/*Please note the following changes to the March seminar calendar.*/
/*The following seminar has been postponed until further notice:*/
**
*Thursday, March 12*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
*Co-sponsored by the Cold War Studies Seminar*
* *
/The Soviet Hydrogen Bomb Controversy: A Discussion of /The Nuclear
Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation
Roundtable Discussion:
David Holloway, Professor of International Relations, Stanford University
Paul Josephson, Chair and Professor of Russian and Soviet History, Colby
College
Priscilla McMillan, Center Associate, Davis Center
Chair:
Mark Kramer, Program Director, Cold War Studies Project, Harvard
1737 Cambridge Street, Knafel Building, Concourse Level, Room K031
12:15-2:00 p.m.
/*The following seminar has been canceled:
*/*Friday, March 13*
*Director's Seminar*
/"Belarus: Between East and West"/
Natalia Petkevich, First Deputy Head, Administration of the President of
Belarus
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
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/*Please note the following additions to the March and April seminar
calendars:*/
*Tuesday, March 31*
*Historians' Seminar*
* *
/"A Cult of Personality in the Soviet Intelligentsia: Revolt Pimenov and
his Entourage, 1949-1957"**/
Benjamin Tromly, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1737 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room K401
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, April 2*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*//
/"The 'Death' of the Homosexual, or the Limits of Polish Modernism"/
B?az.ej Warkocki, Assistant Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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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
You are invited to the book launch of
/Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing
/
Yale University Press
By Steven J. Zipperstein
Thursday, April 30, 2009, 3:00-5:00pm
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Byerly Hall, 1^st floor
8 Garden Street, Cambridge
Co-sponsored by Harvard Hillel
A conversation with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein & Steven J. Zipperstein
Wine, cheese reception to follow
RSVP: SZipperstein(a)aol.com <mailto:SZipperstein@aol.com>
/ /
/"Steve Zipperstein writes with such clear-eyed empathy, such patience
for his subject's foibles, and such a refreshing lack of moralistic
judgment that Isaac Rosenfeld comes to seem like a character Chekhov
might have invented//---//had the Russian master lived to observe the
passionate literary friendships and the dog-eat-dog struggles of
mid-20th-century New York intellectual life. /Rosenfeld's Lives/ is a
fascinating and cautionary tale about how much character, talent, and
luck weigh in the mysterious balance that tips a writer toward fame or
failure."/--- Francine Prose//
/"Isaac R osenfeld was a major critic and writer of the post World War
II period, from Chicago by way of New York and Greenwich Village, whose
first novel seemed to promise---as did the early novels of his close
friend, Saul Bellow---that great things could be expected to follow.
Alas, they did not, and Rosenfeld died young. Steve Zipperstein has
reconstructed from what was left behind a fascinating story bringing to
life the generation of Jewish writers and critics who emerged from what
was still a Yiddish-speaking immigrant world ./Rosenfeld's/ Lives is a
remarkable achievement. " /*--- *Nathan Glazer
/ /
*/ /*
/"This long-awaited biography of Isaac Rosenfeld is far more than a
brilliant analysis of the man, his work, and his demons. It is a
profound---and profoundly moving---meditation on the fragility of
creativity, the caprices of reputation, and the doom of those whose
lives are thereby made and unmade." /--- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
April 1-15, 2009__*
*__*
*/For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit
our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./*
*__*
*Thursday, April 2*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*//
/ /
/"Antifascism, Youth Scenes, and Urban Space: Findings from Recent
Fieldwork in Provincial Russia"/
Mischa Gabowitsch, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the
Liberal Arts; Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, April 7*
*Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar*//
/"Moral Reasoning and Intelligibility: Becoming Muslim in Post-Soviet
Uzbekistan"/
Johan Rasanayagam, Lecturer on Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, April 8*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*//
/ /
/"Russia Incorporated: The Market Economy in an FSB-Controlled State in
the Twenty-First Century"/
Yuri Felshtinsky, Author and Historian
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
*Friday, April 10*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
* *
/"Kallisti: The Bride-Show and Muscovite Marriage Politics"/
Russell E. Martin, Associate Professor of History, Westminster College;
President, Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and
Culture, Inc. (ASEC)
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Friday, April 10*
*Historians' Seminar*//
/ /
/"//Demographic Crisis and Gender in Russia after WWII"/
Elizabeth Brainerd, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of
Economics, Williams College
Mie Nakachi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center//
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, April 14
Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
/"Forced Labor and Human Trafficking in Today's Russia"/
Dmitry Poletaev, Sakharov Fellow, Davis Center; Senior Research Fellow,
Council for the Study of Productive Forces, Russian Academy of Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, April 15*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*//
/ /
/"Kazakhstan: Road to Independence"/
Ariel Cohen, Senior Research Fellow, Russian and Eurasian Studies and
International Energy Security, The Heritage Foundation//
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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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
Dear Friends,
Boston College will be hosting the 2009 Michael B. Kreps Memorial
Readings on March 28, 2009. Vera Pavlova, a distinguished contemporary
Russian poet and essayist, will read from and discuss her works.
