Daviscalendar-list April 2007

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Seminar Calendar: May 1-14, 2007

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies* *_May 1-14 Calendar of Events_* *Tuesday, May 1* *****Cold War Studies Seminar* ** ****/"Soviet Strategic Culture and Military Policy during the Cold War"/ Dima Adamsky, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center For International Affairs, Harvard University; Research Fellow, Mayrock Center for East European and Eurasian Studies, Hebrew University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Wednesday, May 2* *Comparative Economics Seminar* // ///"//China//'s Continental Energy Strategy: Russia and Central Asia"/// Vitaly Kozyrev, Fellow, Department of Political Science, Amherst College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. *Thursday, May 3* *****Historians' Seminar* ** **///////"Urban Freedom in Russian Historiography (Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries)"/ ////Wladimir Berelowitch, Professor of History, École des hautes études en sciences sociales and University of Geneva 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * *Thursday, May 3* *Literature and Culture Seminar* ** /"//Production Choreographies: Vsevolod Meyerhold, Alexei Gastev, and the Politics of Biomechanics"/// Asya Graf, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Monday, May 7* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* */"State Building, /*/Human Rights, and Islamic Radicalization in the North Caucasus"/ *Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya,** *Sakharov Human Rights Fellow, Davis Center; Programs Director, Memorial Human Rights Center, Northern Caucasus; Assistant Professor of Political Science, Grozny University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Tuesday, May 8* *****Historians' Seminar* ****//// ///"Romanov Russia in Qajar Iran (1795-1925)"/ ////Robert Crews, Professor of History, Stanford University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Wednesday, May 9* *****Research Travel Workshop* // ////Reports by recently-returned research travelers and advice for those now planning trips to the region. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 1:00-3:00 p.m. * * ****If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Hillary Colter at hcolter(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:hcolter@fas.harvard.edu> or 617-495-4038 by Friday, May 4, 2007.**** * * * * *Thursday, May 10 * *Cold War Studies Seminar* */Cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research/* *//* *//* /"Mao, Stalin, and the Politics of 1953 in China"/ Hua-yu Li, Associate Professor of History, Oregon State University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Thursday, May 10 * *Film **Screening and Talk* Documentary filmmaker and Center Associate Robin Hessman will show her 27-minute Student Academy Award-winning short film, "Portrait of a Boy" (codirector James Longley). The film was her diploma work at VGIK, the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography. She will also present a 10-minute piece of her current work in progress, "Russia's Pepsi Generation," a documentary that looks at the last generation of Soviet children to grow up behind the Iron Curtain. The film will be broadcast on PBS in 2009. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, May 11* *****Early Slavists' Seminar* ****// ///"//The Strategic Dilemmas of Seventeenth-Century East European Warfare"/// ////Peter Brown, Professor of History, Rhode Island College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Monday, May 14* *Book Talk* /By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey / (The MIT Press, January 2007) * * *János Kornai*, Author; Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard University; Permanent Fellow, Emeritus, Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study; Distinguished Research Professor, Central European University Chair: *Timothy Colton*, Director, Davis Center; Professor of Government, Harvard University Discussant: *Francis Bator*, Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Discussant: *Paul Hollander*, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050 4:15-6:00 p.m. ****If you plan to attend the book talk, please RSVP to Penelope Skalnik at pskalnik(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:pskalnik@fas.harvard.edu> or 617-384-8438 by Friday, May 4, 2007.**** * *

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Thurs., 4/26: Comp. Economics Seminar with Akio Kawato

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/*Please note the following seminar:*/ *Thursday, April 26* *Comparative Economics Seminar* */Cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, the Korea Institute, and the /**/Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs/* /"Japan: Between Russia, China, Korea, the US and the Deep Blue Sea"/ Akio Kawato, Chief Economist, Research Institute of Capital Formation, Development Bank of Japan; former Ambassador of Japan to Uzbekistan 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050 2:30-4:00 p.m. -- -------------------------------------------------- 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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4/27 Early Slavists' seminar cancellation

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/*Please note the following seminar cancellation: */ *Friday, April 27** **Early Slavists' Seminar* / //"Ruthenian Law, Ruthenian Language--What Did the Lithuanian Statutes Mean for the History of the Ruthenian Language?"/ Michael Moser, Associate Professor, Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna Ukrainian Research Institute, 34 Kirkland Street, Main Seminar Room 12:15-2:00 p.m. -- -------------------------------------------------- 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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Today: REEJS Seminar with David Engel

