*Friday, February 8 - Saturday, February 9*
*Spoils of War v. Cultural Heritage: The Russian Cultural Property Law
in Historical Context*
*Sponsors:
*Harvard Law School Arts & Literature Law Society
Commission for Art Recovery
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University
Foundation for International Cultural Diplomacy
Harvard Law School European Law Research Center
/Free and open to the public with online// /*/registration
<http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/martin/art_law/russian_registration.php>
/*/(space permitting)/
Location: Langdell South Classroom, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
For more information, please visit
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/martin/art_law/russian_law.htm
or contact lawlibr(a)law.harvard.edu <mailto:lawlibr@law.harvard.edu> or
617-495-3170.
After WWII, Soviet authorities, seeking reparations for the extensive
costs of Nazi aggression, used special "Trophy Brigades" to empty
museums, castles, and salt mines in Germany and Eastern Europe,
transporting millions of cultural treasures to the USSR. These included
German state-owned cultural objects, cultural objects taken from
churches and synagogues, as well as a great deal of private property
that had been looted by the Germans from individuals. The art works
taken back to the Soviet Union were held in relative secrecy for years,
until the final years of glastnost. As European countries started to
demand their cultural treasures and archives, Russian legislators passed
a law that potentially nationalizes all cultural treasures brought to
Russia at the end of World War II. In 1999 the Constitutional Court
issued an opinion basically upholding the law if amended before
implementation. How do these actions comport with international law?
What are the chances for restitution of these displaced cultural valuables?
*Program*
*Friday, February 8, 2008*
1:00 p.m. - Welcome
* The Evolution of Cultural Property Protection in International Law
* Restitution of Cultural Property at the End of WWII
* Stalin's Decrees and Soviet Trophy Brigades
* Legality of Soviet Displacement of Cultural Valuables under
International Law
5:30 p.m. - Reception
*Saturday, February 9, 2008*
8:30 a.m. - Continental breakfast
* The Post-1991 Political Search to Legalize 'Compensation': the
Long Battle over the Russian Law on Displaced Cultural Valuables
* The Legality and Constitutionality of the Russian /Federal Law on
Cultural Valuables Displaced to the USSR as the Result of the
Second World War and Located on the Territory of the Russian
Federation/
* The Constitutionality of the Russian Federal Law on Cultural
Valuables
* Status of the Russian Law under International Law
Lunch
* Russian-German Negotiations over Displaced Cultural Valuables
* The Legal Situation with regard to German "Trophy Art" in Russia
-- a German Perspective'
* Non-Restitution under the Law: the Baldin-Bremen Case
* Archives: the Forgotten Restitution Achievements under the Law
* Trophy Art, Art Loans and Immunity From Seizure in both the US and UK
5:00 p.m. - Conclusions
*/- Appropriate breaks with refreshments will be provided - /*
TO: Davis Center affiliates
FROM: Lis Tarlow
RE: Columbia-Harvard forum on "Does Leadership in Russia
Matter?"
Dear friends,
On February 21-22, the Davis Center and Harriman Institute will be
cosponsoring a forum at the Century Club in New York on the topic, "Does
Leadership in Russia Matter?" An impressive group of scholars and
practitioners will address this question as it pertains to politics,
business, culture, and grassroots organizations. For more information,
please see the announcement below or attached.
While the majority of attendees will be "paying customers," we may be
able to accommodate a certain number of our affiliates with subsidized
tickets. These people need only to provide their own travel and lodgings.
If you are interested in attending as our guest, please let me know as
soon as possible. Once we know how many people we can invite, we will
accommodate on a first-come, first-served basis.
Lis Tarlow
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*The Columbia-Harvard Russia/Eurasia Forum**
*Does Leadership in Russia Matter?**
*February 21--22, 2008**
*in New York City **
_ http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/seminars_conferences/Harriman.html_
/To what extent does leadership, as opposed to underlying factors and
forces, drive events in Russia and the surrounding region? Do
leaders---not only in the realm of politics, but also in business,
culture, and grassroots organizations---make a difference? Do they make
more or less of a difference than they would in other places, including
the United States?/
On the eve of the 2008 Russian presidential elections, the Harriman
Institute and the Davis Center---the country's leading centers for the
study of Russia and the surrounding area---are launching a joint project
to foster in-depth comparative discussion of the region and of the big
intellectual issues surrounding it. We aim to consider and debate how
best to understand trends in this strategically important region of the
world by going beyond conventional wisdom and tired stereotypes that
often pass for analysis. We invite you to join with professionals,
scholars, and other interested citizens for the Columbia-Harvard
Russia/Eurasia Forum on February 21--22.
*Tentative program** *
*Thursday, February 21, 6--9 p.m.
*
*Opening Debate: */*Does Leadership in Russia Matter?* /
*Timothy Colton*, Director, Davis Center, Harvard University
*Stephen Kotkin*, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History,
Princeton University
*Friday, February 22, 8 a.m.--7:30 p.m.
**
*Panels**: *Politics; Culture & the Arts; Grassroots Organizations &
NGOs; Economics*
*Keynote speaker*
*Zbigniew Brzezinski*, U.S. National Security Advisor to President
Carter (1977-1981)
*Featured Panelists*
*Rawi Abdelal*, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard
Business School
*Timothy Colton*, author of forthcoming biography /Yeltsin: A Life//
/*Anna Gincherman*, Relationship Manager, Women's World Banking
*Marshall Goldman*, author of forthcoming /Petrostate: Putin, Power, and
the New Russia/; Professor Emeritus, Wellesley College
*Sergei Guriev*, Executive Director, Center for Economic and Financial
Research, New Economic School
*Natalia Ivanova,* First Deputy Editor, /Znamya/
*Sarah Lindemann-Komarova*, Cofounder, Siberian Civic Initiatives
Support Center
*Rory MacFarquhar*, Managing Director, Economic Research, Goldman Sachs,
Russia
*Catharine Nepomnyashchy*, Director, Harriman Institute, Columbia
University; Professor, Barnard College
*Gleb Pavlovsky*, President, Foundation for Effective Politics
*Thomas Remington*, Professor of Political Science, Emory University
*Harlow Robinson*, Professor of History, Northeastern University
*Stephen Sestanovich*, Ambassador-at-Large and Special Advisor to the
Secretary of State (1997--2001); Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
*Ole Solvang*, Executive Director, Stichting Russian Justice Initiative
*William Taubman*, author of Pulitzer Prize--winning biography
/Khrushchev: The Man and His Era/ (2003); Professor, Amherst College
*Venue*
All events will take place at the Century Association, 7 West 43rd
Street, New York, NY 10036.
*Registration*
The conference fee is $600 (/$250 academic rate/) for registrations
postmarked by January 31. Includes reception and dinner on Thursday, and
continental breakfast, lunch, and cocktail reception on Friday. Late
registration: $750 (/$300 academic rate/). The registration form can be
downloaded here:
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/seminars_conferences/Russia_Eurasia_Foru…
*Lodging*
A special conference rate is available at the Club Quarters Hotel,
Midtown. Booking details provided upon registration.
*Further* *Information*
Please contact Irene Coffman at 212-854-5431 or ibc3(a)columbia.edu
<mailto:ibc3@columbia.edu>.
*/Please note the following seminar reminder:/
Wednesday, January 30*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
/
"//Ethnicity and Terror: Jews and Others in the NKVD during the Great
Purge"/
Zvi Gitelman, Director of Academic Programs, Judaic Studies Program;
Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
/Please note that this seminar will take place at 12:15-2:00, not the
regular seminar meeting time of 4:15-6:00.
/
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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
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
February 1-15, 2008__*
*Monday, February 4*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
/ /
/"//Competing Nationalisms and the Populist Moment in Contemporary
Polish Politics"
/Peter Vermeersch, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies,
Harvard; Associate Professor, University of Leuven
Papers are available on the web at
http://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.
* *
*Monday, February 4*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights *
/"The Duma Elections and the General Situation of Human Rights and Rule
of Law in Russia"/
Lev Ponomarev, Chairman, Movement for Human Rights, Russia
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
**
*Tuesday, February 5*
*Occasional Seminar*
/
//"Politics of Environmental Reforms: Impact on the Baltic Marine
Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM)"/
Nick Aladin, Head of the Brackish Water Hydrobiology Laboratory,
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
* *
* ********** *
*Wednesday, February 6*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies *
/ /
/"Borderline Experiences: Reinterpreting the Jewish Mass Migration from
Eastern Europe, 1880-1930"//
/Tobias Brinkmann, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies,
Harvard; Lecturer, History Department and Parkes Institute for the Study
of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton, UK
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
* *
* *
*Wednesday, February 6*
*Outreach Program Series*
/ /
/"//Islam in the West"
/Jocelyne Cesari, Director of the Islam in the West Program, Center for
Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
4:30-6:30 p.m.
* ** *
*Friday, February 8 **
**Early Slavists' Seminar*
/
"//The Russian and Slavonic Languages in Sixteenth-Century Muscovy"/
Charles J. Halperin, Visiting Scholar, Russian and East European
Institute, Indiana University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, February 13*
*Comparative Economics** Seminar*
/
//"The Transdniestrian Conundrum and Moldovan-Russian Relations"/
Paul D. Quinlan, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of History,
Providence College
Robert Weiner, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Political
Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*** *
* **** *
*Wednesday, February 13*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies and Book Talk*
/ /
/"The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet
Territories/"
(Indiana University Press, 2007) /
/Joshua Rubenstein, Center Associate, Davis Center; Northeast Regional
Director, Amnesty International USA
Ilya Altman, Co-chairman, Research and Educational Holocaust Center, Russia
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
/Reception to follow./
*Thursday, February 14*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
*Co-sponsored by the Comparative Politics Seminar*
/ /
/"How Ethnicity Shapes Insurgent Violence: A Matched Analysis of `Sweep'
Operations in Chechnya/"
Jason Lyall, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs,
Princeton University; Olin Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International
Affairs, Harvard
Papers are available on the web at
http://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.
*Thursday, February 14*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/ /
/"Viktor Krivulin vs. Dmitrii A. Prigov: Two Strategies of the
Underground from the Soviet Period to the Present"/
Mikhail Berg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Friday, February 15 *
*Historian**s' Seminar*
/
//"Progress through Power? Medical Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century
Russia as Imperial Elite"/
Andreas Renner, Professor of East European History, University of Tübingen
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
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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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
Dear friends,
As most of you know, the Davis Center, née the Russian Research Center,
first opened its doors 60 years ago, in January 1948. Longtime Center
Associate Mark Field was, as he attests, "present at the creation" of
the Center. He entered the Soviet Union program that same year, earning
a master's degree in 1950 and a Ph.D. in Social Relations in 1955 before
going on to become an expert on health and health care in the Soviet Union.
Mark has been a wonderful colleague and loyal friend of the Center over
these past six decades. We hope you will join us at a lunch in his honor
to celebrate this anniversary and share reminiscences of those early
days on Friday, February 1, 12:30-2:00, in CGIS South, Room 354.
Please let us know if you can come by giving your RSVP to Tricia Vio at
<vio(a)fas.harvard.edu> <mailto:vio@fas.harvard.edu> or 617-495-4037 by
Monday, January 28.
We look forward to seeing you all.
Cheers,
Lis
The Davis Center will be closed today, Monday, January 14, due to
inclement weather. No public events are scheduled for today. The
Center will reopen tomorrow morning.
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
January 16-31, 2008*
*__*
*Tuesday, January 22*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
/
"//Cold War Conflicts and Security in the Balkans"/
Nadia Boyadjieva, Professor of International Relations and International
Law, Plovdiv University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Monday, January 28 *
*Occasional Seminar*
/
"//Russia//'s Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and
Democracy Failed"///
(Peterson Institute, 2007)
Anders Åslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International
Economics
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, January 30*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
/
"//Ethnicity and Terror: Jews and Others in the NKVD during the Great
Purge"/
Zvi Gitelman, Director of Academic Programs, Judaic Studies Program;
Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
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
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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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
We are very sorry to note the passing of Sarra Babyonyshev, mother of
Alexander Babyonyshev (Slavic Department and Davis Center Associate).
There will be no traditional memorial service, but there will be an
evening in her memory on January 12. Please see below for details.
An evening in memory of Sarra Babyonyshev
Saturday, Jan. 12, at 5 o'clock
Julian House, 28 Wallingford Road, Brighton (off Commonwealth Avenue)
Anyone who would like to attend is welcome
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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