[Daviscenter-list] Calendar of Events: April 1-15, 2013

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Calendar of Events April 1-15, 2013 Tuesday, April 2 Cold War Studies Seminar "The USSR, the USA, and the Outbreak of the Cold War" Michael Dobbs, Author and Former Moscow Bureau Chief, The Washington Post CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 2 Special Event 2013 REECA Thesis Colloquium The REECA M.A. thesis colloquium presents the results of the thesis research done by second year students in the Russian, East European, and Central Asian Regional Studies Program. A diverse range of topics will be covered in a series of 20 minute presentations. Erin Hutchinson, Education and Empire: Examining Nostalgia for the Soviet Union in Gagauzia Alexander Tedeschi, Nation-building in contemporary Russia: the implications and challenges of integrating religious education into public schools Molly Perkins, A Vote for Putin: Youth, Elections, and Protest in Voronezh, Russia Tanvir Hussain, Implementation of Mental Health Law in Kyrgyzstan: A Policy Recommendation for Mental Healthcare Reform through Integration of Folk and Medical Traditions Sierra Perez-Sparks, Focus on the Farmer: Lending strategies to promote sustainable development of key agricultural sectors in Uzbekistan Anastasiya Prymovych, Ukraine's Accession to the European Energy Community: Pre-2008 Power Networks to Return, Naftogaz to Default, Dependence on Russia to Evolve Edward Charlton-Jones, The Sultan of Jazz and the Carpenter: White Russian Émigrés in Constantinople CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K262 2:00-6:00 p.m. Thursday, April 4 Literature and Culture Seminar "Gogol as a Reader (and a Gardener), 1842-1852" Bella Grigoryan, Assistant Professor, Yale University CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Friday, April 5 Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics and Society Working Group, Center for European Studies "From Kursk Nightingale to Stalin's Singing Spy: Gender and the Performative Life of Nadezhda Plevitskaia" Pamela Jordan, Independent Scholar CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153 2:00-4:00 p.m. Saturday, April 6 Special Event Human Rights in the USSR & Putin's Russia: Elena Bonner Memorial Symposium "Human Rights in the USSR and Putin's Russia: A Symposium in Memory of Elena Bonner" Please join us for a symposium in memory of human rights activist Elena Bonner (1923-2011). Focusing on human rights issues in both the Soviet Union and Putin's Russia, the symposium will feature two panels discussing the role and experiences of Soviet human rights activists, as well as the modern-day legacy of Bonner and her husband, the renowned dissident and physicist Andrei Sakharov. The event will conclude with a commemorative presentation by Bonner's daughter, Tatiana Yankelevich. Register at elenabonnersymposium.eventbrite.com. Lessin Lecture Hall (room G115) in Maxwell Dworkin, Harvard University campus 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 1:00-5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9 Cold War Studies Seminar "Constraining Allies: The United States, the Soviet Union, and Nuclear Nonproliferation during the Cold War" Eugene Kogan, Research Fellow, Brandeis University CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 10 Humanities Center Seminar on Jewish Cultures and Societies Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University, the Jews in Modern Europe Workshop, and the Literature and Culture Seminar "Transfer of Goods - Transfer of Knowledge: The Tobacco Monopoly and the Rise of the Modern Jewish Intellectual in the Hapsburg Monarchy" Louise Hecht, Senior Lecturer in Jewish History, Palacký University, Olomouc; Fulbright Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Mahindra Center for the Humanities, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Mahindra Center Room, Room 133 4:00 p.m. Friday, April 12 Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies Opening Remarks | 1:45-2:00 p.m. Terry Martin, George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center Panel I | 2:00-3:00 p.m. Angela Lee, Made in the Kremlin: Nashi and the Artificial Pro-Regime Youth Movement, 2005-2012 Nicole Carter, Chechen-Russian Relations in Moscow Maria Smerkovich, Treading Water in the Ibar: The Paradox of State-Building under Kosovo's Status Neutral Emily Keamy-Minor, Civil Society and the Politics of HIV Prevention in Russia Chair: Timothy J. Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, and Chair of the Government Department, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center Panel II | 3:15-4:15 p.m. Alexander Herbert, Reinterpreting Byzantine/Russian Relations and the Medieval Russ Aparajita Tripathi, Uncovering a Socratic Phenomenology of Dissent: Jan Patočka on Moral Responsibility Samantha Barchard, Russia in Space Chair: Jonathan Bolton, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center Panel III | 4:30-5:30 p.m. Michael Goncalves, Dialectal Variation in Adyghe: A Language Contact Analysis James Salamon, Alexander Scriabin: The Sound of Russia Jesse Nee-Vogelman, Dimitry Krymov and Kama Ginkas: Adaptation in Contemporary Moscow Theater Christine Herrmann, Witches, Healers, and Shamans - Figures in Russian and Siberian Folklore Chair: Thomas Dolack, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Wheaton College 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room) and Concourse 1:45-5:30 p.m. Friday, April 12 Student Photography Exhibition Opening "Traversing Eurasia" Photographs by Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton students 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse 5:30-6:30 p.m. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies<http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/> Harvard University Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617-495-4037 F 617-495-8319 Find us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/DCRES> Davis Center Calendar of Events<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php?v=m> Directions to the Davis Center<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/contact/directions.html>