[Daviscenter-list] November event reminders

Please note the following event reminders: Wednesday, November 9 Russian and East European Jewish Studies Seminar "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 "In the Shadow of the Shtetls in Soviet Podolia: Jewish Memory in Eastern Europe" Jeffrey Veidlinger, Professor of History; Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies; Director, Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. A light lunch will be served. Thursday, November 10 Informing Eurasia Seminar "There Is No Such City as London': The Idea of the West in Polish Film Pre- and Post-1989" Justyna Beinek, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Indiana University 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<mailto:rangley@fas.harvard.edu>) for more information. Sunday, November 13 Roundtable discussion: "THE RUSSIAN-SPEAKING JEWISH IMMIGRANTS: IMPRESSIONS FROM THE FIELD" The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University presents a discussion examining the impact of a modern day Jewish Diaspora, November 13, 2011 The Kathryn W. and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University announces a roundtable discussion that will examine the impact of the contemporary Russian-speaking Jewish Diaspora on the cultural, social, and political life in the countries of its largest presence, as well as the countries from which it emigrated. A roundtable discussion, "The Russian-Speaking Jewish Immigrants: Impressions from the Field," will be held on Sunday, November 13, 7:30-9:30pm at Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS-South), 1730 Cambridge Street, in the Tsai Auditorium, Room S-010. The panel will be introduced by Terry Martin, George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies and Director of the Davis Center, and moderated by conference Co-Chair, Zvi Gitelman, Professor of Political Science and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Specialists will discuss how this contemporary Diaspora has changed the societies in general, and the Jewish communities in particular of the sending and receiving countries. Discussants include Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, Chief Rabbi of Moscow and President of the Conference on European Rabbis; Barry Shrage, President of Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Boston; Sergei Lagodinsky, Fellow at the Global Policy Institute in Berlin; and Vladimir Khanin, Chief Scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Immigrant Absorption and Senior Lecturer at Bar-Ilan University. This event is free and open to the public. For further information about the Roundtable Discussion, contact: Matt Weinberg, Project Coordinator 617-496-9536 mweinberg@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:mweinberg@fas.harvard.edu> 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