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A reminder... *Wednesday, April 25** Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies* / //"On Reconciling the Histories of Two Chosen Peoples: Twentieth-Century Narratives of Polish-Jewish Relations"/ David Engel, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Professor of History, New York University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. -- -------------------------------------------------- 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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Thurs., 4/26: IAAS Lecture with Peter Golden

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/*Please note the following event from the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies:*/ * Thursday, April 26* *Second Richard N. Frye Fund Lecture* /"Basmïls and Qïpchaqs: Some Unexplored Elements in the Shaping of the Peoples of Medieval Eurasia"/ Peter Golden, Professor, History, Rutgers University 1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Tsai Auditorium 4:00 p.m. An informal reception, to which all are invited, will follow the lecture. For more information, please contact the IAAS Office at iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu

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Mon., 5/14: Book Talk -- Janos Kornai, 'By Force of Thought'

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The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and the Department of Economics at Harvard cordially invite you to attend a presentation of János Kornai's book, /By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey/, recently translated into English and published by MIT Press. Attached is a short description of the book as well as some biographical information about the author, as compiled by the publisher. If you plan to attend the book talk, please RSVP to Penelope Skalnik at pskalnik(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:pskalnik@fas.harvard.edu> or 617-384-8438 by Friday, May 4, 2007. -------------------------------------------------------------- * * *Monday, May 14 Book Talk* /By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey / (The MIT Press, January 2007) * * *János Kornai*, Author; Professor Emeritus of Economics, Harvard University; Permanent Fellow Emeritus, Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study; Distinguished Research Professor, Central European University Chair: *Timothy Colton*, Director, Davis Center; Professor of Government, Harvard University Discussant: *Francis Bator*, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Discussant: *Paul Hollander*, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050 4:15-6:00 p.m. * /Reception following talk. All are welcome./*

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4/26 Sakharov Seminar with Anton Burkov -- UPDATED LISTING

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*/Please note the following updated seminar listing:/ Thursday, April 26* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* */Cosponsored by Harvard Law School /**/"/*/Russia and the European Convention on Human Rights: The Role of Courts and NGOs"/ Anton Burkov, Human Rights Lawyer, Urals Centre of Constitutional and International Human Rights Protection, NGO /Sutyajnik/; Kapitza Scholar, University of Cambridge *Harvard Law School, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Pound Hall, Room 407 4:15-6:00 p.m.*

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CANCELLED: Fri., Apr. 13 Occasional Seminar

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/*Please note the following seminar cancellation:*/ *Friday, April 13 **Occasional Seminar* /"Clausewitz, Counterinsurgency, and the Russian-Chechen Conflict in Comparative Perspective"/ Andrew Mumford, Doctoral Candidate in Politics, University of Sheffield; Visiting Scholar, Conflict and Terrorism Center, Pennsylvania State University Thomas Waldman, Doctoral Candidate in Politics, University of Sheffield; Visiting Scholar, Conflict and Terrorism Center, Pennsylvania State University Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m.

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Seminar Calendar: April 13-30, 2007

