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Seminar Calendar, May 1-15, 2012

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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar Calendar May 1-15, 2012 For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>. Tuesday, May 1 Roundtable "Bulgaria's Evolution since 1989: International and Domestic Dimensions" Venelin Ganev, Professor of Political Science, University of Miami Irina Nedeva, Hubert Humphrey Fellow (Fulbright Scholar), University of Maryland Stefan Tafrov, Bulgarian Ambassador to the United Nations Nikolay Valkov, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Chair: Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 1 Seminar "NO BOUNDARIES: An Exploration of Borderless Creativity in the 21st Century through the Music, Poetry and Art of Lera Auerbach" Lera Auerbach, Pianist, Composer and Poet Harvard Department of Music, Paine Hall, Room 9 (Behind the Science Center, located at 1 Oxford Street, in Harvard's North Yard) 4:00-6:00 p.m. Thursday, May 3 Comparative Politics Seminar "State Authority and International Economic Cooperation: Russia's Natural Gas Relations with Turkmenistan" Boris Barkanov, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Friday, May 4 Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics and Society Working Group, Center for European Studies "Nashi devushki: Gender and Youth Activism in Putin's and Medvedev's Russia" Valerie Sperling, Professor of Political Science, Clark University; Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153 2:00-3:30 p.m. Friday, May 11 Early Slavists' Seminar A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia (Northern Illinois University Press, 2012) Russell E. Martin, Professor of History, Westminster College; Co-director, Muscovite Biographical Database, Moscow 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 http://www.facebook.com/DCRES

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Reminder: Tomorrow (5/1/12), 4pm "NO BOUNDARIES" seminar with Lera Auerbach

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Please note the following seminar reminder: Tuesday, May 1 Seminar "NO BOUNDARIES: An Exploration of Borderless Creativity in the 21st Century through the Music, Poetry and Art of Lera Auerbach" Lera Auerbach, Pianist, Composer and Poet Harvard Department of Music, Paine Hall, Room 9 (Behind the Science Center, located at 1 Oxford Street, in Harvard's North Yard) 4:00-6:00 p.m. --- 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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Reminders: 4/27/12 Space Race Workshop and 5/1/12 Seminar with Lera Auerbach

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Please note the following events reminders! For information on upcoming events, please visit our website<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>. *** Spaces still available! *** The Outreach Program at the Davis Center is pleased to announce a one-day workshop devoted to Understanding the Soviet Space Race. The workshop will feature four lectures devoted to the origins and history of the Space Race in the USSR (for more details, please see complete agenda below). The workshop is free and open to the public. Full day attendance is not required, but RSVPs are appreciated. Workshop, Understanding the Soviet Space Race Sponsored by the Davis Center Outreach Program Friday, April 27, 2012 9am--4pm *Note location* 61 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 9:00-9:30 AM Welcome and Introductions Cris Martin, Davis Center 9:30-11:00 AM Lecture: Two Russian Revolutions: Science, Technology, and the Early Soviet State Maya Peterson, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the History of Science, Harvard University 11:00-11:15 AM Break 11:15-12:45 PM Lecture: Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Culture, and the Origins of the Space Race Asif Siddiqi, Associate Professor of History, Fordham University 12:45-1:30 PM Lunch Break 1:30-2:30 PM Lecture: A History of Russian Technology: Is Space an Exception? Loren Graham, Senior Scholar, Davis Center, Harvard University 2:30-3:45 PM Lecture: Soviet Cosmonauts in a Propaganda Machine: The Human Side of a Public Icon Slava Gerovitch, Visiting Scholar, Department of Mathematics, MIT *For more information about this workshop or to RSVP, please contact Cris Martin at clmartin(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:clmartin@fas.harvard.edu>.* Tuesday, May 1 Seminar "NO BOUNDARIES: An Exploration of Borderless Creativity in the 21st Century through the Music, Poetry and Art of Lera Auerbach" Lera Auerbach, Pianist, Composer and Poet Harvard Department of Music, Paine Hall, Room 9 (Behind the Science Center, located at 1 Oxford Street, in Harvard's North Yard) 4:00-6:00 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 http://www.facebook.com/DCRES

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HURI Petryshyn Memorial Lecture 4/19/12 (TODAY)

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The Ukrainian Research Institute invites members of the Harvard community and the general public to the following annual lecture: The Petryshyn Memorial Lecture in Ukrainian Studies The Ukrainian Famine in the History of Genocide [cid:image005.jpg@01CD1CBD.C4FFD670] Norman M. Naimark Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford University Thursday, April 19, 2012 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Lower Level Conference Room Center for European Studies 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA No reserved parking available, but it is just a short walk from the Harvard Square Red Line T-stop. Upcoming HURI Lectures and Presentations of Interest: Unless indicated otherwise, events are held from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in Room S-050 of CGIS Building South. [cid:image003.gif@01CD15D2.B91048A0] Monday April 23 Independent Ukraine 1991 to 2011 Change and Continuity in Ukraine's Foreign Policy Session 1: Theory and Ukraine's Foreign Policy 2:00 to 3:45 PM HURI Library, 34 Kirkland St., Cambridge, MA Session 2: The Making of Ukraine's Foreign Policy 4:15 to 6:00 PM Room 050, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA [cid:image001.gif@01CD15D2.B91048A0] Monday April 30 4 to 6 PM CGIS South Rm. S050 When 'Ordinary People' Join In: Understanding Moments of Mass Mobilization in Argentina (2001), Egypt (2011) and Ukraine (2004) Olga Onuch, Newton Fellow, British Academy and Royal Society, University of Oxford, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Nuffield College [cid:image001.gif@01CD15D2.B91048A0] Monday May 7 4 to 6 PM CGIS South Rm. S050 Russian Opera and Ukrainian Musical Theater in 19th Century Kyiv: A Case Study in Empire-Nation Relations, Cultural Politics and Public Reception Ostap Sereda, Senior Research Fellow, Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv; Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University Program is subject to change. To check for changes to the HURI Seminar schedule, please visit our website: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html Please note: HURI now utilizes Harvard's list server. To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit our list at: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/huri-events-list For further information on HURI events, please contact us at: Tel.: 617-495-4053 Fax: 617-495-8097 E-mail: huri(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:huri@fas.harvard.edu>

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The Harvard Film Archive presents ¡QUÉ VIVA EISENSTEIN! from May 11 - 28, 2012

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THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE PRESENTS ¡QUÉ VIVA EISENSTEIN! May 11 - June 3 CAMBRIDGE, MA: The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to present ¡QUÉ VIVA EISENSTEIN! from FRIDAY MAY 11 through MONDAY MAY 28, 2012 About the filmmaker: Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) has become one of those filmmakers, like D.W. Griffith or Robert Flaherty, more spoken of than seen, in danger of becoming a purely historical figure whose work is mostly experienced only in a classroom setting and even then often in excerpted form. While this is true of many directors who began in the silent era, it is especially unfortunate in Eisenstein's case, because a rich body of work risks getting reduced to one word: "montage." Eisenstein certainly deserves the place reserved for him in the cinematic pantheon as one of the first filmmakers, alongside his Soviet colleagues Pudovkin and Vertov, to unlock the power of editing to bring the cinematic image roaring to life. But he also demonstrated a powerful visual style and a wide-ranging intellect in a truncated career that produced only nine feature films. After a bourgeois childhood, Eisenstein arrived in Moscow in 1920 in the heady days of political and artistic ferment after the revolution. He was involved in designing for the experimental theater of Vsevolod Meyerhold, and a move to filmmaking followed shortly, with his feature debut, Strike, appearing in 1925. Released at the end of that same year, Eisenstein's second film, Battleship Potemkin, rocketed him to international fame. Remaining his best-known work, the film makes a convincing argument for the power of montage. Its portrayal of collective action and eschewal of an individual protagonist brought it praise from the political left worldwide. The problems that would mark the rest of Eisenstein's career began with his very next film, October, about the Russian Revolution. While well-received internationally, the film was much more complex than Potemkin and not as warmly embraced by audiences. This left Eisenstein open to criticism at home that his work was too intellectual and formalist at a time when the movement that would result in the censure and even arrest of so many Soviet avant-garde artists was already beginning. As a result, his next film, Old and New, was re-edited by the authorities. By that time, Eisenstein had already been sent to Western Europe to research sound cinema technology and to act as a cultural ambassador from the Soviet Union. He eventually traveled as far as Los Angeles where his attempts to make a film in Hollywood came to naught. There he did find support for a film about Mexico, but after a year of shooting, funding was withdrawn before the film was completed. Eisenstein was called home by Stalin himself and was never given access to his Mexican footage. This failure haunted Eisenstein for the rest of his life. Back in the Soviet Union, Eisenstein found a film industry kept on a short leash by the government, and he spent much of the 1930s teaching and writing the essays on cinematic form still read by film students today. The one film that he did make in this period, Bezhin Meadow, was immediately shelved by the censors and then destroyed in a bombing raid during World War II. Eisenstein managed a comeback of sorts in 1938 with the nationalist epic Alexander Nevsky. This success led to his being granted permission to make an ambitious trilogy of films on the life of Ivan the Terrible. Eisenstein worked feverishly on the first part during the dark days of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, but with Part Two, he once again ran afoul of Stalin. He was found dead of a heart attack in his Moscow apartment at the age of fifty. Eisenstein was something of a renaissance man; he was extremely well-read and erudite. His writings include voluminous references to a wide variety of artists and to thinkers in all of the human sciences: anthropology, literature, folklore, religion, psychology and history. He seems to have regarded the moving image as a medium that could unite these fields of knowledge and modernize the human fascination for images by channeling powerful religious and sexual impulses. Despite his reputation as a primarily formalist filmmaker, the films contain sexual imagery ranging from the allegorical to the sadomasochistic to the homoerotic. They also exhibit a sly wit and even a terrific draftsmanship; the vividly graphic quality of the images demonstrates Eisenstein's skill at drawing and caricature. This complete retrospective magnificently illustrates Eisenstein's multifaceted work in all its glorious complexity. Film schedule: Strike (Stachka) Friday May 11 at 7pm Eisenstein's first film follows the progress of a workers' strike at a factory in pre-Revolutionary Russia from worker dissatisfaction and organization to a violent denouement. True to Eisenstein's ideological resistance to the reliance on heroic individuals in mainstream cinema, the focus shifts among a number of groups: provocateurs, strikebreaking troops, an arrogant ruling class and of course the workers themselves. To keep his lesson in the rise of the proletariat entertaining, Eisenstein utilizes all number of attention-getting devices or "attractions" - physical action, heart-tugging melodrama, comic and grotesque exaggeration. Thus, Strike not only announces Eisenstein as a master of montage, it also serves as a valentine to his beloved forms of popular theater: the circus and the music hall. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. With Maksim Shtraukh, Ivan Klyukvin, Grigori Alexandrov USSR 1925, 35mm, b/w, silent, 82 min Old and New (Staroye i Novoye) May 11 at 9pm Already faced with mounting criticism of his overly avant-garde tendencies, Eisenstein stepped out of his usual practice by building Old and New around an individual protagonist. Meant to glorify the Soviet practice of merging single farms into large collectives, the film focuses on a young woman who seeks to convince her neighbors that collectivization will benefit them all. Out of potentially dry subject matter, Eisenstein constructs a warmly folkloric film with genuine charm. The film also contains masterful montage sequences and evinces Eisenstein's fascination with the subsistence of the primitive pagan world beneath modernity, a theme that would come to the fore in the plans for his Mexican film. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. With Marfa Lapkina, M. Ivanin, Konstantin Vasilyev USSR 1929, 35mm, b/w, silent, 120 min Introduction by Vlada Petric, Founding Curator of the Harvard Film Archive Battleship Potemkin (Bronenosets Potyomkin) Saturday May 12 at 7pm Sunday May 13 at 5pm The mutiny on the Potemkin in 1905 was seen as a harbinger of the Revolution to come, and Eisenstein seized on the opportunity to make a name for himself among Soviet filmmakers by making a film for the mutiny's tenth anniversary. Gone are the vaudevillian eccentricities of Strike, replaced by a taut and moving pageant of injustice, rebellion and massacre, capped by an extremely suspenseful and supremely skillful showdown between the battleship and the rest of the fleet. The Odessa Steps sequence has earned the countless homages and pastiches it has inspired over the decades, and yet its power is undimmed; it remains a terrifying depiction of a military turning against its own citizens. But this sequence is best appreciated as one movement in an exquisitely constructed whole, presented here with the stirring score written for its Berlin premiere by Edmund Meisel. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. With Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Ivan Brobrov USSR 1925, 35mm, b/w, silent, 75 min October (Oktyabr) Saturday May 12 at 9pm After the success of Potemkin, Eisenstein was commissioned, along with Pudovkin, to make a film celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Pudovkin made The End of St. Petersburg, and Eisenstein's contribution is a dramatic chronicle of the events leading up to and during the October Revolution. Eisenstein took advantage of the occasion to try a more complex and intellectual film than his previous efforts, including the famous sequence in which a montage of religious images - including an elaborate crucifix devolving into a primitive relic - amounts to a critique of religion. As with Strike and Potemkin, Eisenstein refuses to focus on an individual protagonist. Even Lenin himself is rarely glimpsed among the soldiers, sailors, student agitators and bourgeois counterrevolutionaries who populate the film. Ironically, the one historical figure to emerge most strongly is liberal Alexander Kerensky, who becomes the embodiment of all that is venal and arrogant in the pre-Revolutionary political establishment. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. With Vasili Nikandrov, Vladimir Popov, Boris Livanov USSR 1928, 35mm, b/w, silent, 103 min ¡Qué Viva Mexico! Monday May 21 at 7pm In Los Angeles in 1930, after his attempts to make a film in Hollywood had come to naught, Eisenstein found in author Sinclair Lewis a patron for a proposed project in Mexico. The film was meant to present a historical pageant of Mexico in several episodes, from the pre-Colombian era to the aftermath of the 1910 Revolution. Shooting progressed off and on for most of 1931, but the production was pre-empted by Stalin's demand that Eisenstein return to Mexico and by Lewis's withdrawal of funding. Decades later, after Eisenstein's death, his frequent collaborator Gregori Alexandrov used the existing footage and Eisenstein's scenario to assemble an approximation of the film, albeit without the proposed climactic section depiction of the 1910 Revolution, which was never shot. The result provides a fascinating glimpse at what might have been Eisenstein's greatest work, a remarkable collage of fiction, documentary and ethnography replete with riveting imagery that presents Mexico itself as a montage of the archaic and the modern. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein and Grigori Aleksandrov. With Félix Balderas, Sara García, Martín Hernández US/USSR/Mexico 1931-32, 35mm, b/w, 88 min. Russian with English subtitles Preceded by Bezhin Meadow (Bezhin Lug) Bezhin Meadow seems to have been cursed almost from its inception, and the film's fate serves as a fitting allegory for the difficulties Eisenstein faced upon his return to the Soviet Union in 1932 after four years abroad. Although its title comes from a Turgenev story, the film is based on the 1932 death of young Pavlik Morozov after informing on his father to the authorities. Although the facts of the case remain murky, the official version held that Morozov was murdered by his family, and Stalin's regime instantly turned Morozov into a martyr, killed by reactionaries for his ideological fervor. Early versions of the film ran afoul of the authorities precisely as a result of the use of religious imagery and the charge, now seemingly inevitably attached to Eisenstein's work, of "formalism." All that remains of the film today is a fragmentary reconstruction set aside for reference during editing, presented as a series of still images. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. With Viktor Kartashov, Nikolai Khmelyov, Pyotr Arzhanov USSR 1937, 35mm, b/w, 31 min Ivan the Terrible, Parts One and Two (Ivan Grozny) Part One: Sunday May 27 at 5pm & Sunday June 3 at 5pm Part Two: Sunday May 27 at 7pm & Sunday June 3 at 7pm During World War II, Eisenstein was granted permission to make a trilogy of films on the life of Ivan the Terrible who ruled Russia from 1533 to 1584. Soviet ideology of the period saw Ivan as a predecessor of Stalin, as a ruler who strengthened and expanded the Russian state. Accordingly, Part One depicts the young tsar as a heroic and progressive figure but one surrounded by enemies, both within Russia and abroad. Part Two illustrates Ivan's ruthless campaign to eliminate his internal enemies. Already demonstrating his penchant for baroque visual imagery in Part One, Eisenstein depicts the Ivan of Part Two even more illustratively as he descends into madness. With shots that emphasize the graphic qualities of the cinematic image, with lines and curves emphasized as much as volume and depth, Ivan the Terrible has even been compared to animation; Ivan's elaborate silhouette as a hunched, bearded figure becomes an important part of his characterization. Eisenstein may have been emboldened by the government's approval of Part One, but Part Two, easily taken for an implicit critique of Stalin, was banned. Eisenstein died shortly thereafter, having filmed only a few scenes for Part Three. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. With Nikolai Cherkasov, Ludmila Tselikovskaya, Mikhail Zharov USSR 1942-45, 35mm, b/w, 103 min/88 min. Russian with English subtitles Alexander Nevsky Monday May 28 at 7pm With tension rising in the late 1930s between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Eisenstein created this rousing nationalist epic of medieval Slavs driving out Teutonic invaders. Despite the screen time devoted to a belabored comic subplot concerning a love triangle, Alexander Nevsky remains one of his most popular and influential films. The film provides endless examples of Eisenstein's genius not just at combining shots but at composing them as well, while the battle scenes demonstrate his continued mastery at choreographing electrifying action. The use of an extremely low horizon line has influenced such filmmakers as Orson Welles and Ingmar Bergman, while the famous "Battle on the Ice" has been copied in countless war films. Perhaps most notable is Eisenstein's ability to build sequences in tandem with the majestic score by Sergei Prokofiev. Their unprecedented collaboration, which continued with Ivan the Terrible, remains a textbook example of a complete fusion of image and music. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. With Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov USSR 1938, 35mm, b/w, 112 min. Russian with English subtitles Harvard Film Archive 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 495-4700 http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa General Admission Tickets $9, $7 Non-Harvard Students, Seniors, Harvard Faculty and Staff. Harvard students free Special event tickets (for in-person appearances) are $12. Tickets go on sale 45 minutes prior to show time. The HFA does not do advance ticket sales. Press Contact: Brittany Gravely Publicist Harvard Film Archive 24 Quincy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617-496-3211 bgravely(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:bgravely@fas.harvard.edu>

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4/27/2012 Workshop: Understanding the Soviet Space Race

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*** Spaces still available! *** The Outreach Program at the Davis Center is pleased to announce a one-day workshop devoted to Understanding the Soviet Space Race. The workshop will feature four lectures devoted to the origins and history of the Space Race in the USSR (for more details, please see complete agenda below). The workshop is free and open to the public. Full day attendance is not required, but RSVPs are appreciated. Workshop, Understanding the Soviet Space Race Sponsored by the Davis Center Outreach Program Friday, April 27, 2012 9am--4pm *Note location* 61 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 9:00-9:30 AM Welcome and Introductions Cris Martin, Davis Center 9:30-11:00 AM Lecture: Two Russian Revolutions: Science, Technology, and the Early Soviet State Maya Peterson, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the History of Science, Harvard University 11:00-11:15 AM Break 11:15-12:45 PM Lecture: Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Culture, and the Origins of the Space Race Asif Siddiqi, Associate Professor of History, Fordham University 12:45-1:30 PM Lunch Break 1:30-2:30 PM Lecture: A History of Russian Technology: Is Space an Exception? Loren Graham, Senior Scholar, Davis Center, Harvard University 2:30-3:45 PM Lecture: Soviet Cosmonauts in a Propaganda Machine: The Human Side of a Public Icon Slava Gerovitch, Visiting Scholar, Department of Mathematics, MIT *For more information about this workshop or to RSVP, please contact Cris Martin at clmartin(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:clmartin@fas.harvard.edu>.* --- 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 http://www.facebook.com/DCRES

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4/18/12 Seminar with Gyorgy Peteri: papers distributed in advance

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Wednesday, April 18 Comparative Economics Seminar Co-sponsored by the Cold War Studies Seminar "The Politics of the Cold War Everyday: Lifestyle Issues in Communist Hungary's Long-Term Planning, 1960-1975" György Péteri, Professor of Contemporary European History and Director, Program on East European Cultures and Societies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. Please note that the speaker's paper will be distributed in advance. Contact Mark Kramer (mkramer(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:mkramer@fas.harvard.edu>) for more information. 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 http://www.facebook.com/DCRES

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4/16/12 seminar with Paul Olchváry

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Please note the following addition to the seminar calendar<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>: Monday, April 16 Literature and Culture Seminar "In the Translator's Workshop" Paul Olchváry, Translator and publisher 12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Room 373 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 http://www.facebook.com/DCRES

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Workshop: Understanding the Soviet Space Race

