EVENTS

2009-2010

FALL 2009

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

Tuesday, December 1, 2009* Cancelled
Urban Culture and Threshold Modernity: Aesthetic Modernism in the “Peripheral” City: Tbilisi 1915–1930
Harsha Ram, University of California at Berkeley
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
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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

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*
 TBA
Bruce Grant, New York University
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall

Tuesday, February 23, 2010*
 Energy and U.S. Policy: the Caucasus and Beyod
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*
TBA
Margaret Paxson, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall

Tuesday, May 4, 2010*
 Georgia and Russia in the Summer War of 2008
Stephen Jones, Mt. Holyoke College
4:30 p.m., 219 Aaron Burr Hall

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