Current Events
Below are upcoming events sponsored
by the Havighurst Center, as well as related events hosted by other departments and
programs at Miami.
Fall 2009
1989: Then and Now
August 26-December 9
Film Screenings: Cultures and Identities of Eastern Europe
Wednesdays, 5:30pm, Irvin 120
September 15
Boris Kagarlitsky, Institute of Global Studies
Russia Since the Fall of Communism
Harrison Hall 204, 5:00pm
September 28-December 7
Havighurst Colloquia Series: Politics, Society and Culture in East Europe Since 1989
Mondays, 12:20pm, HRN 209
October 5-8
1989 Film Festival
Revisiting 1989: Recent Romanian Cinema
Featuring:
October 5: 12:08 East of Bucharest (2006)
October 6: The Paper Will Be Blue (2006)
October 7: The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006)
October 8: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (2007)
Harrison Hall 012, 7:00pm
October 12
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Director
Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies Northwestern University
Power, Victims, and Poetry:
Ukrainian-Jewish Poet Leonid Pervomaisky
120 Irvin Hall, 2:15 p.m.
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 28
Eunice Blavascunas, University of Washington
The King's Forest and Everyman's Mushroom: The Elite, Populism, and the Communist Past in the Bialowieza Forest
229 Shideler Hall, 9:30am
October 29-31, 2009
The 9th Annual International Young Researchers Conference: 1989 Then and Now
November 9
Josef Joffe, Publisher of Die Zeit
Twenty Years Later: Which Way Did the Wall Fall?
MacMillan Hall Great Room, 12:30pm
November 19-28
Study Tour in Berlin
December 1
4:00pm, King Library, Rm 320
The library will host a lecture by Dan Jacobs, professor emeritus in Political Science, on the subject of teaching about Russia and the Soviet Union, entitled 50 Years of Teaching Russia: Plus ca change,...? This will be followed by the dedication of a book purchased by the Library in his honor. (Sponsored by the University Libraries)
5:00-7:00pm, The Havighurst Center, Harrison Hall 116
Annual Open House, with guest of honor Dan Jacobs
Featuring traditional Russian food.
co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science and the College of Arts and Sciences
7:30pm, Hall Auditorium
The Miami Symphony Orchestra performs Freedom & Joy: Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Ricardo Averbach, conductor
Beethoven’s 9th (After the wall fell, Leonard Bernstein conducted Beethoven’s 9th at an historic concert, symbolically changing the word “joy” to “freedom” in Ode to Joy)
President David C. Hodge, narrator for Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait
sponsored by the Havighurst Center. Part of the Performing Arts Series Tickets at http://arts.muohio.edu/performing-arts-series/events/freedom-joy
