Daviscalendar-list January 2006

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*Davis** **Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies _February Seminar Calendar_* *Wednesday, February 1, 2006** **Comparative Economics Seminar* *Co-Sponsored by the **Fairbank** **Center** for East Asian Research *///"Religion and Entrepreneurship in //China// and //Russia//: Spiritual Capital, Social Capital, and Venture Performance"/ Bat Batjargal, Associate, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, China 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153 12:30 - 2:00 pm *Tuesday, February 7, 2006 Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar */"The War against Terrorism and Its Implications for Human Rights in Uzbekistan" /Nozima Kamalova, Chair, Legal Aid Society, Uzbekistan 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm *Thursday, February 9, 2006 Comparative Politics Seminar* * Co-sponsored by the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, Kennedy School of Government* / "European Enlargement and Democratic Performance: The Cases of Romania and Bulgaria"/* *Alina Mungiu-Pippidi*,* Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow, National Endowment for Democracy; Director, Romanian Academic Society 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm This talk will be based on Chapter 1 of /Democratisation in the European Neighbourhood/, available on the following website: http://shop.ceps.be/BookDetail.php?item_id=1267 * * * * *Friday, February 10, 2006** **Early Slavists' Seminar */"On the Name of /Rus'/ in the Arabic Records: Breaking the Confines of /Barangomachia/"/ Andriy Danylenko, Lecturer, Pace University 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Friday, February 10, 2006** **Historians' Seminar */"//Population Politics in //Vilnius// 1944-47: A Case Study of Socialist-Sponsored Ethnic Cleansing"/ Theodore Weeks, Professor of History, Southern Illinois University 1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room #S250 1:00 - 3:00 pm * * *Monday, February 13, 2006** Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop* "Chapter 8: In the State," from /Not in One Leap: A Political Biography of Boris Yeltsin/ Timothy Colton, Director, Davis Center; Professor of Government, Harvard University Paper is available on the website at www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/ <http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Epostcomm/>. There is no presentation; all participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the meeting. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:30 - 2:00 pm *Wednesday, February 15, 2006* *Comparative Economics Seminar* /"The Yukos Effect: Can //Russia//'s State-Managed Network Capitalism Be Competitive?"/ Daniel McCarthy, Associate, Davis Center; Associate, Northeastern University Sheila Puffer, Associate, Davis Center; Associate, Northeastern University 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Wednesday, February 15, 2006* *Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies* /"Culture of Ethno-Nationalism and the Identity of Jews in Interwar //Poland//: Some Responses to the 'Aces of Purebred Race'" / Joanna Michlic, Assistant Professor, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm *Thursday, February 16, 2006** **Occasional Seminar *///"Population Loss in //Chechnya// Based on the Census of 2002"/ Alexander Babyonyshev, Preceptor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Thursday, February 16, 2006** Literature and Culture Seminar* /"Women in Combat at the Soviet Front, or The Limits of Gender as a Category of Historical Interpretation"/ Anna Krylova, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center; Department of History, Duke University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm * * * * * * *Tuesday, February 21, 2006* *Cold War Studies Seminar* /"Quest of the Lost Meaning of Revolution: Marxist Revisionism in Eastern and Central //Europe// in the Post-Stalin Era"/ Michal Kopec(ek, Fulbright Scholar, Endicott College; Senior Fellow, Institute of Contemporary History, Prague, Czech Republic 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm * * *Tuesday, February 21, 2006* *Literary Study Group* "/Portrait of the Artist in a Complex Mirror: Narration and Authorship in Olesha's/ Envy" David Powelstock, Associate, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Russian and East European Literatures, Brandeis University 1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room #S450 4:15 - 6:00 pm *Wednesday, February 22, 2006** Comparative Politics Seminar* * */"//Russia//, Energy, and Political Leverage in the //NIS//: Implications for //Europe// and the //U.S.//"/* *Andrei Piontkovsky*,* Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow, National Endowment for Democracy; Director, Center for Strategic Studies, Moscow 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm * * * * *Thursday, February 23, 2006** Literature and Culture Seminar* /"Metaphor, Myth, and Facticity: Reading Shklovsky's /Zoo/"/ Professor Mikhail Iampolski, Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm * * *Monday, February 27, 2006** Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop* Oxana Shevel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Purdue University /"The Politics of Refugee Policy in Post-Communist States"/ Paper is available on the website at www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/ <http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Epostcomm/>. There is no presentation; all participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the meeting. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:30 - 2:00 pm For questions about any Davis Center sponsored events, please contact Penny Skalnik at daviscrs(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:daviscrs@fas.harvard.edu> or (617) 495.4037. To purchase a parking permit at the Broadway Garage (located at the intersection of Broadway & Felton St. in Cambridge, MA), please visit Harvard University Parking Services at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml. Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and follow the instructions from there. 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addition to the January, 2006 Seminar Calendar

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/*Please note the following addition to the January Seminar Calendar:*/ *Monday, January 30, 2006** **Comparative Economics and Cold War Studies* *Joint Seminar* /"Ending the Pacific War: What Was Stalin's Role?" / Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Professor of History, University of California at Santa Barbara 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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[Daviscalendar-list] additions to the January, 2006 Seminar Calendar

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/*Please note the following additions to the January Seminar Calendar:*/ *Monday, January 9, 2006******* *Comparative Economics Seminar* ** **///"Gazprom and //Ukraine//: Did Putin Blow It?"/ //Roman Szporluk, Faculty Associate and Executive Committee, Davis Center; Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Marshall Goldman, Associate Director, Davis Center; Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College 1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room #S450 12:30 - 2:00 pm *Tuesday, January 10, 2006** **Comparative Economics Seminar *///"Slowdown in //China//: How It Could Happen; Why It Matters" /Edward Ladd, Chairman Emeritus, Standish Mellon Asset Management Company; former member of Harvard Management 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:30 - 2:00 pm -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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