Past Events
2009
February 2-April 13
Havighurst Colloquia Series
February 3
Benjamin Loring, Georgetown University
A Colonial Endeavor: Soviet Economic Development in Kyrgyzstan, 1921-1934
March 4
Paul Goble (Miami University ‘70)
former analyst, Department of State and Central Intelligence Agency
How the End of the Soviet Union Led to 9/11--and What Comes Next?March 20
Faculty Research Seminar
Dan Prior, History, Miami University
Kirghiz nationalism: How long ago is too long ago?
The faculty research seminar is a forum for Miami faculty to present papers or chapters that they are preparing for publication.April 2
Grigore Pop-Eleches, Princeton University
Historical Legacies and Post-Communist Democratization
April 9
Regina Smyth, Indiana University
After Voting: When Legislative Decision-making Challenges Democratic Consolidation
April 16
Randy Richards, St. Ambrose University
Diary of Vilnius: A Personal Account of Life in Lithuania
April 17
Faculty Research Seminar
Steve Norris, History, Miami University
Playing with the Past: The Truth about Ninth Company
April 27
Andriy Bondar,
Ukrainian Columnist and Poet
Reflections on Ukrainian Culture & Politics in
Post-Soviet & European Contexts
April 27
Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Cinema Series
April 28
Afghanistan Film Series
2008
January 16
Film Screening: A Friend of the Deceased, based on a novel by Andrei Kurkov.
February 11-April 14
Havighurst Colloquia Series
Cold War Battles: Cultural Episodes from the Frontlines of the Cold War
April 1
Susan Eisenhower and Roald Sagdeev
Breaking Free: Parallel Lives and Common Dreams During the Cold War
April 2
7th John E. Dolibois History Prize
Susan Eisenhower
The 20th Century Sweep: A Personal Perspective
April 16
The War Against Terrorism vs. Human Rights: A Case Study of Uzbekistan
Nozima Kamalova, Founding Chair, Legal Aid Society of Uzbekistan
April 21-26
Life in Uzbekistan
An exhibit of photographs of the people of Uzbekistan, featuring photos from the Bukhara Center for Development of Creative PhotographyApril 21-26
ILKHOM THEATRE GROUP
Uzbekistan Artists-in-Residence
April 22-24
Screening Uzbekistan: A Film Series
Designed to coincide with the Ilkhom Theatre Company's Residency at Miami University, April 21-26.
April 26
Ilkhom Theatre Group
Ecstasy with the Pomegranate
September 23
Maria Gaidar, Founder of Democratic Alternatives (DA!)
The Authorities, Society, and Opposition in Russia – a biased observation from an Insider
September 26
Havighurst Research Seminar
Brigid O’Keeffe, Miami University
Marxism and Authenticity: Representing “Gypsy Sluts” and “Russian Heroes” on the Early Soviet Stage
September 29Havighurst Colloquia Series: Islam in Central Asia
Aleksandr Naymark, Hofstra University
The Arab Conquest and Islamisation of Sogdiana: The Case of Bukhara
October 10Sarah Phillips, Indiana University, Bloomington
Women’s Social Activism in the New Ukraine
October 13-15
Film Series--A Celebration: 100 years of Russian Film
October 20Havighurst Colloquia Series: Islam in Central Asia
Judith Kolbas, Miami University Affiliate
Tingri and Allah: the Mongol Relationship with Islam
October 20-December 1Russian Club Film Series: Contemporary Russian Film
October 24-25
Keynote Speakers: Stephen Holmes, New York University and Kathryn Hendley, University of Wisconsin
October 27
Havighurst Colloquia Series: Islam in Central Asia
Jo-Ann Gross, The College of New Jersey
Isma’ili Shrines, Oral History and the Construction of Sacred Space in Badakhshan
October 27
Henry Carey, Georgia State University
The EU’s Eastward Expansion: Comparative and Geo-Political Implications
co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science
October 31
Elizabeth Skomp, University of the South--Sewanee
The writings of contemporary Russian author Liudmila Ulitskaia
November 3Havighurst Colloquia Series: Islam in Central Asia
Robert Crews, Stanford University
Transnational Islam, State Boundaries, and the Muslims of the Russian Empire and USSR
November 5
Liudmilla Sergei and Ivan Posokhov
Politics and History in Ukraine
sponsored by the History Department
November 7Havighurst Research Seminar
Benjamin Sutcliffe, Miami University
Representation, Illusion, and Autonomy in the Pose of Ol’ga Slavnikova
November 10
Havighurst Colloquia Series: Islam in Central Asia
Edward Lazzerini, Indiana University
Belief and Knowledge in Islamic Central Eurasia: The Northern Tier in the 18th and 19th Centuries
November 14
Lazar (Puhalo), Archbishop of Ottowa in the Orthodox Church of America
Orthodox Christian Spirituality
December 1Havighurst Center Annual Open House
December 2
Havighurst Colloquia Series: Islam in Central Asia
Devin DeWeese, Indiana University
Sovietology and Islam in Central Asia
December 5
Havighurst Research Seminar
Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, Miami University
Redistributing Sovereignty and Property: A View From Russia’s Ethnic Republics
2007
January 30
Volodymyr Dubovyk, Odessa University
Russia’s Interest in Ukraine
January 31
World Premiere of Tchaikovsky’s Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
featuring the Oxford Chamber Orchestra
February 1
Velijko Vujacic, Oberlin College
Russian & Serbian Nationalism in the Context of Soviet & Yugoslav DisintigrationFebruary 1
State Ballet of Russia
Prokofiev’s Cinderella
February 14
Alexander Kwasniewski, former President of Poland
February 22
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra presents Valery Gergiev
March 21
Jeffrey Veidlinger, Indiana University-Bloomington
Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire
March 27
Zifa Auezova, Exec. Director, BILIM-Central Asia
Sufism, Islamic Philosophy & Popular Islam in Central Asia
March 28
Cathy Frierson, University of New Hampshire
Are Russians Really Flunking the Stalin Test?
April 2-3
Journalism Symposium: Russian Journalism Under Fire
April 5
Michael Bernhard, Pennsylvania State University
April 9
Marian Schwartz, Translator of Russian Literature
Russian Literature: A Translator’s Perspective
April 19
Golden Dragon Acrobats
April 19
“Silk Road on the Slant Walk” FestivalApril 26
Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University
Tocqueville as a Social Scientist: An Overview of Scholarly Debates with a Glance at Postcommunist PoliticsSeptember 20
Afghan War Rug Symposium
Miami University Art Musuem
Christopher Kremmer, author,
The Carpet Wars: From Kabul to Baghdad
September 24
Rob Gifford, NPR Correspondent
"China Road"October 10
David Kim, violin, with the Miami University Symphony Orchestra
Ricardo Averbach, conductor
October 25-27
International Young Researchers Conference: Dream Factory of Communism: Culture, Practices, and the Memory of the Cold WarOctober 18-November 15
Institute for Learning in Retirement: The Cold War Lecture Series
September 17-December 3
Havighurst Colloquia Series:
Politics and Culture Behind the Iron Curtain
December 3
Havighurst Center Annual Open House
2006
January 22 & 24
Wu shan Huang, Chinese Puppeteer
Theater department artist-in-residence.
January 30
Islamic Forum:
Muslim Peoples of the Silk Road
February 3
William Craft Brumfield, Tulane University
Buriatiia: Architectural Crossroads in Eurasia
sponsored by the Department of Architecture.February 10
Vladimir Gel'man, European University of St. Petersburg
Political Regime and State Building in Russia: From Decentralization to Recentralization
February 7
Jeffrey D. Lerner, Wake Forest University
If These Bricks Could Talk: Decoding an Ancient Mystery from Afghanistan
Co-sponsored with the Center for American and World Cultures, the Department of Anthropology and the Classics DepartmentFebruary 16
Haik Kazazyan, violin
with the MU Symphony Orchestra, Ricardo Averbach, conductor
March 20
Institute for Learning in Retirement
Silk Road ExplorAsian: Pathway of Cultures Lecture Series
Mark Peterson, Miami
Invisible Travelers: Jinn and Genies on the Silk Road
March 23
William Granara, Harvard University
Anecdotes of Betrayal in Arab Sicily
Part of the All Roads Lead to Rome
Silk Road Lecture Series hosted by the Department of French & Italian.
