DavisCenter-list April 2010

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Oleg Dorman (filmmaker and professor, Higher Courses of Filmmaking, Moscow, Russian Federation) will discuss his work at Boston College on April 26, 2010 at 7:30 PM in Fulton Hall 511. The presentation will include fragments of Mr. Dorman's award-winning documentary "Podstrochnik" and will be moderated by Boston College professors John Michalczyk and Maxim D. Shrayer. For more information, go to: https://events.bc.edu/cgi-bin/publish/webevent.cgi?cmd=showevent&cal=cal3,c… === ------ Maxim D. Shrayer Professor of Russian, English, and Jewish Studies Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures Boston College http://fmwww.bc.edu/SL-V/ShrayerM.html -- 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

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Harvard Polish Club commemorative event

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Dear colleagues, Below is a message from Joanna Nizynska in the Slavic Department concerning an upcoming commemorative event that may be of interest to you. Best, Lis Tarlow "I would like to let you know about a commemorative event organized by the Harvard Polish Club, which will take place on Friday, April 16 at 6pm in the Junior Common Room of Lowell House. During the gathering students and invited guests will have an opportunity to informally discuss Polish-Russian relations. As a faculty adviser for the Club, I have had a chance to observe how the young generation reacted to the tragedy, which indicates what trajectory Poland may take in the future in this thorny field. Please, feel free to pass the information to your colleagues. Everybody is warmly invited. All the best, Joanna" -- 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

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Friday, April 23, 2010: Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies and Exhibition Opening

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*/Please join us for the following special events:/ Friday, April 23, 2010*** *Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies* * * *Opening Remarks / *1:15 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050** *Julie Buckler*, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Executive Committee Member, Davis Center *Panel I / *1:30-3:00 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050 * * *Jorina Gjinari*, Wheaton College, /Climate for Foreign Direct Investments in Albania/ *Zachary Ginsburg*, Wheaton College, /Constitutional Courts and Democratic Consolidation in Eastern and Southeastern Europe / *Matthew Ghazarian*, Harvard College, /Not "Low-hanging" Fruit But "Uncontested" Fruit: Determining Western Support for Post-communist Self-determination Movements/ *Brian Mack*, Wheaton College, /Sovereignty and Tatarstan/ *Benjamin Brown*, Wheaton College, /Russia//'s Sovereign Economy / * * Chair: *Jeanne Wilson*, Chair and Professor of Political Science, Wheaton College; Center Associate, Davis Center** / / *Panel II / *3:30-5:00 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050 * * *Anna Shabalov*, Harvard College, /Long Road in the Dunes: Latvia and the Soviet Historical Narrative/ *Linda Lee*, Wellesley College, /An Officer and a...Lady?: The Role of Soviet Women in Combat during World War II/ *Molly Moses*, Harvard College, /Shamans, Mermaids, Songs and Spells: Ethnographic Research in the North Baikal Region of the Republic of Buryatia/ *Emily S(aras*, Wellesley College, /Folk Songs in Flux: The Use of Music in the Ongoing Construction of Lithuanian Identity/ * * Chair: *Serhii Plokhii*, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University; Executive Committee Member, Davis Center ** *Friday, April 23, 2010*** *Exhibition Opening * /Eurasian Exposure: Engaging the Old and New/ Student photographers from Harvard, Wellesley and Wheaton 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level 5:00-6:00 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl. If you need to register a new visitor login in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. -- ---------------------------------------------------- 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

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Message from Tim Colton

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Dear colleagues, As you know, I have been on sabbatical leave this year, with Terry Martin doing an excellent job, in a really tough decision environment, as acting director. The deans asked me several weeks ago to become chair of the Government Department and, aware of the fine work Terry has been doing, had in mind that he take over the Davis Center position on a regular basis on July 1. I agreed with enthusiasm, since I have felt for some time that a change in leadership at the center was overdue. Terry has now agreed to serve a three-year term, and so the deal is done. I know he will shine in this role, one which I told him the other day will involve maintaining a unique organization, warding off evil spirits, and undertaking new projects and priorities. Please join me in wishing him luck. I will find the Gov Department position interesting, at least for a few years, and will be happy to support and advise Terry and our incoming executive director, Alexandra Vacroux, any way I can. Sincerely (from Almaty), Tim -- 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

