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The Havighurst Center for Russian & Post-Soviet Studies Fall 2009 Newsletter IN THIS ISSUE Director’s Letter Memories of 1989 Upcoming Events Student Travels Fall Classes Study Abroad Building the Wall Spring Classes Campus News Funding Opportunities Director’s Message It was 6:00p.m. on November 9, 1989. I was driving home on the Capital Beltway in Washington, DC, when I heard that the Berlin Wall had fallen and East Germans were flooding into the West. I was shaking so hard I had to pull over to the side of the road, sitting in jubilation and shock at this wonderful news. I thought it would never happen. I was convinced that neither the United States nor the British and French, nor the Russians would allow the wall to be breached. All had their own interests uppermost in mind. What was my evidence for this? I had heard former Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski push a European group to think about the positive consequences for Europe if it were reunited. But the British and French members of the group had resisted even discussing any change in the division of Europe. In the United States, I had worked for two years at the State Department when Gorbachev came to power and, until Ronald Reagan forced the bureaucracy to rethink their assessment of Gorbachev, his initiatives of glasnost and perestroika were treated as PR campaigns designed to weaken the West. A book I published in 1988, one year before the fall of the Wall, was reviewed by The Economist in London, which stated that “[c]ontrary to the impression sometimes left by this book, Europe, West and East, is not striving to unify itself.” But nothing could have been further from the truth. Contrary to the interests of elites in all these countries, the people of Eastern Europe took step-by- step measures to undermine and de-legitimize the socialist system. Nevertheless, in thinking back about 1989, I recall it indeed as a moment of the ‘incredible lightness of being.’ Ordinary people, including poets, playwrights, artists, workers, rock musicians, and most of all students, had enormous agency. They really did change the course of history. And in completely non- violent ways. This semester, the Havighurst Center will celebrate this wonderful moment in history. There will be special classes, lectures, musical events, the building (and inevitable tearing down) of a wall, and a trip to Berlin over Thanksgiving week. We invite you to participate. Go to our website and our Facebook page for the continual updates. We welcome your ideas, energy and contribution. -Karen Dawisha UPCOMING EVENTS September 15 Boris Kargarlitsky, Institute of Global Studies Russia Since the Fall of Communism 5:00pm, Harrison Hall 204 co-sponsored with the Department of Classics, GREAL, Political Science, and International Programs September 16-December 9 Film Screenings: Cultures and Identities of Eastern Europe Wednesdays, 5:30pm, Irvin Hall 40 see complete schedule on page 5 September 28-December 7 Havighurst Colloquia: Politics, Society and Culture in East Europe since 1989 Mondays, 12:20pm, Harrison Hall 209 See complete schedule on page 6 October 5-8 Film Series: Revisiting 1989--Recent Romanian Cinema 7:00pm, Harrison Hall 012 sponsored by Film Studies See complete schedule on page 7 October 19 Havighurst Annual Lecture Philip Dimitrov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria First Steps of the Post-Communist Transition - Logic and Myths Harrison Hall 204, 4:00pm October 26 Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian Novelist/Poet My Ultimate Territory: A Writer Reflects about East Central Europe Hall Auditorium, Green Room, 2:15pm October 29-31 Young Researchers Conference: 1989--Then and Now See complete schedule on page 11 *Thursday, October 29, Keynote Lecture: Valerie Bunce, Cornell University, The Lesson of 1989: Democracy, Dictatorship and Diffusion Harrison Hall 111, 5:00pm *Friday, October 30, Keynote Lecture: Dominic Boyer, Rice University Was 1989 an Extinction Event? Rethinking the Juncture of Late Socialism and Late Liberalism in Europe 3:00-5:00, Irvin Hall 40 *Friday, October 30-Saturday, October 31, Conference Panels Miami Inn, A/B Room 2 UPCOMING EVENTS continued... November 9 Josef Joffe, publisher of Die Zeit Twenty Years Later: Which Way Did the Wall Fall? 12:30pm, MacMillan Hall 212 November 19-28 Study Tour of Berlin See details on page 19 Tuesday, December 1 Havighurst Center Annual Open House Celebrating the career of political science professor emeritus Dan Jacobs: 50 years of teaching at Miami. Harrison Hall 116, 5:00-7:00pm All are invited to come join us for regional holiday food and cheer! co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science December 1 Miami Symphony Orchestra Freedom & Joy: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall Hall Auditorium, 7:30pm Also of Interest: Faculty Learning Community: An Energy-based Curriculum Cross-disciplinary collaborations between many scientific areas, including applied research and social science, are needed for successful introduction of new energy supply and end-use technologies necessary to combat the unprecedented challenge of supporting human growth and progress while protecting global and local environments. -Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, November 2007 Energy is at the core of Ohio’s economic and environmental health: energy built our past, energy sustains our present, and energy holds the promise of an even brighter future. - Ohio Governor Ted Strickland, May 2007 The above quotes emphasize the global, regional, and local dimensions of energy that permeate modern society. Our global society is at a crossroads of energy policy and decisions that will shape the future sustainability of natural, economic, and political systems. Today’s students will be the scientists, engineers, and policymakers of our energy future. This year, a new faculty learning community will begin to answer this challenge by developing An Energy-Based Curriculum that will promote interdisciplinary education and scholarship on energy solutions with the goals of promoting sustainable development, geopolitical security, economic growth, and sound environmental practices. This FLC will provide a year-long forum to explore and develop a curriculum that has a focus on energy and sustainability across disciplines. Participants will engage in seminars and discussions and work in teams to develop this new curriculum and to prepare grant proposals aimed at funding curricular and programmatic initiatives. 3 FALL 2009 CLASSES ATH/HST/POL/REL/RUS 254 POL 471 Introduction to Russian & Eurasian Gorbachev & the End of the Cold War Studies 2:00pm-4:50pm, R MCG 311 2:15pm-3:30pm TR UPH 249 Dawisha, Karen Norris, Stephen REL 180A ATH 306 Religion & Russian Culture Peoples and Cultures of Russia 11:15am-12:30pm TR OMN 110 9:30am-10:45am WF SHD 229 Note: Honors Program Klumbyte, Neringa Kenworthy, Scott ATH 384 RUS 101 A Anthropology of Capitalism: Russia Beginners Russian 12:45pm-2:00pm, WF UPH 160 11:15am-12:20pm MWF MCG 416 Klumbyte, Neringa Sutcliffe, Benjamin FST/RUS 272 RUS 101 B East European Literature & Film Beginners Russian 2:15pm-3:05pm MWF and 2:15pm-3:20pm MWF IRV 046 5:30-8:00pm W IRV 120 Sutcliffe, Benjamin Chernetsky, Vitaly RUS 201 HST 428/528 Intermediate Russian Russia’s War and Peace 10:10am-11:00am MWF MCG 416 11:15am-12:30pm TR UPH 262 Chernetsky, Vitaly Norris, Stephen RUS 256 ITS 402O Russian Literature: Tolstoy-Nabokov Transition to Democracy 9:05am-9:55am MWF BEN 115 12:45pm-3:25pm R MCG 317 Sutcliffe, Benjamin Sharafutdinova, Gulnaz RUS 301 POL 331 Advanced Russian Development of the Soviet Polity 11:15am-12:05pm MWF MCG 224 9:30am-10:45am WF HRN 313 Ziolkowski, Margaret Ganev, Venelin RUS 411 POL 440/540, HST 436/536 Advanced Conversation, Composition, Havighurst Seminar: Politics, Society, and Reading and Culture in East Europe Since 1989 12:45pm-1:35pm MWF IRV 224 12:20pm-2:00pm M HRN 209 Chernetsky, Vitaly Ganev, Venelin 4 Film Screenings in conjunction with the course RUS/FST 272 CULTURES AND IDENTITIES OF EASTERN EUROPE: AN INTRODUCTION THROUGH LITERATURE AND FILM Wednesdays, 5:30 P.M. 40 Irvin Hall Sept. 16 The Pianist (Poland/France/USA, 2002) Sept. 23 Fateless (Hungary, 2005) Sept. 30 Closely Watched Trains (Czechoslovakia, 1966) Oct. 7 Ashes and Diamonds (Poland, 1958) 120 Irvin Hall Oct. 14 When Father Was Away on Business (Yugoslavia, 1985) Oct. 21 Another Way (Hungary, 1982) Oct. 28 Blind Chance (Poland, 1987) Nov. 4 The Oak (Romania, 1992) Nov. 11 Underground (Yugoslavia, 1995) Nov. 18 Good-Bye, Lenin! (Germany, 2003) Dec. 2 Kolya (Czech Republic, 1996) Dec. 9 Boys Don’t Cry (Poland, 2000) The screenings are free, and everyone is welcome! 5 Havighurst Colloquia Series Politics, Society, and Culture in East Europe Since 1989 HST 436/536, POL 440/540, REL 470/570 Prof. Venelin Ganev, POL Mondays, 12:20-2:00, 209 Harrison Hall September 28 Karen Dawisha, Director, Havighurst Center, and Professor of Political Science, Miami University Gorbachev and Eastern Europe October 19 Philip Dimitrov, former Prime Minister of Bulgaria, and Visiting Professor, Christopher Newport University How Did Zhivkov’s Regime Fall ? The Communists, the Dissidents and the Democrats November 16 Padraic Kenney, Professor of History, Indiana University, Bloomington 1989 as a World Historical Moment Nov. 30, Yawei Liu, Director of China Program, The Carter Center The Impact of the Tiananmen Square Incident on China’s Quest for Democratization December 7 Ron Linden, Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh The Meaning & Consequences of 1989 6 Revisiting 1989: Recent Romanian Cinema Film series organized by Stephen Norris, Director of Film Studies and Oana Godeanu, American Studies All films will be in Harrison 012 at 7:00pm October 5-8, 2009 Monday, October 5 12:08 East of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost?).
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