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.
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