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Newsletter of the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian
Studies
ISEEES publishes 3 newsletter issues a calendar year: fall, spring, and
summer. The newsletter regularly contains: articles from our affiliated
graduate students, faculty, and guest speakers; notes from the institute
director; a list of selected courses for the fall and spring semesters;
news about our outreach programs; news about our faculty, students, and
alumni; recent fellowship awards; participants in selected recent conferences;
upcoming events and fellowship deadlines; recent publications; and short
announcements.
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Spring 2008 [Spring 08.pdf] 28
pages, 892 KB
- "50 Years of Slavic Studies at Berkeley: the
Prelude to 1957" by Jason Morton, undergraduate student, UC Berkeley.
- "Contagious, Incurable, or Deconstructed? The Myth
of Grunwald/Tannenberg in Polish and German Collective Identity"
by Mark Aaron Keck-Szajbel, Ph.D. candidate in history, UC Berkeley
Fall 2007 [Fall 07 NL.pdf]
28 pages, 333 KB
- "Sochi's Winter Olympics: The Friendship of Nations
Dream" by Mieka Erley, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures
- "A Talsinki State of Mind" by Richard David, J.D.
candidate, Berkeley School of Law
Summer 2007 [nlsummer2.pdf] 28 pages,
1434 KB
- "Explaining the Variation in Political Regime Outcomes after Communism:
Displacement of the Communist Era Nomenklatura and Democratization"
by Sener Akturk, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science
- "Banning Headscarves in Bulgaria" by Kristen Ghodsee, Institute for
Advanced Study, Bowdoin College
Spring 2007 [2007_24-01.pdf]
28 pages, 365 KB
- "Summer in Samarkand" by Elif Kale Lostuvali, Ph.D. candidate, Department
of Sociology
- "Czech Perceptions of Roma in the First Republic" by James Krapfl,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
Fall 2006 [2006_23-03.pdf]
28 pages, 438 KB
- "How Intellectuals, Writers, and Students Contributed to the Delegitimization
of the Soviet Regime in Hungary Prior to the Hungarian Revolution of
1956" by Rachel J. McCullough-Sanden (A.B. with High Honors in Sociology,
UC Berkeley, 2006)
- "Montenegro: Not for Sale" by Elena Morabito, Ph.D. student, Department
of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Summer 2006 [2006_23-02.pdf]
24 pages, 356 KB
- "Off-Center: Towards the Problem of Marginality in the Early Soviet
Film" by Polina Barskova, Ph.D., Department of Slavic Languages and
Literatures
- "Russia's 'Strategic Partnership' with the United States: Predetermined
Breakup?" by Denis Alexeev, visiting scholar, Institute of Slavic, East
European, and Eurasian Studies
Spring 2006 [2006_23-01.pdf]
32 pages, 467 KB
- "Towards a New Literature of Cultural Liminality: Figuring In-Betweenness
in Contemporary Polish Poetry" by Magdalenda Kay, Ph.D. candidate, Department
of Comparative Literature
- "The Courtyard Dwellers" by Izabela Filipiak, visiting scholar, Institute
of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and the Beatrice M. Bain
Research Group
- Book Review: Revolutionary Passage by Marc Garcelon. Review
by Elife Kale Lostuvali, graduate student, Department of Sociology
- "Whither the Union? Interim Findings on the 'Changing Ethnic Makeup
of Montenegro and the Independence Referendum" by Andrej Milivojevic,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, and Milos Besic, Ph.D.
Fall 2005 [2005_22-03.pdf]
28 pages, 465 KB
- "The Monetization of L'got: Politics of Welfare and International
Change in Russsia" by Susanne Wengle, Ph.D. student, Department of Political
Science
- "A Digital Map of Petersburg at the Beginning of the 20th Century"
by Olga Matich, professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Summer 2005 [2005_22-02.pdf]
28 pages, 344 KB
- "Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian Electronic Corpora in Light of the
Current Linguistic Situation" by Elena Morabito, Ph.D. candidate, Department
of Slavic Languages and Literatures
- "A Symbolist Palette: The Aesthetics of Andrei Bely's Zoloto v
lazuri" by Jonathan Stone, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures
- "Montenegro, Oasis in the Balkans: An Overview of Human Rights and
Diversity" by Ivana Jelic, LL.M., lecturer, Law School, University of
Montenegro
Spring 2005 [2005_22-01.pdf]
32 pages, 420 KB
- "Yids from the Hood: The Image of the Jewish Gangster from Odessa"
by Jarrod Tanny, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
- "A Dialogue with Dostoevsky: Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book"
by Kathryn D. Schild, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures
Fall 2004 [2004_21-03.pdf]
32 pages, 419 KB
- "Approaching War Trauma: Russian Psychiatrists Look at Battlefield
Breakdown During WWI" by Jacqueline Friedlander, Ph.D. candidate, Department
of History
- "Arranging the Nation in Slovenian Musical Practices" by Maria K.
Arko Klemenc, Ph.D. 2004, Department of Music
- "Expedition on the Lena River" by Oliver Dusan Monson, Molceular and
Cell Biology and Anthropology
Summer 2004 [2004_21-02.pdf]
32 pages, 387 KB
- Tributes to Professor Reginald E. Zelnik
- "Noah London and Birobidzhan" by John Holmes, Ph.D. candidate, Department
of History
- "Identity Politics in the Schools of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia"
by Naomi Levy, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science
Spring 2004 [2004_21-01.pdf]
32 pages, 264 KB
- "East as Poetry: The Bosnian Story, Seen Through the Eyes of
the Interpreter" by Vesna Rodic, Ph.D. candidate, Department of French
- "Local Services for Mobile Populations: Migrant Labor and Public Health
in the Russian Zemstvo, 1890-1912" by Lisa K. Walker, Ph.D. 2003, Department
of History
- Book Review: Vagabond Life: The Caucasus Journals of George Kennan.
Review by Dana Sherry, graduate student, Department of History, UC Davis
Fall 2003 [2003_20-03.pdf]
32 pages, 392 KB
- "Serbian and Russian Nationalism and the Disintegration of the Yugoslav
and Soviet States" by Neil Abrams, Ph.D. student, Department of Political
Science
- "Surveying the Silk Road: A Review of Recent Political Science Contributions"
by Regine Spector, Ph.D. student, Department of Political Science
- "Malcontent in Cambridge" by Izabela Filipiak, visiting scholar, Institute
of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Summer 2003 [2003_20-02.pdf]
32 pages, 425 KB
- "A Nation on a Journey: Adam Mickiewicz and the Paradigm of the Polish
Pilgrim" by Ingrid Kleepsies, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures
- "A Tale of Three Cities: Considering Divided Cities in the Former
Yugoslavia" by Emily Shaw, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political
Science
- Book Review: All Russia is Burning! Review by Lisa K. Walker,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
Spring 2003 [2003_20-01.pdf]
28 pages, 474 KB
- "The Modern Slave Trade in Post-Communist Europe" by Michael Carpenter,
Ph.D. 2002, Department of Political Science
- "A Window On the Lake: On and Around Stalin's Belomorkanal"
by Michael Kunichika, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures
- Book Review: Historical Atlas of Central Europe. Review by
Christine Kulke, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
Fall 2002 [2002_19-04.pdf]
32 pages, 1,457 KB
- "Alexander Rodchenko: Modern Photography, Photomontage, Film" by Alla
Efimova, Associate Curator, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- "Documenting the Lives of Romania's Street Children" by Scott Squire,
M.J. candidate, Graduate School of Journalism
- "Georgia's Pankisi Gorge" by Shorena Kurtsikidze, Research Associate,
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, and Vakhtang
Chikovani, Independent Scholar
- Book Review: The Soul of Kazakhstan. Review by Sanjyot Mehendale,
Executive Director, Caucasus and Central Asia Program
Summer 2002 [2002_19-03.pdf]
32 pages, 1,326 KB
- "The Rhetoric of the Velvet Revolution" by James Krapfl, Ph.D. candidate,
Department of History
- "Andrey Volkonsky, the Young Composers, and the Beginnings of Twelve-tone
Music in the Soviet Union, 1956-1961" by Peter J. Schmelz, Ph.D. candidate,
Department of Music History
Spring 2002 Special
Supplement [2002_19-02.pdf] 16 pages, 1,608 KB
- "The Migration of Serbs and Albanians within and between Inner Serbia
and Kosovo c. 1930-1981" by E. A. Hammel, professor emeritus in the
Departments of Anthropology and Demography, and Mirjana Stevanovic,
research fellow, Archaeological Research Facility
Spring 2002 [2002_19-01.pdf]
36 pages, 1,032 KB
- "The Modernist Rhetoric of Desire in the Poetry of Zinaida Gippius"
by Stiliana Milkova, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Comparative Literature
- "Setting Boundaries on the Public Administration in Poland, Slovakia,
and the Czech Republic" by Conor O'Dwyer, Ph.D. candidate, Department
of Political Science
Fall 2001 [2001_18-03.pdf]
32 pages, 1,233 KB
- "Report from Bulgaria: Introducing His Majesty and His Excellency,
Mr. Saxecoburgotski" by Kristen Ghodsee, Ph.D. candidate in social and
cultural studies, Graduate School of Education
- "International Intervention and Recent Regime Changes in Croatia and
Serbia" by Andrej Krickovic, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political
Science
- Book Review: To the Harbin Station. Review by Elziabeth McGuire,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
Summer 2001 [2001_18-02.pdf]
28 pages, 725 KB
- "Time Versus Place as the Basis of Self-Identity: Life Histories of
Polish Local Politicians" by Tomek Grabowski, Ph.D. candidate, Department
of Political Science
- "Exiles at Home and Abroad: The Bulgarian Intelligentsia in Emigration"
by Maria Stoilkova, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology
- "The Balkans and the West After Milosevic" by Edward W. Walker, Executive
Director, Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, ISEEES
Spring 2001 [2001_18-01.pdf]
32 pages, 1,005 KB
- "Trading Children for Childhood" by Rachael Stryker, Ph.D. candidate,
Department of Anthropology
- "Lessons from the 1998 Russian Financial Crisis" by Galina B. Hale,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Economics
Fall 2000 [2000_17-03.pdf]
32 pages, 849 KB
- "Gotov Je—He's History!" by Barbara Voytek, Executive
Director, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
- "Women and Economic Transition: Mobsters and Mail-Order Brides in
Bulgaria" by Kristen Ghodsee, Ph.D. candidate in social and cultural
studies, Graduate School of Education
- Conference Report: "Tolstoy and World Literature" by Anne Hruska,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Summer 2000 [2000_17-02.pdf]
28 pages, 536 KB
- "Triumph of the Opportunists: The Political Rebirth of Ex-Communists"
by Mieczyslaw Pavel Boduszynski, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political
Science
- "Regenerating the Republic: The Monitor and Economic Reform
in the Polish Enlightenment" by Anna Wertz, Ph.D. candidate, Department
of History
Spring 2000 [2000_17-01.pdf]
28 pages, 706 KB
- "Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra and the Demise of Hungary's 'Third
Way'" by Danielle Fosler-Lussier, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Music
- "Fixed Phrases for Language Learners: On the Material of Armenian
and English Languages" by Dr. Gayaneh Hagopian, visiting scholar
Fall 1999 [1999_16-03.pdf]
24 pages, 453 KB
- "Historical Commemoration and Local Civic Identity in Nizhnii Novgorod,
1884-1913" by Lisa K. Walker, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
- Photo essay: "Housing the New Elites in Prague" by Raymond June, Ph.D.
candidate in social and cultural studies, Graduate School of Education
- "Poland's Old-New Political Elites" by Thomas W. Simons, Jr., consulting
professor of history at Stanford University and distinguished visiting
fellow at the Hoover Institution
Summer 1999 [1999_16-02.pdf]
32 pages, 493 KB
- "Slavic Center Reports on Kosovo." Report on recent lectures by Anna
Wertz, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
- "Remembering the German Minority: The Search for Restitution and Reconciliation
in Poland and the Czech Republic" by Winson W. Chu, Ph.D. candidate,
Department of History
- Lecture Summary: "Jewish Higher Education and Empire in Fin-de-Siecle
Russia" by Ben Nathans. Summary by Deborah Yalen, Ph.D. candidate, Department
of History
- Photo essay: "Signs of Change in Slovakia"
Spring 1999 [1999_16-01.pdf]
28 pages, 805 KB
- "Movin' On Up: Bulgaria's Transition from the Ghetto of Europe to
the Suburbs" by Robin S. Brooks, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political
Science
- "Library News" by Dr. Allan Urbanic, Librarian for Slavic Collections
- Book Review: The Bridge to Dalmatia. "The Myth of Meaning,"
a review by Marie Alice L'Heureux, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Architecture
Fall 1998 [1998_15-03.pdf]
28 pages, 635 KB
- "Eastern Jews and the Ethic of German Professionalism: The Making
of the German Rabbi in the Breslau Theological Seminary" by Lisa Swartout,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
- "Market Failure and Corruption in the Czech Republic" by Andrew Schwartz,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science
- "Itineraries of the Afterlife: Handling the Relics of Lenin and Nicholas
II" by Dr. William Nickell, Ph.D. 1998, Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures
Summer 1998 [1998_15-02.pdf]
20 pages, 509 KB
- "The Golem in Magic Prague" by Hope Subak-Sharpe, Ph.D. candidate,
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Book Review: ProFeminina: Contemporary Women's Literature in Serbia.
