Daviscalendar-list February 2008

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March 3 addition to the seminar calendar

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/*Please note the following addition to the March seminar calendar:*/ *Monday, March 3* *Comparative Economics Seminar* / / /"The Economics of Terror under Stalin"/ Paul Gregory, Professor of Economics, University of Houston 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. -- ---------------------------------------------- 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

16 years, 1 month

Updated Conference Agenda: Reassessing Post-Soviet Energy Politics

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Conference co-sponsored by The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies *Reassessing Post-Soviet Energy Politics Ukraine, Russia, and the Battle for Gas from Central Asia to the European Union 7--8 March 2008* *Center for Government and International Studies 1730 Cambridge St., Case Study Room S020, Cambridge, MA Register at: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html#2008_3_7-8 * *Session 1. Actors and Interests in the Aftermath of the 2006 Gas Crisis Friday, March 7, 2008 9:15 a.m.--12:00 noon* *Chair: Oxana Shevel* Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies *Welcome and Opening Remarks* Timothy Colton Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies *"The Gas Crisis of 2005-2006: A Retrospective View"* Lubomyr Hajda Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute *"In the Wake of the 2006 Ukrainian--Russian Gas Agreement: New Rules of the Game"* Margarita M. Balmaceda Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies *"Russia and the Rise of Gazprom"* Rawi Abdelal Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies *"RosUkrEnergo: The Unexpected Guest Settles in for a Long Stay"* Roman Kupchinsky formerly Coordinator of Corruption Studies, RFE/RL, Inc., Prague *"The Missing Pieces? Central Asia and Its Neighbors"* Carol Saivetz Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies *Session 2. Gas Trade and Energy Schemes: Their Role in National and International Politics Friday, March 7, 2008 2:30--5:00 p.m.* *Chair: Lisbeth Tarlow* Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies *"Current Issues and Challenges in Ukraine's Energy Economy"* Volodymyr Saprykin Director of Energy Programs, Ukrainian Centre for Political and Economic Studies, Kyiv *"How the Gas Issue Plays in Ukrainian Politics and How Ukrainian Politicians Play the Gas Issue"* Taras Kuzio President, Kuzio Associates (an independent consultancy and government communications company), Washington DC and Kyiv. *"Private Interests and the Russian State: Gazprom and Power"* Mikhail Zygar Energy Specialist, Special Correspondent, Kommersant, Moscow *"Energy: A Case Study in Russia's Political Gamesmanship"* Marshall Goldman Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College former Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies *"Gas Trade and Politics: The Chain of Political and Econonomic Interests from Central Asia to the European Union"* Martha Brill Olcott Senior Associate, Russian and Eurasian Program,Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC *"Main Current Issues in European--Russian Energy Relations"* Ferdinand Pavel Research Associate, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin Member, German Advisory Group with the Ukrainian Government, Kyiv *"The Former Soviet Union and European Energy Security: A View from Washington"* Gene Fishel Senior Analyst, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State (on leave). *Session 3. From Producer to Consumer: Pricing Mechanisms, Transit, and Informal Institutions Saturday, March 8, 2008 9:30--12:00 noon* *Chair: Lubomyr Hajda * Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute *"Putting a Price on Gas: Pricing Mechanisms---Transparent and Opaque"* Andrei Konoplyanik Deputy Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat, Brussels *"Getting the Gas from There to Here: Transit and Transit Competition"* Christof van Agt formerly Office of Non-Member Countries, International Energy Agency, Paris *"Transition, Weak Institutions, and Intermediary Companies: Filling Gaps, Filling Pockets"* Margarita M. Balmaceda Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies *"Plus a change: Continuity or Change in Intermediary Company Schemes?"* Alla Yeremenko Senior Correspondent, Section of Economic Security, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia / Zerkalo Nedeli, Kyiv *Concluding Remarks* Margarita M. Balmaceda Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Lubomyr Hajda Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute -- ---------------------------------------------- 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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March 12 addition to the seminar calendar

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/*Please note the following addition to the March seminar calendar:*/ *Wednesday, March 12 **Cold War Studies Seminar* / / /"New Evidence Regarding the Czechoslovak Crisis, 1945-1948: A View from the Schönborn Palace" / Igor Lukes, Professor of Political Science, Boston 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 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 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

