Dear Faculty, Staff and Students-
Please note a significant change in schedule for this week's Understanding Perestroika workshop, being held Friday and Saturday, May 20-21, 2011. Due to an agreement with the film's distributor, the showing of My Perestroika will NOT be open to the public. Only public school teachers who have pre-registered for the workshop will be able to attend the viewing; the remainder of the lectures associated with the workshop remain open to the public.
Our sincere apologies for the miscommunication. Please feel free to contact davisop(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:davisop@fas.harvard.edu> with any questions.
Cris Martin
Outreach Director
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Dear Faculty, Staff and Students-
The Outreach Program at the Davis Center is pleased to announce a two-day workshop devoted to Understanding Perestroika. The workshop will feature lectures devoted to the political, historical, economic and social consequences of the policy (for more details, please see complete agenda below). The new documentary film, My Perestroika, will be shown as part of the workshop on Friday afternoon. The film's director, Robin Hessman, will be present for discussion.
The workshop is free and open to the public. Full day attendance is not required. RSVPs are also not required, but are appreciated.
Understanding Perestroika
Sponsored by the Davis Center Outreach Program
Friday, May 20 and Saturday, May 21, 2011
8:30am--4pm
1730 Cambridge Street, K262
8:30-9:15 Welcome and Introductions
Cris Martin, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
9:15-10:45 Lecture: A Brief History of Perestroika
Terry Martin, Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Professor of History, Harvard University
10:45-12:15 Lecture: The Economic Consequences of Perestroika
Elizabeth Brainerd, Professor of Economics, Brandeis University
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-4:00 Film and Discussion: My Perestroika
Robin Hessman, Documentarian
Saturday, May 21, 2011__________________________________________________________
9:00-9:30 Welcome and Introductions
Cris Martin, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
9:30-11:00 Lecture: The Political and Historical Consequences of Perestroika
Linda Cook, Professor of Political Science, Brown University
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-12:45 Lecture: Perestroika and the Berlin Wall: A tangible Case Study
TBD
12:45-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Lecture: Charter 77 and Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution--The policy's impact on Eastern Europe
Chandler Rosenberger, Professor of International and Global Studies and Sociology, Brandeis University
3:00-3:45 Resource Session
3:45-4:00 Evaluations
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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 welcome to join
Vladimir Yakunin, CEO Russian Railways
and close ally of Vladimir Putin, for a candid discussion on
RUSSIA - THE CHALLENGES OF TRANSFORMATION
moderated by Prof. Rawi Abdelal, Harvard Business School
Tuesday, May 10, 3pm, Aldrich 107, HBS
If you plan to attend please fill in the poll: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEZnNVBmNmNJYn…
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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 seminar reminders:
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
