Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
February 1-15, 2010

For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website:  http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.
 
Monday, February 1
Historians' Special Roundtable
Co-sponsored by the Davis Center, Harvard University, and the Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan

“Eurasianism: Genealogies, Evolutions and Interpretations”
 
Chair: Kelly O'Neill, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
 
Organizer and introduction: Yukiko Hama, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Research Fellow, Tsuda College, Japan
 
“Eurasianism's Intellectual Ancestors”
David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Associate Professor of Russian and East Asian History, Brock University, Ontario, Canada

“An Introduction to Eurasianism's Theoretical Complexity”
Marlene Laruelle, Senior Research Fellow, Central Asia and Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University
“Nikolai Trubetskoi's ‘Europe and Mankind’: Eurasianism and the Critique of Evolutionism”
Sergey Glebov, Assistant Professor of Russian/Eurasian History, Smith College

1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.

 
Tuesday, February 2
Historians’ Seminar
 
“The Question of the Perpetrator in Soviet History”
Lynne Viola, Professor of History, University of Toronto
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Thursday, February 4
Book Talk
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
 
“Yalta: The Price of Peace” (The Viking Press, 2010)
Serhii Plokhii, Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University
 
Chair: Kelly O'Neill, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
 
Discussants: 
Mark Kramer, Program Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center
Terry Martin, Acting Director, Davis Center; Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room K354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Tuesday, February 9
Literature and Culture Seminar
 
Poetry Reading
Elena Fanailova, Poet
1737 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room K262
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Reading will be conducted mainly in Russian, with some poems in English translation

 
 
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu