Daviscalendar-list December 2009

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SEMINAR CANCELED: 12/17/09 with Boris Nemtsov

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**/*Please note that this seminar has been canceled:*/ * * *Thursday, December 17* *Comparative Economics Seminar* /"Is Democratic Reform Dead in Russia?"/ Boris Nemtsov, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Russia 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd 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 in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please 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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Barskova and Meklina at Boston College - 11/12/09

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On December 12, 2009 Boston College will be hosting the Fall 2009 Michael B. Kreps Memorial Readings. Polina Barskova and Margarita Meklina, two distinguished contemporary Russian authors, will read from and discuss her works. They will be introduced by the moderator of the Kreps Readings, Prof. Maxim D. Shrayer (Boston College). Polina Barskova was born and raised in St. Petersburg and received her Ph.D. in Russian Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. A poet and a critic, Barskova is the author of six collections of Russian poetry, among which are: "Christmas" (1991), "Race of the Peevish" (1993), and "Brazilian Scenes" (2005). Barskova is the recipient of a number of literary prizes, including "Moscow-Transit" Biennale (2005). She teaches at Hampshire College and lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. Margarita Meklina, a native of St. Petersburg, emigrated to the US in 1994. A bilingual fiction writer and essayist, Meklina is the author of the story collection "The Battle at Petersburg" (2003), for which she received Russia's Andrey Bely Prize. Her other books include "Love Has Four Hands" (2008, with Lida Iusupova) and the epistolary novel "POP 3" (2008, with Arkady Dragomoshchenko). She lives in San Francisco. The reading will take place on Saturday, December 12th, at 7:30 PM in Gasson Hall 305 (Fulton Debating Room, on the Boston College main campus (a BC campus map is found at _http://www.bc.edu/about/maps/s-chestnuthill.html_). The event is conducted in Russian and is free and open to the public. For more information, please call Boston College's Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures at (617) 552-3910 or email _shrayerm(a)bc.edu_ <mailto:shrayerm@bc.edu>. Presently in their eleventh year, the Kreps Readings feature Russian émigré literature and serve to bring together the Boston College community and the Boston-area Russian émigré community. The event is cosponsored by the Boston College Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures and the Office of the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.

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Seminar Calendar, December 16-31, 2009

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar December 16-31, 2009__* *__* */For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./* * * *Thursday, December 17* *Comparative Economics Seminar* /"Is Democratic Reform Dead in Russia?"/ Boris Nemtsov, Former Deputy Prime Minister, Russia 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd 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 in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please 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 on Turkey in the Modern World - Dec. 9, 4:30-6 pm

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Please join us! *Sener Akturk*, postdoctoral fellow of the Davis Center, will be speaking at the Weatherhead Center. Seminar on Turkey in the Modern World* *Co-sponsored by WCFIA and Center for Middle Eastern Studies Cemal Kafadar, Lenore G. Martin and Ceren Belge, co-chairs *"From Social Democracy to Islamic-Ottoman Multiculturalism: Origins of the Historic Reforms in State Policies Towards Ethnicity in Turkey" **Where: *CGIS, Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K262 on Wednesday from 4:30-6pm unless otherwise specified. *When:* December 9, 2009 from 4:30-6pm Sener Akturk, Lecturer in Government, and Post-doctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University; Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Koc University, Istanbul.

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