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

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 15, 2016** 

 01:45PM - 05:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS South, Rm. S020 (Belfer Case Study Room), 1730 Cambridge St.**  



 

 



 

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*

*Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.*

For more information, please call 617-495-4037.



 

 



 

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