Born in Moscow in 1963 Vera Pavlova studied at the Schnittke College of
Music and graduated from the Gnessin Music Academy with a degree in
music history. Her first poems appeared in the Moscow monthly /Iunost'/
(/Youth/) in 1983. Ms. Pavlova has contributed hundreds of poems to
leading periodicals in Russia. She is the author of twelve collections
of poetry, including the recent book /Po obe storony potseluia/ (/On
both Sides of the Kiss/, 2004), /Ruchnaia klad': Stikhi 2004-2005/
(/Hand Luggage: Poems 2004-2005/, 2006), /Pis'ma v sosedniuiu komnatu/
(/Letters to the Next Room/, 2007), /Mudraia dura/ (/Wise Fool/, 2008).
Her work has been translated into fifteen languages and featured, in
English translation, in /The New Yorker/. Winner of the 2000 Apollon
Grigor'ev Prize, Ms. Pavlova divides her time between Moscow and New York.
The reading will take place on Saturday, March 28th, at 7 PM in Gasson
Hall 305 (Fulton Debating Room, on the Boston College main campus (a BC
campus map is found at http://www.bc.edu/about/maps/s-chestnuthill.html).
The event is conducted in Russian and is free and open to the public.
For more information, please call Boston College's Department of Slavic
and Eastern Languages at (617) 552-3910 or email shrayerm(a)bc.edu
<mailto:shrayerm@bc.edu>. The event is cosponsored by the Boston College
Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures and the
Office of the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
Maxim D. Shrayer
Maxim D. Shrayer
Professor of Russian & English
Chair, Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures
_http://fmwww.bc.edu/SL-V/ShrayerM.html_
210 Lyons Hall, 140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467-3804 USA
e-mail: _shrayerm(a)bc.edu_ <mailto:shrayerm@bc.edu>
tel. 617-552-3911 fax. 617-552-3913
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
As many of you know, I have been researching the artist Boris Chaliapin
(son of the singer) this year. The first exhibit (for which I have been
historical consultant) of his unpublished covers for TIME Magazine opens
this week. For those of you nearby, I thought you might like to come to
the opening or to my lecture on April 5. For those of you too far away,
I thought you would enjoy hearing about this exciting exhibit of Boris's
works.
All best,
Dassia
Dassia N. Posner, Ph. D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street; Cambridge, MA 02138
dassia2(a)gmail.com
dposner(a)fas.harvard.edu
(617) 495-9605
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BORIS CHALIAPIN: FACES OF HISTORY
Unpublished Time Magazine Covers &
Paintings by Time Magazine's Most Prolific Artist
March 19-May 6, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 19, 6-8 pm
Gallery Hours: Mon.-Wed. 10-5; Thurs. 10-8; Fri. Sat., 10-5; Sun. 1-5
FLINN GALLERY
Greenwich Library, Second Floor
101 West Putnam Avenue
Greenwich, CT 06830
203-622-7947
_www.flinngallery.com_
Lectures:
*Saturday, March 28, 2 pm
*/Time & the Smithsonian
/James Barber, Historian & Curator of TIME Collection, National Portrait
Gallery
*Sunday, April 5, 2 pm
*/The Life and Art of Boris Chaliapin
/Dassia Posner, Ph. D., Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
*Sunday, April 26, 2 pm
*/TIME: 85 Years of Great Writing
/Christopher Porterfield, Former TIME Executive Editor
/Boris Chaliapin: Faces of History /has been curated by York Baker,
Debra Fram, and Barbara Richards.
This exhibition is made possible through the support and generosity of
the late Helcia Chaliapin, the estate of Helcia Chaliapin, Dassia
Posner, Gabriella Salvatore, the Schwartz Family, TIME Magazine & the
Friends of the Greenwich Library.
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to call your attention to a talk being given at Radcliffe
Institute on April 1:
*STEVEN J. ZIPPERSTEIN
*/On Rewriting the Cultural History of Russian Jewry
/*Wednesday, April 1, 2009
3:30 PM
*Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Fellowship Program
Radcliffe Gym, Radcliffe Yard
10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Steven J. Zipperstein, the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish
Culture and History at Stanford University, will publish his latest book
-- Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing -- with
Yale University Pres in mid-April. A historian of modern European
Jewry, he has written four books, including /The Jews of Odessa/,
/Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha'am and the Origins of Zionism, /and /Imagining
Russian Jewry: Memory, History, Identity, /and has edited several
others. He has won the National Jewish Book Award, the Smilen Prize, the
Leviant Prize from the Modern Language Association. In 2002, he was
Shapiro Scholar in Residence at the US Memorial Holocaust Museum, and
has taught at universities in England, France, Poland, and Israel. He
is the author more than fifty articles, and has published in The New
York Times Book Review, The New Republic, Partisan Review, Dissent, and
the New England Review.