March 27
Institute for Learning in Retirement
Silk Road ExplorAsian: Pathway of Cultures Lecture Series
Sante Matteo, Miami University
Marco Polo on the Silk Road: Did Spaghetti and the Renaissance Come from China?
March 29
Wu Man, pipa player
Ancient Dances
March 31-April 1
Havighurst Humanities Symposium: Arenas of Eurasian Identity: Performance, Culture & Representation
Schedule
April 3
Institute for Learning in Retirement
Silk Road ExplorAsian: Pathway of Cultures Lecture Series
Stanley Toops, Miami University
Geography of the Silk Road
April 4th
Tengir Too
Kyrgyz ensemble
April 10
Institute for Learning in Retirement
Silk Road ExplorAsian: Pathway of Cultures Lecture Series
Karen Dawisha, Miami University
Engendering the Silk Road: Communist Dreams, Post-Socialist RealitiesAugust 28-December 4
Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Cinema
Film Screenings
August 29-December 16
Silk Road Oasis: The Sculpture of Ancient Gandhara
Miami University Art Museum
September 6-November 15
1,001 Nights: Story Without End
Film and Lecture SeriesSeptember 22
Silk Road Orientation
Brill Science LibrarySeptember 25 - December 4
Havighurst Colloquia Series: Post-Communism & the Rule of Law
September 28
Oxford Chamber Orchestra: Gypsies and the Silk Road
October 10
Brown Bag Lecture: Silk Road Oasis: The Sculpture of Ancient Gandhara
Robert Wicks, Director, Miami University Art Museum
October 19
Giant Buddhas Film
Part of the Miami University Art Museum's Silk Road Oasis Exhibit.
October 26-28
Annual International Young Researchers Conference
Orienting the Russian Empire
November 8-November 30
The Silk Road Project
An exhibit featuring the work and experiences of the Miami faculty who participated in the Fulbright Hays-sponsored Summer 2006 seminar along the historic Silk Road.November 13
The Greening of Global Project Financing: The Case of the Sakhalin-2 Offshore Oil and Gas Project
Michael Bradshaw, University of Leicester
sponsored by the Department of GeographyDecember 4
Havighurst Center Open House2005
January 18
Health and Well-Being in Imperial Russia: A Biological Perspective on Russia's Relationship to the West
Speaker: Boris Mironov
February-April
Spring Colloquia Series
Professor Stephen Norris
April 23
Moscow Ballet
Swan Lake
August 23-December 9
Silk Road Film Series
co-sponsored by the Theater DepartmentHavighurst Colloquia Series
Politics and Institutions in Central AsiaAll Roads Lead to Rome Silk Road Lecture Series
Roberto Dainotto, Duke University, Orientalism, Mediterranean Style: Michele Amari & the Limits of History, co-sponsored by the Department of French & ItalianFollow the Silk Road...to the Science Library
A student/faculty/staff orientation of the Brill Science Library
August 30-October 22Rockwell Kent: An American in Moscow Exhibit
Miami University Art MusuemSeptember 30
Oxford Chamber Orchestra, with the Miami University Glee Club
featuring Yuri Serov, playing Schnittke’s 1st Piano Concerto.
October 6Rockwell Kent: An American in Moscow Lecture and Reception
Miami University Art MusuemOctober 23
Global Rhythms, Hands Full of Beauty
October 24
Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of the U.S.S.R.
