DavisCenter-list November 2011

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Harvard University - Davis Center Fellows Program - Online Q & A Session - Dec. 1, 2 p.m.

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The Davis Center Fellows Program at Harvard University is now accepting applications for 2012-2013. Online info session, Thursday, December 1, 2 p.m. EST Register by emailing Robyn Angley (rangley(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:rangley@fas.harvard.edu>) by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 30. The Fellows Program brings together scholars at early and later stages in their careers to consider a common theme spanning the social sciences and humanities. The program is coordinated by faculty from across Harvard University whose research interests include aspects of the selected theme. In 2012-2013, the Fellows Program will be coordinated by Professors Tim Colton (Government) and Serhii Plokhii (History). The theme for 2012-2013 is "Imperial Legacies and International Politics in the Post-Soviet Space." Areas to be explored under this theme include history, identity issues, security, political economy, and regime building in Russia, Ukraine, and other countries of the region. Other topics of interest include social and cultural factors such as migration, public health, religion, organized crime, environmental degradation, popular culture, and the mass media. In addition to pursuing their own research, Fellows will participate in a bi-weekly interdisciplinary seminar series that will explore the theme. Papers will be presented by the visiting Fellows, Harvard faculty, and invited outside speakers. For more detailed information on the Fellows Program, and opportunities to apply for regional, postdoctoral, and senior fellowships, please visit the Davis Center web site, http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu. Note that scholars whose work does not address the annual theme may still apply for fellowships at the Davis Center; their applications will receive full consideration. --- 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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Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Petro Jacyk Memorial Symposium: 11/30/2011

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Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Petro Jacyk Memorial Symposium "Politics of History: Collective Memory and Media Representations of Ukrainians Displaced by World War II" Marta Dyczok, Associate Professor, Departments of History and Political Science, University of Western Ontario; Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University Vladyslav Hrynevych, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Associate Professor, National University of "Kyiv Mohyla Academy" Andriy Kulykov, Journalist and Media Specialist; Host, "Freedom of Speech with Andriy Kulykov" television program (ICTV channel, Ukraine) November 30, 4-6 PM Lee Public Gathering Room 1730 Cambridge Street, S-030 CGIS South For more information: http://www.huri.harvard.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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Speaker Addition: 12/5/2011 Hokkaido Roundtable

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Please note the following roundtable speaker addition: Monday, December 5 Hokkaido Roundtable Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Political Mobilization: Non-titular Nations versus Titular Nations in the Former Soviet Republics "Concord or Division? The Unexpectedly Underwhelming Role of Ethnicity in Russian Politics, 1991-2011" Dmitry Gorenburg, Senior Analyst, CNA Strategic Studies; Center Associate, Davis Center "Political Mobilization and Framing: Ethno-National, Ethno-Territorial, and Economic Movements" Cynthia S. Kaplan, Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of Political Science of University of California, Santa Barbara "Ethnic Political Mobilization: An Integrative or Disintegrative Force in the Modern Polity? Case-studies of Political Mobilization by Non-titular Nations in Moldova, Estonia and Lithuania" Keiji Sato, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Research Fellow, Slavic Research Center of Hokkaido University "Avoiding 'Transdniestr North': Reflections on Non-Titular Ethnic Mobilization in North-East Estonia since 1990" David J. Smith, Professor of Baltic History and Politics, Central and East European Studies of Glasgow University 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. --- 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, December 1-15, 2011

