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@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
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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
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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
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Break /
2:45-3:15 p.m. / CGIS South Concourse
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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
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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
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Film
Screening / 4:45-5:15 p.m. / CGIS S010
Alexander Berman, Harvard College,
Songs from the Tundra
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Exhibition
Reception / 5:30-6:30 p.m. / CGIS Knafel, Fisher Family Commons
Encountering Eurasia: Portraits of Student Experience
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Timothy J. Colton
Director, Davis Center
Professor of Government
Harvard University
Phone: 617.495.4345
Fax: 617.495.8319