Dear Faculty, Staff and Students-
Please join us for today's special events!
Friday, April 15, 2011
Davis Center Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies
Opening Remarks / 1:00 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Terry Martin, Director, Davis Center; George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies,
Harvard University
Panel I / 1:15-2:45 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Svetlana Dotsenko, Harvard College, State Capacity, Political Commitment, and Health: A
Comparative Study of Tuberculosis in Post-Soviet States, 1990-2009
Annemarie Hanson, Wheaton College, The "War of Memories:" Post-World War II
Observations in Russian-Estonian Ethnicity Expectations and Geopolitical Relations
Paul Sawyier, Harvard College, Extremism and Neo-Nazism in Russia, 1990s to Present
Alena Svobodova, Wheaton College, The Terrorism in the Caucasus and Its Influence on the
Russo-Georgian Relations
Alex Welles, Wheaton College, The Soviets and Weimar: Rearmament and Revolution
Chair: Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian
Studies, Harvard University
Panel II / 3:00-4:15 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Beth Bryant, Wellesley College, Abortion in the Soviet Union
Ivana Djak, Harvard College, Women's Organizations in Post-Conflict Periods: The
State and Nationalism in the Balkans
Erin Ryan, Wheaton College, Conflict, Peace, and Nongovernmental Actors in
Nagorno-Karabakh
Kaitlin Terry, Harvard College, Milada Horáková: A Story of Past and Present
Alice Underwood, Harvard College, Rights on Parade: The Russian LGBT Community's
March toward Equality
Chair: Jeanne Wilson, Professor of Political Science, Wheaton College
Panel III / 4:30-5:45 p.m. / 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
Jordan Bryant, Harvard College, Russia's Appian Way: How the Classics Shaped Imperial
Identity from Peter I to Alexander I
Anne Burke, Wellesley College, Examining the Igor Tale and Its Authenticity
Jessica Flakne, Harvard College, The Role of Religion in the Thought of T.G. Masaryk: An
Inquiry into the Implications of Religion on Theories of Democracy and Nationalism
Danielle Guillette, Harvard College, Perceptions and Realities: Solidarity through the
Lens of Media and the Soviet Politburo
Aseem Shukla, Harvard College, Spoken Identities: Trends of Language Choice in the
Ukrainian Parliament
Chair: Thomas Hodge, Professor of Russian, Wellesley College
Friday, April 15, 2011
Images of Eternal and Evolving Eurasia
Photography Exhibition Opening
Student photographers from Harvard, Wellesley and Wheaton
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level
5:45-6:45 p.m.
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