Please note the following seminar TOMORROW!
Thursday, April 28
Cold War Studies Seminar
"The Origins of China's 'Independent' Foreign Policy, 1978-1982"
Sergey Radchenko, Assistant Professor of History, University of Nottingham (Ningbo campus)
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
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Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.495.4037
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http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Please see below for an opportunity that may be of interest:
Next Tuesday, May 3, Professor Jason Vuic, an assistant professor of history from Bridgewater College, will be visiting the HBS campus to present a seminar for the Marketing Unit faculty and doctoral students. Professor Vuic is a specialist in the history of former Yugoslavia. He has served as the Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia; a Fulbright Scholar at the Institute for Ethnology and Folkore Research at the University of Zagreb, Croatia; the Assistant Director of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at Ohio State University; and the organizer of the Midwest Slavic Conference. At his seminar he will speak about his first book, The Yugo: the Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History, released in March 2010 (introduction attached). The seminar will be held from 3:30-5:00 in Baker Library 103 on the HBS campus*. Professor Vuic will also be available for individual visits in the afternoon and evening of May 3. If you are interested in meeting with him at any of the times below please let me know.
Thank you!
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
12:00 Lunch with Doctoral Students:
1:15-1:45
1:45-2:30
2:30-3:15
3:30-5:00 Seminar in Baker Library 103
5:15-6:00
6:00 Dinner
*Baker Library 103 is available only with HBS ID card access. Please let me know ahead of time if you plan to attend and I will watch the door for you. (I will also provide directions to the door that I will be watching.)
Katharine L. Randel<http://www.people.hbs.edu/krandel/>
Unit Coordinator, Marketing Unit<http://www.hbs.edu/units/marketing/>
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
T: 617-495-6009
F: 617-496-5853
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Laura Beshears
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.496.9536
F 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Dear Faculty, Staff and Students-
The Outreach Program at the Davis Center is pleased to announce a one-day workshop commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The workshop will feature lectures devoted to the political, historical and ecological consequences of the disaster, as well as comparisons between the event in Chernobyl and the recent nuclear disaster in Japan (for more details, please see complete agenda below). The workshop is free and open to the public. Full day attendance is not required. RSVPs are also not required, but are appreciated.
Workshop, Chernobyl: 25 Years Later
Sponsored by the Davis Center Outreach Program
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
9am--4pm
1730 Cambridge Street, S450
9:00-9:30 AM Welcome and Introductions
Cris Martin, Davis Center
9:30-11:00 AM Lecture: History of the Chernobyl Disaster
Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University
11:00-11:15 AM Break
11:15-12:45 PM Lecture: Ecological Consequences of Chernobyl Disaster
Paul Josephson, Professor of History and Chair, Colby College
12:45-1:30 PM Lunch Break
1:30-2:30 PM Lecture: Chernobyl's Impact on Local Life and Politics
Tammy Lynch, Independent Researcher
2:30-4:00 PM Lecture & Discussion: Nuclear Power in the 21st Century
Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government
5:00-7:00 PM Opening Reception: Photo Exhibit, "...the day the Ferris wheel stood still..."
Tania D'Avignon, Photographer
The exhibit, sponsored by Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute, will be held in Fischer Commons in the Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA.
For more information about this workshop, please contact Cris Martin at clmartin(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:clmartin@fas.harvard.edu>
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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, April 28
Cold War Studies Seminar
"The Origins of China's 'Independent' Foreign Policy, 1978-1982"
Sergey Radchenko, Assistant Professor of History, University of Nottingham (Ningbo campus)
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
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
May 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, May 3
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Cars and Commissars. Everyday Practices of Elite Mobility in Communist Hungary, 1956-1980."
György Péteri, Professor of Contemporary European History, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, May 4
Cold War Studies Seminar
"The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan: A Long Goodbye"
Artemy Kalinovsky, Assistant Professor of History, University of Amsterdam
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Friday, May 6
Historians' Seminar
"Minarets after Marx: Gender, Islam and the Headscarf Debate in Postsocialist Bulgaria"
Kristen Ghodsee, Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Friday, May 13
Early Slavists' Seminar
"The Adventure of the Dancing Men: Professor Ševčenko's Theory of the Origin of Glagolitic"
Olga Strakhov, Independent Scholar
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250
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.
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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 following seminar has been cancelled:
Tuesday, April 26
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Dealing with a Communist Dictatorship: U.S. Policy and the Softening of Soviet-Style Rule"
László Borhi, Visiting Professor of History, Indiana University; Senior Fellow, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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
Dear Faculty, Staff and Students-
Please join us for today's special events!
