Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
March 1-15, 2011
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.
Tuesday, March 1
Sakharov Human Rights Book Seminar
"The Chechen Struggle: Independence Won and Lost"
Ilyas Akhmadov, Former Foreign Minister of Chechen Separatist Government
Miriam Lanskoy, Senior Program Officer, Central Asia and the Caucasus National Endowment for Democracy
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 2
Director's Seminar
"Russian Traditional Media vs. Blogosphere - Parallel or Perpendicular"
Mikhail Gusman, First Deputy Director-General ITAR-TASS
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*This lecture will be delivered in Russian and translated into English*
Thursday, March 3
Historians' Seminar
"Stalin and the Origins of the Second World War Revisited"
Gabriel Gorodetsky, Fellow, All Souls College Oxford; Visiting Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Friday, March 4
Early Slavists' Seminar
"Representing the Murder of Andrei Bogoliubskii: Art versus Science"
Michael S. Flier, Oleksandr Potebnja Professor of Ukrainian Philology; Director, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 8
Historians' Seminar
"Equality and Revolution: Women's Rights in the Russian Empire, 1905-1917"
Rochelle Ruthchild, Professor Emerita of Graduate Studies, The Union Institute and University; Center Associate, Davis Center
Moderator: Elizabeth Wood, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Center Associate, Davis Center
Discussant: Philippa Hetherington, PhD candidate, History, Harvard University; Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 15
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Foreigners in the Soviet Gulag, 1945-1953"
Stefan Karner, Director, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for War Research (Austria); Professor of Modern History, University of Graz
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
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.495.4037
F 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
February 16-28, 2011
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.
Tuesday, February 22
Comparative Economics Seminar
"Smart Power in European and U.S. Diplomacy"
Jiří Payne, Adviser to the President, Office of the President of the Czech Republic
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 24
Book Talk
"Sovereign Debt and the IMF: The Case of Russia"
Martin Gilman, Director, Centre for Advanced Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics; author of No Precedent, No Plan: Inside Russia's 1998 Default (The MIT Press, 2010)
Moderator: Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Department of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Monday, February 28
2010-2011 August Zaleski Lecture in Modern Polish History
Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Harvard Club of Poland
Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, will be speaking on the topic of European Security
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010
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.
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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
Please note that the following seminar has been canceled due to weather:
Wednesday, February 2
Comparative Economics Seminar
"Doing Business with Russia"
Tatyana Kuzmina, Director, Centre for Intercultural Communication and International Relations
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.
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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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Laura Beshears
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.384.8438
F 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu