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Seminar Reminder: 12/10 Historians' Special Roundtable - Please RSVP

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You are invited to attend a special seminar: Friday, December 10 Historians' Special Roundtable Co-sponsored by the Davis Center, Harvard University, and the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan "Imperial Perspectives on Social Transformation: Re-Examining Sosloviia in the Wake of the Great Reforms" Chair: Kelly O'Neill, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University; Davis Center Faculty Associate Organizer and introduction: Yoko Aoshima, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center, Harvard University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan "Russification as a Search for Social Simplicity? Ethnicity, Confession, and Estate (Soslovie) in the 19th century Russian Empire's West" Mikhail Dolbilov, Assistant Professor of Russian and Soviet History, University of Maryland "Status in the Mountains" Austin Jersild, Associate Professor of History, Old Dominion University "Social Categories and the Search for Social Consciousness in Russian Imperial History" Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse, Room S050 4:15-6:45 p.m. Please RSVP to daviscenter(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu> by Monday, December 6 if you plan to attend. To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard University Parking Services<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Seminar Calendar, December 1-15, 2010

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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar Calendar December 1-15, 2010 For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php. Wednesday, December 1 Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies "So That Is Why We Do Not Have Any Family Left in Ukraine: Holocaust Memory in the Soviet Union in 1950-1980s" Anna Shternshis, Associate Professor in Yiddish Studies, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Thursday, December 2 Historians' Seminar Co-sponsored by the Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar "A late Tsarist Russian Perspective on Islam and Reason: Ataulla Bayazitov's Response to Ernest Renan" Anke von Kügelgen, Co-Director, Institute of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bern 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Thursday, December 2 Literature and Culture Seminar "Rozanov's Philosophical Gesture and Russian Modernism" Michal Oklot, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages, Brown University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Thursday, December 2 Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations Co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies "The Place and Role of the Far East's Maritime Region in Russia-Korea Relations" Alexey Starichkov, Director, Department of International Programs, Far Eastern National University (Vladivostok, Russia) Chair: Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050 4:30 p.m. Friday, December 3 Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies Co-sponsored by Jews in Modern Europe Study Group, Center for European Studies "From Soviet to German: How 'Russian' Jews are changing the German-Jewish Relationship" Sergey Lagodinsky, World Fellow, Yale University (fall 2010); Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin 1737 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room K354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 8 Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies "Reading Sholem Aleichem as Russian Literary Critic" Amelia Glaser, Associate Professor of Russian Literature, University of California, San Diego 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Friday, December 10 Early Slavists' Seminar "Captivity, Exodus, and Muscovite Political Culture" Christoph Witzenrath, Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Friday, December 10 Historians' Special Roundtable Co-sponsored by the Davis Center, Harvard University, and the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan "Imperial Perspectives on Social Transformation: Re-Examining Sosloviia in the Wake of the Great Reforms" Chair: Kelly O'Neill, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University; Davis Center Faculty Associate Organizer and introduction: Yoko Aoshima, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center, Harvard University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Japan "Russification as a Search for Social Simplicity? Ethnicity, Confession, and Estate (Soslovie) in the 19th century Russian Empire's West" Mikhail Dolbilov, Assistant Professor of Russian and Soviet History, University of Maryland "Status in the Mountains" Austin Jersild, Associate Professor of History, Old Dominion University "Social Categories and the Search for Social Consciousness in Russian Imperial History" Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter, Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse, Room S050 4:15-6:45 p.m. Please RSVP to daviscenter(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu> by Monday, December 6 if you plan to attend. Tuesday, December 14 Cold War Studies Seminar "History, Memory, and Researching the Past in Post-Communist Romania: Collectivization, 1949-1962" Gail Kligman, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles 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<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Seminar on Friday - "Saving Soviet Science: The Impact of Grants When Government R&D Funding Disappears"

