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Call for Papers "Charting the Nation between State and Society"

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***Deadline Reminder: 3 November 2010*** Call for Papers "Charting the Nation between State and Society" 16th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN) International Affairs Building, Columbia University, NY Sponsored by the Harriman Institute 14-16 April 2011 www.nationalities.org<http://www.nationalities.org> <http://www.nationalities.org/> Contact information: proposals must be submitted to: darel(a)uottawa.ca and darelasn2011(a)gmail.com Follow ASN on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Association-for-the-Study-of-Nationalities/11… Check out the ASN Nationalities Blog http://nationalities.wordpress.com/ 140 PANELS on the Balkans, Central Europe and the Baltics, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Afghanistan, China, and Nationalism Studies SPECIAL SECTIONS on History, Politics, and Memory Ethnicity and Violence Debating Self-Determination after Kosovo THEMATIC Panels on Islam and Politics, Genocide and Mass Killing, Religion, Language Politics, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Autonomy, Gender and Identity, EU Integration, Migration, Borders and Diasporas, War Crimes and International Tribunals, Political Economy and the Nation, History and Nation-Building, and many more... SCREENING of New Documentaries SPECIAL ROUNDTABLES on New Books AWARDS for Best Doctoral Student Papers, the ASN Harriman Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, the ASN Audience Award for Best Documentary SPECIAL EVENTS sponsored by the ASN Journal Nationalities Papers The ASN Convention, the most attended international and inter-disciplinary scholarly gathering of its kind, welcomes proposals on a wide range of topics related to nationalism, ethnicity, ethnic conflict and national identity in Central Europe, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union, the Caucasus, the Turkic world, and Central Eurasia. Prospective applicants can get a sense of the large thematic scope of ASN Convention papers by looking at the 2010 Final Program, which can be accessed at http://nationalities.org/convention/pdfs/ASN_2010_Final_program-April.pdf . The Convention also invites proposals devoted to comparative perspectives on nationalism-related issues in other regions of the world, as well as theoretical approaches that need not be grounded in any particular geographic region. Disciplines represented include political science, history, anthropology, sociology, international studies, security studies, area studies, economics, geography and geopolitics, sociolinguistics, literature, psychology, and related fields. Papers presented at the Convention will be made available on CDs to participants, but not be posted on the ASN website. Moreover, the Convention is inviting paper, panel, roundtable, or special presentation proposals related to three special thematic sidebars: *"History, Politics and Memory," on the construction and contestation of the memory of historical events in sites, political discourse and historical research; *"Ethnicity and Violence,"on the conditions, mechanism, construction, implications and global perspective of violence perpetrated against "ethnic" groups, in Osh and elsewhere; *"Debating Self-Determination after Kosovo", in the wake of the recent Advisory Opinion by the International Court of Justice. Nationalities Papers, the ASN flagship journal, will hold the first Nationalities Debate,a high profile discussion on the state of the art, as well as a new edition of the roundtable "How To Get Your Article Published", one of the most attended panels at the ASN 2010 Convention. The roundtable will include Ethnopolitics, the other ASN journal and the ASN publishing house Taylor & Francis. Nationalities Papers will also sponsor the opening reception. For several years, the ASN Convention has acknowledged excellence in graduate studies research by offering Awards for Best Doctoral Student Papers. The winners at the 2010 Convention were Marlene Spoerri (U of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for the Balkans, Cristian Cercel (Durham U, UK) for Central Europe, Nicole Eaton (UC Berkeley, US) and Michal Simecka (U of Oxford, UK) for Russia/Ukraine/Caucasus, and Mateusz Laszczkowski (Max Planck Institute, Germany) for Central Eurasia/Turkey. More details are available at http://nationalities.org/convention/prize.asp. Doctoral student applicants whose proposals are accepted for the 2011 Convention, who will not have defended their dissertation by 1 November 2010, and whose papers are delivered by the deadline, will automatically be considered for the awards. The ASN Convention proudly inaugurated in 2010 the first annual ASN Harriman Book Prize-the Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies. The winner was Holly Case (Cornell U, US) for her monograph Between States: The Transylvanian Question and the European Idea during World War II (Stanford University Press, 2009). For information on how to have a book considered for the 2011 Book Prize, please contact Dmitry Gorenburg at asnbookprize(a)gmail.com. The 2011 Convention is also inviting submissions for documentaries made within the past few years and available in DVD format (either NTSC or PAL). The documentaries selected for the convention will be screened during regular panel slots and, in several cases, will be followed by a discussion moderated by an academic expert. Films on the 2009 Program included Russian Lessons (Norway/Russia, Georgia, 2009), Absence of Will (Georgia, 2009), La Shoah par balles (France, 2008), Komi-Permyak Autumn (Estonia, 2009) and Questions nationales (Canada, 