2011-2012

Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Legacies and Departures in the Russian State Executive
Eugene Huskey, Stetson University
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Tuesday, February 1, 2011
The Mixed Legacies of Communism in Eastern Europe
Jeffrey Kopstein, University of Toronto
4:30 pm
219 Aaron Burr Hall

Tuesday, March 22, 2011
What Is a Historical Legacy?
Jason Wittenberg, University of California at Berkeley
4:30 p.m.
219 Burr Hall

Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Why do the Post-Soviet States Still Seem Addicted to Political Technology?
Andrew Wilson, European Council on Foreign Relations
CANCELLED

Nonseries Events and Lectures:

Soviet blockbusters film series

Thursday, September 30, 2010
Mystic Chords of Russian Memory: Post-Soviet Politics of History in Comparative Perspective
Nikolay Koposov, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
4:30 p.m.
219 Burr Hall

October 4, 5, and 6, 2010
The Leon B. Poullada Memorial Lecture Series
The Making of Soviet Central Asia
Adeeb Khalid, Carleton College
4:30 p.m.
Bowl 2 Robertson Hall

October 4: Central Asia between Empire and Revolution
October 5: The Triumph of the Nation
October 6: Islam between Reform and Revolution

Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Gorbachev Anti-Alcohol Campaign and Russia's Mortality Crisis
Grant Miller, Stanford University
12:15-1:45 p.m.
300 Wallace Hall
Brown-bag lunch will be provided. Cosponsored by the Center for Health and Wellbeing and the Research Program in Development Studies.Contact: Lillian Anderson

Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Project Global Underground: Digital Artworks by Valera and Natasha Cherkashin
To be held in conjunction with an artist talk and panel discussion
4:30 p.m.
219 Burr Hall
A reception will immediately follow the talks in the Bernstein Gallery, Lower Level, Robertson Hall at 6 p.m.
Cosponsored with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

October 29-30, 2010
Conference
The Holocaust in Poland: New Findings and New Interpretations
10 a.m.- 6:30 p.m.
219 Burr Hall
Cosponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Council of the Humanities, University Center for Human Values, Center for the Study of Religion, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Department of History, and the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies. For more information please contact Jayne Bialkowski.

December 3, 2010
Greek Foreign Policy Toward the Black Sea Region: From Indifference to Engagement
Manos karagiannis, University of Macedonia; Visting Fellow, Program in Hellenic Studies
2 p.m.
103 Scheide Caldwell House
Cosponsored by the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Program in Hellenic Studies.

December 9, 2010
A Resolvable Frozen Conflict? The Domestic and International Politics of Self-Determination in Moldova and Transnistria
Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham
4:30 p.m.
Bowl 001, Robertson Hall
Sponsored by the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination. Contact: Angella Matheney

Thursday, February 3, 2011
Jewish-Russian Poets Bearing Witness to the Shoah
Maxim D. Shrayer, Boston College
4:30 p.m.
245 East Pyne
Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and LIteratuares

Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The Grey Cardinal of Simonov's Novyi mir: Aleksandr Krivitskii, World War II, and the Epistemology of the Thaw
Denis Kozlov, Dalhousie University
4:30 p.m.
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Monday, March 21, 2011
"Death is coming . . . What joy!": The Dying Tolstoy (1880-1910)
Irina Paperno, University of California Berkeley
4:30 p.m.
245 East Pyne
Sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and LIterataures

Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Russia and Napoleon
Dominic Lieven, London School of Economics
Noon.
210 Dickinson Hall
Sponsored by the Department of History Modern European Workshop

March 23, 2011
The European Union and Russia: Strategic Partners or Vexing Neighbors?
George Bustin, Princeton University
Noon
450 Robertson Hall
Organized by the EU Program an cosponsored by the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society

Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Early Nuclear History: What We Know and Don't know about the First Years of the Atomic Bomb
Michael Gordin, Princeton University
4:30 p.m..
Lewis Library 138
Lewis Library Book Talk

Monday, April 4, 2011
“The Politics of Translating Soviet Pseudo-Science”
Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication Lunch Series
Michael Gordin
Princeton University
Noon
216 Aaron Burr Hall

Monday, April 11, 2011
Living Space: Russian Theater in Putin's Capital
Monika Greenleaf (Stanford University)
Commentator: Michael Reynolds, Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies
4:30 p.m.
245 East Pyne

Tuesday, April 12, 2011
The Russian Presence in Palestine in the 19th Century:  How to Integrate the Holy Land to ‘Holy Russia’
Elena Astafieva (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)
Commentator: Michael Reynolds, Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies
4:30 p.m.
245 East Pyne
This will be a discussion (in Russian) of a precirculated paper. Please contact Michael Gordin (mgordin@princeton.edu) after April 5, 2011, for a copy of the paper.

