Please note the following seminar reminders:
Tuesday, October 25
Cold War Studies Seminar
"A New Autopsy on the Soviet Empire: Reassessing the Collapse of the USSR 20 Years Later"
Jack F. Matlock, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 25
Historian's Seminar
"Victims or Actors? Russia's Peasant Women in Comparative Historical Perspective"
Esther Kingston-Mann, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 26
Film Screening
The Desert of Forbidden Art (2010)
Directed by Tchavdar Georgiev and Amanda Pope
Introduction by Anna Wexler Katsnelson, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room)
7:00 p.m.
This screening is made possible by Title VI funding from the US Department of Education. Due to licensing restrictions by the film's distributor, the screening is open only to students, faculty, and staff of educational institutions.
Thursday, October 27
Informing Eurasia Seminar
"Soviet Scriptwriting: Film Production, Authorship, and Ideology"
Maria Belodubrovskaya, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Papers will be distributed in advance. Contact Robyn Angley (rangley(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:rangley@fas.harvard.edu>) for more information.
Friday, October 28
Special Event
An Evening of Turkmen Culture
In celebration of Turkmenistan's 20th anniversary of independence, a brief lecture on Turkmenistan by Laura Adams will be followed by a festive evening of Central Asian food, music and dance.
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Concourse and Room S030
7:30-9:30 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
Seminar Calendar
November 1-15, 2011
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>.
Friday, November 4
Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group
Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics and Society Working Group, Center for European Studies
"The New Façade of Autocracy: Putin and Hypermasculinity, 1999 to the present"
Elizabeth Wood, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 9
Russian and East European Jewish Studies Seminar
"Jews and East European Cities" Series, Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies; Modern Jewish Worlds Workshop; Study Group on Jews in Modern Europe, Center for European Studies; and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
"In the Shadow of the Shtetls in Soviet Podolia: Jewish Memory in Eastern Europe"
Jeffrey Veidlinger, Professor of History; Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies; Director, Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 10
Informing Eurasia Seminar
"There Is No Such City as London': The Idea of the West in Polish Film Pre- and Post-1989"
Justyna Beinek, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Papers will be distributed in advance. Contact Robyn Angley (rangley(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:rangley@fas.harvard.edu>) for more information.
Sunday, November 13
Film Screening
Boston Jewish Film Festival screening sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Lenin in October
The Boston Jewish Film Festival presents Lenin in October, an off-beat comedy directed by Evgeny Ruman (2010, 50 min.), and The Decision Maker directed by Yagil (2010, 41 minutes).
Films introduced by Sasha Senderovich, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Tufts University
2:45 p.m.
Alfond Auditorium
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5523 Tel: 617-267-9300
Free and open to the public. For more information: http://bjff.festivalgenius.com/2011/films/lenininoctober_evgenyruman_bjff20…
Sunday, November 13
Special Event
Conference on the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora
Welcoming Remarks & Roundtable Discussion: "The Russian-Speaking Jewish Immigrants: Impressions from the Field"
Terry Martin, George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Moderator: Zvi Gitelman, Conference Co-Chair and Professor, Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
Pinchas Goldschmidt, Chief Rabbi of Moscow; President of the Conference of European Rabbis
Barry Shrage, President, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Boston
Sergey Lagodinsky, Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin
Vladimir Khanin, Chief Scientist, Israeli Ministry of Immigrant Absorption; Senior Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010 (Tsai Auditorium)
7:30-9:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
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.
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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
Please join us to celebrate Central Asia week at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies!
Monday, October 24
Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar
"Ferghana Valley: The Heart of Central Asia"
Baktybek Beshimov, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:00-1:30 p.m.
To kick off the Davis Center's week of Central Asian studies, Baktybek Beshimov, a visiting scholar at the Davis Center, will give a talk on current and future prospects for the Ferghana Valley, a dynamic region shared by Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The talk will be based on the book of the same name that Beshimov co-authored.
