2011–12 Outreach Events
Celebrate Nowruz!
March 20, 2012 • 5:00pm–6:30pm
Please join us as we mark the Persian New Year and the long-awaited beginning of Spring with traditional food, drink, and a cultural program!
Location: Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Co-Sponsors: The Outreach Center, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; The Middle East Initiative, Kennedy School of Government; Prince Bin-Talal Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, Harvard
Workshop
Teaching Central Asia and the Middle East
March 31, 2012 • Full Day
Location: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Co-Sponsors: Global Horizons Program at UMass Amherst; The Outreach Center, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Workshop
Historicizing the Space Race
April 27, 2012 • Full Day
This one-day workshop will examine the historical roots of the Space Race and its position in Cold War history.
Location: Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Summer Workshop
Everyday Life in the USSR
August 7–9, 2012
This workshop will examine what life was like for an average citizen during the Soviet regime, using primary source documents, novels and films as jumping off points.
Location: Harvard Campus, Cambridge, MA
Past Events
Webinar
Comparing Revolutions—Learning from the Arab World and the Fall of Communism
November 10, 2011 • 7:00pm–8:00pm
This one-session webinar will employ a comparative lens to see what lessons and questions from Russian history can inform our current thinking about political transformation in the Arab world.
Co-Sponsor: The Outreach Center, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
Lecture
Russia Unmasked
September 27, 2011 • 2:00 pm
This lecture will highlight Russian history and culture from the Imperial period to the present.
Location: Fitchburg State University, McKay Campus School, Room C159
Co-Sponsor: Adult Living in the Fitchburg Area (ALFA)
Summer Workshop
Using Literature and Film to Teach Global Studies in Russia/Eurasia, the Middle East, and Africa
August 8–12, 2011 • 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m.
Website: http://cmes.hmdc.harvard.edu/node/2301
Join the Outreach Center at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Outreach Programs at the Davis Center and the Committee on African Studies for a weeklong workshop for K-12 teachers on using literature and film to teach about global studies from a multi-regional perspective. More information will be forthcoming.
Teacher Workshop
Perestroika, an End and a Beginning
May 20–21, 2011 • 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m.
This two-day workshop, which can be taken for graduate credit, will explore the final years of the Soviet Union and analyze the impact of Mikhail Gorbachev’s revolutionary policies on the USSR and the modern Russian Federation.
Teacher Workshop
Remembering Chernobyl
April 26, 2011 • 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m.
On April 26, 1986, an unprecedented nuclear accident in what was then the United Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine put the town and people of Chernobyl on the world map. Twenty-five years later, this workshop will examine the history of the disaster and the short- and long-term impact it has had on politics, foreign policy, public health, and environmental health and policy.
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Book Talk
An Evening with Slavenka Drakulic
April 14, 2011 • 4:30–6:30 p.m.
Noted Croatian writer Slavenka Drakulic, author of How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed, will discuss her forthcoming book, A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism.
Celebrate Nowruz!
March 15, 2011 • 5–7 p.m.
Mark the Persian New Year and the long-awaited beginning of Spring with traditional food, drink, and a cultural program!
Teacher Workshop
Religion and Global Studies: A Two-Day Workshop on the Changing Role of Religion in Public Life in Russia and the Middle East
December 3 & 10, 2010 • 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m.
Join the Outreach Centers at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies for a two-day workshop for K-12 educators. This workshop will examine the changing role of religion in public life in Russia and the Middle East, and offer a cultural studies approach for use in teaching this topic in the classroom. Primary foci will be on Islam and Orthodox Christianity.
Celebrate International Education Week
November 15–19, 2010
A week of events at Harvard to promote international education and to provide in-class resources for area schools and classrooms. Among the events of the week will be in-class presentations by students returning from study abroad experiences, and cultural events on campus. All events are free and open to the public. For more information on how you can participate or have a speaker in your classroom during this period, write to davisop@fas.harvard.edu.
Book Talk
The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, by Elif Batuman
October 15, 2010 • 4–6 p.m.
Elif Batuman—Stanford professor, Harvard alumna, and frequent contributor to The New Yorker—explores the question, "How do we bring our lives closer to our favorite books?" in The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them.
Location: 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
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