Friday, April 15, 2011
Davis Center Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies
Opening Remarks / 1:00 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Terry Martin, Director, Davis Center; George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University
Panel I / 1:15-2:45 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Svetlana Dotsenko, Harvard College, State Capacity, Political Commitment, and Health: A Comparative Study of Tuberculosis in Post-Soviet States, 1990-2009
Annemarie Hanson, Wheaton College, The "War of Memories:" Post-World War II Observations in Russian-Estonian Ethnicity Expectations and Geopolitical Relations
Paul Sawyier, Harvard College, Extremism and Neo-Nazism in Russia, 1990s to Present
Alena Svobodova, Wheaton College, The Terrorism in the Caucasus and Its Influence on the Russo-Georgian Relations
Alex Welles, Wheaton College, The Soviets and Weimar: Rearmament and Revolution
Chair: Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University
Panel II / 3:00-4:15 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Beth Bryant, Wellesley College, Abortion in the Soviet Union
Ivana Djak, Harvard College, Women's Organizations in Post-Conflict Periods: The State and Nationalism in the Balkans
Erin Ryan, Wheaton College, Conflict, Peace, and Nongovernmental Actors in Nagorno-Karabakh
Kaitlin Terry, Harvard College, Milada Horáková: A Story of Past and Present
Alice Underwood, Harvard College, Rights on Parade: The Russian LGBT Community's March toward Equality
Chair: Jeanne Wilson, Professor of Political Science, Wheaton College
Panel III / 4:30-5:45 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Jordan Bryant, Harvard College, Russia's Appian Way: How the Classics Shaped Imperial Identity from Peter I to Alexander I
Anne Burke, Wellesley College, Examining the Igor Tale and Its Authenticity
Jessica Flakne, Harvard College, The Role of Religion in the Thought of T.G. Masaryk: An Inquiry into the Implications of Religion on Theories of Democracy and Nationalism
Danielle Guillette, Harvard College, Perceptions and Realities: Solidarity through the Lens of Media and the Soviet Politburo
Aseem Shukla, Harvard College, Spoken Identities: Trends of Language Choice in the Ukrainian Parliament
Chair: Thomas Hodge, Professor of Russian, Wellesley College
Friday, April 15, 2011
Images of Eternal and Evolving Eurasia
Photography Exhibition Opening
Student photographers from Harvard, Wellesley and Wheaton
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level
5:45-6:45 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
Dear Faculty, Staff and Students-
Please join us for a very special event!
We are pleased to announce that Slavenka Drakulić -noted Croatian journalist, essayist and novelist-will be at the Davis Center today to discuss her new book, A Guided Tour through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, & a Raven. In his review of the book in The New republic, Tim Snyder argues "...Slavenka Drakulić summons her own group of animals, each with its own literary genre, and each with a story to tell about life in a communist country... these stories are not really fables (despite the subtitle's promise) because the animals do not reveal the problems of human nature through their own actions, foolish or wise. Instead they are there to instruct us, and what they are all saying, in their different ways, is: remember. At bottom this book is the work of a very gifted novelist who is using every imaginable trick, and some fairly unimaginable ones, to help us recall what seems like the very recent past."
To learn more about this new work, please attend Slavenka's book talk today (details below). Please share this announcement with your (current and former) students and colleagues as it's sure to be of interest to many.
Thursday, April 14
Book Talk
Sponsored by the Davis Center Outreach Program
A Guided Tour through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, & a Raven
Slavenka Drakulić, Author
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room)
4:00-6:00 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
Dear Faculty, Staff and Students-
Please join us for a very special event!
We are pleased to announce that Slavenka Drakulić -noted Croatian journalist, essayist and novelist-will be at the Davis Center today to discuss her new book, A Guided Tour through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, & a Raven. In his review of the book in The New republic, Tim Snyder argues "...Slavenka Drakulić summons her own group of animals, each with its own literary genre, and each with a story to tell about life in a communist country... these stories are not really fables (despite the subtitle's promise) because the animals do not reveal the problems of human nature through their own actions, foolish or wise. Instead they are there to instruct us, and what they are all saying, in their different ways, is: remember. At bottom this book is the work of a very gifted novelist who is using every imaginable trick, and some fairly unimaginable ones, to help us recall what seems like the very recent past."
To learn more about this new work, please attend Slavenka's book talk today (details below). Please share this announcement with your (current and former) students and colleagues as it's sure to be of interest to many.
Friday, April 14
Book Talk
Sponsored by the Davis Center Outreach Program
A Guided Tour through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, & a Raven
Slavenka Drakulić, Author
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room)
4:00-6:00 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