[Daviscalendar-list] Reminder: May, 2011 seminars

Please note the following seminar reminders: Tuesday, May 3 Cold War Studies Seminar "Cars and Commissars. Everyday Practices of Elite Mobility in Communist Hungary, 1956-1980." György Péteri, Professor of Contemporary European History, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 4 Cold War Studies Seminar "The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan: A Long Goodbye" Artemy Kalinovsky, Assistant Professor of History, University of Amsterdam 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Friday, May 6 Historians' Seminar "Minarets after Marx: Gender, Islam and the Headscarf Debate in Postsocialist Bulgaria" Kristen Ghodsee, Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University; Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Friday, May 13 Early Slavists' Seminar "The Adventure of the Dancing Men: Professor Ševčenko's Theory of the Origin of Glagolitic" Olga Strakhov, Independent Scholar 1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250 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>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