Currently, he is writing a cultural history of Russian Jewry, under
contract with Houghton Mifflin. Beginning his book in the late
nineteenth century and continuing until the present day, Zipperstein
will use the tools of anthropology, ethnography, literature, and history
to examine the experiences of Jews in Russian with sources in Hebrew,
Yiddish, Russian, and other languages. Much of contemporary Jewish
self-understanding (Jewish liberalism, Jewish socialism, Zionism, modern
Hebrew and Yiddish literature) were forged in Russia, and he hopes to
provide an explanation for its unprecedented impact on the shaping of
contemporary Jewish life.
His lecture will concentrate on the etiology of a rhetoric of
catastrophe used widely, beginning in the early twentieth century, with
regard to the Jews of Russia. He will trace, in particular, how a riot
at the Russian empire's most remote southwestern edges, in Bessarabia's
Kishinev, became -- and surprisingly quickly -- the prime metaphor for
Russian oppression of Jews. Zipperstein will weave into his
presentation how the Kishinev pogrom intersected with the first traces
of organized Jewish self-defense in Russia, and elsewhere, the first
version of /The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, /and much else.
/For more information, call the Institute Reception Desk, 617-495-8212./
Phyllis Albert, Ph.D.
Center for European Studies
Harvard University
617 969 7745
/*Please note the following addition to the March seminar calendar:*/
*Thursday, March 19*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
*Co-sponsored by the GSAS Central and East European Society*//
/ /
/"Poetics of Music"/
Richard Taruskin, Professor of Music, University of California, Berkeley
Common Room, Dudley House
4:00-6:00 p.m.
(See attached poster)
To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton
Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard
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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
The Ukrainian Research Institute invites members of the Harvard
community and the general public to the following lectures with:
*Volodymyr Kulyk*
*/Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies,
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington DC)/*
_*
*_*_Seminar in Ukrainian Studies_
Language Policy and Linguistic Attitudes in Ukraine
**Monday, March 16, 2009*
*4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.*
*Room S-050 (Concourse Level)*
*CGIS Building South, Harvard University*
*1730 Cambridge Street*
*Cambridge, MA 02138*
/*~ AND ~*/
_*
*_*_Ukraine Study Group
_/(Brown Bag Luncheon Meeting)
/Minority Education in Ukraine: The Cases of Hungarians and Crimean Tatars
**Tuesday, March 17, 2009*
*12:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.*
*Omeljan Pritsak Memorial Library*
*Ukrainian Research Institute
Harvard University*
*34 Kirkland Street*
*Cambridge, MA 02138*
*/ Upcoming Lectures and Presentations of Interest:
Unless indicated otherwise, events are held from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in Room
S-050 of CGIS Building South./*
* Monday, March 23
*/~ No seminar - Spring recess ~/
*
Monday, March 30*
Jewish-Christian Cultural Contacts in Late Medieval Kyiv
Moshe Taube
/Professor of Linguistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute/
*
Monday, April 6*
The Consolidation of Army Officer Training in Lviv: Its Significance for
Ukraine's Military Development
Leonid Polyakov
/Former Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine
External Consultant, Parliamentary Committee on National Security and
Defense, Parliament of Ukraine
Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute
/
*
Monday, April 13 -/ Petro Jacyk Memorial Symposium/*
On the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Mykola Hohol/ Nikolai Gogol
/~ Details forthcoming ~/
*
Monday, April 20*
Should Cossacks Be Allowed to Sell Their Lands? A Contribution to
Russo-Ukrainian Relations (1820s)
John LeDonne
/Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies,
Harvard University/
*
Monday, April 27*
Literary Anthologies and Their Role in Shaping Ukrainian Identity
Olena Haleta
/Associate Professor of Literature and Director, Center for the
Humanities, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv
Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute/
*
Monday, May 4*
Taras Shevchenko and the Modern Ukrainian Literary Language: A Revisit
and New Assessment
Michael Moser
/Associate Professor, Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Vienna/
*Program subject to change. To check for changes to the HURI Seminar
schedule, please visit our website:
http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html
Please note: HURI now utilizes Harvard's list server. For more
information, please visit our list at:
http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/huri-events-list
*
For further information on HURI events, please contact us at:
Tel.: 617-495-4053
Fax: 617-495-8097
E-mail: huri at fas.harvard.edu <mailto:huri@fas.harvard.edu>
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Harvard University
34 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Tel: 617-495-4053
Fax: 617-495-8097
Web: http://www.huri.harvard.edu
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*Friday, March 20*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
* *
/"17th-Century Muscovite Thinking about Numbers: Rethinking the
Otstalost' Question"/
Peter Brown, Professor of History, Rhode Island College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301b
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
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