*Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies*
*_March Seminar Calendar_*
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*Wednesday, March 1, 2006*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"What China Could Learn from India's Slow and Quiet Rise"/
Yasheng Huang, Associate Professor, Sloan School of Management,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153
12:30 - 2:00 pm
*Thursday, March 2, 2006*
*Harvard Slavic Department*
A Concert of "Love in Russian Songs and Poetry," with performances by
the students of the Slavic Department
Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, 12 Quincy Street
4:30 - 6:00 pm
For more information, please visit the Slavic Department website:
/_http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~slavic_ /
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*Friday, March 3, 2006*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"Workers and Peasants Unite! Land Reform in Ukraine"/
Brennan Klose, Associate, McKinsey & Company
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S020
12:30 - 2:00 pm
*Monday, March 6*
*Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar*
/"Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan: Light at the End of the Tunnel?"/
Michael Hall, Director, Crisis Group Central Asia Project in Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
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*Tuesday, March 7, 2006*
*Co-sponsored by **Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar and Historians'
Seminar*
/"Radical Politics in a Muslim Society: Muslim Communities in Early Soviet /
/Central Asia"/
Adeeb Khalid, Professor of History, Carleton College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm **
*Tuesday, March 7, 2006*
*Co-sponsored by Cold War Studies Seminar and Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"The Cold War: A New History" /
John Lewis Gaddis, Professor of History, Yale University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S010
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Wednesday, March 8, 2006*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"Necroeconomics and Lessons from Post-Communist //Georgia//"/
Vladimer Papava, Fulbright Fellow, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, The
Nitze School, Johns Hopkins University
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st^ Floor, Room #S153
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Wednesday, March 8, 2006*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
/"West European Jews Rethink East European Jewry, 1880-1920" /
Paula Hyman, Professor of Modern Jewish History, Yale University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Thursday, March 9, 2006*
*Director's Seminar*
/"Looking Anew at the Young Stalin: The Making of a Bolshevik"/
Ronald G. Suny, Professor of History, University of Michigan
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Thursday, March 9, 2006*
*Co-Sponsored by the Literature and Culture Seminar and Seminar on
Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
/"Dispirited Patriots: Jews and Russian Literature" /
Brian Horowitz, Professor and Director of Jewish Studies, Tulane University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Friday, March 10, 2006*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
/"New Light on an Oral Igor Tale: A Newly Discovered Tale about the
Kulikovo Battle"/
Robert Mann, Independent Scholar
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Friday, March 10, 2006*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*
/"'Nauseating' Displays of Loyalty: Credible Intra-Factional
Communication through Ideological Campaigns" /
Victor Chung-Hon Shih, Department of Political Science, Northwestern
University
Please note -- this is a special meeting of the workshop, which will
include a presentation. Thus, the paper does not have to be read in
advance, but it will be available on the website at
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Epostcomm/>. Also note the room change
from our usual meeting place. Discussion will start at 12:30, but lunch
will be available from 12:00 pm.
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room #S250
12:30 - 2:00 pm
*Tuesday, March 14, 2006*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
/"Dealing with the USSR and Eastern Europe in the 1980s: Views Inside
the U.S. Government"/
Thomas Simons, Jr., Associate, Davis Center; Former U.S. Ambassador to
Poland
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Literary Study Group*
/"Humor in the Silver Age and Beyond: Teffi and Zoshchenko"/
Edythe C. Haber, Associate, Davis Center; Professor Emerita, University
of Massachusetts, Boston
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Thursday, March 16 2006*
*Occasional Seminar*
/"In the Name of God, In the Name of Infinity: Religion and Science in
Russia" /
Loren Graham, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Professor of the History
of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room #S250
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Thursday, March 16, 2006
Literature and Culture Seminar*
/"The Holocaust and the Matter"/
Bozena Shallcross, University of Chicago
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Cold War Studies Seminar*
/"Hungarian Churches and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution: Defeat out of
Victory?"/
Nicolas Bauquet, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Davis Center; Ph.D.
Candidate in Modern History, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques
-Institut d'études politiques de Paris
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
/"Zhabotinskij as a Writer"/
Michael Stanislawski, Professor of History and Associate Director,
Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd^ Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Thursday, March 23, 2006
Literature and Culture Seminar*
/Poetry Reading/
Vera Pavlova, Poet
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Thursday, March 23
The Sakharov Seminar*
/"The Cold War, Soviet Dissent, and the Andrei Sakharov Archive"/
Benjamin Nathans, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Friday, March 24, 2006*
*Historians' Seminar*
* *
/"Baron Ungern's Mongolian Pogrom: The Genealogy of an Imperial
Massacre"/
Willard Sunderland, Professor of History, University of Cincinnati
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
1:00 - 3:00 pm**
* *
*Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Comparative Economics Seminar*
/
"Uncounted Costs of World War II: The Effect of Changing Sex Ratios on
Marriage and Fertility of Russian Women" /
Elizabeth Brainerd, Williams College
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153
12:30 - 2:00 pm
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Penny Skalnik at daviscrs(a)fas.harvard.edu
<mailto:daviscrs@fas.harvard.edu> or 617.495.4037.
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