Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
April 1-15, 2012
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website.
Monday, April 2
Historians’ Seminar
“The Empire of Culture: the Soviet Cultural Foundation and Soviet Collapse”
Vladislav Zubok, Professor of History, Temple University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 3
Cold War Studies Seminar
“The Soviet Bloc's Role in Failed Efforts to End the Vietnam War, 1965-1967”
James G. Hershberg, Professor of History, George Washington University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 3
Comparative Economics Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Cold War Studies Seminar, Davis Center and the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, Harvard Kennedy School
“The EU's Relations with Russia”
Ivailo Kalfin, Member of European Parliament and former Foreign Minister of Bulgaria
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Friday, April 6
Comparative Politics Roundtable
“Russian Politics in 2012: Election Postmortem”
Timothy J. Colton, Department Chair and Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
Maria Gaidar, M.A. Candidate, Mid-Career Master in Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School
Scott Gehlbach, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Loren Graham, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Executive Committee Member, Davis Center
Chair: Alexandra Vacroux, Executive Director, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room)
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, April 10
Literature and Culture Seminar
“Contemporary Russian Poetry: Perspectives from Moscow”
Dmitri Kuzmin, Editor of the journal Vozdukh (Moscow); poet, translator, and curator of the website Litkarta.ru
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
5:30-7:00 p.m.
This seminar will be conducted in Russian.
Thursday, April 12
Comparative Politics Seminar
“Industrial Land Privatization in Russian Cities”
Will Pyle, Associate Professor of Economics, Middlebury College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 12
Informing Eurasia Seminar
“How Survivors and the State Have Defined ‘Victim of Political Repression’ since 1991”
Cathy Frierson, Professor of History, University of New Hampshire; Senior Scholar, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Papers will be distributed in advance. Contact Robyn Angley (rangley@fas.harvard.edu) for more information.
Friday, April 13
Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies
Multidisciplinary research presentations by advanced undergraduates from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges
Opening Remarks / 1:00 pm / Room So20
Timothy J. Colton, Department Chair and Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
Panel I / 1:15-2:15 p.m. / Room S020
Lavinia Mitroi, Harvard, From the Orfanotrofia to the Institutions for Irrecoverables: Tracing the Origins of Institutional Care for Orphaned and Abandoned Children in Romania
Angela Lee, Wellesley, Making Tea or Making Plans? Soviet Dissident Kitchens as Networking Spaces
Erica Sheftman, Harvard, A Cold-War Pas de Deux: Soviet-American Cultural Diplomacy through the Lens of the Iconic Bolshoi Ballet
Krista Williamson, Wheaton, Buddhism in Siberia
Chair: Rossen Djagalov, Tutor in the Committee on History and Literature, Harvard University
Panel II / 2:30-3:15 p.m. / Room S020
Katie A. Mosher, Wheaton, Managing Migrantophobia: The Human Security Approach and Central Asian migration to the Russian Federation
Andrew Badger, Harvard, Learning Democratic Norms by Fire: The IRPT in Tajikistan Since 1997
Julia Gall, Wellesley, Emigration of the Russian Population from Post-Soviet Uzbekistan
Chair: Laura Adams, Director, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Davis Center; Lecturer on Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Panel III / 3:30-4:15 p.m. / Room S020
Ke Feng, Wheaton, Perceptions of Democracy in Post-Communist Era-- A Comparison between Russia and China
Ross Ford, Harvard, The Enigmatic Year: Neorealist Politics, Nationalism, and Irredentism in the First Balkan War
Lela Jgerenaia, Wellesley, Ethnic Diversity in the Caucasus and its Role in Post-Soviet Conflicts
Chair: Jeanne Wilson, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Russian Studies and Department Chair, Wheaton College; Center Associate, Davis Center
Panel IV / 4:30-5:30 p.m. / Room S020
Talia Lavin, Harvard, Towards the Essence of Poetry: A Collection of Essays by Micah Yosef Berdichevsky, Translated, Annotated and Prefaced by Talia Lavin
Stephanie Antetomaso, Wheaton, A Computational Analysis of Nabokov’s Works
Emma W. Wood, Harvard, Fleeing the Poetic Convent: Elena Shvarts’s Works and Days and Problems of Female Authorship in the Late-Soviet Literary Underground
Jasper N. Henderson, Harvard, The Literary Icon: Vladimir Nabokov and Orthodox Representation
Chair: TBA
1730 Cambridge Street, Room S020 and Concourse
1:00-5:30 p.m.
Friday, April 13
Student Photography Exhibition Opening
“Enigmatic Eurasia”
Photographs by Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton students
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse
5:45-6:45 p.m.
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