DavisCenter-list February 2012

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2/29 Cold War Studies Seminar reminder + 2/29 Russian and East European Jewish Studies Seminar location and time change

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Please note the following seminar reminder: Wednesday, February 29 Comparative Economics Seminar Co-sponsored by the Cold War Studies Seminar, Davis Center and the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, Harvard Kennedy School "NATO's Relations with Russia" Todor Churov, Bulgarian Ambassador to NATO 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Please note the following seminar room and time change: Wednesday, February 29 Modern Jewish Worlds Workshop, Jews in East European Cities Series Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies; Russian and East European Jewish Studies Seminar at the Davis Center; Study Group on Jews in Modern Europe at the Center for European Studies; and the Ukrainian Research Center "'A Russian Zion,' or a Jewish Nightmare?: Jewish Life in Tsarist Kiev" Natan Meir, Lorry I. Lokey Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies, Portland State University 1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450 6:15-8:00 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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3/9/12 Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group with Elena Dmitrieva

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Please note the following addition to the seminar calendar: Friday, March 9 Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics and Society Working Group, Center for European Studies "Use of Mobile Technologies to Promote Reproductive and Public Health in the Russian Federation" Elena Dmitrieva, Director, Health and Development Foundation (HDF) 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153 2:00-3:30 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, March 1-15, 2012

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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar Calendar March 1-15, 2012 For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>. Thursday, March 1 Informing Eurasia Seminar "Colonial Knowledge and late Imperial Settlement of the Central Asian Steppe" Ian Campbell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center 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. Friday, March 2 Symposium on the Contemporary Caucasus Roundtable: History and Memory / 12:15-2:00 p.m. Chair: John Schoeberlein, Harvard University Tea Kamushadze, Tbilisi State University, "Placing the Industrial City of Rustavi in the National History of Georgia" Medo Badashvili, Tbilisi State University, "Muslim Women's Identity Issues in Post-Soviet Georgia" Nadia Proulx, University of Montreal, "Subversive Literature and Ambiguous Moralities in North Ossetia Alania" Krista Goff, University of Michigan, "Ethnic Minorities and the (post-)Soviet Azerbaijani National Imagination" Roundtable: Building State Capacity/ 2:30-4:45 p.m. Chair: Robyn Angley, Harvard University, "Georgia's Over-Qualified Opposition: Parliamentary, Extra-Parliamentary, Pro-Western, Pro-Russian, and More" Simon Payaslian, Boston University, "Perilous Sovereignty: Human Rights in Armenia" Thomas De Waal, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "Dilemmas of State/Society Engagement in the South Caucasus" Julie George, CUNY Queens College, "State-building, Ideology and Legitimacy in Georgia" Stephen Jones, Mt. Holyoke College, "Georgia's Democracy: What's Working and What's Not" Lasha Tschantouridze, Norwich University, "Peace and State Capacity in Georgia" Film Screening: "Mimino" (Georgia, 1977) / 6:00-8:00 p.m. 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room) This event is open to the public but seating is limited, so RSVP to lbeshear(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:lbeshear@fas.harvard.edu> by Wednesday, February 29 if you plan to attend. Friday, March 2 Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics and Society Working Group, Center for European Studies "Women's Holidays in Early Soviet-Western Ideological Struggles: International Women's Day and Mother's Day" Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor Emerita, The Union Institute and University 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153 2:00-3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 8 Comparative Politics Seminar "Did the Color Revolutions Really Happen? Regime Evolution in the Former Soviet Union 2002-2010" Lincoln Mitchell, Associate Research Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Friday, March 9 Early Slavists' Seminar "Grass: Ecology, Productivity, and Civilization on the Western Steppe" Cherie Woodworth, Independent Scholar, Center for Comparative Research, Yale University; Center Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 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. --- 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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Symposium on the Contemporary Caucasus, Harvard University, March 2 2012 (RSVP required)

