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by Davis Center for Russian Studies

*Wednesday, November 9 * Please join us to celebrate the opening of Harvard College Library's newest facility, the beautiful H.C. Fung Library, on the Concourse Level of the Knafel (North) Building of the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), on Wednesday, November 9, from 3-5 pm. Refreshments and tours will be offered. Diane Garner, Librarian for the Social Sciences Erik Zitser, Fung Library Manager and Librarian of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Kazuko Sakaguchi, Librarian of the Documentation Center on Contemporary Japan Nancy Hearst, Librarian of the Fairbank Center on East Asia Meghan Dolan, Head of Numeric Data Services of the Social Sciences Program * 1737 Cambridge Street, CGIS North, Concourse Level* -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

18 years, 6 months

November film series at the Davis Center

by Davis Center for Russian Studies

The US State Department and Department of Education have designated November 14-18 "International Education Week 2005." International Education Week is an annual initiative to celebrate and promote international education and exchange. As part of this year's festivities at Harvard, the Davis Center is sponsoring a film series (details below). For a full program of Harvard events, please see the Office of International Programs calendar at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~oip/calendar.html. * ** /Worlds Colliding: Soviet and the Other/* Three films--one each on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia--exploring the effects an encounter with a starkly different culture can have on an individual. *Tuesday, November 15 * *"Good Bye, Lenin!" (2003, dir. Wolfgang Becker) 121 min.* East Germany, the year 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother watches the police arresting him and suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the GDR does not exist anymore and the mother awakes. Since she has to avoid every excitement, the son tries to set up the GDR again for her in their flat. But the world has changed a lot... CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050 8:00 pm *Wednesday, November 16 * *"Genghis Blues" (1999, dir. Roko Belic) 88 min.* The extraordinary odyssey of a U.S. musician of Cape Verdean ancestry to Tannu Tuva, in central Asia, where nomadic people throat sing more than one note simultaneously, using vocal harmonics. A bluesman, Paul Pena, blind and recently widowed, taught himself throat singing and was by chance invited to the 1995 throat-singing symposium in Kyzyl. Helped by the "Friends of Tuva," Pena makes the arduous journey. Singing in the deep, rumbling kargyraa style, Pena gives inspired performances at the festival, composes songs in Tuvan, washes his face in sacred rivers, expresses the disorientation of blindness in foreign surroundings, and makes a human connection with everyone he meets. CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050 8:00 pm *Thursday, November 17 * *"Window to Paris" (Okno v Parizh) (1994, 87 minutes)* Nikolai (played by Sergei Dontsov) has been fired from his job as a music teacher and has to live in the gym until he finds a place to stay. Finally, he gets a communal room in the apartment of Gorokhov (Victor Mikhalkov). The room's previous inhabitant, an old lady, has died a year ago, and yet her cat, Maxi, is still in the locked room, healthy and fat. Soon, Nikolai and his neighbours discover the mystery: there is a window to Paris in the room. That's when the comedy begins - will the Russians be able to cope with the temptation to profit from the discovery? CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050 8:00 pm -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

18 years, 6 months

Memorial for Professor Barrington Moore

by Davis Center for Russian Studies

There will be a memorial service held in honor of Professor Barrington Moore, Professor Emeritus of Government, on Tuesday, November 1, from 5-7 pm at the Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland St., Lower Level conference room, followed by a reception. Barrington Moore, the renowned American sociologist and political scientist who taught at Harvard from 1951 until 1979, died at his home in Cambridge on September 16th. Moore was the author of a number of books on historical sociology that focus on Soviet society. Based at the Russian Research Center at Harvard and in the Government Department, he published /Soviet Politics: The Dilemma of Power/ (1950) and/ Terror and Progress: USSR/ (1954), both of which established the foundations of a political sociology of Soviet power. His best-known work is/ Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy/ (1966), a masterpiece of comparative methodology that uses both Marxian and Weberian analysis and inspired similar studies in the sociology of historical processes. His other writings include /Political Power and Social Theory/ (1958), /Reflections on the Causes of Human Misery/ (1973), and /Injustice /(1978). -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

18 years, 6 months

reminder- Davis Center Fall Reception (please note room #)

by Davis Center for Russian Studies

You are cordially invited to the Davis Center Fall Reception in our new building... *Wednesday, September 28, 2005* Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies CGIS South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, room *#S354* 4:15 pm - 6:15 pm Friends and family are welcome. If you have questions, please feel free to contact Penny Skalnik at 617.495.4037 or daviscrs(a)fas.harvard.edu. RSVP with regrets only, please. -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

18 years, 7 months

Davis Center Fall Reception

by Davis Center for Russian Studies

You are cordially invited to the Davis Center Fall Reception in our new space... *Wednesday, September 28, 2005* Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies CGIS South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, room #S354 4:15 pm - 6:15 pm Friends and family are welcome. If you have questions, please feel free to contact Penny Skalnik at 617.495.4037 or daviscrs(a)fas.harvard.edu. RSVP with regrets only, please. -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

18 years, 7 months

Davis Center Fall Reception- save the date

by Penelope Skalnik

Mark your calendars! *Wednesday, September 28 Davis Center Fall Reception */ /CGIS South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor (room # to be announced) 4:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Friends and family are welcome at the reception. If you have questions, please feel free to contact Penny Skalnik at 617.495.4037 or daviscrs(a)fas.harvard.edu. More information coming soon.... -- ---------------------------------------------------- Penny Skalnik Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

18 years, 8 months

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