You are invited to attend a special seminar: Friday, December 10 Historians' Special Roundtable Co-sponsored by the Davis Center, Harvard University, and the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan "Imperial Perspectives on Social Transformation: Re-Examining Sosloviia in the Wake of the Great Reforms" Chair: Kelly O'Neill, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University; Davis Center Faculty Associate Organizer and introduction: Yoko Aoshima, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center, Harvard University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan "Russification as a Search for Social Simplicity? Ethnicity, Confession, and Estate (Soslovie) in the 19th century Russian Empire's West" Mikhail Dolbilov, Assistant Professor of Russian and Soviet History, University of Maryland "Status in the Mountains" Austin Jersild, Associate Professor of History, Old Dominion University "Social Categories and the Search for Social Consciousness in Russian Imperial History" Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse, Room S050 4:15-6:45 p.m. Please RSVP to daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu> by Monday, December 6 if you plan to attend. To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard University Parking Services<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu