Please join us for the following 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
Ellen Bryson, Harvard College, Victim and Accomplice: Poland and Italy in the Danube Basin, 1938
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
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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