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City on the Neva: Celebrating 300 Years of St. Petersburg Thursday, April 24 Program 2:00-2:15 pm WELCOME OPENING REMARKS 2:15-3:45 pm PANEL ONE: St. Petersburg’s History and Politics Chair: Timothy Colton Paul Bushkovitch (Professor of History, Yale University; author of Peter the Great: The Struggle for Power, 1671-1725) “Peter’s City” Oleg Kharkhordin (Regional Fellow, Davis Center; Associate Professor of Political Science, European University, St. Petersburg; author of The Collective and the Individual in Russia: A Study of Practices) “Social Liberty in St. Petersburg” Grigorii Golosov (Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology, European University, St. Petersburg) "Identity Contests: Ten Years of Electoral Politics in St. Petersburg" 3:45-4:00 pm BREAK 4:00-5:45 pm PANEL TWO: St. Petersburg’s
Culture Grigory Kaganov, (Senior Researcher, Institute for the Theory of Architecture and Urban Planning, Moscow; Professor of Art History, European University, St. Petersburg; author of Images of Space: St. Petersburg in the Visual and Verbal Arts, translated by Sidney Monas) "St Petersburg as an Icon of the Western Civilization and a Portrait of the Russian One" Julie Buckler, (Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; author of Mapping St. Petersburg: Urban Text and Topography in Imperial Russia) “Commemorating St. Petersburg: Then and Now” Lev Lurie, (Historian
of 19th-century St. Petersburg, journalist, and and essayist; editor
of Kalendar' (a bi-weekly review of cultural life in St.
Petersburg) “Ten Ways in which St. Petersburg is Different from any Other Big City” Contact: George Soroka, soroka@fas.harvard.edu Tel. 617.496.8241 |