MY PERESTROIKA
Coolidge Corner Theatre
Opens Friday, April 8
Special screening with filmmaker Robin Hessman in attendance, Sunday, April 10 at 3pm
In Russian with English subtitles
Robin Hessman’s intimate and lovingly crafted feature documentary My Perestroika tells the stories of five ordinary Russians, from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia. Together, these five childhood classmates paint a complex picture of the hopes, dreams and disillusionment of those raised behind the Iron Curtain. Through candid first-person testimony, revealing verité footage, and vintage home movies, Hessman, who spent many years living in Moscow, reveals a Russia rarely seen on film, where people speak frankly about their lives and country. Engaging, funny, and inspiring, in My Perestroika politics is personal, honesty overshadows ideology, and history progresses one day and one life at a time.
Since premiering at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, My Perestroika has screened at some of the world’s top documentary festivals, including Full Frame, where it won the Filmmaker Award, Silverdocs, where it won the Special Jury Award, and the prestigious New Directors/New Films, a collaboration between the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art.
Tickets for the daily run of My Perestroika and for the April 10th special screening with the director in attendance are now on sale. For more information and advance tickets, visit www.coolidge.org/content/my-perestroika/<http://www.coolidge.org/content/my-perestroika/>. Tickets are also available at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard Street, Brookline.
About the Filmmaker
Robin Hessman graduated from Brown University with a dual degree in Russian and Film. She received her graduate degree in Film Directing from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow (with a “red diploma” of honors). During her eight years living in Russia, Hessman worked for the Children’s Television Workshop as the on-site producer of Ulitsa Sezam, the original Russian-language Sesame Street. She is a Center Associate of Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Since 2006, she has served as the Director of Documentary Programming for Amfest, the American Film Festival in Moscow.
Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia
Master's Thesis Presentations
Thursday, March 31
CGIS South, Room S153
12:00 noon to 3:30 p.m.
12:00 Christina Krushen: Juggling Public Opinion at the Yalta Conference
12:30 Michael Van Landingham: Leninist in Form, Islamist in Content: The All-Union Islamic Renaissance Party, 1990-1994
1:00 Stephanie Plant: Skolkovo Innovation Center and the Triple Helix System
1:30 Samuel Ludwig: Reevaluating "Sovietological Islamology": A Comparison of Islam in Soviet Central Asia and Newly Independent Kyrgyzstan
2:00 Jeff Lugowe: Nationality and National "Indifferents" in Inter-War Teschen Silesia
2:30 Kerry Eickholt: The National Priority Project on Housing: An Examination of State-Society Relations in Post-Soviet Russia
3:00 Joseph Livesey: The Famine on the Ground: Local Governance in Ukraine, 1932-1933
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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 canceled:
Tuesday, March 29
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Charles de Gaulle and the Arab-Israeli Crisis of May-June 1967: A Reassessment"
Gadi Heimann, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Apologies for the very late notice
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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 change in time to the following seminar:
Tuesday, March 29
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Charles de Gaulle and the Arab-Israeli Crisis of May-June 1967: A Reassessment"
Gadi Heimann, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Please note the following addition to the seminar calendar:
Tuesday, March 29
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Stalin and the Fate of Germany after World War II: Debate and Reassessments"
Peter Ruggenthaler, Senior Research Fellow, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Study of War's Consequences
Ol'ga Pavlenko, Professor of Political Science, Russian State Humanities University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 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
April 1-15, 2011
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.
Tuesday, April 5
Davis Center Inaugural Seminar in the History of Art and Architecture
"Against 'Totalitarian Art'"
Christina Kiaer, Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Friday, April 8
Early Slavists' Roundtable Discussion
Book launch for Portraits of Old Russia
Peter B. Brown, Rhode Island College
Michael S. Flier, Harvard University
Hugh Olmsted, Harvard University
Lawrence Langer, University of Connecticut
Russell E. Martin, Westminster College
Donald Ostrowski, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 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
Please note the change in time to the following seminar:
Tuesday, March 29
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Charles de Gaulle and the Arab-Israeli Crisis of May-June 1967: A Reassessment"
Gadi Heimann, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Please note the following addition to the seminar calendar:
Tuesday, March 29
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Stalin and the Fate of Germany after World War II: Debate and Reassessments"
Peter Ruggenthaler, Senior Research Fellow, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the Study of War's Consequences
Ol'ga Pavlenko, Professor of Political Science, Russian State Humanities University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 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
The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard presents
Svetlana Boym
Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature at Harvard University
on
Another Freedom:
The Alternative History of an Idea
With a response by
Peter Gordon
Professor of History at Harvard University
Tuesday, March 29, 2011 @ 5 pm
Harvard Hall, Room 202
Seating is limited.
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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
Center for History and Economics Seminar
"Family Forms and Economic Development: Evidence from Imperial Russia"
Tracy Dennison
Associate Professor of Social Science History, California Institute of Technology
Date: March 30, 2011
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St., Room K354
Open to the public
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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
You are invited to attend:
Thursday, March 24, 2011
"Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?"
Jan Svejnar, Everett E. Berg Professor of Business Administration, Director of the International Policy Center, and Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan
Harvard Business School, Aldrich 209
3:30 p.m.
Please find his paper attached.
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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 addition to the seminar calendar:
Thursday, March 24
Literature and Culture Seminar
"Numbers, Logic, and OBERIU"
Eugene Ostashevsky, Ph.D, Master Teacher of Liberal Studies Program, New York 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
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.495.4037
F 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu