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4/28/13: A Concert of Russian Choral Music, Wellesley Village Church

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10 years, 11 months

Kathryn Wasserman Davis, 1907-2013

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With sorrow we share the news that Kathryn Wasserman Davis passed away on April 23, 2013, at her home in Hobe Sound, Florida. She was 106. In honor of a most generous pledge from the Davis family, Harvard's Russian Research Center (RRC) was renamed the Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center in April 1996, in honor of Mrs. Davis and her late husband. The Davis family's special commitment to undergraduate education has made possible the annual Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies, which showcases research by students from Harvard, Wellesley College (Mrs. Davis's alma mater), and Wheaton College (alma mater of her daughter, Diana Davis Spencer). This event, now in its 18th year, has distinguished Russian studies and served as a model for meaningful undergraduate opportunities at Harvard. Davis Center Senior Scholar Marshall I. Goldman, the Kathryn W. Davis Professor of Russian Economics, Emeritus, at Wellesley College, was instrumental in nurturing the Davis family's relationship with the RRC during his tenure as associate director. Mrs. Davis's interest in Russia—dating back to her young adulthood, when she traveled through the Caucasus on horseback on an anthropological expedition—has found expression in her support of Russian and international studies at several distinguished universities, colleges, and libraries. A profound devotion to peace and understanding animated Mrs. Davis's life. Already in her twenties she published a book, The Soviets at Geneva: The USSR and the League of Nations, 1919-1933, and she maintained a deep commitment to international peace. An active outdoorsperson throughout her life, she was also an ardent supporter of environmental causes. On the occasion of her 100th birthday, she created Davis Projects for Peace, a program that funds 100 student summer projects aimed at increasing global understanding. Mrs. Davis once commented on her family's decision to support Russian studies at Harvard: "During this turbulent period...it is imperative that we keep in close contact and try to make a reality of Russia's favorite toast—Mir i Druzhba, 'Peace and Friendship.'" Times remain turbulent, but the Davis Center remains committed to Mrs. Davis's aspiration for a greater American understanding of Russian politics and appreciation of Russian culture. Terry Martin Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

10 years, 12 months

Calendar of Events: May 1-15, 2013

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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Calendar of Events May 1-15, 2013 Thursday, May 2 Historians' Seminar Alexander I, The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon (Northern Illinois University Press, 2012<http://www.niupress.niu.edu/niupress/scripts/book/bookResults.asp?ID=645>) Marie-Pierre Rey, Professor of Russian and Soviet History and Director, Slavic Research Center, University of Paris I (La Sorbonne) CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Friday, May 10 Early Slavists' Seminar "The Image of the Intercession of the Mother of God in Ukraine: East versus West" Michael Flier, Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology, Harvard University; Associate, Davis Center CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Monday, May 13 Special Seminar Co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the WCFIA Program on U.S.-Japan Relations "Is a Thaw Ahead? Russian-Japanese Relations as Seen from Tokyo" Toyohisa Kozuki, Director-General of the European Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Japan) CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153 12:00-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 15 Comparative Politics Seminar "Sochi-2014: Ethno-political and Security Dimension s of the forthcoming Winter Olympics" Sergey Markedonov, Visiting Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, CSIS CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies<http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/> Harvard University Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617-495-4037 F 617-495-8319 Find us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/DCRES> Davis Center Calendar of Events<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events> Directions to the Davis Center<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/contact-us>

10 years, 12 months

Harvard University closed

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Dear Harvard community and friends, Please note that, due to safety reasons, Harvard University is closed today. The Davis Center will not hold scheduled events today; all seminars scheduled for today are cancelled. Law enforcement officials are searching a wide area not far from the Cambridge/Allston campus for an armed and dangerous suspect who they believe participated in the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday. Public transportation across Greater Boston has been suspended. Similarly, the Harvard University Police Department is advising community members to stay indoors while the search for the suspect continues. Please watch Harvard.edu for updates. Stay safe, The Davis Center ---------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Phone: +001.617.495.4037 Fax: +001.617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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4/22/2013 Mahindra Humanities Center/Politics Seminar with Kristian Feigelson, Moderated by Svetlana Boym and Susan Suleiman

