*/Conference on the Soviet Gulag: Its History and Legacy/
DAVIS CENTER FOR RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,
NOVEMBER 2-5, 2006
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From November 2-5, 2006, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
Studies at Harvard University, with the generous support of the Bradley
Foundation, will host a major international conference on the history
and legacy of the Gulag. Recent years have seen a burgeoning of
scholarship on the Gulag, and this conference will be an opportunity for
many scholars from a variety of disciplines to gather and share the
results of that work. Professors and graduate students, please join
more than thirty scholars from eight countries in the fields of
literature, history, economics, sociology and political science who will
gather for an intensive discussion of their ongoing work.
The conference will be held in conjunction with the Boston run of
/GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom/, a
traveling museum exhibit sponsored and created by the U.S. National Park
Service and the Gulag Museum, Perm, Russia. The exhibit opened to much
acclaim at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum and will subsequently
travel to National Historic Sites in Independence, CA; Atlanta, GA; Hyde
Park, NY and Washington, D.C.
On Thursday, November 2, 2006, the conference will be held at the
Harvard Faculty Club (http://www.hfc.harvard.edu/) located at 20 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. From Friday, November 3 through
Sunday, November 5, the conference will be held at Harvard's Center for
Government and International Studies South Building
(http://cgis.fas.harvard.edu/), located at 1730 Cambridge Street in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The conference will be a workshop format. Conference participants will
be provided with access to article length works-in-progress during the
month of October, so that oral presentations may be limited in favor of
questions and discussion. The works-in-progress are the exclusive
copyright of their authors and shall not be cited or circulated without
written permission from the author.
Portions of the conference may later appear on the internet site
http://www.gulaghistory.org <http://www.gulaghistory.org/>, a virtual
web exhibit /Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives /supported by a grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities and under construction by Steven
A. Barnes and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason
University. By your participation in this conference, you consent to
your image and/or voice being used on that website.
Attendance is by pre-registration only. Space is limited.
Conference attendee registration information and the conference program
can be found here:
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/seminars_conferences/GULAGpvt.html
Please note that the program is subject to change.
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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
We regret to inform you that Sandy Lieberman passed away peacefully this
morning at the hospice facility. Condolences may be sent to his widow,
Ann Hartmere, 1716 Cambridge Street, Unit 31, Cambridge, MA 02138.
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that Susan Sypko has agreed to serve as the
Davis Center Collection Research Assistant at the Fung Library. She will
serve in this position until a new Davis Center librarian is appointed.
Sue will provide reference services for the library and archival
collections of the Davis Center, both during set office hours and
appointment times, and electronically in response to e-mail inquiries.
As primary research contact/library liaison to the Davis Center, Sue
will be available to assist with library research, instructing visitors,
affiliates, and students in basic research approaches using the Davis
collections at the Fung Library and the Slavic collection at Widener
Library. She will also provide orientation programs and referrals to
library resources and reference services outside Fung Library.
This past June, Sue received her A.M. degree in the Davis Center's
Regional Studies Program in Russian, East European, and Central Asian
Studies, and currently works part-time as research assistant in the
Center's Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Going forward, Sue's time will be divided between her work at the Davis
Center and the Fung Library. She can be reached most easily via email at
<sypko(a)fas.harvard.edu>. You may also contact her at 495-4030 (library)
or 496-2643 (Davis Center).
Her regular office hours at the library will be:
Monday 1:00-4:00
Wednesday 2:00-5:00
Thursday 1:00-3:00
Friday 1:00-3:00
Appointments may be scheduled for other hours, as needed.
Please note that Brad Schaffner, head of the Slavic Division at the
Harvard College Library, continues to be available to the Davis Center
community for specific research needs.
Lis Tarlow
Associate Director, Davis Center
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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
*Fall Reception*
*Thursday, September 21, 2006*
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:30 - 6:30 pm
/If you plan to attend, kindly RSVP to the Davis Center at /
/daviscenter(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu> or
(617) 495-4037 /
/by Monday, September 18, 2006./
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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
We are sorry to report that Sandy Lieberman, long time associate of the
Davis Center, has asked that we let everyone know he has been moved to a
hospice facility. He has requested that people refrain from calling,
but the Center will keep you updated on his condition.
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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
*Fall Reception*
*Thursday, September 21, 2006*
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:30 - 6:30 pm
/If you plan to attend, kindly RSVP to the Davis Center at /
/daviscenter(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu> or
(617) 495-4037 /
/by Friday, September 8, 2006./
