Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
December 1-15, 2010
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.
Wednesday, December 1
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
“So That Is Why We Do Not Have Any Family Left in Ukraine: Holocaust Memory in the Soviet Union in 1950-1980s”
Anna Shternshis, Associate Professor in Yiddish Studies, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 2
Historians’ Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar
“A late Tsarist Russian Perspective on Islam and Reason: Ataulla Bayazitov’s Response to Ernest Renan”
Anke von Kügelgen, Co-Director, Institute of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bern
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 2
Literature and Culture Seminar
“Rozanov's Philosophical Gesture and Russian Modernism”
Michal Oklot, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages, Brown University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Thursday, December 2
Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations
Co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
“The Place and Role of the Far East's Maritime Region in Russia-Korea Relations”
Alexey Starichkov, Director, Department of International Programs, Far Eastern National University (Vladivostok, Russia)
Chair: Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
4:30 p.m.
Friday, December 3
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
Co-sponsored by Jews in Modern Europe Study Group, Center for European Studies
“From Soviet to German: How ‘Russian’ Jews are changing the German-Jewish Relationship”
Sergey Lagodinsky, World Fellow, Yale University (fall 2010); Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin
1737 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room K354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, December 8
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
“Reading Sholem Aleichem as Russian Literary Critic”
Amelia Glaser, Associate Professor of Russian Literature, University of California, San Diego
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Friday, December 10
Early Slavists’ Seminar
“Captivity, Exodus, and Muscovite Political Culture”
Christoph Witzenrath, Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Friday, December 10
Historians' Special Roundtable
Co-sponsored by the Davis Center, Harvard University, and the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan
“Imperial Perspectives on Social Transformation: Re-Examining Sosloviia in the Wake of the Great Reforms”
Chair: Kelly O'Neill, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University; Davis Center Faculty Associate
Organizer and introduction: Yoko Aoshima, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center, Harvard University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan
“Russification as a Search for Social Simplicity? Ethnicity, Confession, and Estate (Soslovie) in the 19th century Russian Empire's West”
Mikhail Dolbilov, Assistant Professor of Russian and Soviet History, University of Maryland
“Status in the Mountains”
Austin Jersild, Associate Professor of History, Old Dominion University
“Social Categories and the Search for Social Consciousness in Russian Imperial History”
Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse, Room S050
4:15-6:45 p.m.
Please RSVP to daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu by Monday, December 6 if you plan to attend.
Tuesday, December 14
Cold War Studies Seminar
“History, Memory, and Researching the Past in Post-Communist Romania: Collectivization, 1949-1962”
Gail Kligman, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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