[Daviscenter-list] 4/12/13 Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University

Please join us for a very special event! Friday, April 12, 2013 Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University 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 Christopher Hopper, Syllabus for Success: Creating a Realistic Educational Framework for the Roma in the Czech Republic and Slovakia through Effective Language and Integration Measures 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. 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>