to the public
Inquiries: 617-686-6872 or ihs(a)bu.edu <mailto:ihs@bu.edu>
See BU TODAY interview with Fatos Lubonja: What Albania Wants from the
World:
http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=4&id=42066&template=4
<http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/news-cms/news/?dept=4&id=42066&template=4>**
/*Please note the following seminar time and location:*/
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies
_December Seminar Reminder_*
** * *
*Friday, December 1, 2006 *
*Literary Study Group *
/"Alexei Gastev and Technologies of the Laboring Body"/
Anastasia Graf, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies, Harvard University
announce a lecture by
Prof. John Colarusso,
McMaster University
THE NARTS OF THE CAUCASUS
The Nart sagas are a body of heroic tales found among he peoples of the
North Caucasus. While of recent attestation (mid-19th century) they
appear, as does much in the Caucasus, to be highly conservative and to
preserve a mixture of local themes blended with elements of great
antiquity. This lore shows parallels with that of the Irish, the Norse,
the Russians, the Greeks, and the host of Indo-Iranian peoples, as well
as some Altaic and Semitic themes. This rich comparative nexus is the
direct result of geography: the peoples of the North Caucasus, until
recently stable residents of the region, must have had contact with
virtually every branch of Indo-European, including the original
community itself.
Monday 4 December 2006
4 P.M.
Semitic Museum (6 Divinity Ave.), room 201.
The Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University, in cooperation
with Amnesty International, cordially invites you to
*Dashed Hopes: Human Rights in the Former **Soviet Union***
* *
*A community-wide Public Event in Observance of International Human
Rights Day*
* *
*Sunday, December 10, 2006***
School of Management
Boston University
595 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA
*4:00 PM**: Babitsky's War*
/Babitsky's// War/ is an hour long film about the efforts of the Russian
journalist Andrei Babitsky to cover the war in Chechnya.
The film will be followed by a discussion with *Alex**ander Verkhovsky*
and *Tatiana Lokshina*, two human rights activists from Moscow.
*6:00 PM**: Reception*
*7:00 PM: Keynote Speech: The Honorable Jack Matlock*, former U.S.
Ambassador to the Soviet Union under President Ronald Reagan**
Matlock's book /Reagan and Gorbachev/ is a seminal work on the dramatic
events surrounding Gorbachev's reforms and the eventual break-up of the
Soviet Union.
Following Ambassador Matlock's speech, there will be a panel discussion
with:
*Nikolai Butkevich*, Researcher, Union of Councils for Jews in the
former Soviet Union
*Nozima** Kamalova*, Legal Aid Society in Uzbekistan Scholar at Risk
Program, Harvard University
*Tatiana Lokshina*, DEMOS Center, Moscow
All events are free and open to the public | Inquiries: 617-358-2778 or
ihs(a)bu.edu
Parking: All guests coming to the "Human Rights Day" are welcome to use
the Boston University - School of Management Parking from 3pm to 9:30pm.
There is a single charge of $6 for the duration of the event (pay on
entry).
http://www.amnestyusa.org/events/northeastern/humanrightsday12102006.html
*Sponsors:*
American Jewish Committee
Amnesty International USA
Anti-Defamation League
Boston University Institute for Human Sciences
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Harvard University
Center for Human Rights and International Justice
Boston College
Facing History and Ourselves
Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies
International Committee for the Children of Chechnya
Jewish Community Relations Council
John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
Physicians for Human Rights
Sakharov Human Rights Program, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
Studies, Harvard University
*/We would like to express our gratitude to the Reebok Foundation for
its generous support of this program./*
*ALMOST THE LAST CHANCE TO VISIT THE TERRITORIES!!!*
Dear Friends:
This is a reminder. If you haven't had a chance to see the exhibit,
please come.
DECEMBER 8, FRIDAY AT 4 PM
SVETLANA BOYM WILL BE DOING A GUIDED TOUR OF TERRITORIES OF TERROR
850 Commonwealth ave, Boston University Art Gallery
*Territories of Terror: Mythologies and Memories of the Gulag in
Contemporary Russian-American Art *
Curated by Svetlana Boym of Harvard University, this exhibition is one
of the first attempts to tackle the dual imperative of Gulag history and
mythology, map and territory, through contemporary art. Seven
internationally recognized contemporary artists--Vitaly *Komar* and
Alexander *Melamid*, Leonid *Sokov*, Grisha *Bruskin*, Eugene *Yelchin*,
Irina *Nakhova* and Vadim *Zakharov*--who grew up in the former Soviet
Union have been given a "territory" in the gallery in order to confront
the haunted space of the "zone" in history and in the individual psyche.
They represent two generations of ex-Soviet non-conformist art: Vitaly
Komar and Alexander Melamid, Leonid Sokov and Grisha Bruskin were born
during Stalin's time and reflect with a mixture of nostalgia and irony
on their totalitarian childhoods, while Irina Nakhova, Eugene Yelchin
and Vadim Zakharov, born during Khrushchev's thaw, have a more alienated
attitude vis-à-vis the totalitarian mythology.
Their territories of terror are border zones that reflect their
cross-cultural experience. What they capture in their installations is
the legacy of terror that shaped structures of mentality, spatial
imagination, utopian aspirations and claustrophobic anxieties that
mirror the tragic paradoxes of twentieth century history. A companion
exhibition, GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for
Freedom, runs concurrently at Boston University's 808 Gallery.
SEE INFORMATION ATTACHED AND LINKS BELOW!
www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/11.02/01-gulag.html
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Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu