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Summer 2007 [Nlsummer2.Pdf] ISSN 1536-4003 University of California, Berkeley Newsletter of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Summer 2007 Notes from the Director Volume 24, Number 2 This has been a wonderful year. Thank you all for your loyalty, curiosity, and In this issue: good company. Notes from the Director ..........................1 We have said goodbye to our visiting scholars: Vesna Aleksic, an American New Courses of AY 2005–06 ..................2 Councils' Junior Faculty Fellow from the Department of Geoeconomics at Megatrend Campaign for the Miller Endowment University in Belgrade, Serbia; Neven Andjelic, Fulbright scholar from the Center Fund ........................................................2 for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Pavel Public Lectures of AY 2005-06 ...............3 Balditsyn, from the Department of Journalism at Moscow State University in Russia; Conferences of AY 2006-07 ....................4 Reyila Dawuti, professor at Xinjiang University in China; Victor Doenninghaus, a Sener Akturk postdoctoral scholar at the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg; Tobias Holzlehner, Explaining the Variation in Political Regime the BPS Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow from the Department of Anthropology, Outcomes after Communism: University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Denis Kozlov, a postdoctoral fellow from Canada, Displacement of the Communist Era who taught our Soviet history course in the spring to great acclaim; Rajna Sosic, an Nomenklatura and Democratization .........5 Faculty and Students News ...................12 American Councils' Junior Faculty Fellow from the Department of Archaeology at Kristen Ghodsee ........................................ the University of Zagreb, Croatia; and Julien Zarifian, Ph.D. candidate at the French Banning Headscarves in Bulgaria ....14 Institute of Geopolitics, Saint Denis University, France. Outreach Programs ................................21 Fellowship Opportunities ......................23 Also gone are our four CASE fellows from Irkutsk University and the University Recent Publications ...............................24 of Ekaterinburg in Russia (Maria Guzikova, Ludmila Igumnova, Dmitry Kozlov, and Associates of the Slavic Center .............27 Andrei Menshikov), who were here as part of a Field Development Project funded by the Carnegie Corporation and co-sponsored by the Centers for Advanced Studies Newsletter of the Institute of Slavic, East and Education (CASE) in Russia and UCB. The project brings Russian scholars to European, and Eurasian Studies Berkeley for two-week visits to help them review literature in their fields, meet with University of California, Berkeley colleagues, participate in workshops, and design new courses. Our first four fellows Institute of Slavic, East European, and benefited tremendously from this opportunity and enjoyed themselves very much Eurasian Studies –– and so did we. The five main reasons the first CASE visit went so well were 260 Stephens Hall # 2304 Christine Evans, Jody LaPorte, Regine Spector, and Susanne Wengle, the graduate Berkeley, CA 94720-2304 students who did most of the work, and of course our own Kalynn Yastro, who made [email protected] it all possible. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~iseees/ But the saddest departure of all is that of our long-time Newsletter editor, outreach coordinator, and all-around wonderful person, Stella Bourgoin, who has decided to Editors: Stella Bourgoin and Barbara spend more time at home with her baby daughter, Adele Marie. We will miss her very Voytek. much, hope she will come see us often, and wish her and Adele the very best. Subscriptions are free of charge. Submit Finally, this year is the 50th anniversary of the founding of our institute. To mark mailing changes to the above the occasion, we are organizing a special conference: “Remembering 1957: The Cold address or call (510) 642-3230. War and the Development of Slavic Studies at Berkeley.” All the participants are ISEEES special friends and alumni. The date is Wednesday, October 3. Please come Please send suggestions, corrections, or and help us celebrate! inquiries to the Newsletter editors at the address above. We welcome your Thank you all again! Have a good summer and come back for more in the fall. comments and suggestions. Yuri Slezkine ISEEES Director Professor of History New Courses in 2006-7 Supported by ISEEES ISEEES, with partial assistance from the Department of Education grant under Title VI, was pleased to help in funding of the following new courses in 2006-7: Anthro 188 Chinese Muslims: Religious History and Ethnography. Rahile Dawut, Professor of the Humanities, Xinjiang University, China Econ 163 Special Topics in Economic Systems (Post-socialism). Melanie Feakins, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, UCB Geog 170 Post-socialist Spaces. Melanie Feakins, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, UCB Hist 100.3 Polish-Jewish Relations in the 20th Century. Konstanty Gebert, Journalist and News Editor, Warsaw IAS 150.3 Europe and Human Rights: History, Theory and Practice. Neven Andjelic, Fulbright Scholar, Sarajevo Journ 234 International Reporting: Eastern Europe. Sandy Tolan, Lecturer in the School of Journalism, UCB Music 139.1/ Hist 100.3/ Russian-Jewish Music: History and Today. Izaly Zemtsovsky, Visiting Associate Professor in IAS, UCB IAS 150 NES C26/ Introduction to Central Asia. Sanjyot Mehendale, Lecturer in Near East Studies, UCB Geog C55 CAMPAIGN FOR THE COLIN AND ELSA MILLER ENDOWMENT FUND The Annual Colin Miller Memorial Lecture honors the memory of a man who was devoted to the Center for Slavic and East European Studies (as ISEEES was called then). After more than twenty years as a journalist and as a radio and television producer, Colin Miller came to Berkeley and audited a variety of courses on Soviet history, politics, and foreign policy, particularly in the area of Soviet-American relations. His interest in the field of Slavic, East European and Soviet studies drew the attention of the Chancellor of UC Berkeley who appointed him a member of the Center’s Executive Committee. Upon his death in 1983, his widow, Elsa Miller established an endowment in his memory, administered by ISEEES. The endowment funds an annual lecture given by a respected scholar in the field of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. Elsa Miller passed away in 1997. Upon her death, ISEEES renamed the endowment the Colin and Elsa Miller Endowment. Since 1984, when the series was inaugurated, the Colin Miller Memorial Lecture has become an extremely well known, well attended, and eagerly anticipated event in the life of our Institute, the University of California as a whole, and the field of Russian and East European studies in this country and beyond. Unfortunately, however, we may not be able to keep doing this at the same level for much longer. The Colin and Elsa Miller Endowment that supports the annual lecture is not very large. The costs attached to the event are growing faster than the principal of the endowment, and soon we will not be able to bring top people to Berkeley anymore. We would, therefore, like to attempt to raise additional funds in an effort to preserve this valuable tradition. We have been able to progress toward this goal with a generous gift from Elsa Miller’s daughter. Now, we are asking those of you who remember this fine man and friend of the Institute to consider making a donation. Please help us continue the great tradition that is the Annual Colin Miller Memorial Lecture. Send a check, payable to UC Regents, to ISEEES, 270 Stephens Hall MC 2304, University of California, Berkeley 94720, Attention: Colin and Elsa Miller Endowment. Or donate on-line at https://egiving. berkeley.edu/urelgift/index.html. Click “A-Z Giving,” then “Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Institute of.” Note in the comments field that the gift is for the Miller Endowment. Thank you. ISEEES Newsletter Summer 2007 / 2 Public Lectures in 2006–07 Cosponsored by ISEEES Laurie Cohen, Ph.D., Institute for Political Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria. “Tsar Nicholas II and Baroness Bertha von Suttner: A Caricature Analysis of the First International Peace Conference at The Hague, 1899.” Rahile Dawuti, Professor, School of Humanities, Xinjiang University, China; Visiting Scholar, ISEEES. “Mazar (Shrine) Visitation and Sufi Rituals Among the Uyghur in Xinjiang.” Isabelle Delpla, Assistant Professor in Philosophy, University of Montpellier, France. “Topoi of International Justice: The Social Effects of War Crimes Trials in Bosnia- Herzegovina.” Ann Dwyer, Department of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley. “Of Hats and Trains: Nikolai Leskov and Fyodor Dostoevsky Between Russia and The West.” Jasna Dragovic-Soso, Ph.D (Department of Politics, Goldsmiths College, University of London) and Peter N. Melissa Frazier, Sarah Lawrence College. “Romantic Kujachich on the occasion of the Seventh Annual Peter N. Kujachich Endowed Lecture, April 19, 2007. Authorship in the “Library for Reading”: Writing to Customers and Friends.” Liz Fuller, Editor-in-Chief of RFE/RL Newsline and Neven Andjelic, Lecturer at the Center for Interdisciplinary Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution; Aslan Dukayev, Postgraduate Studies, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Director of the North Caucasus Service, RFE/ RL and Visiting Scholar, ISEEES. “Bosnia-Herzegovina after the Visiting Scholar, Hoover Institution. “The Radicalization Elections.” and Geographic Spread of the Conflict
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