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar April 13-30, 2007* *Friday, April 13 Occasional Seminar* / //"Clausewitz, Counterinsurgency, and the Russian-Chechen Conflict in Comparative Perspective"/ Andrew Mumford, Doctoral Candidate in Politics, University of Sheffield; Visiting Scholar, Conflict and Terrorism Center, Pennsylvania State University Thomas Waldman, Doctoral Candidate in Politics, University of Sheffield; Visiting Scholar, Conflict and Terrorism Center, Pennsylvania State University Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Monday, April 16* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* */"/*/Russian Society: Can It Come into Being*?"*/ Tatiana Vorozheykina, Sakharov Human Rights Fellow, Davis Center; Lecturer, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Tuesday, April 17** **Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar * / //"Imagining the State: How Perceptions of the State Influence Customary Law in the Kyrgyz Aksakal Courts"/ Judith Beyer, Ph.D. Candidate, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Wednesday, April 18 Historians' Seminar* * */"Russia, Prussia, and East Prussia in the Seven Years' War (1758-62): Frontiers, Military Administration, and Russian Expansion"/ Francine-Dominique Liechtenhan, Professor of History, Université Paris-Sorbonne 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Thursday, April 19* *Literature and Culture Seminar* /"Imperial Nationalism and Dostoevsky's /House of the Dead/"/ Edyta Bojanowska, Lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. ** *Friday, April 20 Literary Study Group* / "//Vladimir Soloviev's Vision(s) Revisited"/ Maria Nemcova Banerjee, Professor of Russian, Smith College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 3:15-5:00 p.m. *Monday, April 23 Exhibition Opening* / Cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Asia Center/ / "Here Be Giants: A Quarter-Century of Political-Photographic Explorations of That Broad Swath of the Eurasian Landmass Formerly Known as the Sino-Soviet Space"/ Opening talk and slideshow, with reception to follow. Gwendolyn Stewart, Photojournalist; Center Associate, Davis Center; Research Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 4:00 p.m. *Monday, April 23* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* * * /Cosponsored by the //University Committee on Human Rights Studies and the Northeast Office of Amnesty International USA/ /"Wars on Terror in the North Caucasus: Politics, Identity, Human Rights"/ Screening of the documentary/ The Crying Sun/, followed by discussion. Ousam Baysaev, Reporter, Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty (Chechnya) Zarema Mukusheva, Videographer, Memorial Human Rights Center, Grozny; Recipient, 2005 Reebok Human Rights Award Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International USA Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, Sakharov Human Rights Fellow; Assistant Professor of Political Science, Chechen State University Shamil Tangiev, Director, Memorial Human Rights Center, Grozny 1737 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room N354, 5:00-7:00 p.m. *Tuesday, April 24 Cold War Studies Seminar* / //"Bulgaria and the Fulbright Program during the Late Communist Period"/ Anne Freed, Former Fulbright Scholar, Bulgaria Roy Freed, Former Fulbright Scholar, Bulgaria 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, April 25 Comparative Economics Seminar* / //"Russian Oil and Gas: How Long Will the Bonanza Last?"/ John Grace, Geologist, Earth Science Associates 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, April 25** Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies* / //"On Reconciling the Histories of Two Chosen Peoples: Twentieth-Century Narratives of Polish-Jewish Relations"/ David Engel, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Professor of History, New York University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * *Thursday, April 26* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* */Cosponsored by Harvard Law School/* */"/*/Russia// and the European Convention on Human Rights: The Role of Courts and NGOs"/ Anton Burkov, Human Rights Lawyer, Urals Centre of Constitutional and International Human Rights Protection, NGO /Sutyajnik/; Kapitza Scholar, University of Cambridge Location and Time TBA ** *Thursday, April 26** **Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar* / //"Memories on the Edge of Disaster: Earthquakes in Central Eurasia"/ Douglas Northrop, Associate Professor of Modern Central Asian Studies, University of Michigan 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * *Thursday, April 26* *Literature and Culture Seminar* /"Lianozovo and Moscow Conceptualist Poetry"/ Gerald Janecek, Professor of Russian, University of Kentucky; Editor, /Slavic and East European Journal/ 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * *Friday, April 27** **Early Slavists' Seminar* / //"Ruthenian Law, Ruthenian Language--What Did the Lithuanian Statutes Mean for the History of the Ruthenian Language?"/ Michael Moser, Associate Professor, Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna Ukrainian Research Institute, 34 Kirkland Street, Main Seminar Room 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Friday, April 27* *Undergraduate Colloquium* *on Russian and Eurasian Studies* * *Multidisciplinary research presentations by advanced undergraduates from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges. 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Rooms S020, S040, S050, and 3rd Floor, Room S354 2:00-5:45 p.m. *Monday, April 30 Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop * /"Transforming Bureaucracy: Conditional Norms and the International Standardization of Statistics in Russia"/ Yoshiko Herrera, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University Papers are available on the web at www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. 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 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), 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. * *

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Seminar Reminder: April 5, Juliet Johnson

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*A reminder...* ** *Thursday, April 5 Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop * */ /*/"Priests of Prosperity: The Transnational Central Banking Community and Post-Communist Transformation"/ Juliet Johnson, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University Papers are available on the web at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. 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 12:15-2:00 p.m. -- -------------------------------------------------- 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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