Review by Dr. Mirjana Stevanovic, Outreach Coordinator, Center for Slavic
and East European Studies
- Speaker Report: "The Transmission of Trauma Across Generations: Writing
a Memoir of a 'Baby Boom' Childhood and the Armenian Genocide." Report
on Peter Balakian's visit by Alexandra Wood, Program Assistant, Center
for Slavic and East European Studies
- "The Social Meanings of Swearings: Mat in the Russian Revolution"
by Steve Smith, professor of history, University of Essex, England
Spring 1998 [1998_15-01.pdf]
20 pages, 180 KB
- "An Archaeology of Socialism: Ethnoarchaeological Research at a Constructivist
Housing Complex in Moscow" by Victor Buchli, research fellow, Sidney
Sussex College, Cambridge University, England
- "Who is Afraid of His Nationality? 'Point Five' and Russia's New Internal
Passport" by Sven Gunnar Simonsen, visiting scholar from the International
Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway
- "New Library Service for Spring 1998" by Dr. Allan Urbanic, Librarian
for Slavic Collections
Fall 1997 [1997_14-03.pdf]
16 pages, 369 KB
- "AIDS: A View from Moscow" by Evgenii Bershtein, Ph.D. candidate,
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
- "The Politics of Memory: The MEMORIAL Movement in Russia" by Jan Plamper,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
- "Public Servant or 'Superspy'? State Control of Economic Information
in Post-Communist Poland" by Elzbieta W. Benson, Ph.D. candidate, Department
of Sociology
Spring 1997 [1997_14-02.pdf]
16 pages, 438 KB
- "The Future of Social Sciences in the Former Soviet Union" by Nina
B. Bubnova, Ph.D. candidate, School of Public Policy
- "Ossified in East Berlin" by Greg Castillo, Ph.D. candidate, Department
of Architecture
- Book Review: Cracks in the Iron Closet and Out of the Blue.
Review by Robert Wessling, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Slavic Languages
and Literatures
- Panel Report: The East European Literary Scene After Communism by
Martina Moravcova, visiting scholar from Charles University, Prague
- "Out of the Drawer: Ivan Klima Visits Berkeley" by Martina Moravcova,
visiting scholar from Charles University, Prague
Winter 1997 [1997_14-01.pdf]
16 pages, 337 KB
- Book Review: Ivo Andric Revisited. Review by Charles Greer,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
- Book Review: Poverty is Not a Vice: Charity, Society, and the State
in Imperial Russia. Review by Z. Ronald Bialkowski, Ph.D. candidate,
Department of History
- Speaker Report: "A Russian Perspective on NATO Expansion" by Anne
Clunan, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science
Fall 1996 [1996_13-03.pdf]
20 pages, 454 KB
- Book Review: The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism.
Review by Chad Bryant, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
- Panel Report: Russia After the Presidential Elections by Robin Brooks,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science
- "Adventures in Slavic Studies: Jerome B. Landsfield and the Beginning
of Teaching of Russian History at the University of California, Berkeley"
by Ilya Vinkovetsky, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
- "Poland's Newest Nobel Laureate" by Robert Wessling, Ph.D. candidate,
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Summer 1996 [1996_13-02.pdf]
20 pages, 122 KB
- "The Challenges of Publishing in Poland" by Jerzy Illg, editor-in-chief
of Znak Publishing House, Poland
- "The Birobidhan Idea" by David Shneer, Ph.D. candidate, Department
of History
- "'Provincial Culture' in Contemporary Russian Studies" by Dr. Svetlana
Minsk, visiting scholar from Kuban State University, Krasnodar, Russia
- Conference Report: Ethnographies of Transition by Professor Michael
Burawoy, Department of Sociology
- Library News: Electronic Resources for Slavic and East European Studies
by Dr. Allan Urbanic, Head of Slavic Collections
Winter 1996 [1996_13-01.pdf]
16 pages, 79 KB
- Book Review: The Magnetic Mountain. Review by Brian Kassof,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
- Book Review: The Balkan Tragedy. Review by Lise Svenson, Ph.D.
candidate, Department of Political Science
Fall 1995 [1995_12-04.pdf]
24 pages, 132 KB
- "The Many Faces of Yugoslavia" by Veljko Vujacic, assistant professor
of sociology, Oberlin College
- Book Review: Stalin's Drive West. Review by David Engerman,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
- Conference Report: Seventh International Flint Symposium by Dr. Barbara
Voytek, Executive Director, Center for Slavic and East European Studies
- Conference Report: Workers and the Intelligentsia in Russia in the
Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries by Professor Reginald
Zelnik, Department of History
Summer 1995 [1995_12-03.pdf]
24 pages, 122 KB
- "Two Perspectives on Ukrainian Identity" by Kari Johnstone, Ph.D.
candidate, Department of Political Science
- Book Review: The Living and the Dead. Review by Anna Wertz,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
- "The Russian Far East" by Ilya Vinkovetsky, Ph.D. candidate, Department
of History
Spring 1995 [1995_12-02.pdf]
24 pages, 183 KB
- "Who are the Chechen?" by Professor Johanna Nichols, Department of
Slavic Languages and Literatures
- "The Crisis in Chechnya" by Dr. Edward W. Walker, Executive Director,
Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies
- "Poland's 'Velvet Restoration': One Year After" by Tomasz Grabowski,
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science
- "Minority Rights in Hungary," summary of lectures by Dr. Peter Haslinger,
visiting scholar from the Institute for East and Southeast European
Research, University of Vienna
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