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You are invited to a special event: Monday, April 22 Mahindra Humanities Center/Politics, Literature and the Arts Seminar Cosponsored by the Davis Center "Filming the Gulag" Kristian Feigelson, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris Moderated by Svetlana Boym (Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center) and Susan Suleiman (C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University) Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Room 133 6:00 p.m. How is the Gulag represented in the former Soviet Union? Despite many books published by former prisoners of Gulag (Shalamov, Solzhenitsyn), who describe the everyday of the Soviet concentration camp, and by numerous historians who offer the analysis of the institutions of Gulag, there were very few films that showed the visual reality of the camps. « Gulag » remains an administrative designation estranged from the visual and material traces of the Soviet camps, which, (unlike the Nazi camps), have been erased from history. This despite the efforts of associations such as The Memorial to perpetuate historical remembrance in Russia since 1989. In 1988, the documentarist Marina Goldovskaya provoked a widespread debate on the origin of the Gulag with her film "The Power of the Solovkis" but this controversy was short-lived. A rare few fictional films and television series based on literary works about the Gulag were produced in the ex-Soviet Union. I wish to analyze the paradoxes which span the whole of post-Soviet society, torn between impossible remembrance and the camps recreated in the imagination. I will derive this study from research I conducted this autumn in the Solovkis Islands, which 1920 prefigured the entire Soviet prison camp system, as well as from the filmic documentation of the NKVD from 1927-1928. The Solovkis islands will actualize the Leninist expression of the "class enemy" in order to eliminate those designated. « Slon » a one hour and half movie was shot by A Tcherkassov (1927-1928) in the Solovki : it's questions the tensions between the « mise en scene » and the marks of reality. This propaganda film combined different sequences, describing the daily life in the Solovki, still haunted to-day with ghosts and traces. This spectral presence, combining archives and testamentary traces, reminds us a german propaganda film produced 15 years later in an another context by the nazis « Der Fürher schenkt den Juden ein Stadt » (1944) on Theresienstadt ghetto. But both are unique documents showing us in time the fiction and reality of the Labor camps during the 20 th century, expressing an unusual visual side of the Totalitarism. Kristian Feigelson is a leading international scholar on Russian, East European and world cinema, and a renown sociologist of media. He is professor at the University of the Sorbonne Nouvelle where he teaches cinema. He is a frequent contributor to Le Monde and many academic journals and the author of numerous works on Russia, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, including Les Etats post-soviétiques : identités en construction, transformation politique et trajectoires économiques, (Armand Colin, Paris, 2004) and Caméra politique/Cinéma et stalinisme (Théorème 8, PSN, Paris, 2005). His latest book is La fabrique filmique : métiers et professions (Armand Colin, Paris, 2011) and Bollywood : industry of images (Théorème 16, PSN, Paris, 2012). --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies<http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/> Harvard University Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617-495-4037 F 617-495-8319 Find us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/DCRES> Davis Center Calendar of Events<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events> Directions to the Davis Center<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/contact-us>

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4/18 and 4/22 additions to the seminar calendar

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Please note the following additions to the seminar calendar: Thursday, April 18 Literature and Culture Seminar "It's No Good: A Discussion of Russian Poetry, Politics, and Publishing" Kirill Medvedev, author and poet; socialist activist; Founder, Free Marxist Press Keith Gessen, translator and founding editor, n+1 Bela Shayevich writer, translator, illustrator CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Monday, April 22 Mahindra Humanities Center/Politics, Literature and the Arts Seminar Cosponsored by the Davis Center "Filming the Gulag" Kristian Feigelson, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris Moderated by Svetlana Boym (Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center) and Susan Suleiman (C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University) Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Room 133 6:00 p.m. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies<http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/> Harvard University Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617-495-4037 F 617-495-8319 Find us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/DCRES> Davis Center Calendar of Events<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events> Directions to the Davis Center<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/contact-us>

