aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] The NYPL: Roundtable: Comparing efforts at reform inhigher educationin Eastern Europe and East Asia (Thursday, April 26, 2007) (fwd)

[M T Znayenko <znayenko@andromeda.rutgers.edu>]

Co-organizers: American Council of Learned Societies
The Slavic and Baltic Division of The New York Public Library

Roundtable

Comparing efforts at reform in higher education in Eastern Europe and East
Asia

Thursday, April 26, 2007
3:30 - 5:30 pm
The Trustee's Room
The New York Public Library
Fifth Avenue at 41st Street

The public is cordially invited to attend.

Program

3:00 - 3:30 pm	Exhibition
Selected recent acquisitions in the area of Russian-Chinese relations from
the Slavic and Baltic Division, and Asian and Middle Eastern Division will
be displayed in the Trustees Room.

3:30 - 5:00 pm	Roundtable

Participants:
Stephen Kotkin, Princeton University
Xiaobo Lu, Barnard College/Columbia University
Tatsiana Shchyttsova, European Humanities University,  Vilnius/Minsk
Serhii Plokhii, University of Alberta
Andrei Zorin, Oxford University

Our point of departure will be "East Asian comparisons," an excursus in a
review of reform efforts in Russia, prepared by Stephen Kotkin for the Ford
Foundation.

Systematic comparisons of Russia and China remain underdeveloped.  This is
at the very least odd, given the close proximity and growing rivalry of the
world's largest and the world's most populous nations..

Our roundtable proposes to initiate a dialogue that will, we hope, stimulate
further investigation regarding these countries, and Eastern Europe and East
Asia more broadly.

5:00 - 5:30 pm	Discussion

5:30 - 5:40 pm	Tour
"Russia Imagined" - exhibit tour introduced by Edward Kasinec, NYPL.