Daviscalendar-list September 2006

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Seminars: October 1-15, 2006

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*Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies _October 1-15, 2006 Seminar Calendar_* *Monday, October 2, 2006 Cold War Studies Seminar */ //"Hungary and the Cold War, 1945-1956" /László Borhi, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm * * ***Monday, October 2, 2006 Cold War Studies Seminar */ //"The Hungarian Revolution and Its Implications: A Fifty-Year Perspective" /László Borhi, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm * ** * *Tuesday, October 3, 2006 Cold War Studies Seminar */ //"Cold War Ecology and the East German Communist Regime" /Arvid Nelson, Professor of Environmental Studies, Yale University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm * Wednesday, October 4, 2006 Comparative Economics Seminar */ //"State Property Privatization in Ex-Soviet Republics: Moldova as an Example"/ Sergei Evstratiev, Member of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova's High Economic Council 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:30 - 2:00 pm */Note: Seminar will be given in Russian./* * Wednesday, October 4, 2006* *Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies * /Re-"reading" the Bugut Monument: Mythology, Representation, and State Formation in Medieval Inner Asia / Michael Drompp, J. J. McComb Professor of History, Rhodes College 1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room #S250 Room opens 12:30, presentation 1:00 You may bring your own lunch to the seminar room; snacks will be provided. * Thursday, October 5, 2006 Literature and Culture Seminar */ "After Theater: Constructing Russian Theater History"/ Maria Neklyudova, Senior Lecturer, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm *Friday, October 6, 2006 Literary Study Group* * */"Kasha vs. Cachet Blanc: Russian Cuisine in Russian Culture"/ Lynn Visson, Editor-in-Chief, Hippocrene Books; author: /The Russian Heritage Cookbook/ and /The Art of Uzbek Cooking/ 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 3:00 - 5:00 pm *Tuesday, October 10, 2006 Cold War Studies Symposium* /"The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Retrospect: Failed Illusions?" / Federigo Argentieri, Professor of Politics, John Cabot University (Rome) Csaba Békés, Director, Cold War Studies Center (Budapest) Charles Gati, Professor of International Affairs, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University András Simonyi, Hungarian Ambassador to the United States Attila Szakolczai, Senior Researcher, Institute for the Study of the 1956 Revolution (Budapest) Chaired by Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S050 12:15 - 3:30 pm */Refreshments will be served./* *Thursday, October 12, 2006 Literature and Culture Seminar */"Vanishing Points: Benjamin, Teige, and the Liquidations of Aura"/ Peter Zusi, Center Associate, Davis Center; Special Program Instructor, Division of Continuing Education, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm 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. If you have any questions or problems, contact the Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772. -- -------------------------------------------------- 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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Post-comm organizational meeting, 9/18, 12:15 pm, CGIS , S354

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Dear Colleagues, This is a reminder that the Post-communist politics and economics workshop will have an organizational meeting on September 18th, at 12:15 pm, in CGIS S354 (lunch will be available). Please plan on coming to this introductory meeting if you would like to present work in the fall or spring, as we will decide the schedule there. If you would like to present, but are unable to attend the meeting, please let me know. For more information, please see the workshop website at: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. Also, if you would like to be included on the Post-comm e-mail list to be notified of future events, please contact me. Looking forward to seeing you, Yoshiko M. Herrera John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences Department of Government, Harvard University herrera(a)fas.harvard.edu http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~herrera/ Tentative schedule for the 06-07 year is: Fall: 9/18 -- Organizational meeting, (no paper) 10/16 (10/23, if necessary) 10/30 11/13 11/20 (special visiting delegation from the Slavic Research Center in Hokkaido) 11/27 12/11 Spring: 2/12 2/26 3/12 4/5 (Thursday, Juliet Johnson) 4/16 4/30 -- -------------------------------------------------- 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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September calendar addition

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*/Please note the following calendar addition:/ Tuesday, September 19, 2006 Comparative Economics Seminar* /"The Valdai Hills Group Meets Again: Putin, Energy and Politics"/ Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate and Director, Davis Center Marshall Goldman, Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College; Senior Scholar, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm

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US-Russian Relations Seminar today at BU

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*The Institute for Human Sciences at **Boston** **University** cordially invites you to the following events:* * * *Monday, September 11, 2006**, **6:00 PM*** * * *US-Russian Relations in the New Global Context* * * *Panel Discussion with:* * * *Andrew Kuchins* /Senior Associate and Director, Russian and Eurasian Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/ *Lilia Shevtsova* /Senior Associate, //Carnegie// //Moscow// //Center//, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace/ / / Colloquium Room Boston University Photonics Center 8 Saint Mary's Street, 9^th Floor (St. Mary's Street stop on MBTA "C" line; BU Central stop on MBTA "B" line) *Reception to Follow* / / /Participant Bios:/ / / /Andy Kuchins/ is the Director of the Russian & Eurasian Program and a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. Previously, Kuchins was Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center. He conducts research and writes widely on Russian foreign and security policy and is working on a book entitled //China//// and ////Russia////: Strategic Partners, Allies or Competitors?// He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. //Lilia Shevtsova// co-chairs the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Before joining the Endowment, she was deputy director of the Moscow Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and director of the Center of Political Studies in Moscow. She is one of Russia's top political analysts, an award-winning journalist, and a regular media commentator. She is also the author of six books, including //Yeltsin's Russia: Myths and Reality// (Carnegie Endowment, 1999) and //Putin's//// Russia //(Carnegie Endowment, 2003).*//* * * Institute for Human Sciences Boston University 745 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215 Tel: 617-358-2778 Fax: 617-358-3584 ihs(a)bu.edu http://www.bu.edu/ihs

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September calendar: CANCELLATION 9/18

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/* Please note the following seminar cancellation:* / *Monday, September 18, 2006 Sakharov Seminar* * * /"Sakharov the Physicist"/ Richard Wilson, Mallinkrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University and Bruno Coppi, Professor of Physics at the MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 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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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, September Seminar Calendar

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies _September Seminar Calendar_* *Monday, September 18, 2006 Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop* *Introductory meeting*. More information is available on the website at www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/ <http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Epostcomm/>. There is no paper or presentation for this meeting. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Monday, September 18, 2006 Early Slavists' Seminar* /"Nil Sorskii: New Translation -- New Paradigm"/ David Goldfrank, Professor of History, Georgetown University 1730 Cambridge Street, 1^st Floor, Room #S153 12:15 - 2:00 pm * * *Monday, September 18, 2006 Sakharov Seminar* * * /"Sakharov the Physicist"/ Richard Wilson, Mallinkrodt Professor of Physics, Harvard University and Bruno Coppi, Professor of Physics at the MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm * * *Wednesday, September 20, 2006 Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies* / //"Autobiography and Historical Context: Writing /Together and Apart in Brzezany/"/ Shimon Redlich, Professor of Modern History and Director of the Rabb Center for Holocaust Studies; Solly Yellin Chair in Lithuanian and East European Jewry, Ben-Gurion University Anton Polonsky, Albert Abramson Chair of Holocaust Studies, Brandeis University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm *Wednesday, September 27, 2006** Comparative Economics Seminar* /"The State of the Russian Arbitrazh Court System: Are We Being Too Unrealistic?"/ Ethan Burger, American University & Georgetown University Law Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354 12:30 - 2:00 pm 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. If you have any questions or problems, contact the Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772. -- -------------------------------------------------- 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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