Summer 2006 Notes from the Director Volume 23, Number 2
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ISSN 1536-4003 University of California, Berkeley Newsletter of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Summer 2006 Notes from the Director Volume 23, Number 2 In this issue: This has been a very eventful and enjoyable year for all of us. I would like to thank our speakers, students, friends, Notes from the Director ................... 1 Lectures of AY 2005–06 .................. 2 visitors, associates, faculty, staff, and curious onlookers for Conferences of AY 2005–06 ........... 4 providing us with so much timely information, intellectual Polina Barskova stimulation, and lively companionship. Off-Center: Towards the Problem of Marginality in the Early Soviet Film ... 5 It is time to say goodbye to our visiting scholars: Dr. Library News: Slavic Collections..... 9 Svetlana Adonieva (Fulbright scholar from St. Petersburg), Faculty and Student News ............ 10 Denis Alexeev (Carnegie Fellow from Saratov State), Upcoming Events ........................... 11 Daunis Auers (Fulbright from Latvia), Maya Haber (inde- Denis Alexeev Russia’s “Strategic Partnership” pendent scholar from London), and three Junior Faculty with the United States: Development Program scholars from the former Yugosla- Predetermined Breakup? ........... 12 via—Zoran Cirovic from Belgrade and Kresimir Krnovic Outreach Programs....................... 19 and Sanja Potkonjak from Zagreb. We wish you all the best Fellowship Opportunities .............. 21 and hope to see you again someday. Thank you all! Associates of the Slavic Center .... 22 Recent Publication ........................ 24 Also leaving, I am afraid, is our administrative analyst, Patricia (Pat) Stevens, who is moving to the office of the Newsletter of the Institute of Slavic, Executive Vice Chancellor. Pat has been a wonderful East European, and Eurasian Studies employee and remains a great friend. We wish her all the University of California, Berkeley best in her new job. Institute of Slavic, East European, and The newest member of our team is Gloria Ore, who Eurasian Studies 260 Stephens Hall # 2304 will be taking on Pat’s responsibilities. We are very happy Berkeley, CA 94720-2304 to have Gloria at ISEEES; please stop by to say hello when [email protected] you get a chance. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~iseees/ Thank you all again! Have a good summer and come back for more in the fall. Editors: Stella Bourgoin and Barbara Voytek. Yuri Slezkine Subscriptions are free of charge. ISEEES Director Submit mailing changes to the above Professor of History address or call (510) 642-3230. Please send suggestions, corrections, or inquiries to the Newsletter editors at the address above. We welcome your comments and suggestions. Public Lectures in 2005–06 Cosponsored by ISEEES Svetlana Adonieva, Folklorist and Anthropologist, St. Ales Erjavec, Professor and Research Director at the Petersburg University and ISEEES Visiting Scholar, “Dukh Institute of Philosophy, Scientific Research Center of the Pushkina” and “Muzhskie i zhenskie vozrastnye klassye, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana vozrastnye krizisy i rechevaia praktika: Traditsionnye University, “The New Conditions of Art: The Case of strategii povedeniia v post-sovetskoi krestyanskoi Rossii” Central and Eastern Europe” Ronelle Alexander, Professor, Department of Slavic James Felak, Associate Professor, Department of History, Languages and Literatures, “Divided We Stand: The Fate University of Washington, “Roman Catholic Strategies of of Serbo-Croatian” Survival in Slovakia, 1945–1948: The Cases of Four Activist Priests” Denis Alexeev, Associate Professor of History, Saratov State University, Russia and ISEEES Visiting Scholar, Robert Frost, Professor of Early Modern History and “Russia’s ‘Strategic Partnership’ with the United States: Head of the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy, Toward a New Level of Relations” University of Aberdeen, “‘Anarchy Is Our Strength’: The Principle of Unanimity and the Dangers of Majority Voting Daunis Auers, Lecturer, Department of Political Science, in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1569–1795” University of Latvia and ISEEES Visiting Scholar, “Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the European Union: Maya Haber, Ph.D. Candidate, School of History, Whither Baltic Unity?” Classics, and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London and ISEEES Visiting Scholar, “Social Science Polina Barskova, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Slavic Fiction: The Art of Choosing a Typical Village in the Soviet Languages and Literatures, “Dissonant Novelists, Echoing Countryside” Novels: Transformations of Tradition in Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak” Igal Halfin, Department of History, Tel Aviv University and Fellow, the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Brian Boyd, Distinguished Professor, Department of Studies, Princeton University, “The NKVD’s Dialogical English, University of Auckland, “Evolution and Fiction: Imagination: The Politics and Poetics of Stalinist The Odyssey” Interrogations” Keith Brown, Assistant Professor of International Studies, Ana Hofman, Faculty of Art, Department of The Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown Ethnomusicology, University of Nis, Serbia, “Gendered University, “Only Connect: Macedonia, Global Citizenship, Tradition: The Role of Female Singers in the Musical and the Clash of Civilizations” Practices of Southeast Serbia” William Brumfield, Professor of Russian Studies, Tulane Brian Horowitz, Associate Professor of Russian and University, “The Revival of Russia’s Spiritual Heritage: Director of the Jewish Studies Program, Tulane University, The Tikhvin-Dormition Monastery and the Return of the “Jewish Intellectuals in Late-Czarist Russia: Culture, Tikhvin Icon” Education, and Politics” Oleg Budnitskii, Professor, Institute of Russian History, Sergei Ivanov, Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Moscow, “The Causes of Pogroms, or Gunshots from Studies, Moscow State University and Senior Research Behind” Associate, Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, “Ivan the Terrible vs. Nicholas the Blessed: The John Chapman, Department of Archaeology, University Holy Fools and the Muscovite State” of Durham, UK, “The Exploitation of Salt in Eurasian Prehistory” Alla Kassianova, Department of International Relations, Tomsk State University and Humanities and International Lucy Der Manuelian, the Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Studies Fellow, Stanford University, “The Russian Defense Oztemel Professor of Armenian Art, Tufts University, Industry Under Putin” “Diamonds, Dragons, and Crosses: The Story of Armenian Rug Weaving” ISEEES Newsletter Summer 2006 / 2 Gail Kligman, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Marc Nichanian, Associate Professor, Columbia Center for European and Eurasian Studies, UC Los University, “The End of Armenian Futurism” Angeles, “Class Warfare and the Politics of Difference: Collectivization in Romania, 1949–1962” Riccardo Nicolosi, Department of Slavic Studies, University of Constance, Germany, “Mikrokosmos novogo: Michal Kopecek, Institute of Contemporary History, Kunstkamera, Peterburg i simvolicheskii poriadok Prague and Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Endicott College, petrovskoi epokhi” “A Culture of Emancipation, National Interest, or Solidarity? The Idea of Central Europe After 1989” Razmik Panossian, Director of Policy, Programs and Planning, Rights and Democracy, Canada, “The Volodymyr Kulyk, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Armenians: From Kings and Priests to Merchants and Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Commissars” Sciences, Ukraine, “Reconstructing Common Sense: Soviet Nationalities Policy and Post-Soviet Ukrainian Ideologies Serge Petroff, Historian and ISEEES Associate, “Report of Language and Ethnicity” from the Oblasts: The Volga and the Urals” John P. LeDonne, Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Pavel Podvig, Research Associate, Center for Security and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, “Ethnicity, Identity, Cooperation, Stanford University, “Spy Mania in Russia” and Violence in Russia’s Borderlands: The Eighteenth Century” Victor Shnirelman, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, “The Politics Mark Lipovetsky, Associate Professor, Department of of Name in the North Caucasus: A Struggle Over the Alan German and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University Heritage” of Colorado at Boulder, “Strategies of Violence in Soviet Culture: Mythical and Divine” Timothy Snyder, Associate Professor, Department of History, Yale University, “A Cold War in Miniature: The Leonid Livak, Department of Slavic Languages and Polish-Soviet Secret War for Ukraine, 1926–1939” Literatures, University of Toronto, “France’s Russian Secret: Russian Emigrés in French Cultural Life, 1920– David Stone, Assistant Professor, Department of History, 1940” Kansas State University and Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, “Trotskii and the Red Arek Marciniak, Professor of Archaeology, University of Army: Building the Soviet State, 1918–1925” Poznan, Poland, and Former Secretary of the European Association of Archaeologists, “Small-scale Social Ronald Suny, Professor of History, University of Changes Among Early Farmers in the European Neolithic: Michigan, “Looking Anew at the Young Stalin: The House, Cattle, and Food” Making of a Bolshevik” Sergei Markov, Deputy Head of the Commission on Maria Todorova, Professor of History, University of International Cooperation, Public Chamber of the Russian Illinois