TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY

 

THE CUMMINGS CENTER FOR RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES

 

XVIIIth ANNUAL CONFERENCE
ISRAELI ASSOCIATION OF SLAVIC
AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES

 

29 May 1995

Rosenberg Building, Room 01
Tel Aviv University

9:00 Registration
9:30 Opening Remarks
Anita Shapira, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University

First Session:
FROM GORBACHEV TO YELTSIN:
RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY AT A CROSSROADS
Chairman: Gabriel Gorodetsky, Tel Aviv University
Panelists:
Alex Pravda, St. Antony's College, Oxford
New Trends in Russian Foreign Policy
Vladimir Lukin, Former Russian Ambassador to the US; Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee of the State Duma
Europe in Russia's Security Considerations
Raphael Vago, Tel Aviv University
Eastern Europe in Search of Security
Discussant:
H.E. Alexander Bovin, Russian Amabassador to Israel

11:00 Coffee Break

11:20 Second Session:
POLITICS AND HISTORICAL MEMORY
Chairman:
Stefanie Hoffman, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Panelists:
Rita Pittman, St. Antony's College, Oxford University
Literature and Politics in the Post-Soviet Era
Nurit Schleifman, Tel Aviv University
Memory and Politics: The Case of Mozhaisk
Discussants:
Vladimir Paperny, Haifa University
Roman Timanchuk, Haifa University

12:30 Lunch

14:30 Third Session:
Roundtable
THE OPENING OF ARCHIVES IN RUSSIA: DISCOVERIES, EXPECTATIONS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS IN JEWISH HISTORIOGRAPHY
Chairman:
Renee Posnansky, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva
Participants:
Yaacov Ro'i, Tel Aviv University
Yaakov Lazovik, Yad VaShem
Michael Beiser, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Hadassah Asulin, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

16:00 Organizational Meeting

Simultaneous translation to English and Hebrew will be provided