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Dear Affiliates, Faculty, Staff and Students- The Outreach Program at the Davis Center is pleased to announce a one-day workshop devoted to Understanding the Soviet Space Race. The workshop will feature four lectures devoted to the origins and history of the Space Race in the USSR (for more details, please see complete agenda below). The workshop is free and open to the public. Full day attendance is not required, but RSVPs are appreciated. Workshop, Understanding the Soviet Space Race Sponsored by the Davis Center Outreach Program Friday, April 27, 2012 9am--4pm *Note location* 61 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA 9:00-9:30 AM Welcome and Introductions Cris Martin, Davis Center 9:30-11:00 AM Lecture: Two Russian Revolutions: Science, Technology, and the Early Soviet State Maya Peterson, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the History of Science, Harvard University 11:00-11:15 AM Break 11:15-12:45 PM Lecture: Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Culture, and the Origins of the Space Race Asif Siddiqi, Associate Professor of History, Fordham University 12:45-1:30 PM Lunch Break 1:30-2:30 PM Lecture: A History of Russian Technology: Is Space an Exception? Loren Graham, Senior Scholar, Davis Center, Harvard University 2:30-3:45 PM Lecture: Soviet Cosmonauts in a Propaganda Machine: The Human Side of a Public Icon Slava Gerovitch, Visiting Scholar, Department of Mathematics, MIT *For more information about this workshop or to RSVP, please contact Cris Martin at clmartin(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:clmartin@fas.harvard.edu>.* --- 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 http://www.facebook.com/DCRES

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4/13/2012 Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies and Student Photography Exhibition Opening

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Please join us for two very special events! Friday, April 13 Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies Multidisciplinary research presentations by advanced undergraduates from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges Opening Remarks / 1:00 pm / Room S020 Timothy J. Colton, Department Chair and Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center Panel I / 1:15-2:15 p.m. / Room S020 Lavinia Mitroi, Harvard, From the Orfanotrofia to the Institutions for Irrecoverables: Tracing the Origins of Institutional Care for Orphaned and Abandoned Children in Romania Angela Lee, Wellesley, Making Tea or Making Plans? Soviet Dissident Kitchens as Networking Spaces Erica Sheftman, Harvard, A Cold-War Pas de Deux: Soviet-American Cultural Diplomacy through the Lens of the Iconic Bolshoi Ballet Krista Williamson, Wheaton, Buddhism and the Revival of a Cultural Identity Chair: Rossen Djagalov, Tutor in the Committee on History and Literature, Harvard University Panel II / 2:30-3:15 p.m. / Room S020 Katie A. Mosher, Wheaton, Managing Migrantophobia: The Human Security Approach and Central Asian migration to the Russian Federation Andrew Badger, Harvard, Learning Democratic Norms by Fire: The IRPT in Tajikistan Since 1997 Julia Gall, Wellesley, Russians Living and Leaving Uzbekistan in Post-Soviet Times Chair: Laura Adams, Director, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Davis Center; Lecturer on Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University Panel III / 3:30-4:15 p.m. / Room S020 Ke Feng, Wheaton, Perceptions of Democracy in Post-Communist Era-- A Comparison between Russia and China Ross Ford, Harvard, The Enigmatic Year: Neorealist Politics, Nationalism, and Irredentism in the First Balkan War Lela Jgerenaia, Wellesley, Ethnic Diversity in the Caucasus and its Role in Post-Soviet Conflicts Chair: Jeanne Wilson, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Russian Studies and Department Chair, Wheaton College; Center Associate, Davis Center Panel IV / 4:30-5:30 p.m. / Room S020 Talia Lavin, Harvard, Towards the Essence of Poetry: A Collection of Essays by Micah Yosef Berdichevsky, Translated, Annotated and Prefaced by Talia Lavin Stephanie Antetomaso, Wheaton, A Computational Analysis of Nabokov's Works Emma W. Wood, Harvard, Fleeing the Poetic Convent: Elena Shvarts's Works and Days and Problems of Female Authorship in the Late-Soviet Literary Underground Jasper N. Henderson, Harvard, Mystical Imagination: The Literary Icons of Vladimir Nabokov Chair: Maria Khotimsky, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room) and Concourse 1:00-5:30 p.m. Friday, April 13 Student Photography Exhibition Opening "Enigmatic Eurasia" Photographs by Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton students 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse 5:45-6:45 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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