[Daviscalendar-list] Seminar Calendar, February 1-16

*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies* *_Seminar Calendar, February 1-16, 2007 _* */Please note: This covers only the first half of February./* ** ** * Thursday, February 1, 2007 Occasional Seminar * /"Power and Influence: Russia and Energy Policy in Central Asia"/ Theresa Sabonis-Helf, Associate Professor of National Security Strategy, National War College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Friday, February 2, 2007 Early Slavists' Seminar * /"The Expression of Love: Fileo and Agapao in the Greek and Slavonic Texts of the Gospel According to John"/ Olga Strakhov, Cataloging Assistant, Gund Hall Library, Harvard Graduate School of Design 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm * * *Wednesday, February 7, 2007 Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies * /"History and Catastrophe: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Warsaw Ghetto Archive"/ Samuel Kassow, Professor of History, Princeton University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm * * *Wednesday, February 7, 2007 Modern Russian History Search * /"Imperial Russia's Child Labor Laws: Challenging the Autocratic Paradigm"/ Boris Gorshkov, Ph.D. in History, 2006, Auburn University; Visiting Assistant Professor, European and World History, Auburn University 35 Quincy Street, Robinson Hall, first floor library 4:15 - 5:30 pm /For more information, please contact Janet Hatch (Department Administrator, History Department) at (617) 496-4057./// * * *Thursday, February 8, 2007 Literature and Culture Seminar * /"Czech Movies/German Occupation, 1939-1945"/ Peter Demetz, Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm *Friday, February 9, 2007 Comparative Economics Seminar * /"The Revival of Sino-Russian Economic and Political Relations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization"/ Pan Guang, Director and Professor, Shanghai Center for International Studies and Institute of European & Asian Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; Dean, Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS) 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354 12:30 - 2:00 pm* * * * *Monday, February 12, 2007** Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop* / "The Effect of Inequality in Post-Communist Democracies"/ Boriana Nikolova, Visiting Graduate Student, University of Chicago Papers are available on the website at www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. There is no presentation; all participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the meeting. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm * * *Monday, February 12, 2007 Modern Russian History Search * /"/It is Not at Present the Century of Women:/ Patronage, Political Crime, and the Limits of Female Power in Eighteenth-Century Russia"/ Michelle Marrese, Ph.D. in History, 1995, Northwestern University; NEH Research Fellowship 35 Quincy Street, Robinson Hall, first floor library 4:15 - 5:30 pm /For more information, please contact Janet Hatch (Department Administrator, History Department) at (617) 496-4057./// *Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Book Talk* */"/*/How Russia Really Works: The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business"/ Alena Ledeneva, Reader in Russian Politics and Society, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London Chair: Timothy Colton, Director, Davis Center; Professor of Government, Harvard University Discussant: Gerald Easter, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston College Discussant: Jessica Allina-Pisano, Associate Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S030 4:15 - 6:00 pm * * *Wednesday, February 14, 2007 Modern Russian History Search * /"The Making of the Russian Empire in Crimea, 1783-1853"/ Kelly O'Neill, Ph.D. in History, 2006, Harvard University; Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center 35 Quincy Street, Robinson Hall, first floor library 4:15 - 5:30 pm /For more information, please contact Janet Hatch (Department Administrator, History Department) at (617) 496-4057./// *Thursday, February 15, 2007 Literature and Culture Seminar */"From Sentimental Friendship to Soviet Citizenship: Women's Community and the Utopian Dimensions of Realism in Chernyshevsky, L. Tolstoy, and Stalinist Film"/ Anne Eakin Moss, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center; Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm * * *Friday, February 16, 2007 Literary Study Group * /"The Bow Curve Shore of Time and Space: Pushkin's Prologue to /Ruslan and Ludmila/"/ James Russell, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Armenian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 3:15 - 5:00 pm * * * * To purchase a parking permit at the Broadway Garage (located at the intersection of Broadway & Felton St. in Cambridge, MA), please visit Harvard University Parking Services at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml. Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and follow the instructions from there. 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