EVENTS 2007-2008
Brown Bag Series - October 15, 2007 - Bowden 323, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
"Back to the Future: Nationalist Historiographies in Post-Soviet Caucasia " Talk by Stephen Rapp, Associate Professor of Caucasian, Byzantine, and Eurasian History and Director of the Program in World History and Cultures, Department of History, Goergia State University; and Executive Secretary of the Southeast World History Association.
Lecture - October 29, 2007 - White Hall 112, 2:00 p.m.
"Regime Change in Eastern Europe - Lessons Learnt and Not Learnt " Lecture by Peter Akos Bod, Professor in the Department of Economic Policy at Corvinus University, Budapest.
Gathering/Concert - October 30, 2007 - Music Building 108, 7:30 p.m.
"Commemorating the Day of the Political Prisoner." Commemorative concert co-sponsored by the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Brown Bag - November 12, 2007 - Bowden 323, 12:50-1:40 p.m.
"Parties of Power and Commitment Problems: The Case of United Russia." Talk by John Reuter, PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at Emory University.
Brown Bag - November 26, 2007 - Bowden 323, 12:00 noon
"The Color of Pomegranates: The Film that Might Have Been." Talk by James Steffen, Film Studies Librarian and Media Liaison at Emory University.
Exhibition Opening - December 5, 2007 - Martin Luther King Jr., National Historic Site
"GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom" Traveling exhibition.
Discussion - December 11, 2007 - White Hall 205, 7:30 p.m.
"An Evening with Sergei Kovalev." Presented in conjunction with the MLK/Carter Center GULag Exhibition.
Exhibition - December 12, 2007 (opening) - The King Center, Atlanta, GA
Opening of the traveling exhibition "GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom".
Film Screening - December 12, 2007 - White Hall 208, 6:00 p.m.
Screening of Tovarisch I am not Dead in conjunction with the traveling exhibition "GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom".
Film Screening - December 13, 2007 - The King Center, Atlanta, Georgia, 6:00 p.m.
Screening of Lulu and the Girls of Americus, Georgia 1963 in conjunction with the traveling exhibition "GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom".
Area Studies Reception - February 8, 2008 - Jones Room, Woodruff Library, 3:00 p.m.
2007 Area Studies Reception. Co-sponsors: East Asian Studies Program, Emory-Tibet Partnership, Institute of African Studies, Irish Studies program, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, and South Asian Studies Program. Invitation only.
Film Screening - January 25, 2007 - White Hall 208, 6:00 p.m.
Screening of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in conjunction with the traveling exhibition "GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom".
Lecture - February 8, 2008 - Candler Library 212, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
"Was Communism a Jewish Conspiracy? Why so Many Communists Were Jews and so Few Jews Were Communists", Lecture by Zvi Gitelman, Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. This event is co-sponsored by the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University.
Conference - Spring 2008 (TBA) - Emory University
"Southern Conference of Slavic Studies." Hosted by Emory University.
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