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Dear Colleagues, Ina Ganguli, a graduate student associate of the Davis Center will be presenting a seminar this Friday on "Saving Soviet Science." Please consider attending! RSVP to sbbi(a)hbs.edu<mailto:sbbi@hbs.edu>. November 12, 2010 at 12 Noon, Baker 102 Ina Ganguli Ph.D. candidate, Kennedy School, Harvard University "Saving Soviet Science: The Impact of Grants When Government R&D Funding Disappears" SBBI Seminar Series: Science Based Business Initiative Abstract: How do grants impact scientific productivity? I estimate the impact of a large-scale grant program, funded by financier George Soros, that provided individual and team-based grants to thousands of scientists following the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of public funding for Soviet science. I match scientists to their publications and locations using the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science database and create a unique scientist-level panel dataset. Using quasi-experimental methods facilitated by the grant eligibility criteria, I show that the individual grants more than doubled researcher publications and induced scientists to remain in the science sector. The team grant also increased publications, suggesting an important role for complementarities in team production of research. The team grant increased the likelihood of emigration, while the individual grant tended to decrease emigration, but only in Moscow. These findings show that grants significantly increase scientific productivity in a market in which there are few alternate research funding opportunities. The results also show that policy levers can play an important role in the adjustment process of labor markets after sharp economic changes; in this case, relatively small amounts of funding can maintain participation in the science sector and can impact "brain drain". Bio: Ina Ganguli is a doctoral candidate in Public Policy at Harvard University. Ina's primary research areas are labor economics and the economics of science and innovation. Her current research examines the impact of grants and location on researcher productivity. Ina holds a B.A. in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences from Northwestern University, and a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan. To RSVP or for questions on a seminar or to join the mailing list or arrange parking, please contact sbbi(a)hbs.edu<mailto:sbbi@hbs.edu>. Visit http://www.hbs.edu/units/tom/seminars/2009/science/ for a schedule of future speakers. The 2010-2011 seminars are joint with Economics 2888hf: Economics of Science and Engineering Workshop, Harvard University. If you know of someone who would like to be added to the distribution list or if you would like to be removed from the list, please let us know at any time. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Fellowships - Deadline 1/10/11 - Davis Center - Harvard University

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[cid:image001.jpg@01CB7CE3.E497B8C0] Dear colleagues, The Davis Center is pleased to announce a new Fellows Program for 2011-2012. The Fellows Program will bring together scholars at early and later stages in their careers to consider a common theme spanning the social sciences and humanities. The Program will be coordinated by faculty from across Harvard University whose research interests include aspects of the selected theme. In 2011-2012, the Fellows Program will be coordinated by Professors Terry Martin (History), William Mills Todd III (Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Rawi Abdelal (Harvard Business School). The theme for 2011-2012 is "Informing Eurasia: Informational Approaches to Eurasian Cultures, Politics and Societies." Eurasian studies currently has no sub-field of "Information Studies," but historians, literary critics, and social scientists working on Eurasia have recently produced novel work on surveillance, the social construction of collective identities, autobiographical and documentary self-fashioning, horizontal and vertical communication (rumors, petitions, denunciation), political policing, censorship and Aesopian strategies, the construction of economic and political data, and the impact of such information on political and economic decision-making. The Davis Center invites scholars working on, or interested in pursuing, such informational approaches to Eurasia to apply to our Fellows program. In addition to pursuing their own research, Fellows will participate in a bi-weekly interdisciplinary seminar series that will explore informational approaches to Eurasian studies. Papers will be presented by the visiting Fellows, Harvard faculty, and invited outside speakers. For more detailed information on the fellows program, and opportunities to apply for postdoctoral and senior fellowships, visit the Davis Center web site http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/ or consult the text below. The convening faculty including myself will host a question and answer session at the ASEEES Convention, Friday, November 19, 10-11:30 a.m. in the Lobby Court Coffee Shop at the West Bonaventure in L.A. Additionally, the Davis Center will be hosting an online question and answer session on December 15 from 12-2 p.m. Details will be posted on the Davis Center website by the middle of November. Note that scholars whose work does not address the selected theme are encouraged to apply for fellowships at the Davis Center, and that their applications will receive full consideration. I encourage you to consider applying and to forward this message to any colleagues or advanced graduate students who may be interested. Sincerely, Terry Martin Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies George F. Baker III Professor of Russian Studies Harvard University ............................................................................................................................................................................... Fellowships at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University Informing Eurasia: Informational Approaches to Eurasian Cultures, Politics and Societies Deadline: January 10, 2010 More information: http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu The Davis Center is pleased to announce a new Fellows Program for 2011-2012. The Fellows Program will bring together scholars at early and later stages in their careers to consider a common theme spanning the social sciences and humanities. Professors Terry Martin (History), William Mills Todd III (Slavic Languages and Literatures) and Rawi Abdelal (Harvard Business School) will coordinate the 2011-2012 program. We are interested in applications from scholars currently working on our chosen theme, or equally those working on unrelated themes, but who are interested in exploring our theme. The theme for 2011-2012 is "Informing Eurasia: Informational Approaches to Eurasian Cultures, Politics and Societies." Eurasian studies currently has no sub-field of "Information Studies," but historians, literary critics, and social scientists working on Eurasia have recently produced novel work (described below), that the Davis Center plans to bring into dialogue. The Davis Center invites scholars working on, or interested in pursuing, such informational approaches to Eurasia to apply to our Fellows program. In addition to pursuing their own research, Fellows will participate in a bi-weekly interdisciplinary seminar series that will explore informational approaches to Eurasian studies. Our imagined field of "Information Studies" includes, but is hardly limited to, the following: History - work on surveillance has analyzed not just how the imperial Russian and Soviet state gathered information and what information they gathered, but also how they used various technologies of rule (e.g. the passport, census, map, autobiography) to categorize individuals by identity, loyalty, geography and utility. Social and cultural historians have in turn traced how these categories took on meaning both collectively (nationalism, class conflict, patriotism, dissent) and individually (in projects of self-transformation and self-protection). Political historians have studied how information-gathering and categorical construction has influenced policy formation, political policing, mass coercive actions and mass persuasion. Other work analyzed how subjects spoke to the state through petitions, denunciations, personal narratives, riots and mass collective actions; how individuals have communicated information in periods of censorship through gossip, rumor, and Aesopian language; and how evolving technology has transformed communicative possibilities. Literature and culture - scholars have studied the many resources of language, genre and literary tradition to provoke reflection on imperial Russian and Soviet information practices and policies. They have assessed techniques of myth-making, ambivalent representations and the modeling of alternative realities. Beyond studying individual works and their reception, they examine actors in the literary process including authors, publishers, censors, readers, theoreticians and critics. The Tartu-Moscow semioticians have at times drawn directly on information theory in developing their approach to the generation of texts and discourse. Such everyday and more formal genres as novel, film, memoir and jokes have proven fertile ground for research, which has often drawn upon the methods of the social sciences. Social sciences - scholars have, like historians, evaluated the ways in which governments collect, disseminate and interpret information. Some fruitful work explored how processes of reifying economic, social and political activity lead governments, elites and mass publics to understand the world around them. For example, economic data regularly influence public policy-making, and yet the process of categorizing and accounting for economic activities reveals the necessity of judgment and the use of prevailing social constructions for creating meaningful categories. Recent work by scholars who emphasize the influence of social constructions such as collective identities and domestic and international norms of appropriate practices, suggest that information is mediated by particular understandings of the world. Economic sociologists and political scientists have examined the cognitive frameworks that are necessarily employed when making sense of myriad pieces of economic information. Market participants themselves must attribute meaning to seemingly straightforward concepts like budget deficits, inflation and rates of growth in national output in making investment decisions, which in turn can have self-fulfilling consequences for the sustainability of economic policy stances. Types of Fellowships 1) Postdoctoral Fellowships: Junior scholars who will have completed a Ph.D. or equivalent by September 2011 and no earlier than September 2006. Stipend of up to $37,500. 2) Senior Fellowships: Senior scholars who have made a significant contribution to the field and have completed a Ph.D. or equivalent by September 2006 and hold an academic appointment. Stipend of up to $25,250 to bring salary to full-time level. 3) Regional Fellowships: Senior scholars who have completed a Ph.D. or equivalent by September 2006 or policymakers, journalists, and specialists. Citizens of Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus may apply. Stipend of up to $45,500. Scholars with outside or sabbatical funding who wish to be in residence at the Davis Center in 2011-2012 should apply using the fellowships application and indicate that they do not require Davis Center funding. Note that scholars whose work does not address the selected theme are encouraged to apply for fellowships at the Davis Center, and that their applications will receive full consideration. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Seminar Calendar, November 15-30, 2010

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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar Calendar November 15-30, 2010 For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our web calendar<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>. Monday, November 15 Book Talk "Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History" (Princeton University Press, 2010) Thomas Barfield, Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilization and President of the American Institute for Afghanistan Studies, Boston University 1730 Cambridge Street, 4th floor, Room S450 4:15-6:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 17 Occasional Seminar "The Eurasia Policy Landscape in Washington" Thomas W. Simons Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; U.S. Foreign Service Officer 1963-1998; Former Ambassador to Poland and Pakistan 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 30 Historians' Seminar "The Vanguard Muftiate: A Modernizing Vehicle for Muslim Eurasia" Eren Tasar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center 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<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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