DavisCenter-list February 2007

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This is a reminder that the next session of the *Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies at the Davis Center *will be: *Wednesday, February 28* "On Communism and the Jews" /Anthony Michels/, Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison /Ruth Wisse/, Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm *All are welcome.* -- -------------------------------------------------- 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

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Nauruz Celebration on Wed., March 21!

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Please join us for our first-ever Nauruz celebration for food and a cultural program! Nauruz is the new year celebration marked across a large part of Eurasia, notably in Central/Inner Asia, the Caucasus, and the greater Iranian and Turkic cultural spheres of influence. We'll be holding this Nauruz event as an occasion for scholars and students of Central Eurasian studies to meet each other and learn about the "Nauruz area" and the various departments and centers at Harvard which focus on this region. The Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at Harvard is organizing this event: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:00-7:00 p.m. CGIS South Building Concourse Level 1730 Cambridge Street Please kindly RSVP by March 12, 2007, to centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu, or call (617) 496-2643. For more information, visit: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu/hpce_special_activities_nauruz.html Co-Hosts of the Event: Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Asia Center Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures We look forward to meeting with you! Sincerely, John Schoeberlein Dr. John Schoeberlein, Director Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus Davis Center, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge St., Room S-327 \ Cambridge, MA 02138 \ USA tel.: +1/617-495-4338 asst.: +1/617-496-2643 fax: +1/617-495-8319 Central Asia Program website: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu

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Mon. 2/26 Sakharov Seminar moved up to 4:00

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*/ Please note that the following seminar will begin at 4:00 p.m. instead of 4:15:/*** * * *Monday, February 26* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* /"They Chose Freedom"/ Documentary film and discussion Vladimir Kara Murza, Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief, TRVi Television Network; Cochair of the Union of Right Forces and Yabloko Joint Mission in the U.S. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:00-6:00 p.m. Narrated primarily through interviews with prominent Russian dissidents, */They Chose Freedom/* (2005) tells the story of the Soviet dissident movement from its emergence in the late 1950s until the 1990s. Public readings of banned poetry on Mayakovsky Square, the development of samizdat, the 1965 and 1968 opposition demonstrations in Moscow, and the harsh repressions unleashed against dissidents by Communist authorities are all reflected in the film. It also focuses on events leading to the collapse of Soviet dictatorship and the democratic revolution of August 1991, and the addresses the future of Russia. -- -------------------------------------------------- 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

17 years, 2 months

Sunday 2/25: Free Tix! Concert of Young Award-Winning Russian Pianists

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Dear Davis Center Affiliates, This Sunday, February 25, the Davis Center is cosponsoring a concert at Sanders Theater featuring two young pianists from Russia. We have secured a number of complimentary tickets, and we invite you, your family, and friends to join us for what promises to be a marvelous event. You may pick up tickets from Sarah Failla at the front desk today or tomorrow until 5 p.m.; Sarah will also be at Sanders Theater on Sunday and you may collect your tickets from her immediately before the concert. Please email her (sfailla(a)fas.harvard.edu) before Sunday evening with the number of tickets you'll need. We hope you can make it! Harvard Piano Society Guzik Foundation Winners Concert Sunday, February 25, 2007 @ 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Sanders Theater TICKETS $10 general admission, $8 Harvard affiliates, $5 students Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office Questions? davidmou(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:davidmou@fas.harvard.edu> Every year, 300 music conservatories throughout Russia groom their finest students to compete for scholarships granted by the Guzik Competition. This brilliant field of young virtuosi is narrowed down to 40, and finally to a handful of musical champions: the Guzik Foundation Award Winners, who are then showcased in San Francisco, Moscow, Carnegie Hall, the Louvre, and now, at Harvard. Sanders Theater concert cosponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. PROGRAM FIRST HALF: Dinara Nadzhafova Taneyev Prelude and fugue in G-sharp minor Schumann Etudes Symphoniques Prokofiev Sonata No. 7 INTERMISSION SECOND HALF: Ilya Petrov Liszt From Grandes Etudes de Paganini No. 2 - E-flat major No. 3 - La Campanella No. 5 - E major "La Chasse" Liszt From Annees de Pelerinage (Second annee: Italie) Sonetto N 104 del Petrarca Liszt From Etudes d'Execution Transcendante Feux follets Liszt From Trois Etudes de concert No. 3 in D-flat major "Un sospiro" Liszt Rhapsodie Espagnole -- -------------------------------------------------- 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

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Calendar addition: Mon., Feb. 26: Sakharov Seminar -- "They Chose Freedom" Documentary Film

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/Please note the following addition to our February calendar:/ * * *Monday, February 26* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* /"They Chose Freedom"/ Documentary film and discussion Vladimir Kara Murza, Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief, TRVi Television Network; Cochair of the Union of Right Forces and Yabloko Joint Mission in the U.S. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. -- -------------------------------------------------- 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

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Calendar of Events: Feb. 20-28, 2007

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies _Calendar of Events: February 20-28, 2007_* * * *Tuesday, February 20 Modern Russian History Search * /"The Muslim Question in Late Imperial Russia"/ Elena Campbell, Ph.D. in History, 1999, Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer on History, Harvard University 35 Quincy Street, Robinson Hall, First Floor Library 4:15-5:30 p.m. /For more information, please contact Janet Hatch (administrator, History Department) at (617) 496-4057./// * * *Wednesday, February 21 Comparative Economics Seminar * /"Cheap Gas, Black Market Cash, and Love for the Motherland: A Look at Turkmenistan's 'Golden Century'"/ Alex Minier, Director, Ford Hall Forum 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. * * *Wednesday, February 21 * *Exhibition Opening, Reception, and Discussion* /Cosponsored by the Davis Center, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Initiative on Art and Humanities / /"Nostalgic Technologies"/ Svetlana Boym, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse 6:00-8:00 p.m. * * *Friday, February 23 Slavic Conference * /Cosponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Davis Center, the Central and East European Society, and the Art and Politics Seminar/ /"The Post-Romantic Syndrome: German and Russian Anxieties in the 20th Century" / Galin Tihanov, Professor of Comparative Literature, Lancaster University 12 Quincy Street, Humanities Center, Room 133 2:00-4:00 p.m. * * *Monday, February 26 Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop * * */"Building Modern Cities: Reform and Revitalization in Urban China"/ Meg Rithmire, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University Papers are available on the website at www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. There is no presentation; all participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the meeting. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Tuesday, February 27* *Roundtable Discussion * /"Turkmenistan after Turkmenbashi"/ Erika Dailey, Director, Turkmenistan Project, Open Society Institute Irina Liczek, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Niagara University John Schoeberlein, Director, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus; Lecturer on Anthropology and on Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Lecturer on Government, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * *Wednesday, February 28 Comparative Economics Seminar * /"Russia: The New Energy Superpower-Is It for Real?"/ Katherine Hardin, Associate, Cambridge Energy Research Associates 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. *** * *Wednesday, February 28 Russian and East European Jewish Studies Seminar * /"On Communism and the Jews"/ Anthony Michels, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ruth Wisse, Professor of Yiddish Literature and Comparative Literature, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. 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.

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Inclement weather and event cancellations

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/Inclement weather and event cancellations/ In case of inclement weather, please call the Davis Center main line to confirm that a scheduled event is still taking place: 617-495-4037. Even if it becomes necessary to close the office, we will continue to update our recorded voice message with event information. We will also make every effort to announce any and all changes by email, but please do call us to check on the most recent status of an event. *For updates on Alena Ledeneva's book talk tomorrow, please call us after 12:00 p.m.* As of right now, all Davis Center events scheduled for this week are on, and we look forward to seeing you. -- -------------------------------------------------- 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

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Nostalgic Technologies by Svetlana Boym on Wednesday, February 21

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*/Nostalgic Technologies/* *By Svetlana Boym *PRESS RELEASE The Center for Government and International Studies Art Committee at Harvard University, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Provost for the Arts Office will host an opening reception for the exhibition/ Nostalgic Technologies/ by Svetlana Boym on* Wednesday, February 21. *The opening will take place at the Transit Gallery (1730 Cambridge St, CGIS South Building, Concourse Level, Cambridge, MA 02138)* at 6 pm* (artist talk and reception to follow). The exhibition, which will run until April 10, 2007, has been curated by José Falconi, Art Forum Curator at DRCLAS, Harvard University. A culmination of a five-year project that developed along with Boym's main scholarly work/, The Future of Nostalgia/ (Basic Books, 2001), this/ Nostalgic Technologies/ features "Cities in Transit" and "Instant Allegories," hand-made prints with unrepeatable smudges, the traces of violated printing instructions, the "Images without Black," shadow boxes composing an uncanny family album, hybrid utopias and 16-second "multiburst" video projections of "Airport Ruins," "Not Working," and "Touching Writing." Traveling with a camera, through the ruins of modern architecture from Sarajevo and St. Petersburg to Los Angeles and Detroit, Svetlana Boym stages her radical off-modern experiments between technology and nostalgia, between homesickness and sickness of home. She is a collector of accidents, technological blunders, and printing errors. For her the/ error/ has an/ aura/. Methodical with these/ errors/, and a scholar of such devices, Boym uses them to call attention to the almost paradoxical nature of the technological jump within the photographic medium. Her images stare back, interrogating us with all their face value: Do these mistakes make us realize that we long for the real? Or better: do the pitfalls of digital photography make us nostalgic for a lost real in the same way we feel nostalgic for our lost home? *Svetlana Boym* is a writer, theorist, and media artist. Her books include/ The Future of Nostalgia/ (2001),/ Common Places/ (1994),/ Kosmos: Remembrances of the Future/ (with Adam Bartos 2002),/ Death in Quotation Marks/ (1991) and the novel/ Ninochka/ (2003). Boym always tries to pursue parallel paths of scholarly and creative work, hoping that they intersect. Recently Svetlana Boym lectured and showed her work at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Freud Museum in Vienna, ZKM Karlsruhe, Frieze Art Fair in London, Ljubljana City Museum, The Kitchen, NYC, the Temple Hoyne Buell Architecture Center of Columbia University, and at Stanford University. In the fall of 2006, her media art exhibit opened in Ljubljana Factory Rog Art Space during the City of Women Festival. At the same time she curated the exhibit "Territories of Terror: Memories and Mythologies of Gulag in Contemporary Russian-American Art" at the Boston University Art Gallery. Her work has appeared in/ Harper's Magazine/,/ Representations/,/ Public Culture/,/ Harvard Design Magazine/,/ Poetics Today/,/ Critical Inquiry, Artforum, Artefact and Artmargins, and on the cover of PMLA (Winter 2005). /Svetlana Boym is the Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literatures at Harvard University and an associate of Harvard Graduate School of Design. A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, she now lives and works in Cambridge, USA. For more information on the show please visit our website at: www.svetlanaboym.com -- -------------------------------------------------- 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

17 years, 2 months

February calendar addition - Wednesday 2/7 Comparative Economics Seminar with In-Ho Lee

by Penny Skalnik

*/Please note the following addition to the February 2007 seminar calendar:/* *Wednesday, February 7, 2007 Comparative Economics Seminar / Co-Sponsored by the Korea Institute/* /Informal Discussion about Russia, South Korea, and North Korea /In-Ho Lee, President, Korea Foundation; Ambassador to the Republic of Finland; former Korean Ambassador to the Russian Federation; First Female Ambassador in the Korean Foreign Service 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S050 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. -- -------------------------------------------------- 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

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Reminder: Wed., Feb. 7: Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies with Samuel Kassow

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/* Please note the following seminar reminder:*/ * Wednesday, February 7, 2007 Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies * /"History and Catastrophe: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Warsaw Ghetto Archive"/ Samuel Kassow, Professor of History, Trinity College 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.

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