[Daviscalendar-list] Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies - May Seminar Calendar

*Davis** **Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies _May Seminar Calendar_* *Tuesday, May 2, 2006** **Cold War Studies Seminar */// "Some New Light on the Yeltsin-Gorbachev Conflict"/ Timothy J. Colton, Director, Davis Center; Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S020 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Wednesday, May 3, 2006** Comparative Economics Seminar */ "Who Is Mr. Putin? Revisited" /Irina Pavlova, Author and Independent Scholar 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153 12:30 - 2:00 pm *Wednesday, May 3, 2006* *Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies* /"In Conversation with the Russian Jewish Writers Ilya Kaminsky and Lara Vapnyar"/ Discussant: Alvin Rosenfeld,* *Director, Institute for Jewish Culture and the Arts, Indiana University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm * * *Thursday, May 4, 2006* *Comparative Politics Seminar* /"The Potency and Pliability of Nascent Party Identification: An Experimental Analysis from //Russia//"/ Joshua Tucker, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm *******Friday, May 5, 2006** Historians' Seminar* *Co-sponsored by the Program on **Central Asia** and the **Caucasus** */ "Building an Architecture of Empire on the Road to //Central Asia// (1650s -- 1830s)" /John LeDonne, Associate, Davis Center 1737 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #N401 1:00 - 3:00 pm -- -------------------------------------------------- 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