16 years, 2 months

Seminar Calendar, March 1-15, 2008

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar March 1-15, 2008* *Monday, March 3* *Occasional Seminar* / / /"Operational Leadership of the Soviet Terror from the Civil War to the Great Terror"/ Stephen Wheatcroft, Professor of History, University of Melbourne, Australia 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, March 5* *Comparative Economics Seminar* / / /"//Are Population and Health Constraints Affecting Russian Society and the Military?" /Murray Feshbach, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Research Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. *Wednesday, March 5* *Outreach Program Series* / / /"Islam in Africa" /Jacob Olupona, Professor of African and African-American Studies, Harvard Divinity School 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 4:30-6:30 p.m. *Thursday, March 6* *Literature and Culture Seminar* / / /"The Information Arms Race: Towards a Cybernetics of Stalinism"/ Terry Martin, Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, March 7- Saturday, March 8* *Conference//* *Co-sponsored by the Davis Center and The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute* /"Reassessing Post-Soviet Energy Politics: Ukraine, Russia, and the Battle for Gas from Central Asia to the European Union"/ Session 1: Actors, Agendas and Interests Session 2: Gas Trade and Energy Security: The Impact on National and International Politics Session 3: From Producer to Consumer: Transit, Prices, and Informal Institutions 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 /For more information: http://www.huri.harvard.edu// /To register online: //http://www.huri.harvard.edu/gas_conf_reg.html/ * * * * *Monday, March 10* *Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*// / / /"Reflective and Unreflective Partisans? Experimental Evidence from Russia, Poland, and Hungary on the Links between Information, Opinion, and Party Identification" /Joshua Tucker, Associate Professor of Politics, New York University// 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Monday, March 10 **Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* "/On the Russian Presidential Election of March 2, 2008"/ Andrei A. Piontkovsky, Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute; Senior Research Fellow, Institute for System Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 4:15-6:00 p.m. * ****Tuesday, March 11* *Cold War Studies Seminar* / / /"The Soviet Union and U.S. Presidential Campaigns during the Cold War//"/ Kostadin Grozev, Visiting Professor of History, University of Texas; Professor of Modern History, University of Sofia, Bulgaria 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * *Thursday, March 13* *Literature and Culture Seminar* / / /"Brodsky, Chekhov and We"/ Lev Loseff, Department Chair and Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, March 14 **Historians' Seminar* /"//The Affective Turn: Emotions and the Writing of History"/ Ronald Suny, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, The University of Chicago 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Friday, March 14 ** **Early Slavists' Seminar* / //"From Pamvo Berynda (1627) to Luka Kis(ka (1722): A Relapse from Script- to Language-Switching"/// Andriy Danylenko, Shklar Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Lecturer in Russian Language and Culture, Pace University 1737 Cambridge Street, Ground Level, Room N105 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. -- ---------------------------------------------- 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

16 years, 2 months

Conference: Reassessing Post-Soviet Energy Politics

by Davis Center Calendar of Events

*Conference **co-sponsored by** * *The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute** and** The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies* * Reassessing Post-Soviet Energy Politics** Ukraine, Russia, and the Battle for Gas** from Central Asia to the European Union ** * * * * * * * * Session 1. Actors, Agendas and Interests* Friday, March 7, 2008 9:15 a.m.--12:00 noon *Session 2. Gas Trade and Energy Security: The Impact on National and International Politics* Friday, March 7, 2008 2:15--5:00 p.m. *Session 3. From Producer to Consumer: Transit, Prices, and Informal Institutions* Saturday, March 8, 2008 9:15 a.m.--12:00 noon All sessions held at Case Study Room, CGIS, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA * Speakers will include: * *Rawi Abdelal, Margarita M. Balmaceda, Gene Fishel, Marshall Goldman, Roman Kupchinsky*, *Taras Kuzio, Martha Brill Olcott, Ferdinand Pavel, Carol Saivetz, Volodymyr Saprykin, Alla Yeriomenko, and other specialists from Ukraine, Russia, Europe and North America. * -- ---------------------------------------------- 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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Seminar Calendar, February 16-29, 2008

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar February 16-29, 2008* * * *Wednesday, February 20* *Comparative Economics Seminar* / / /"Parties, Statist Stakeholders, and Informalization in Post-Soviet Welfare State Reform" /Linda J. Cook, Professor of Political Science, Brown University; Center Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. *Thursday, February 21* *Literature and Culture Seminar* / / /"Framed? The Dialogical Performance of Space in Stalinist Comedy" /Anna Wexler Katsnelson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Monday, February 25* *Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*// / /Introduction to/ "Understanding the Management of Energy Dependency in the Post-Soviet World"/ / / Margarita Balmaceda, Center Associate, Davis Center; Associate Professor, The Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall 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. * * * * *Monday, February 25 * *Comparative Economics Seminar* *Co-sponsored by the Cold War Studies Seminar*// / "//Russia// and a New Cold War?"/ Edward Lucas, Former Moscow Correspondent, /The Economist/// 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, February 28* *Special Performance* / "//Rossiya, My Native Land"/ in Russian poetry and songs// Students of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard// 12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Thompson Room 110 4:30 p.m. * * * * *Friday, February 29* *Historians' Seminar*// / //"Russia's Place in Eurasia: A Reconsideration"/ John LeDonne, Center Associate, Davis Center // 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. -- ---------------------------------------------- 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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Russian Week 2008! February 11-15

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Dear Colleagues and Friends of Russian Studies, Russian Week is back! On tap this year: A Russian romantic comedy, A discussion of Putin's Russia on the eve of its upcoming presidential election, and an authentic Russian folk concert on Valentine's Day! Please see the flyer below and pass this email on to your email lists, if appropriate. See the press release and link from there to more info: http://www.brandeis.edu/news/2008/february/RussanVDayConcert.html Best wishes, David Powelstock Chair, Program in Russian and East European Studies Brandeis University ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ---------------------------------------------- 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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