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Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Program of Events
The colloquium panels and film screening will take place at the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level. Please note that the exhibition opening will be across the street in CGIS Knafel, Fisher Family Commons.
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1:00 -- S020 |
Welcome
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Timothy J.
Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government
and Russian Studies; Director, Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies |
| 1:15-2:45 -- S020 |
Panel I |
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Jorina Gjinari, Wheaton College, "The Dissolution of the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro" |
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Katherine Peisker, Harvard College, "The Post-Communist Development of Church-State Relations in Russia and Ukraine" |
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Amy Boyle, Wheaton College, "United States Missile Defense in Poland" |
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Scott Gill, Wheaton College, "Liberalism and the Post-Soviet Russian Experience" |
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Chair: Timothy J. Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University; Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies |
| 1:15-2:45 -- S050 |
Panel II |
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Liise Lehtsalu, Wellesley College, "Female Deportees’ Exile Experiences in USSR, 1939-1956" |
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Anna Whittington, Harvard College, "At the Mercy of Ostpolitik? West German-Soviet Relations, NGOs, and Ethnic German Emigration, 1955-1982" |
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Gina S. Lentine, Wellesley College, "National Identity and Political Liberalism in the Former Soviet Space: The Cases of Solidarity in Poland and Pora in Ukraine" |
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Chair: Nina Tumarkin, Professor of History, Wellesley College; Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University |
| 3:15-4:45 -- S020 |
Panel III |
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Daniel J. Schulte, Harvard College, "The 'Erotic Utopia' Reinterpreted: Nabokov, Soloviev, and Fin De Siecle St. Petersburg" |
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Olga Zhulina, Harvard College, "Love between Languages: Franco-Russian Translation in Andreï Makine’s Le testament français" |
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Juli Min, Harvard College, "Love in Writing: Memory, Time, and Anticipation in Nabokov and Proust" |
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Emmett McDermott, Harvard College, "The Death of Satire: Satiric Atrophy and The Master and Margarita" |
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Chair: Jonathan Bolton, Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University |
| 3:15-4:45 -- S050 |
Panel IV |
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Abigail Lees, Wellesley College, "Policy toward Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health in Russia, 1985-Present" |
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Jan Zilinsky, Harvard College, "Why Slovakia Needs a Health Care Reform" |
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Georgina Cannan, Wheaton College, "Forgotten in the System: The Russian Orphan Crisis" |
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Chair: David Powell, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Russian Studies, Wheaton College; Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University |
| 4:45-5:15 -- S010 |
Film Screening |
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Alexander Berman, Harvard College: Songs from the Tundra |
| 5:30-6:30 -- CGIS Knafel, Fisher Family Commons |
Photography Exhibition Opening Reception |
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Encountering Eurasia: Portraits of Student Experience |
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