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The Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard University) will present a symposium on the contemporary Caucasus, Friday, March 2, 2012 from noon until 8:00 p.m. The symposium will take place in the Belfer Case Study Room (room S020) at the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), located at 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge. *** The event is open to the public but seating is limited, so please RSVP to lbeshear(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:lbeshear@fas.harvard.edu> by Wednesday, February 29 if you plan to attend. *** The symposium will feature two roundtables: "History and Memory" and "Building State Capacity." There will be an informal reception following the second panel and a film in the evening ("Mimino," a Soviet-era comedy by Georgian director Georgiy Daneliya). Schedule 12:00-12:15 Welcome and introductions - Dr. Laura Adams, Director, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Harvard University 12:15-2:00 Roundtable: History and Memory Chair: John Schoeberlein, Harvard University Tea Kamushadze, Tbilisi State University, "Placing the Industrial City of Rustavi in the National History of Georgia" Medo Badashvili, Tbilisi State University, "Muslim Women's Identity Issues in Post-Soviet Georgia" Nadia Proulx, University of Montreal, "Subversive Literature and Ambiguous Moralities in North Ossetia Alania" Krista Goff, University of Michigan, "Ethnic Minorities and the (post-)Soviet Azerbaijani National Imagination" 2:00-2:30 Coffee break 2:30-4:45 Roundtable: Building State Capacity Chair: Robyn Angley, Harvard University, "Georgia's Over-Qualified Opposition: Parliamentary, Extra-Parliamentary, Pro-Western, Pro-Russian, and More" Simon Payaslian, Boston University, "Perilous Sovereignty: Human Rights in Armenia" Thomas De Waal, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "Dilemmas of State/Society Engagement in the South Caucasus" Julie George, CUNY Queens College, "State-building, Ideology and Legitimacy in Georgia" Stephen Jones, Mt. Holyoke College, "Georgia's Democracy: What's Working and What's Not" Lasha Tschantouridze, Norwich University, "Peace and State Capacity in Georgia" 5:00-6:00 Reception 6:00-8:00 Film, "Mimino" (Georgia, 1977) --- 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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REMINDER: 2/22/12 Book Talk and Discussion: New Voices in Russian Literature

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[cid:image001.jpg@01CCF07B.CA1F6300] New Voices in Russian Literature: Finalists for Russia's Debut Literary Prize Share Their Work Wednesday, February 22, 2012 Book talk and discussion: 5:00-6:30pm Reception: 6:30-7:30pm The book talk and discussion will be conducted in both Russian and English. A new generation of Russian writers visits Harvard: Young authors, including finalists for Russia's Debut Prize, will read their work and discuss art and freedom in today's Russia. This is a critical juncture in the history of Russia-the Perestroika and post-Soviet generations are being displaced by a new generation for which the USSR is mere history. Theirs is a complex new Russia, which they strive to represent in their literary works. For over a decade, the Debut Prize has sought out young Russian-speaking literary talent the world over. Receiving as many as 70,000 submissions annually, Debut is a landmark in the Russian literary scene. Participants at the talk will include: Olga Slavnikova, Debut Prize coordinator; author of 2017, winner of the Russian Booker Prize Dmitry Biryukov, author of Uritsky Street. Irina Bogatyreva, author of Off the Beaten Track. Alisa Ganieva, author of Salam, Dalgat! Igor Savelyev, author of Pale City. Moderated by Adam Ragusea, Reporter, WBUR-FM Event Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Belfer Case Study Room (S020) This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Causa Artium --- 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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Belfer Center Seminar with David Greene - February 21

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Belfer Center Seminar with David Greene, Morning Programming Host and Correspondent, NPR on "Today's Russia" Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 Time: 2:00-3:00PM Place: Belfer Center Library (L369) POSITIVE RSVP ONLINE ONLY: http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/greene.html<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=lj1i,ueqd,ck3,66y8,mezy,lx7y,fn2q&MLM…> The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs will host a Director's Lunch with NPR's Morning Programming Host and Correspondent, David Greene, in the Belfer Center Library (L369). For the past two years Greene has been NPR's Moscow correspondent, covering the countries of Eastern Europe and Russia from the Baltics to the Pacific. During that time he brought listeners stories as wide ranging as Chernobyl 25 years later and Beatles-singing Russian babushkas. He delivers a seldom seen view of Russia from beyond the Kremlin and Moscow, having finished his assignment by crossing Russia on the Trans-Siberian railroad. Greene's voice became familiar to NPR listeners during his four years covering the White House. In 2008, Greene was given the White House Correspondents Association Merriman Smith award for his coverage of the presidency. During the uprising in Libya last year, Greene took time away from Moscow to spend a month in Libya reporting as NATO bombs fell on Tripoli. For that coverage he was honored with the 2011 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize. David Greene graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1998, where among other achievements he was the senior editor on the Harvard Crimson. RSVP REQUIRED! http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/events/greene.html<http://www.elabs7.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=lj1i,ueqd,ck3,jpl,fqpv,lx7y,fn2q&MLM_…> As space is limited for this event, RSVPs will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. Belfer Center Seminars are strictly off-the-record. By indicating your desire to attend the Seminar, you agree that you will comply with the Belfer Center's strict policy against recording or disclosing the contents of the seminar. Your access is conditioned on your compliance with these restrictions. Should you violate these rules, the Center will pursue all available legal options and you will be excluded from all future events. [http://www.elabs7.com/images/mlopen_post.html?rtr=on&siteid=1004454&mid=141…]

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Reminder: upcoming seminars

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Please note the following upcoming seminar reminders: Friday, February 10 SSRC Webinar and Discussion "By the Numbers: Quantitative Data Sources in Eurasian Studies" Topics include: Data Availability and Access Linking Available Data to Research Questions The Importance of Engaging with Quantitative Data Training Opportunities Cynthia Buckley, Program Director, SSRC; IC2, University of Texas at Austin Nicole Butkovich Kraus, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ani Sarkissian, Political Science, Michigan State University Christopher Whitsel, Sociology, North Dakota State University 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153 2:00-4:00 p.m. Monday, February 13 Literature and Culture Seminar The Free World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) David Bezmozgis, Lisa Goldberg Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; writer and filmmaker 12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Kresge Room (Room 114) 5:00-6:30 p.m. Click here<http://www.bezmozgis.com/freeworld.html> for more information about the book. Tuesday, February 14 Cold War Studies Seminar "Soviet-Japanese Conflicts after World War II and the Legacy Today" David Wolff, Professor of Russian History, University of Hokkaido Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 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. --- 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, February 10-29, 2012

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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar Calendar February 10-29, 2012 For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>. Friday, February 10 SSRC Webinar and Discussion "By the Numbers: Quantitative Data Sources in Eurasian Studies" Topics include: Data Availability and Access Linking Available Data to Research Questions The Importance of Engaging with Quantitative Data Training Opportunities Cynthia Buckley, Program Director, SSRC; IC2, University of Texas at Austin Nicole Butkovich Kraus, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Ani Sarkissian, Political Science, Michigan State University Christopher Whitsel, Sociology, North Dakota State University 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153 2:00-4:00 p.m. Thursday, February 16 Informing Eurasia Seminar "Translation as Information Channeling: The Soviet Case" Maria Khotimsky, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center 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. Friday, February 17 Film Screening Co-sponsored by the Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group "BALKA" (2010, 36 minutes, Russian with English subtitles) Film screening will be followed by a conversation with the producer, Sophie Pinkham Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLHlPqJ6e0E For more information: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1720868/ and https://www.facebook.com/pages/BALKA/338397962554 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room) 12:15-2:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 21 Historians' Seminar "How to Reconceptualize Imperial Russian History in a Eurasian Context" John P. LeDonne, Independent Scholar; Center Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 22 Special Event Co-sponsored by Causa Artium "New Voices in Russian Literature: Finalists for Russia's Debut Literary Prize Share Their Work" A new generation of Russian writers visits Harvard: Young authors, including finalists for Russia's Debut Prize, will read their work and discuss art and freedom in today's Russia. This is a critical juncture in the history of Russia-the Perestroika and post-Soviet generations are being displaced by a new generation for which the USSR is mere history. Theirs is a complex new Russia, which they strive to represent in their literary works. For over a decade, the Debut Prize has sought out young Russian-speaking literary talent the world over. Receiving as many as 70,000 submissions annually, Debut is a landmark in the Russian literary scene. Participants at the talk will include: Olga Slavnikova, Debut Prize coordinator; author of 2017, winner of the Russian Booker Prize Dmitry Biryukov, author of Uritsky Street. Irina Bogatyreva, author of Off the Beaten Track. Alisa Ganieva, author of Salam, Dalgat! Igor Savelyev, author of Pale City. Moderated by Adam Ragusea, Reporter, WBUR-FM The book talk and discussion will feature both spoken English and Russian. This event is free and open to the public. 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room) Book talk: 5:00-6:30 p.m. Reception: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 23 A conversation with Luke Harding, Senior International Correspondent and former Moscow Bureau Chief, The Guardian; author of "Russia: the Mafia State" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 29 Comparative Economics Seminar Co-sponsored by the Cold War Studies Seminar "NATO's Relations with Russia" Todor Churov, Bulgarian Ambassador to NATO 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 29 Modern Jewish Worlds Workshop, Jews in East European Cities Series Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies; Russian and East European Jewish Studies Seminar at the Davis Center; Study Group on Jews in Modern Europe at the Center for European Studies; and the Ukrainian Research Center "'A Russian Zion,' or a Jewish Nightmare?: Jewish Life in Tsarist Kiev" Natan Meir, Lorry I. Lokey Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies, Portland State 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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2/22/12 Book Talk and Discussion: New Voices in Russian Literature

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[cid:image002.jpg@01CCDA8A.A0A45CD0] New Voices in Russian Literature: Finalists for Russia's Debut Literary Prize Share Their Work Wednesday, February 22, 2012 Book talk and discussion: 5:00-6:30pm Reception: 6:30-7:30pm The book talk and discussion will be conducted in both Russian and English. A new generation of Russian writers visits Harvard: Young authors, including finalists for Russia's Debut Prize, will read their work and discuss art and freedom in today's Russia. This is a critical juncture in the history of Russia-the Perestroika and post-Soviet generations are being displaced by a new generation for which the USSR is mere history. Theirs is a complex new Russia, which they strive to represent in their literary works. For over a decade, the Debut Prize has sought out young Russian-speaking literary talent the world over. Receiving as many as 70,000 submissions annually, Debut is a landmark in the Russian literary scene. Participants at the talk will include: Olga Slavnikova, Debut Prize coordinator; author of 2017, winner of the Russian Booker Prize Dmitry Biryukov, author of Uritsky Street. Irina Bogatyreva, author of Off the Beaten Track. Alisa Ganieva, author of Salam, Dalgat! Igor Savelyev, author of Pale City. Moderated by Adam Ragusea, Reporter, WBUR-FM Event Location: 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Belfer Case Study Room (S020) This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and Causa Artium --- 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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The Singing Revolution - Screening & Choral Performance in Lexington, MA

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[http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/2/a/b/2abba9983c/0126c8d11f/b16030…] Dear TSR Friends: We want to inform you of a special screening of The Singing Revolution and chroal performance in Lexington, MA on Sunday, February 12, at 3:00 pm, presented by the Lexington High School Choruses. Please help spread the word! The event is a fundraiser for their upcoming concert tour of Sweden, Finland and Estonia. Filmmakers James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty will be present for the screening to introduce the film, talk about the journey of making the documentary and to take audience questions and feedback. Lexington High School Choruses will perform Estonian choral selections, and 50 guests may opt for a special ticket which will include a catered reception with the filmmakers. 3:00 - 5:30pm Film screening, Q&A session and mini-concert 6:30 - 7:30pm Reception with filmmakers, James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty Tickets can be purchased by contacting Elise Rowley at singingrevolutionlhs(a)gmail.com<mailto:singingrevolutionlhs@gmail.com> Lexington High School 251 Waltham Street Lexington, MA 02421 $5 students $12 adults $30 film screening and reception (limited to 50 participants) We'd love to see you there, but even if you can't make it please help spread the word about this special event. Thank You! Maureen & James Tusty The Singing Revolution Filmmakers DVDs, BOOK & MUSIC AVAILABLE AT: www.singingrevolution.com<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?MountainViewProducti/0126c8d11f/d624133b0f/aa315785…> --- 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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