[Daviscenter-list] Invitation: 4/24/09 Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies

Dear Davis Center Affiliates and Friends: I warmly invite you to join us for this year's Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies sponsored by the Davis Center, which will be held next Friday, April 24, beginning at 1:00 p.m. (please see program below). We have hosted this event annually since 1996 to showcase work by seniors from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges in the general field of Russian and Eurasian studies. This year, for the first time, the event has a visual component, as we will screen a student documentary film and host a student photo exhibit. Your attendance at the colloquium will help to underscore the Center's deep commitment to undergraduate education. The student presenters have worked very hard on their senior projects, and we want to offer them a strong and supportive audience presence. All of the events will take place in or near the Davis Center's home in the South Building of the Center for Government and International Studies (1730 Cambridge Street). The panels and film screening will take place downstairs on the CGIS South Concourse level, and the photo exhibit and reception will be held just across the street in the CGIS Knafel Building (1737 Cambridge Street) on the main floor. Please contact Laura at the front desk by phone (617.495.4037) or email (daviscrs(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:daviscrs@fas.harvard.edu>) with any questions. We look forward to seeing you there. Sincerely, Timothy J. Colton Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor, Harvard University Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies *Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies* *Friday, April 24, 2009* *Schedule of Events* *Opening Remarks / 1:00-1:10 p.m. / CGIS S020* Timothy J. Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University ----------------------- *Panel I / 1:15-2:45 p.m. / CGIS S020* Jorina Gjinari, Wheaton College, /Serbia//'s Split with Montenegro and Kosovo/ Katherine Peisker, Harvard College, /The Post-Communist Development of Church-State Relations in Russia and Ukraine/ Amy Boyle, Wheaton College, /United States// Missile Defense in Poland/ Scott Gill, Wheaton College, /Liberalism and the Post-Soviet Russian Experience/ Chair: Timothy J. Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University ----------------------- *Panel II / 1:15-2:45 p.m. / CGIS S050* Liise Lehtsalu, Wellesley College, /Female Deportees' Exile Experiences in USSR, 1939-1956/ Anna Whittington, Harvard College, /At the Mercy of Ostpolitik? West German-Soviet Relations, NGOs, and Ethnic German Emigration, 1955-1982/ Gine S. Lentine, Wellesley College, /National Identity and Political Liberalism in the Former Soviet Space: The Cases of Solidarity in Poland and Pora in Ukraine/ Chair: Nina Tumarkin, Professor of History, Wellesley College; Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University ----------------------- Break / 2:45-3:15 p.m. / CGIS South Concourse ----------------------- *Panel III / 3:15-4:45 p.m. / CGIS S020* Daniel J. Schulte, Harvard College, /The "Erotic Utopia" Reinterpreted: Nabokov, Soloviev, and Fin De Siecle St. Petersburg/ Olga Zhulina, Harvard College, /Love between Languages: Franco-Russian Translation in Andreï Makine's /Le testament français// Juli Min, Harvard College, /Love in Writing: Memory, Time, and Anticipation in Nabokov and Proust/ Emmett McDermott, Harvard College, /The Death of Satire: Satiric Atrophy and /The Master and Margarita Chair: Jonathan Bolton, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University ----------------------- *Panel IV / 3:15-4:45 p.m. / CGIS S050* Abigail Lees, Wellesley College, /Policy toward Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health in Russia, 1985-Present/ Jan Zilinsky, Harvard College, /Why Slovakia Needs a Health Care Reform/ Georgina Cannan, Wheaton College, /Forgotten in the System: The Russian Orphan Crisis/ Chair: David Powell, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Russian Studies, Wheaton College; Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University ----------------------- *Film Screening / 4:45-5:15 p.m. / CGIS S010* * * Alexander Berman, Harvard College, /Songs from the Tundra/ ----------------------- *Exhibition Reception / 5:30-6:30 p.m. / CGIS Knafel, Fisher Family Commons* / / /Encountering Eurasia: Portraits of Student Experience/ // -- ------------------------------ Timothy J. Colton Director, Davis Center Professor of Government Harvard University Phone: 617.495.4345 Fax: 617.495.8319