Jack R. Anderson Distinguished Lecture Series, co-sponsored with the Richard T. Farmer School of Business
October 25
Fireside Chat with Carlo Krieger, Luxembourg Ambassador to Russia
Gorbachev's Legacy in Russia
October 27-29
International Young Researchers Conference
Thinking in/after Utopia: East European and Russian Philosophy before and after the Collapse of CommunismOctober 29
Russian Music Recital
Peter Miyamoto, University of Missouri-Columbia
Pansy Chang, Miami University
October 31
Daniel Selden
Alexander the Great, John W. Altman Lecture Series in Classics
November 1, 2005-April 2, 2006
Hindu Darshan: Exploring the Art of India Exhibit
Miami University Art MuseumNovember 1
Richard Stoneman
Alexander the Great, John W. Altman Lecture Series in Classics
November 2
Andrew Stewart
Alexander the Great, John W. Altman Lecture Series in Classics
November 20
Ensemble Kaboul
December 6
Sharon Kinoshita, University of California at Santa Cruz
Marco Polo and the Wonder of the Tributary East
December 8
Havighurst Center Open House: An evening of Central Asian Cuisine
2004
February 23
Humanities Lecture Series: Peter Kenez
March 26
Havighurst Lecture
Constantine Orbelian "The Genius of Russian Music"April 1-3
Havighurst Symposium: "The Reel Russia"September 13
Havighurst Center Open HouseSeptember 28
Moscow Chamber Orchestra
conducted by Constantin OrbelianNovember 4
Putin as a State Builder
John Dunlop, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institute, Stanford UniversityNovember 5-6
International Young Researchers Conference
The Problems of the Postcommunist State
November 6
Ohio/Kentucky/Indiana Children's Literature Conference
Imagining Russia and the World Through Children's LiteratureNovember 9
The Golden Horde and the Silk Road
Lecture by Leonard Nedashkovsky, Chief Curator of the Archaeological Museum at Khazan State UniversityNovember 10
Dr. Nazif ShahraniNation-Building and the War on Global Terror in Afghanistan: Three
Years Later
2003
February 9
St. Petersburg Legacy: DaCamera of HoustonFebruary 10
Humanities Lecture Series: William Brumfield
February 11- May 11
An Exhibit: A View from HereFebruary 18 - May 18
St. Petersburg: From the de Saint-Rat Collection
February 24
Edna Southard, Curator of Collections, Miami Art Museum
Gallery Talk on The View From Here and St. Petersburg
February 27
Renée Stout, "View From Here" Artist
Identity Issues in ArtFebruary 28, March 1
Havighurst Orchestra Concert, "From Russia with Love"
March 19
Art in Many Cultures, Vitaly KomarMarch 20
Repentance: Film and Discussion
March 21 - 22
Midwest Slavic Historians ConferenceMarch 25
Chess Grandmaster Gregory KaidanovMarch 28 - 29
Havighurst Symposium: Imagining St. Petersburg
March 28 - 29
Film Presentation:
The Russian Ark
March 29
Russian Chamber Music ConcertApril 23 - 25
Music of the Russia Tour ChoirMay 6 - 18
Miami Choirs Tour: Russia, Finland, EstoniaMay 1 - August 22
An Exhibit: St. Petersburg, 1703-2003September 26 - November 24
Havighurst Colloquia: "Ideas in Postcommunism"October 1
Humanities Lecture SeriesYuri Tsivian, University of Chicago
Russian Foreigners, Foreign Russians: The Image of the White Emigre in Soviet Film Propaganda of the 1920's
October 8
Symposium on The Brotherhood of Free CultureNovember 1
Moscow Ballet: Great Russian Nutcracker"
November 6-8
Annual International Young Researchers Conference
Russia in Global Context: Peoples, Environments, PoliciesDecember 12, 2003
Havighurst Center Open House
2002
March 22-24, 2002
Havighurst Symposium in the Humanities
April 7-8, 2002
10 Years Later: Shock Therapy and Its Opponents, Who was Right?September 21
World Music FestivalSeptember 26-27
Soviets and Socialism in Latin America: Past, Present & Future
October 17
Helena Goscilo, University of Pittsburgh
Unsaintly St. Petersburg?: Visions and VisualsOctober 18-19
Placing Gender in PostcommunismOctober 22
Kronos QuartetOctober 24-26
Russia's Environment: Prospects and PossibilitiesNovember 2-5
Russian CosmonautsNovember 8
The Soviet Utopia in the Latin American ImaginationNovember 10
Moscow Circus: A Winter's TaleNovember 14
Rusalka, Russian Folk ChoirDecember 2
Havighurst Center Open House
2001March 21-31, 2001
Imagining Russia FestivalSeptember 28-29, 2001
Social Norms and Social Deviance