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4/12/13 Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University

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Please join us for a very special event! Friday, April 12, 2013 Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University Opening Remarks | 1:45-2:00 p.m. Terry Martin, George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center Panel I | 2:00-3:00 p.m. Angela Lee, Made in the Kremlin: Nashi and the Artificial Pro-Regime Youth Movement, 2005-2012 Nicole Carter, Chechen-Russian Relations in Moscow Maria Smerkovich, Treading Water in the Ibar: The Paradox of State-Building under Kosovo's Status Neutral Emily Keamy-Minor, Civil Society and the Politics of HIV Prevention in Russia Chair: Timothy J. Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, and Chair of the Government Department, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center Panel II | 3:15-4:15 p.m. Alexander Herbert, Reinterpreting Byzantine/Russian Relations and the Medieval Russ Aparajita Tripathi, Uncovering a Socratic Phenomenology of Dissent: Jan Patočka on Moral Responsibility Samantha Barchard, Russia in Space Christopher Hopper, Syllabus for Success: Creating a Realistic Educational Framework for the Roma in the Czech Republic and Slovakia through Effective Language and Integration Measures Chair: Jonathan Bolton, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center Panel III | 4:30-5:30 p.m. Michael Goncalves, Dialectal Variation in Adyghe: A Language Contact Analysis James Salamon, Alexander Scriabin: The Sound of Russia Jesse Nee-Vogelman, Dimitry Krymov and Kama Ginkas: Adaptation in Contemporary Moscow Theater Christine Herrmann, Witches, Healers, and Shamans - Figures in Russian and Siberian Folklore Chair: Thomas Dolack, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Wheaton College 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room) and Concourse 1:45-5:30 p.m. Student Photography Exhibition Opening "Traversing Eurasia" Photographs by Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton students 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse 5:30-6:30 p.m. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies<http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/> Harvard University Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617-495-4037 F 617-495-8319 Find us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/DCRES> Davis Center Calendar of Events<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php?v=m> Directions to the Davis Center<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/contact/directions.html>

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Location correction: 4/16/13 Historians’ Seminar with Mikhail Dolbilov

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Please note the following seminar location correction: Tuesday, April 16 Historians’ Seminar “‘Western Russia’ as the Romanov Empire’s Galicia Manqué: Discourse and Practice of 19th century Imperial Region-Making” Mikhail Dolbilov, Assistant Professor, History, University of Maryland CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies<http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/> Harvard University Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617-495-4037 F 617-495-8319 Find us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/DCRES> Davis Center Calendar of Events<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php?v=m> Directions to the Davis Center<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/contact/directions.html>

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Calendar of Events, April 16-30, 2013

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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Calendar of Events April 16-30, 2013 Tuesday, April 16 Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics and Society Working Group, Center for European Studies "How Much Land Does a Woman Need? Women, Property Rights and Privatization (1900-2012)" Esther Kingston-Mann, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Boston; Associate, Davis Center CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153 12:15-2:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 16 Historians' Seminar "'Western Russia' as the Romanov Empire's Galicia Manqué: Discourse and Practice of 19th century Imperial Region-Making" Mikhail Dolbilov, Assistant Professor, History, University of Maryland CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153 4:15-6:00 p.m. Friday, April 19 Early Slavists' Seminar "Empire of the Ruble: The Entitlement Culture of the Seventeenth-Century Moscow Service Elite" Peter Brown, Professor, Rhode Island College; Center Associate, Davis Center CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153 4:15-6:00 p.m. Monday, April 29 Special Seminar "The Idea of East-Central Europe: Past and Present Paradoxes" Miroslaw Filipowicz, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin Institute of East-Central Europe CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies<http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/> Harvard University Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617-495-4037 F 617-495-8319 Find us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/DCRES> Davis Center Calendar of Events<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php?v=m> Directions to the Davis Center<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/contact/directions.html>

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