Daviscalendar-list October 2008

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar November 1-15, 2008* *__* */For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./* *__* *Monday, November 3 * *Special Seminar * *Co-sponsored by the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Center for the Study of World Religions//* / / /"Christian Hajjis: The Forgotten Pilgrims of Ottoman Jerusalem" /Valentina Izmirlieva, Associate Professor of Slavic Studies, Columbia University// 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Wednesday, November 5* *Comparative Politics Seminar*// / / /"The Modern History of Russian Media- How Did We Get to Where We Are?"/ Andrei Zolotov, Jr., Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University; Founding Editor, /Russia// Profile/ 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Thursday, November 6 * *Occasional Seminar*// / / /"Winter Palace: >From Katherine the Great to Present Day" /Anna Konivets, Coordinator, Guggenheim-Hermitage Project; Senior Research Fellow, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Thursday, November 6 * *Comparative Economics Seminar*// / / /"The Real Truth about Russia" /John T. Connor Jr., Founder and Portfolio Manager, Third Millennium Russia Fund// 1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, November 6 * *Literature and Culture Seminar*// / / /"Polish-Jewish Intellectuals in Mainstream Entertainment, 1918-39: An Unfinished Adventure" /Knut Andreas Grimstad, Director of the Programme for Literary Studies and Associate Professor of Polish, University of Oslo// 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, November 7 * *Occasional Seminar*// /"The Politics of Survival: Reporting in Russia Today" /Yevgenia Albats, Professor of Political Science, State University Higher School of Economics, Moscow; Deputy Editor and Political Editor, /The New Times/; Talk Show Host, Ekho Moskvy Broadcasting 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *__* *__* *Monday, November 10* *Comparative Economics Seminar*// / / /"//Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder and the Dark Heart of the New Russia"/ Steve LeVine, Chief Foreign Affairs Writer, /Business Week/ 1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450 12:30-2:00 p.m. *__* * * *Monday, November 10* *Cold War Studies Seminar*// / / /"Cold War Between Pyongyang and Hanoi: North Korea, Vietnam, and the Cambodian Question, 1970-1989"/ Balazs Szalontai, Visiting Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *__* *__* *Wednesday, November 12* *Comparative Economics Seminar*// / / /"Russia Matters: An Insider's Look at the Rise of Russia and the West's Failure to Engage the Heartland of Eurasia" /Alfred Kokh, Author; Former Deputy Prime Minister, Russian Federation 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, November 12* *Comparative Economics Seminar*// / / /"Russian Energy and Foreign Policy: Beyond the Former Soviet Union" /Anita Orban, Director, Constellation Energy Institute 61 Kirkland Street, Seminar Room 4:15-5:30 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, November 13* *Literature and Culture Seminar *// / / Screening of /Current History/ (2006) Followed by a discussion with the director, Hannah Collins 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * *Friday, November 14* *Early Slavists' Seminar* /"'I//gor's retinue said to him' (Rekosha druzhina Igorevi): On Aleksei Gippius' Article about the Linguotextological Stratification in the /Initial Chronicle (Nachal'naia Letopis')/"/// Olga Strakhov, Independent Scholar; Library Assistant, Gund Hall Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl. If you need to register a new visitor login to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772.

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Seminar Postponed: 10/27/2008 with Pavel Podvig

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Please note that the following seminar has been postponed until further notice: Monday, October 27 Cold War Studies Seminar Did Reagan's 'Star Wars' Missile-Defense Program Help Win the Cold War? Evidence from Formerly Classified Soviet Documents Pavel Podvig, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl. If you need to register a new visitor login to purchase a parking pass, choose Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and enter department code 2020. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772.

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Study Groups at Center for European Studies

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*Thursday, October 30, 2008, **4:15 PM - 6:00 PM* *"Psychiatry and Prejudice: Perceptions of the Orient among European Jewish Immigrant Psychiatrists in Palestine, 1924-1941" **Speaker:* Rakefet Zalashik <http://hebrewjudaic.as.nyu.edu/object/rakefetzalashik.html>, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University *Sponsor: *Jews in Modern Europe Study Group/ /*Location:* Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge For more information, contact: Phyllis Albert, Ph.D. Center for European Studies Harvard University 617 969 7745 * Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 4:15 PM "'Glimpses in the Blinding Light': Holocaust Victims Reflect on Their Tormentors"* *Speaker:* MARK ROSEMAN, Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana University *Sponsor:* German Study Group co-sponsored by the Jews in Modern Europe Study Group *Location:* Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge *Contact Name:* Professor Alison Frank *Contact Email:* afrank(a)fas.harvard.edu -- ---------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Addition to October calendar

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*/Please note the following addition to the October seminar calendar: / Friday, October 31* *Comparative Economics Seminar*// /"The Big Bang: The Business Cycle Comes to Russia"/ Marshall I. Goldman, Senior Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl. 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 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Monday, Oct. 20: Abdelal seminar on Gazprom at HBS

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/Please note the following upcoming seminar at Harvard Business School: / *Monday, October 20* *Business History Seminar* /"Gazprom, Past and Present" / Rawi Abdelal, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Faculty Associate, Davis Center Harvard Business School, Baker Library 101 3:30-5:00 p.m., followed by wine and cheese in the Faculty Commons To order a copy of the paper, please contact Sarah Pettengill at spettengill(a)hbs.edu. Directions: To get to Baker 101, enter through the office Suite 100 West. The seminar room is adjacent to the back of the suite. Parking is available. Please email spettengill(a)hbs.edu by noon the day before the seminar if you plan to park in the HBS lot.

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Seminar Calendar, October 16-31, 2008

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/(Due to recent technical difficulties, all members may not have received this calendar. We are re-sending this message in case anyone missed it.)/* Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar Calendar October 16-31, 2008* /*For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.*/ * Thursday, October 16 Comparative Politics Seminar* /"Political Change in Russia and Its Foreign Policy Implications"/ Vitaly Kozyrev, Professor, Endicott College and Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * Thursday, October 16 Literature and Culture Seminar Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages and the Humanities Center * /"The Observer Observed: Gorky and the Art of the Literary Memoir"/ Donald Fanger, Professor of Literature, Emeritus, Harvard; Faculty Associate, Davis Center In conversation with William Mills Todd III, Professor of Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard; Faculty Associate, Davis Center Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Thompson Room, Room 110 4:15-6:00 p.m. * Friday, October 17 Historian's Seminar* /"When I Served the Post as a Coachman: Circulation and Empire in Russia's 18th Century"/ John Randolph, Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * Thursday, October 23 Literature and Culture Seminar* /Poetry Reading with Alexandra Petrova / Alexandra Petrova, Poet Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Kresge Room, Room 114 4:15-6:00 p.m. * Monday, October 27 Cold War Studies Seminar* /"Did Reagan's 'Star Wars' Missile-Defense Program Help Win the Cold War? Evidence from Formerly Classified Soviet Documents"/ Pavel Podvig, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * Tuesday, October 28 Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar* /"Illegal Labor Migration from Central Asia to the United States"/ Saltanat Liebert, Assistant Professor, Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * Thursday, October 30 Comparative Politics Seminar* /"Exiting Anarchy: Coup-Proofing after State Failure in the Caucasus and Central Asia"/ Jesse Russell Driscoll, Visiting Fellow, Yale University 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl **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 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Changes and additions to seminar calendar

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/*Please note the following speaker addition (10/7), seminar addition (10/8), and speaker change (10/10) to the Davis Center seminar calendar:*/ *Tuesday, October 7* *Cold War Studies Seminar*// / / /"The 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia 40 Years Later: Reassessing East-Bloc and Western Reactions to the Prague Spring"/ Guenter Bischof, Professor of History, University of New Orleans Mark Kramer, Program Director, Cold War Studies Project, Harvard Peter Ruggenthaler, Senior Research Fellow, Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut fuer Kriegsfolgen-Forschung, Graz Jacques Rupnik, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Research Director, Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, France 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Wednesday, October 8* *Brown Bag Lunch* */ /* /"Impressions of Georgia, September 8-12"/ Edythe Haber, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Russian, Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Friday, October 10 Early Slavists' Seminar* /"Privileging the Prince: Recovering Evidence for Female Patronage in Medieval Kiev"/ Olenka Pevny, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Richmond 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 https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl . 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 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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