[Daviscenter-list] October, 2011 seminar reminders

Please note the following seminar reminders: Wednesday, October 19 Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies "Party Politics in Hell: Ghetto Uprisings during the Holocaust" Evgeny Finkel, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Fellow, Program on Order, Conflict and Violence, Yale University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 25 Cold War Studies Seminar "A New Autopsy on the Soviet Empire: Reassessing the Collapse of the USSR 20 Years Later" Jack F. Matlock, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, 1987-1991 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 25 Historian's Seminar "Victims or Actors? Russia's Peasant Women in Comparative Historical Perspective" Esther Kingston-Mann, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 26 Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies "Where Is My Home? The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolskii" (Lexington Books, 2010) Musya Glants, Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 26 Film Screening The Desert of Forbidden Art (2010) Directed by Tchavdar Georgiev and Amanda Pope Introduction by Anna Wexler Katsnelson, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room) 7:00 p.m. This screening is made possible by Title VI funding from the US Department of Education. Due to licensing restrictions by the film's distributor, the screening is open only to students, faculty, and staff of educational institutions. Friday, October 28 Special Event An Evening of Turkmen Culture In celebration of Turkmenistan's 20th anniversary of independence, a brief lecture on Turkmenistan by Laura Adams will be followed by a festive evening of Central Asian food, music and dance. 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Concourse and Room S030 7:30-9:30 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>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