*Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
_October 13-31, 2006 Seminar Calendar_*
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*Friday, October 13, 2006
Early Slavists' Seminar
* /"'Thus Their Allegiance to Us Will Be Great and They Will Receive Our
Favor': Diplomatic Hostages (Amanaty) and Russian Empire Building in the
Caucasus"/
Sean Pollock, Lecturer on History and Literature, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Monday, October 16, 2006
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop *
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*/"The Nexus of Institutions and Unexpected 'Unintended Consequences' in
China's Fiscal Reform"/
Victor Shih, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern
University
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 S#354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Monday, October 16, 2006
*Sakharov Seminar*
* /"The Rise of Racial Violence in Russia"/
Nickolai Butkevich, Research and Advocacy Director, Union of Councils
for Jews in the Former Soviet Union (USCJ)
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
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*Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Historians' Seminar*
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/"//Women, Property Rights and Privatization in Russia"/
Esther Kingston-Mann, History Department, UMass Boston
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153
4:00 - 6:00 pm
*Thursday, October 19, 2006
Director's Seminar*
/"The Impact of American Foreign Policy on Democracy and the Media in
Russia"/
Evgeni Kiselev, Independent Political Analyst
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Thursday, October 19, 2006
Literature and Culture Seminar
Poetry Reading *
Katia Kapovich, Poet
Vladimir Gandelsman, Poet
12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Room #359
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*/Note: Reading will be given in Russian./*
*Friday, October 20, 2006*
*Literary Study Group*
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///"Unravelling a Secret in Pushkin's Poem"/
Sonia Ketchian, Center Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
3:00 - 5:00 pm
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*Tuesday, October 24, 2006*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
/"Confronting Armageddon: How Close Was the Cuban Missile Crisis to
Nuclear War?"/
Michael Dobbs, Senior Staff Writer, The Washington Post; Visiting
Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Comparative Economics Seminar
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//"Myth and Reality about Life and Politics in Belarus"/
Yaraslau Kryvoi, LL.M. Candidate, Research Assistant, Harvard Law School
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:30 - 2:00 pm
*Friday, October 27, 2006
Artist Panel*
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Featuring artists whose works can be seen in the /Territories of Terror/
exhibit at Boston University Art Gallery*
Join artists and the guest curator for a discussion of the Gulag and
contemporary art.
Grisha Bruskin, Artist
Vitaly Komar, Artist
Irina Nakhova, Artist
Eugene Yelchin, Artist
*Guest Curator:* Svetlana Boym, Professor of Slavic Languages and
Literatures, Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
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*1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S010
1:00 - 4:00 pm
*Monday, October 30, 2006
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop
* /"Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice after Communism" /
Monika A. Nalepa, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rice
University; Harvard Academy Scholar, Weatherhead Center for
International Affairs
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, October 30, 2006
Cold War Studies Conference
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//"The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Historical Perspective:
Reassessments after 50 Years"/
*Panelists:*
Nicolas Bauquet, Sciences Po (France)
Hope Harrison, George Washington University
James G. Hershberg, George Washington University
Beverly James, University of Hew Hampshire
Sergei Khrushchev, Brown University
János Kornai, Budapest Collegium (Hungary)
Mark Kramer, Harvard University**
John Lukacs, Chestnut Hill College
Lorenz Luthi, McGill University (Canada)
Silvio Pons, Gramsci Foundation (Rome)
János Rainer, Institute for the Study of the 1956 Revolution (Hungary)
William C. Taubman, Amherst College
Julius Várallyay, World Bank (retired), Hungarian student leader in 1956
Vladislav Zubok, Temple University
*Chairs*:
Igor Lukes, Boston University
Charles Maier, Harvard University
Mark Mazower, Columbia University
Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room #S250
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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