8 Oct
2009
8 Oct
'09
4:09 p.m.
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
October 16-31, 2009__*
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*/For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit
our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./*
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*Monday, October 19*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
/"Twenty Years Later: The Opening of the Berlin Wall and the End of the
Cold War"/
Charles Maier, Professor of History, Harvard University
Mary Sarotte, Professor of History, University of Southern California
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Tuesday, October 20*
*Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar*
/"Sharia Courts in Central Asia: Evidence from Qazi Documents"/
Elyor Karimov, Professor of History, Institute of History, Uzbek Academy
of Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, October 21*
*Occasional Seminar*
/"Russia in Limbo"/
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Richard Pipes, Professor of History (Emeritus), Harvard University;
Former Director of East European and Soviet Affairs, National Security
Council (1981-1982)
Comments by: R. Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy
and International Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University; Former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. U.S.
Department of State (2005-2008)
Chair: Marshall I. Goldman, Senior Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of
Russian Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College *__*
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Professor Pipes' talk will be based on his recent article published in
the /Wall Street Journal. /For the text, please visit the /Wall Street
Journal/ online:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142405297020355060457435873379041…
*Thursday, October 22*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/"Facing Two Faces of Totalitarianism - The Poetry of Vladimir Holan and
his Contemporaries, 1938-1954"/
Urs Heftrich, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor and Chair of
Slavic Literatures, University of Heidelberg
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Friday, October 23*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
/"The Moral Economy of Magic in 17th-Century Muscovy"/
Valerie Kivelson, Professor of History, University of Michigan
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Tuesday, October 27 *
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
/"Stalin and the European Communist Parties after World War II"/
Silvio Pons, Director, Gramsci Foundation (Rome); Professor of Modern
History, University of Rome
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
** *Thursday, October 29*
*Occasional Seminar*
/"Translating for Mikhail Gorbachev: An Inside Look at World Events"/
Pavel Palazhchenko, Author; Former Interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev and
Eduard Shevardnadze
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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Harvard University
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