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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar Calendar December 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, December 2 Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics and Society Working Group, Center for European Studies "Reflections on 20 Years of East-West Collaboration: The Network of East-West Women in New York and Poland, 1991-2011" Ann Snitow, Director, Gender Studies Program and Associate Professor of Literature and Gender Studies, The New School 1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450 2:00-3:30 p.m. Monday, December 5 Hokkaido Roundtable Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Political Mobilization: Non-titular Nations versus Titular Nations in the Former Soviet Republics "Avoiding 'Transdniestr North': Reflections on Non-Titular Ethnic Mobilization in North-East Estonia since 1990" David J. Smith, Professor of Baltic History and Politics, Central and East European Studies of Glasgow University "Political Mobilization and Framing: Ethno-National, Ethno-Territorial, and Economic Movements" Cynthia S. Kaplan, Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of Political Science of University of California, Santa Barbara "Concord or Division? The Unexpectedly Underwhelming Role of Ethnicity in Russian Politics, 1991-2011" Dmitry Gorenburg, Senior Analyst, CNA Strategic Studies; Center Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 6 Cold War Studies Seminar "Poland, Solidarity, and Martial Law, 1980-1981: A Thirty-Year Retrospective" Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University Robert Kupiecki, Ambassador of Poland to the United States of America Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University; Associate, Davis Center Thomas W. Simons Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; U.S. Foreign Service Officer 1963-1998; Former Ambassador to Poland and Pakistan 1737 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room K354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 6 Exhibition Opening Co-sponsored by the Kosciuszko Foundation "Poland, Solidarity, and Martial Law, 1980-1981: A 30-Year Retrospective, featuring photographs and other items from Harvard's Jerzy and Olenka Polak Collection" 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse 2:15-3:15 p.m. Exhibition runs December 6, 2011 to January 17, 2012 Tuesday, December 6 Historian's Seminar "Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941" (Oxford University Press, 2011) Michael David-Fox, Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet History, Georgetown University 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. --- 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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Dear Colleagues, This is a reminder... If you are interested in attending any or all of the upcoming Conference on the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora on November 13-15 and haven't already done so, please register by clicking on this link: Diaspora Conference RSVP<https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/P3JVLSB> Even if you are not absolutely sure which panels you will attend, we would appreciate your signing up in advance so we can get a general sense of the numbers. Please note that the software does not allow us to acknowledge your registration, but rest assured we will get your response. Looking forward to seeing you there. Best regards, Lis Tarlow --- 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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November event reminders

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Please note the following event reminders: 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. A light lunch will be served. 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 Roundtable discussion: "THE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING JEWISH IMMIGRANTS: IMPRESSIONS FROM THE FIELD" The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University presents a discussion examining the impact of a modern day Jewish Diaspora, November 13, 2011 The Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University announces a roundtable discussion that will examine the impact of the contemporary Russian-speaking Jewish Diaspora on the cultural, social, and political life in the countries of its largest presence, as well as the countries from which it emigrated. A roundtable discussion, "The Russian-Speaking Jewish Immigrants: Impressions from the Field," will be held on Sunday, November 13, 7:30-9:30pm at Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS-South), 1730 Cambridge Street, in the Tsai Auditorium, Room S-010. The panel will be introduced by Terry Martin, George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies and Director of the Davis Center, and moderated by conference Co-Chair, Zvi Gitelman, Professor of Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Specialists will discuss how this contemporary Diaspora has changed the societies in general, and the Jewish communities in particular of the sending and receiving countries. Discussants include Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, Chief Rabbi of Moscow and President of the Conference on European Rabbis; Barry Shrage, President of Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Boston; Sergei Lagodinsky, Fellow at the Global Policy Institute in Berlin; and Vladimir Khanin, Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Immigrant Absorption and Senior Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University. This event is free and open to the public. For further information about the Roundtable Discussion, contact: Matt Weinberg, Project Coordinator 617-496-9536 mweinberg(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:mweinberg@fas.harvard.edu> 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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Seminar Calendar, November 16-30, 2011

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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar Calendar November 16-30, 2011 For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>. Wednesday, November 30 Co-sponsored by the Cold War Studies Seminar and the Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies "Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life" (Jewish Lives Series, Yale University Press, 2011) Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International USA; 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. --- 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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Films from and about Hungary at the Boston Jewish Film Festival (November 2-13)

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Attached please find information on films from and about Hungary that will be screened at the Boston Jewish Film Festival. Feel free to forward this information to others who may be interested. --- 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<http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/>

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