[Daviscalendar-list] Calendar of Events, February 1-15, 2013

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Calendar of Events February 1-15, 2013 Tuesday, February 5 Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights "The Use and Abuse of History: Ideological Debates and Memories of the Past in Post-Communist Bulgaria" Evelina Kelbecheva, Professor of History, American University in Bulgaria CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 6 Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar "Speaking Soviet with an Accent: Culture and Power in Kyrgyzstan" Ali Igmen, Associate Professor of History and Director of Oral History Program, California State University at Long Beach CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Thursday, February 7 Historians' Seminar "What Ever Happened to Eastern Europe? New Mental Mapping after the Cold War" Larry Wolff, Professor of History; Director, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Friday, February 8 Early Slavists' Seminar "Spaces of Early Modern Siberian Exchange: Seen and Unseen" Erika Monahan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center; Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Friday, February 8 Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics and Society Working Group, Center for European Studies "How Much Land Does a Woman Need? Women, Property Rights and Privatization (1900-2012)" Esther Kingston-Mann, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Boston; Center Associate, Davis Center CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153 2:00-4:00 p.m. Friday, February 15 Book Talk Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674066472> (Harvard University Press, November 2012) Thane Gustafson, Senior Director, IHS CERA, and Professor of Government, Georgetown University CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies<http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/> Harvard University Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), South Building 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617-495-4037 F 617-495-8319 Find us on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/DCRES> Davis Center Calendar of Events<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php?v=m> Directions to the Davis Center<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/contact/directions.html>