Davis Center: "Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies"

Multidisciplinary research presentations by advanced undergraduates from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges.

Opening Remarks - 1:45-2:00 p.m.

Panel I - 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Oleksandra Lozytska, Wheaton College, The Idea of a European Ukraine

Lane Baker, Harvard College, New World in the North: Renaissance Debates on the Riphean Mountains, 1517-1550

Ethan FitzGerald, Wheaton College, Applying International Relations Theory to Contemporary Policy: Understanding Russia’s Behaviors and Goals in Syria

Chair: Jeanne Wilson, Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of Russian Studies and Department Chair, Wheaton College; Center Associate, Davis Center

Panel II - 3:15-4:15 p.m. 

Anna Page, Wellesley College, The Construction, Evolution, and Use of a Memory: The Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet and German National Narratives

Hana Connelly, Harvard College, Caucasian Encounters in Captivity: Blurring Cultures, Fact, and Fiction in 19th Century Russian Captive Narratives

Clio Flikkema, Wellesley College, Guardian of Culture: Soviet and Russian Memory of the Preservation of Artistic Heritage in World War II

Chair: Justin Weir, Chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures / Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center

Panel III - 4:30-5:30 p.m. 

Sasha Benov, Harvard College, Variation in Czech: The Use of the Prothetic v in Informal Speech

Lyubov Kapko, Wellesley College, Tracking Trains: An Exploration of Recurring Railway Imagery in Anna Karenina

Claire Atwood, Harvard College, Transfiguring History: Three Epic Poems about Peter the Great, 1803-1812

Chair: Michael Flier, Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center

Image credit: Avery Bennet, "-57° Outside Gradoyakutskiy Saint Nicholas Church, Yakutsk," Yakutsk, Russia