*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
June 1-15, 2009__*
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*/For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit
our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./*
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*Tuesday, June 9*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
/"The Cold War and the Origins of International Human Rights Regimes
after the Second World War"/
Nadia Boyadjieva, Professor of International Law and International
Relations, University of Plovdiv
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 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.
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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
*/Please note the time for today's seminar is 4:15-6:00 p.m. (not
12:15-2:00 p.m.)/**__*
*Thursday, May 7*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*//
/"Russian Policy toward the Commonwealth of Independent States: Recent
Trends and Future Prospects"/
Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Harvard
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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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
*/Please note the following 5/7 seminar reminder /**__*
*Thursday, May 7*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*//
/"Russian Policy toward the Commonwealth of Independent States: Recent
Trends and Future Prospects"/
Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Harvard
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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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
You are cordially invited..
PEN New England / Hotel Marlowe Reading Series
PEN New England
invites you to a reading with
MAXIM D. SHRAYER
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
6:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
during the Hotel Marlowe's wine hour, beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Maxim D. Shrayer will read from his most recent book, the literary memoir Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration. He is the author of The World of Nabokov's Stories, Russian Poet/Soviet Jew and other books and is the recipient of a 2007 National Jewish Book Award. His collection of stories, Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, is forthcoming. Shrayer was born in 1967 in Moscow and immigrated to the United States in 1987. He is a Professor of Russian and English at Boston College, a bilingual writer and translator and lives in Chestnut Hill, MA, with his wife and two daughters.
Porter Square Books will be selling books at this reading. The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge. Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels A and C. Enter the garage from the Land Boulevard entrance, directly next to the Hotel Marlowe entrance. The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square.
About PEN New England
PEN (Poets/Playwrights, Essayists/Editors, Novelists) New England is an organization of distinguished and accomplished writers, aspiring authors, and all who love the written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England and defend free expression everywhere. PEN New England is one of three regional branches of PEN American Center, and part of International PEN, the oldest human rights organization in the world, and also the international literary organization. PEN NE is honored to collaborate with the Hotel Marlowe and Porter Square Books to produce the PEN/Marlowe Reading Series, now in its sixth year. The monthly reading series is co-chaired by essayist/photographer, Emily Hiestand, and fiction writer, Edith Pearlman.
PEN New England
Lesley University
29 Everett Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617) 349-8113
pen-ne(a)lesley.edu
*/Please note the following 5/6 seminar reminder and 5/14 addition to
the May calendar:/*
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*Wednesday, May 6*
*Occasional Seminar*//
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/"The European Jewish Spiritual Leadership Confronting the Communist
Regimes in Romania and Soviet Russia"/
Pinchas Goldschmidt, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Daniel Jeremy
Silver Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies; Chief Rabbi, Choral Synagogue,
Moscow
Comments by:
Steven J. Zipperstein, Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study;
Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
***Thursday, May 14*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
*Co-sponsored by the Cold War Studies Seminar*
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/"The Soviet Hydrogen Bomb Controversy: A Discussion of /The Nuclear
Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation"
Roundtable Discussion:
David Holloway, Professor of International Relations, Stanford University
Richard Wilson, Professor of Physics (Emeritus), Department of Physics,
Harvard University
Priscilla McMillan, Center Associate, Davis Center
Chair:
Mark Kramer, Program Director, Cold War Studies Project, Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street, Knafel Building, Concourse Level, Room K031
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 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.
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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