Thursday and Friday, April 21 and 22, 2011
Historical Legacies of Communism
Conference organized by Mark Beissinger and Stephen Kotkin
April 21, 1:00 – 5:00 pm
April 22, 9 – 5:30 pm (lunch will be provided)
219 Aaron Burr Hall
RSVP required. Contact Patricia Zimmer.
Cosponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Davis Center for Historical Studies, the Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, and the Program in Law and Public Affairs.

2009-2010
Russian and Eurasian Studies Lecture Series
The Caucasus: Zones of Contestation

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Can the Caucasus Have a History?
Charles King, Georgetown University
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
What's in a Name? Pedigree, Prestige, and Power in the Folklore of the Caucasus
John Colarusso, McMaster University
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
A Golden Age in the Combat Zone? Building Churches in Early Medieval Armenia
Christina Maranci, Tufts University
4:30 p.m. 219 Aaron Burr Hall

Nonseries Events and Lectures:

Thursday, October 1, 2009
The Nexus of Population, Health, and Environmental Issues in Russia
Murray Feshbach, Woodrow Wilson Centre
4:30 p.m., Bowl 1, Robertson Hall

Feshbach is a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Centre, in Washington D.C. He is also a research professor emeritus at Georgetown University. His expertise lies in population, health, and environment of Russia.

Monday, October 5, 2009
Did the U.S.-Russian Cold War Really End?
Stephen F. Cohen, New York University and professor of politics, Princeton University, emeritus
4:30 p.m.; Bowl 2, Robertson Hall

Cohen is a professor of Russian studies and history at New York University. He has written several books, including, Rethinking the Soviet Experience: Politics and History Since 1917; Sovieticus: American and Soviet Realities; Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888-1938; and most recently, Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia. He is also a CBS News consultant as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ph.D. Columbia University.

Thursday through Saturday, October 22-24, 2009
A Princeton University Conference on the 20th Anniversary of the Events of 1989
Conference sponsored by PIIRS, the Department of History, University Center for Human Values (sponsorship provided by a give in honor of James A. Moffett '29), Program in Law and Public Affairs, and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historial Studies
Oct. 22 1-8:00 p.m., Frist Campus Center Multipurpose Room B; Oct. 23 8:30 a.m.-10 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall; Oct. 24 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; 4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall

Monday, October 26, 2009
A Translation Workshop: Russian to English
Lynn Visson, U.N. Interpreter
4:30 p.m., 245 East Pyne

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Public lecture and book signing
Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University
4:30 p.m., Dodds Auditorium, Roberston Hall
Read press release

Monday, November 16, 2009
Theatre o f the Eighth Day's Encounter with the Princeton University Community
Polish Theater Group
4:30 p.m., East Pyne Hall

Founded in 1964, The Theatre of the Eighth Day was one of the most uncompromising theater groups in Communist Poland and remains just as uncompromising today. It made its U.S. debut to critical acclaim at the Made In Poland Festival in New York City in November, 2008, where it presented its 2007 avant-garde docudrama “The Files”  based on actual secret police reports between 1975 and 1983 on the Theatre’s actors. Four actors and one director will show fragments of their performances and discuss their work.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly
A Reading by Michael Gordin
5:30 p.m., Labyrinth Books, 122 Nassau Street, Princeton

Monday, December 7, 2009
Politicizing Islam: Tsarist Officials and Protesting Muslims in Russia's Volga Region, 1870-1905
James H. Meyer, Montana State University
Noon, Jones 202 (beverages, potato chips, and cookies will be provided)

Tuesday, December 8, 2009
June 21, 1941
Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University
4:30 p.m., 211 Dickinson

SPRING 2010

Russian and Eurasian Studies Lecture Series
The Caucasus: Zones of Contestation

Tuesday, February 2, 2010
The Social Life of Shrines in the Contemporary Caucasus
Bruce Grant, New York University
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall

Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Crossroads Modernity: Aesthetic Modernism and the Russian-Georgian Encounter
Harsha Ram, University of California - Berkeley
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall

Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Energy and U.S. Policy: The Caucasus and Beyond
Steven Levine, Businessweek
4:30 p.m. 219 Aaron Burr Hall

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Virtual Jihad in the 21st Century: The Case of Caucasus Emirate
Alexander Knysh, University of Michigan
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall

Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Kith, Kin, and Clan in a Kabardian Village: Figuring out Who's Who and Why it Matters in the North Caucasus
Margaret Paxson, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall

Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Thomas De Waal, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
TBA