2009). The full 2010 film lineup can be accessed at http://nationalities.org/convention/films_2010.asp. The Convention will also launch its first ASN Audience Award for Best Documentary. More details will be available later. Proposal Information The 2011 Convention invites proposals for individual papers or panels. A panel includes a chair, three or four presentations based on written papers, and a discussant. The 2010 Convention is also welcoming offers to serve as discussant on a panel to be created by the Program Committee from individual paper proposals. The application to be considered as discussant can be self-standing, or accompanied by an individual paper proposal. There is no application form to fill out in order to send proposals to the convention, but a fact sheet is required. The Fact Sheet can be downloaded at www.nationalities.org<http://www.nationalities.org> <http://www.nationalities.org/> . Individual paper proposals must include four items: *Contact information: the name, email, postal address and academic affiliation of the applicant *A 300- to 500-word abstract (shorter abstracts will not be considered) with the title of the paper *A 100-word biographical statement, in narrative form (a paragraph). CVs will be rejected. A example of biographical statement is at www.nationalities.org<http://www.nationalities.org> <http://www.nationalities.org/> . Individual proposals featuring more than one author (joint proposal) must include the contact information and biographical statement of all authors and specify whether all co-authors intend to attend the Convention. *A Fact Sheet, to be downloaded at www.nationalities.org<http://www.nationalities.org> <http://www.nationalities.org/> . Panel proposals must include four items: *Contact information (see above) of all proposed panelists. *The title of the panel and of all papers (abstracts of the papers are not required). *A 100-word biographical statement (see above) for each proposed panelist. CVs will be rejected *A Fact Sheet for each panelist. Proposals can also be sent for roundtables (with presentations not based on written papers) and book panels. The same four elements apply. Proposals for documentaries must include four items: *Contact information (see above) *A 300- to 500-word abstract of the documentary *A 100-word biographical statement (see above). CVs will be rejected. *A Fact Sheet Proposals for a roundtable following the screening of a film are most welcome. In these cases, the requirements of a panel proposal apply, in addition to the 300- to 500-word abstract of the film. Proposals for serve as a discussant must include four items: *Contact information (see above) *A 100-word statement about your areas of expertise *A 100-word biographical statement (see above). CVs will be rejected. *A Fact Sheet (see above) Proposals for applicants already included in an individual paper or panel proposal need only include the 100-word statement on areas of expertise. IMPORTANT: All proposals must be sent in a single email message, with a maximum of two attachments-the proposal itself (contact info, abstract, bio statement) and the Fact Sheet. Proposals with more than two attachments will not be considered. The proposals must be sent to darel(a)uottawa.ca AND darelasn2011(a)gmail.com. The receipt of all proposals will be promptly acknowledged electronically, with some delay during deadline week, due to the high volume of proposals. Participants are responsible for covering all travel and accommodation costs. Unfortunately, ASN has no funding available for panelists. An international Program Committee will be entrusted with the selection of proposals. Applicants will be notified by January 2011. Information regarding registration costs and other logistical questions will be communicated afterwards. The full list of panels from last year's convention can be accessed at http://nationalities.org/convention/pdfs/ASN_2010_Final_program-April.pdf The programs from past conventions, going back to 2001, are also online at http://nationalities.org/convention/past.asp Several dozen publishers and companies have had exhibits and/or advertised in the Convention Program in past years. Due to considerations of space, advertisers and exhibitors are encouraged to place their order early. For information, please contact Convention Executive Director Gordon N. Bardos (gnb12(a)columbia.edu). The ASN Facebook page will post regular updates on the ASN 2011 Convention. To become a follower of ASN on Facebook, go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/Association-for-the-Study-of-Nationalities/11… and click on the "Like" option. ASN has also inaugurated the popular ASN Nationalities Blog this past June that already featured several entries on the Kyrgyzstan ethnic violence, the Kosovo self-determination ruling, the citizenship law in Hungary, language politics in Ukraine, secessionism in Belgium, Poland, Macedonia, and sports and nationalism. The blog can be accessed at http://nationalities.wordpress.com/ and blog updates are posted on Facebook. We very much look forward to hearing from you and receiving your proposal! The Convention Organizing Committee: Dominique Arel, ASN President Gordon N. Bardos, Executive Director Sherrill Stroschein, Program Chair Florian Bieber, Zsuzsa Csergo, Dmitry Gorenburg, Alexandra Goujon, and Vejas Liulevicius, ASN Executive Committee Deadline for proposals: 3 November 2010 (to be sent to both darel(a)uottawa.ca AND darelasn2010(a)gmail.com) The ASN Convention's headquarters are located at the: Harriman Institute Columbia University 1216 IAB 420 W. 118th St. New York, NY 10027 212 854 8487 tel 212 666 3481 fax gnb12(a)columbia.edu --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Seminar Reminder 11/3

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A reminder... Wednesday, November 3 Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies "From 'Narodnichestvo' to the Jewish 'Narod': Lev Shternberg's Search for a Secular Humanistic Judaism" Sergei Kan, Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies, Dartmouth College; Center Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Lev Shternberg (1861-1927) is best known as one of the leading anthropologists of the late imperial and early Soviet Russia. However, he was also an active participant in the last stage of the radical Narodnichestvo movement of the 1880s and played a prominent role in cultural and political activities of the liberal Jewish intelligentsia of St. Petersburg in the first two decades of the 20th century. Drawing on the material from his recently published biography of Shternberg, Sergei Kan will discuss Shternberg's vision of a humanistic cultural Judaism that would bring the Russified Jewish intelligentsia back to the Jewish narod. *********************************** Please note future meetings of the Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies: Wednesday, December 1 Topic, TBA Anna Shternshis, Associate Professor of Yiddish Studies, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto Wednesday, December 8 "The Russian Canon as Prooftext: Sholem Aleichem Reads the Russians, from Gogol to Gorky" Amelia Glaser, Associate Professor of Russian Literature, University of California, San Diego (All seminars in this series will be held in CGIS South, Room S354, 4:15-6:00pm.) --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Seminar Calendar, November 1-15, 2010

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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar Calendar November 1-15, 2010 For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our web calendar<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>. Wednesday, November 3 Occasional Seminar "Skolkovo: Russia's Attempt to Become a High-Tech Leader" Loren Graham, Professor (Emeritus) of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University; Executive Committee Member, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 3 Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies "From 'Narodnichestvo' to the Jewish 'Narod': Lev Shternberg's Search for a Secular Humanistic Judaism" Sergei Kan, Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies, Dartmouth College; Center Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Thursday, November 4 Comparative Economics Seminar "Horizontal vs. Vertical in Today's Russian Media" Maxim Trudolubov, William Montalbano Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University; Editorial Page Editor, Vedomosti Daily 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 9 Historians' Seminar "Soviet Environmental History as Lived Experience: The Fate of the Russian Pomors" Stephen Brain, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of History, Mississippi State University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Friday, November 12 Early Slavists' Seminar "Marriage, Family Politics, and Identity in Medieval Eastern Europe" Christian Raffensperger, Assistant Professor of History, Wittenberg University 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<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Patricia Blake

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Dear Davis Center Affiliates, We regret to announce that longtime Davis Center associate Patricia Blake passed away early morning on October 14th after a long battle with lung cancer. A remembrance occasion is being planned by the family, and we will pass along the details of this when we have them. In the meantime, Patricia's husband Ronnie would like to hear from Patricia's friends and is accepting phone calls and letters. His contact information is below. Ronnie Dugger 115 Museum Street, Apt. 2 Somerville, MA 02143 T: 617.440.4201 Patricia was a journalist with an interest in Russian literature of the Soviet period. She had also served as a correspondent in the Soviet Union for Time-Life and as the consultant on Soviet affairs for Time. She edited five collections in English translation of Soviet-era Russian literature --some with Max Hayward--including Dissonant Voices in Soviet Literature, Halfway to the Moon: New Writing from Russia, Writers in Russia, and two books of poetry, one of Mayakovsky and the other of Voznesensky. Up until her death, she was working on a biography of Isaac Babel. Sincerely, Terry and Alexandra --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Memorial Commemoration for Horace Lunt

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Dear Davis Center Affiliates, The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute has announced that a memorial commemoration of Horace Lunt's life and work will be held on Friday, October 22, 2010, at 3:00 P.M. in the Fong Auditorium of Boylston Hall at Harvard University. A reception will follow in the Faculty Club. In lieu of flowers, his family requests that donations in his memory be sent to the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Cambridge, MA 02138. Please follow this link<http://www.huri.harvard.edu/na/2010_08_11.html> to read about Professor Lunt on HURI's website. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Need a break? Come have lunch!

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This Friday! Friday, October 22 Informal lunch with faculty, students, associates, visitors and staff of the Davis Center Bring or buy your lunch Fisher Family Commons and café, first floor of CGIS Knafel (directly across from our building) 1737 Cambridge St. 1:00-2:00 p.m. Hope to see you there! --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Invitation: Student Travel Reports / Russia & Eastern Europe

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You are warmly invited to meet the Davis Center's undergraduate summer travel grant recipients. They will talk about how they arrived at their topics, share some highlights from their fieldwork, and report on the current status of their projects. Internship grant recipients will talk about how they lined up their internships, what they did, and what they learned from the experience. While you listen, you can enjoy some sweets from Russia and Eastern Europe. All are welcome! Please forward this invitation to interested members of the community. *** Student Travel Reports: Russia and Eastern Europe Tuesday, October 19 CGIS S450 4:15-5:45 Ivana Djak (Government; English) "Female Civil Society in Post World War II and Post Civil War Yugoslavia and Its Successor Countries Zagreb, Croatia; Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Belgrade, Serbia Svetlana Dotsenko (Government; Health Policy) "Reasons Why Authoritarian Governments Establish Universal Healthcare" Moscow, Russia; Tallinn, Estonia Daniel Norris (Applied Mathematics) Internship at World Bank; Russian Language & Area Studies at Academy of National Economy Moscow, Russia Caitria O'Neill (Government) Internship with State Department in US Embassy Bratislava, Slovakia ***** Student Travel Reports: Russia and Eastern Europe Friday, October 29 CGIS S354 4:15-5:30 Ian Clark (Linguistics & Music) Internship in computational linguistics laboratory; Russian Language Study at Vinogradov Institute Moscow, Russia Jessica Flakne (Social Studies) "T.G. Masaryk and Czech Nationalism and Religion" Prague, Czech Republic Aseem Shukla (Linguistics) Internship in Moscow at Slavic Center for Law and Justice; Russian Language & Area Studies at Academy of National Economy Moscow, Russia *** --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Reminder and room change notice: Book Talk with Elif Batuman, October 15

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Dear Faculty, Staff and Students- Elif Batuman-Harvard alumna (Slavic '99), Stanford lecturer, and contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Harper's Magazine-will be at the Davis Center on Friday to discuss her new book, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them. The New York Times Book Review hails The Possessed as a book "...that's ostensibly about her favorite Russians but is actually about a million other things: grad school, literary theory, translation, biography, love affairs, the making of "King Kong," working for the Let's Go travel guidebook series, songs by the Smiths, even how to choose a nice watermelon in Uzbekistan. Crucially and fundamentally, it is also an examination of this question: How do we bring our lives closer to our favorite books?" To get at the answer to this interesting and compelling question, please attend Elif's book talk (PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE). Please continue to share this announcement with your (current and former) students and colleagues, as it's sure to be of interest to many. Friday, October 15 Book Talk Co-sponsored by the Davis Center Outreach Program "The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them" Elif Batuman, Author; PhD in Comparative Literature, Stanford University; Harvard College '99 Moderator: Svetlana Boym, Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature; Faculty Associate and Executive Committee, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room) 4:00-6:00 p.m. If you would like paper copies of the attached flyer for distribution or postering, please contact Cris Martin at clmartin(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:clmartin@fas.harvard.edu>. [cid:image001.jpg@01CB6AF2.E1C3B340] --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Seminar Calendar, October 16-31, 2010

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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar Calendar October 16-31, 2010 For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our web calendar<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>. Monday, October 25 Cold War Studies Seminar "U.S.-Russian Relations in Historical Perspective: Mutual Images, Foreign Policies, and Domestic Agendas" Ivan Kurillla, Professor of History, Volgograd State University 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<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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10/8/10 addition to the seminar calendar

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Please note the following addition to the seminar calendar: Friday, October 8 Comparative Economics Seminar "Skolkovo: The Way of the Future" Alexey Germanovich, Public Projects Director, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO 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<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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