Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Seminar Calendar
February 1-15, 2012

 

For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website.

 

Thursday, February 2

Informing Eurasia Seminar

 

“Is There a Russo-Eurasian Cyber Empire?”

Dirk Uffelmann, Chair of Slavic Literatures and Cultures, Universität Passau

1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354

4:00-6:00 p.m.

 

Papers will be distributed in advance. Contact Robyn Angley (rangley@fas.harvard.edu) for more information.

 

 

Friday, February 3

Hokkaido Roundtable

 

“Violence and Reconciliation around Ethnic Boundaries in the Caucasus Region”

 

“Perpetual – or Perpetuating – Conflict? Perspectives on the Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict”

Peter Kabachnik, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy, College of Staten Island

 

“War, Rock Concerts, and Promoting Pressure from Below: Anti-Separatist Strategies under the Saakashvili Administration”

Robyn Angley, Research Programs Coordinator, Davis Center

 

“The Circassian Dilemma”

Fatima Tlisova, Independent Scholar

 

1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354

12:15-2:00 p.m.

 

 

Monday, February 13

Literature and Culture Seminar

 

The Free World

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011)

David Bezmozgis, Lisa Goldberg Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; writer and filmmaker
12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Kresge Room (Room 114)

5:00-6:30 p.m.

 

Click here for more information about the book.

 

 

Tuesday, February 14

Cold War Studies Seminar

 

“Soviet-Japanese Conflicts after World War II and the Legacy Today”

David Wolff, Professor of Russian History, University of Hokkaido
Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354

12:15-2:00 p.m.

 

 

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