Nonseries Events and Lectures:
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Kritika: A Remarkable Decade: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Symposium
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall

Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Fiction as Facts in Karamzin's Letters of a Russian Traveler
Gerda Panofsky
4:30 p.m., 245 East Pyne
Sponsored by Department of Slavic Language and Literatures

Monday, March 1, 2010
Veils of Contention: Gender, Islam, and Shifting Discourses of Social Justice in the Balkans
Kristen Ghodsee
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall
Sponsored by the Program in the Study of Women and Gender

Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Shush! Growing Up Jewish Under Stalin
Emil Draitser, Hunter College
4:30 p.m., Center for Jewish Life

Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Getting Global Attention: University Reform, Public Sociology, and Social Science Publishing in a Multilingual World
A discussion sponsored by Laboritorium: Russion Review of Social Research to celebrate the publication of its first issue. For more information go to www.soclabo.org/eng
Participants: Stephen Kotkin, Princeton; James Clark, former director of the University of California Press; Mischa Gabowitsch, Princeton and editor-in-chief, Laboritorum.
Noon, Wallace Hall, Marvin Bressler Conference Room (room 165)
Lunch will be provided.

Thursday, April 8, 2010
Witches and Healers of Modern Day Russia
Yelena Minyonok, Institute of World Literature
4:30 p.m., 245 East Pyne
Sponsored by the David A. Gardner '69 Magic Project

Friday, April 9, 2010
Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to Soviet Russia, 1921-1941
MichaelDavid-Fox, University of Maryland/Davis Center Fellow
10:15 a.m., 211 Dickinson

Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Hyperborea: Megalomania and Imperial Idea in the contemporary Russian Nationalist Myth
Victor Shnirelman, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
4:30 p.m., 216 Aaron Burr Hall

Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Bruno Schulz and the Jewish Tradition: Parody as Weltanschauung
Michal Pawel Markowski, Jagiellonian University, Krakow
4:30 p.m., 245 East Pyne

Monday, April 19, 2010
Derzhavin: Truth and Sincerity in Panegyric Poetry
Joachim Klein, University of Leiden, emeritus
4:30 p.m., 245 East Pyne
Cosponsored by the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Department of Slavic Language and Literatures

2008 - 2009
High Stalinism
Interdiscipinary Lecture Series

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
 Bronze Horsemen, Stone Flowers, and the Post-War Soviet Ballet
Timothy Scholl, Oberlin College.
4:30 p.m., Bowl 1 Robertson Hall

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2008
 Stalinist Elections as a Soviet Political Ritual: Kiev, 1946 - 1953
Serhy Yekelchyk, University of Victoria
4:30 p.m., Bowl 2 Robertson Hall

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2008
 Bad Painting under High Stalinism: The Socialist Body as Pastiche
Christina Kiaer, Northwestern University
4:30 p.m. Aaron Burr Hall

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2008
Jessica Allina-Pisano, University of Ottawa
4:30 p.m., 216 Aaron Burr Hall

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2008
 The Great Tunesmith' s Greatest Hit: A National Anthem for the Centuries
Laurel Fay, New York
4:30 p.m., Bowl 2 Robertson Hall

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2008
Susan Woodward, City University of New York
4:30 p.m., 216 Aaron Burr Hall

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2009
  Architecture of High Stalinism
Vladimir Paperny, Los Angeles
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall

MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2009
  Walking a Fine Line: Parables of the Sublime and the Subversive in Russina Video Art
Presented by Alisa Prudnikova, National Center for Creative Arts, Russia, and Lee Wells, International Fine Arts Consortium. The Program in English, showcasesrecent Russian video art. Cosponsored by the Department of Art and Archaeology, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures; the Program in European Cultural Studies, the Program in Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts.
4:30 p.m., 010 East Pyne

TUESDAY, MARCH 10,  2009
  Hypnosis, Amnesia, and an Antifascist School: Retrieving a Lost Script of the German War Experience in Stalingrad
Jochen Hellbeck, Rutgers University
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2009
  Public Goods and the Censure of Private Property in Russia (1860s - 1900s)
Ekaterina Pravilova, Princeton University
4:30 p.m., 211 Dickinson Burr Hall

TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2009
  A Party Minded Science and a Science Minded Party: The Lysenko Affair Revisited
Ethan Pollock, Brown University
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall

FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2009
Europe and Eurasia, 1989-2009: A Retrospective
Panelists: Andrew Moravcsik, professor of politics and international affairs, Woodrow Wilson School; Jean-Yves Haine, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute; and Harold James, professor of history and international affairs, director of Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society.
4:30 p.m., Robertson Hall, Bowl 16.