Conference on the Soviet Gulag: Its History and Legacy
 
DAVIS CENTER FOR RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, NOVEMBER 2-5, 2006
 
>From November 2-5, 2006, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, with the generous support of the Bradley Foundation, will host a major international conference on the history and legacy of the Gulag.  Recent years have seen a burgeoning of scholarship on the Gulag, and this conference will be an opportunity for many scholars from a variety of disciplines to gather and share the results of that work.  Professors and graduate students, please join more than thirty scholars from eight countries in the fields of literature, history, economics, sociology and political science who will gather for an intensive discussion of their ongoing work.
 
The conference will be held in conjunction with the Boston run of GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom, a traveling museum exhibit sponsored and created by the U.S. National Park Service and the Gulag Museum, Perm, Russia.  The exhibit opened to much acclaim at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum and will subsequently travel to National Historic Sites in Independence, CA; Atlanta, GA; Hyde Park, NY and Washington, D.C.

On Thursday, November 2, 2006, the conference will be held at the Harvard Faculty Club (http://www.hfc.harvard.edu/) located at 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.  From Friday, November 3 through Sunday, November 5, the conference will be held at Harvard’s Center for Government and International Studies South Building (http://cgis.fas.harvard.edu/), located at 1730 Cambridge Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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The conference will be a workshop format.  Conference participants will be provided with access to article length works-in-progress during the month of October, so that oral presentations may be limited in favor of questions and discussion.  The works-in-progress are the exclusive copyright of their authors and shall not be cited or circulated without written permission from the author.

Portions of the conference may later appear on the internet site http://www.gulaghistory.org, a virtual web exhibit Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and under construction by Steven A. Barnes and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.  By your participation in this conference, you consent to your image and/or voice being used on that website.

Attendance is by pre-registration only.  Space is limited. 

Conference attendee registration information and the conference program can be found here:  http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/seminars_conferences/GULAGpvt.html

Please note that the program is subject to change.

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