Daviscalendar-list March 2008

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The Prophet of Post-Communism: Vladimir Nabokov and Russian Politics A lecture by Nina Khrushcheva (The New School) Monday, March 31 at 4 PM in Devlin Hall 101, Boston College Book signing to follow - free and open to the public Sponsored by Boston College departments of Slavic and Eastern Languages, Communication, Fine Arts, History, Political Science, the Honors Program, and the Boston College Bookstore. Nina L. Khrushcheva is associate professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs and senior fellow of the World Policy Institute at the New School. Dr. Khrushcheva's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune and other publications. She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, and is working on a new book, Russia’s Gulag of the Mind. The great-granddaughter of former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, she lives in New York City. For more information, please contact Prof. Maxim D. Shrayer at shrayerm(a)bc.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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Seminar title correction, 4/2/08 with Paul Josephson

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/*Please note the following seminar title correction:*/ *Wednesday, April 2* *Comparative Economics Seminar* / / /"Putin, Bush and the Future of Nuclear Power" /Paul Josephson, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of History, Colby 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 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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Seminar Calendar, April 1-15, 2008

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar April 1-15, 2008__* *__* * * *Tuesday, April 1* *Literature and Culture Seminar* / / /"Two Kinds of Theater: Natasha's Visit to the Opera in Tolstoy's /War and Peace/ (Vol. II, Part Five, chapt. IX and X) and Young Krull's First Visit to the Theater in /Thomas Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man/ (Book I, chapt. 5)"/ Horst-Jürgen Gerigk, Professor of Russian Literature, Slavisches Institut, Heidelberg University, Germany 12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Room 133 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, April 2* *Comparative Economics Seminar* / / /"//Proletarian Aesthetics: Stalin and Technology in East Central Europe" /Paul Josephson, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of History, Colby College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, April 2* *Outreach Program Series* / / /"//Islam in Central Asia" /John Schoeberlein, Lecturer on Central Asia, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 4:30-6:30 p.m. *Thursday, April 3* *Comparative Politics Seminar*// / / /"Who Wants to Revise Privatization and Why? Two Surveys from the Postcommunist World" /Timothy Frye, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of Political Science, Columbia University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Thursday, April 3* *Wiktor Weintraub Memorial Lecture* *Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures* // /"Milosz and Brodsky: Poetry with a Foreign Accent"/ Irena Grudzinska-Gross, Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of the Institute for Human Sciences, Boston University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Thursday, April 3 - Saturday, April 5* *Symposium* /"Aleksander Pushkin: An Historic Symposium at Harvard"/ / / Exploring the Dual Heritage of Russia's Greatest Poet and Father of Modern Russian Literature & the Black Russians of the 20^th Century Thursday, April 3 Opening Reception, Poetry Recital & Opera Clips 12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Thompson Room 5:00-7:30 p.m. Friday, April 4 Symposium 20 Quincy Street, Harvard Faculty Club, 2nd Floor Library 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Saturday, April 5 Symposium 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. * * /Advance Registration Requested: Online at www.charleshamiltonhouston.org <http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org/> or via email to lpaiewon(a)post.harvard.edu <mailto:lpaiewon@post.harvard.edu>/ *Friday, April 4* *Early Slavists' Seminar* * * /"Heroic Literature in Kievan Rus': Beyond the Igor Tale"/ Susana Torres Prieto-Hay, Lecturer in Slavonic, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; Postdoctoral Fellow, Universite Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV, France 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Tuesday, April 8 * *Cold War Studies Seminar and Book Talk* / "//Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life as a Cold War Correspondent"/ Nicholas Daniloff, Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University; Former Moscow Bureau Chief, U.S. News and World Report 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Tuesday, April 8 * *Cold War Studies Seminar* *Co-sponsored by the Occasional Seminar* / //"The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev"/ Vladislav Zubok, Associate Professor of History, Temple University 1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Wednesday, April 9* *Director's Seminar *// / / /"Vladimir Putin- Well-Suited for the Number Two Role- A Behavioral Movement Analysis"/ Brenda Connors, Senior Fellow, Strategic Research Department, U.S. Naval War College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Thursday, April 10* *Comparative Politics Seminar*// / / /"(Un)happiness in Transition" /Sergei Guriev, Associate Professor and Rector, New Economic School, Moscow 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * *Thursday, April 10* *Art Exhibition Opening Reception*// / / /"Transitional Spaces: Destruction, Disintegration and Growth in Post-Communist Hungary and Estonia" /Amy Brouillette, Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center Sara Rhodin, Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center 1737 Cambridge Street, Ground Level, Fisher Family Commons 5:00-7:00 p.m. * * * * *Friday, April 11* *Film Screening* *Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute //* /"Koryo Saram" / Y. David Chung, Film Co-director/ /1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010 6:30 p.m. /For more information, please visit: http://koryosaram.net//// *Monday, April 14* *Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*// / / /"State Ownership and Rentierism in the FSU: Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan"/ Pauline Jones-Luong, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown 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. *Tuesday, April 15* *Comparative Politics Seminar*// / / /"//Coming to Terms with a Past: Electoral Turnovers and Coalitional Commitments in Slovakia's Quest for a Lustration Law//" /Jana Kunicova, Governance Specialist, World Bank 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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March calendar change- 3/31/08 seminar with Alexander Goldfarb

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*/Please note the following change to our March seminar calendar:/ Monday, March 31* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights * /"The Litvinenko Case"/ Alexander Goldfarb, Executive Director, International Foundation for Civil Liberties, New York; Author 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. (Andrei Illarionov's talk, originally scheduled for this time, has been canceled.) -- ---------------------------------------------- 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, March 17-31, 2008

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar March 17-31, 2008 * *Monday, March 17* *Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*// / Title TBA /George Soroka, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard 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. *Thursday, March 20* *Literature and Culture Seminar* / / /"'Tserkov' Merezhkovskikh: Istoriia intellektual'nogo dvizhenia"/ Margarita Pavlova, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Senior Scholar, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. /Please note: This talk will be delivered in Russian./ *Monday, March 31* *Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*// / //"Inequality and Democracy"/ Boriana Nikolova, Visiting Graduate Student, University of Chicago / / 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, March 31* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights * "/On the Russian Presidential Elections of March 9, 2008"/ Andrei Illarionov, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute; President, Institute of Economic Analysis, Moscow 1730 Cambridge Street, 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 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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Daviscalendar-list March 2008