Monday, October 24
Film Screening
Xinjiang Uyghur Film: Sarang (Crazy)
Uyghur with English subtitles
Introductory talk by Mettursun Beydulla
1737 Cambridge Street (Knafel Building), 2nd Floor, Room K262
7:30-9:30 p.m.
Sarang is one of the best-loved Uyghur movies, and now it is the first Uyghur movie to be available with English subtitles. This lively mixture of comedy and tragedy, set and filmed in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, is based on a short story by the celebrated author Memtimin Hoshur.
Wednesday, October 26
Film Screening
The Desert of Forbidden Art (2010)
Directed by Tchavdar Georgiev and Amanda Pope
Introduction by Anna Wexler Katsnelson, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room)
7:00 p.m.
This screening is made possible by Title VI funding from the US Department of Education. Due to licensing restrictions by the film's distributor, the screening is open only to students, faculty, and staff of educational institutions.
Friday, October 28
Special Event
Co-sponsored by the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Turkmenistan Youth and Civic Values Foundation
An Evening of Turkmen Culture
In celebration of Turkmenistan's 20th anniversary of independence, a brief lecture on Turkmenistan by Laura Adams will be followed by a festive evening of Central Asian food, music and dance.
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Concourse and Room S030
7:30-9:30 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.
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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
Please note that the following seminar has been cancelled:
Wednesday, October 26
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
"Where Is My Home? The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolskii" (Lexington Books, 2010)
Musya Glants, Associate, Davis Center
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
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.495.4037
F 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
October 16-31, 2011
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>.
Monday, October 17
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
"Jews and East European Cities" Series, Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies; Modern Jewish Worlds Workshop; Study Group on Jews in Modern Europe, Center for European Studies; and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
"Different but the Same, or the Same but Different? The Re-making of Public Memory of the Second World War in Post-Soviet Lviv"
Tarik Cyril Amar, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 19
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
"Party Politics in Hell: Ghetto Uprisings during the Holocaust"
Evgeny Finkel, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Fellow, Program on Order, Conflict and Violence, Yale University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 25
Cold War Studies Seminar
"A New Autopsy on the Soviet Empire: Reassessing the Collapse of the USSR 20 Years Later"
Jack F. Matlock, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 25
Historian's Seminar
"Victims or Actors? Russia's Peasant Women in Comparative Historical Perspective"
Esther Kingston-Mann, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 26
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
"Where Is My Home? The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolskii" (Lexington Books, 2010)
Musya Glants, Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 26
Film Screening
The Desert of Forbidden Art (2010)
Directed by Tchavdar Georgiev and Amanda Pope
Introduction by Anna Wexler Katsnelson, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room)
7:00 p.m.
This screening is made possible by Title VI funding from the US Department of Education. Due to licensing restrictions by the film's distributor, the screening is open only to students, faculty, and staff of educational institutions.
Friday, October 28
Special Event
An Evening of Turkmen Culture
In celebration of Turkmenistan's 20th anniversary of independence, a brief lecture on Turkmenistan by Dr. Laura Adams will be followed by a festive evening of Central Asian food, music and dance.
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Concourse and Room S030
7:30-9:30 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.
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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
Please note the following additions to the seminar calendar:
Monday, October 24
Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar
"Ferghana Valley: The Heart of Central Asia"
Baktybek Beshimov, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:00-1:30 p.m.
Thursday, October 27
Informing Eurasia Seminar
"Soviet Scriptwriting: Film Production, Authorship, and Ideology"
Maria Belodubrovskaya, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Papers will be distributed in advance. Contact Robyn Angley (rangley(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:rangley@fas.harvard.edu>) for more information.
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.
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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
Please note that the following seminar has been cancelled:
Wednesday, October 26
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
"Where Is My Home? The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolskii" (Lexington Books, 2010)
Musya Glants, Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 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<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.
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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
