Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
October 16-31, 2011
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website.
Monday, October 17
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
“Jews and East European Cities” Series, Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies; Modern Jewish Worlds Workshop; Study Group on Jews in Modern Europe, Center for European Studies; and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
“Different but the Same, or the Same but Different? The Re-making of Public Memory of the Second World War in Post-Soviet Lviv”
Tarik Cyril Amar, Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
4:00-6:00 p.m.
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
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 Dr. 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.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
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Cambridge, MA 02138
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