Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
November 1-15, 2011
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our
website<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>hp>.
Friday, November 4
Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group
Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics and Society Working Group, Center for European
Studies
"The New Façade of Autocracy: Putin and Hypermasculinity, 1999 to the present"
Elizabeth Wood, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Associate,
Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 9
Russian and East European Jewish Studies Seminar
"Jews and East European Cities" Series, Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish
Studies; Modern Jewish Worlds Workshop; Study Group on Jews in Modern Europe, Center for
European Studies; and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
"In the Shadow of the Shtetls in Soviet Podolia: Jewish Memory in Eastern
Europe"
Jeffrey Veidlinger, Professor of History; Alvin H. Rosenfeld Chair in Jewish Studies;
Director, Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 10
Informing Eurasia Seminar
"There Is No Such City as London': The Idea of the West in Polish Film Pre- and
Post-1989"
Justyna Beinek, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and
Literatures, Indiana University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Papers will be distributed in advance. Contact Robyn Angley
(rangley@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:rangley@fas.harvard.edu>) for more information.
Sunday, November 13
Film Screening
Boston Jewish Film Festival screening sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies
Lenin in October
The Boston Jewish Film Festival presents Lenin in October, an off-beat comedy directed by
Evgeny Ruman (2010, 50 min.), and The Decision Maker directed by Yagil (2010, 41
minutes).
Films introduced by Sasha Senderovich, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the
Humanities, Tufts University
2:45 p.m.
Alfond Auditorium
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5523 Tel: 617-267-9300
Free and open to the public. For more information:
http://bjff.festivalgenius.com/2011/films/lenininoctober_evgenyruman_bjff20…
Sunday, November 13
Special Event
Conference on the Contemporary Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora
Welcoming Remarks & Roundtable Discussion: "The Russian-Speaking Jewish
Immigrants: Impressions from the Field"
Terry Martin, George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies; Director, Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Moderator: Zvi Gitelman, Conference Co-Chair and Professor, Political Science and Preston
R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
Pinchas Goldschmidt, Chief Rabbi of Moscow; President of the Conference of European
Rabbis
Barry Shrage, President, Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Boston
Sergey Lagodinsky, Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin
Vladimir Khanin, Chief Scientist, Israeli Ministry of Immigrant Absorption; Senior
Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010 (Tsai Auditorium)
7:30-9:00 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
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Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard University Parking
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enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the
Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772.
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