*/Conference on the Soviet Gulag: Its History and Legacy/
DAVIS CENTER FOR RUSSIAN AND EURASIAN STUDIES, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,
NOVEMBER 2-5, 2006
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From November 2-5, 2006, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
Studies at Harvard University, with the generous support of the Bradley
Foundation, will host a major international conference on the history
and legacy of the Gulag. Recent years have seen a burgeoning of
scholarship on the Gulag, and this conference will be an opportunity for
many scholars from a variety of disciplines to gather and share the
results of that work. Professors and graduate students, please join
more than thirty scholars from eight countries in the fields of
literature, history, economics, sociology and political science who will
gather for an intensive discussion of their ongoing work.
The conference will be held in conjunction with the Boston run of
/GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom/, a
traveling museum exhibit sponsored and created by the U.S. National Park
Service and the Gulag Museum, Perm, Russia. The exhibit opened to much
acclaim at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum and will subsequently
travel to National Historic Sites in Independence, CA; Atlanta, GA; Hyde
Park, NY and Washington, D.C.
On Thursday, November 2, 2006, the conference will be held at the
Harvard Faculty Club (
http://www.hfc.harvard.edu/) located at 20 Quincy
Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. From Friday, November 3 through
Sunday, November 5, the conference will be held at Harvard's Center for
Government and International Studies South Building
(
http://cgis.fas.harvard.edu/), located at 1730 Cambridge Street in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The conference will be a workshop format. Conference participants will
be provided with access to article length works-in-progress during the
month of October, so that oral presentations may be limited in favor of
questions and discussion. The works-in-progress are the exclusive
copyright of their authors and shall not be cited or circulated without
written permission from the author.
Portions of the conference may later appear on the internet site
http://www.gulaghistory.org <http://www.gulaghistory.org/>, a virtual
web exhibit /Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives /supported by a grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities and under construction by Steven
A. Barnes and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason
University. By your participation in this conference, you consent to
your image and/or voice being used on that website.
Attendance is by pre-registration only. Space is limited.
Conference attendee registration information and the conference program
can be found here:
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/seminars_conferences/GULAGpvt.html
Please note that the program is subject to change.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
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