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Correction: Next week's special events at the Davis Center

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*/Please note the correction to the following film information:/ ** Tuesday, April 20* *Special Event in Commemoration of the Victims of the Recent Polish Tragedy* *Co-sponsored by The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University */ /*Roundtable Discussion * Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Davis Center Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History, International Relations Department, Boston University Terry D. Martin, Acting Director, Davis Center; Professor of Russian Studies, History Department, Harvard University Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Lecturer, Government Department, Harvard University; Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan and Poland 4:15-5:45 p.m. *Film* / Katyn /by *Andrzej Wajda* (2007) In Polish with English subtitles 6:30-8:30 p.m.** Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Room LL1 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl. If you need to register a new visitor login in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. -- ---------------------------------------------------- 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

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Next week's special events at the Davis Center

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*/Please note the following special events at the Davis Center:/ Monday, April 19 Special Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar * /"The Turmoil in Kyrgyzstan: Preliminary Interpretations of Bakiev's Ouster"/ Bakyt Beshimov, Politician; Visiting Scholar, Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michael Hall, Regional Director for the Caucasus and Central Asia, Open Society Institute Pauline Jones Luong, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown University John Schoeberlein, Program Director, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Davis Center, Harvard University Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Lecturer, Government Department, Harvard University; Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan and Poland 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * Tuesday, April 20* *Special Event in Commemoration of the Victims of the Recent Polish Tragedy* *Co-sponsored by The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies and The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University */ /*Roundtable Discussion * Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Davis Center Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History, International Relations Department, Boston University Terry D. Martin, Acting Director, Davis Center; Professor of Russian Studies, History Department, Harvard University Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Lecturer, Government Department, Harvard University; Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan and Poland 4:15-5:45 p.m. *Film* / Katyn /by Andrzej Mularczyk (2007) In Polish with English subtitles 6:30-8:30 p.m.** Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Room LL1 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl. If you need to register a new visitor login in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. -- ---------------------------------------------------- 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

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Seminar Calendar, April 16-30, 2010

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar April 16-30, 2010__* *__* */For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./* *__* *Monday, April 19* *Comparative Economics Seminar * * * /Title TBA/ Evgeniya Shamis, Fellow, Eisenhower Foundation; Founder and CEO of "Personnel Touch" Training and Consulting Bureau, Moscow 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, April 22* *Occasional/Historians' Seminar * /"The Cask and the Hoops: Why Did Stalin's Army Collapse during the First Days of Operation Barbarossa?"/ Mark Solonin, Author 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * /Talk will be delivered in Russian with English translation./ * * * * *Thursday, April 22* *Literature and Culture Seminar* /"Wonderlands of the Russian Avant-Garde: Technology and Art in the 1920s"/ Julia Vaingurt, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois at Chicago 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, April 23* *Undergraduate Colloquium* *on Russian and Eurasian Studies* Multidisciplinary research presentations by advanced undergraduates from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges. 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050 and Concourse 1:15-5:00 p.m. /All are welcome to attend./ / / *Friday, April 23* *Exhibition Opening* /"Eurasian Exposure: Engaging the Old and New"/ Photographs by Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton students. 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse 5:00-6:00 p.m. /All are welcome to attend./// / / / / *Wednesday, April 28* *Book Talk/Director's Seminar* /"Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts"/ (Oxford University Press, 2009) * * David Engerman, Associate Professor of History, Brandeis University; Center Associate, Davis Center Discussant: Andrew Jewett, Assistant Professor of History and of Social Studies, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Thursday, April 29* *Book Talk/Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar* /"The Spectacular State: Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan"/ (Duke University Press, 2010) Laura Adams, Program Co-Director, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Davis Center; Center Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, April 29* *Literature and Culture Seminar* /"The Unknown History of Soviet Music"/ Simon Morrison, Visiting Professor of Music, Harvard University; Professor of Music, Princeton University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, April 30* *Early Slavists' Seminar* /"The Beginnings of Modernity? Confession among the East Slavs in the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century"/ Nadezhda Kizenko, Associate Professor of History, State University of New York at Albany 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl. If you need to register a new visitor login in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. -- ---------------------------------------------------- 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

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DavisCenter-list April 2010