*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
April 1-15, 2008__*
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*Tuesday, April 1*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
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/"Two Kinds of Theater: Natasha's Visit to the Opera in Tolstoy's /War
and Peace/ (Vol. II, Part Five, chapt. IX and X) and Young Krull's First
Visit to the Theater in /Thomas Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull,
Confidence Man/ (Book I, chapt. 5)"/
Horst-Jürgen Gerigk, Professor of Russian Literature, Slavisches
Institut, Heidelberg University, Germany
12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Room 133
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, April 2*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
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/"//Proletarian Aesthetics: Stalin and Technology in East Central Europe"
/Paul Josephson, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of History,
Colby College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, April 2*
*Outreach Program Series*
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/"//Islam in Central Asia"
/John Schoeberlein, Lecturer on Central Asia, Department of Near Eastern
Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
4:30-6:30 p.m.
*Thursday, April 3*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*//
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/"Who Wants to Revise Privatization and Why? Two Surveys from the
Postcommunist World"
/Timothy Frye, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of Political
Science, Columbia University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, April 3*
*Wiktor Weintraub Memorial Lecture*
*Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures*
// /"Milosz and Brodsky: Poetry with a Foreign Accent"/
Irena Grudzinska-Gross, Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of
the Institute for Human Sciences, Boston University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Thursday, April 3 - Saturday, April 5*
*Symposium*
/"Aleksander Pushkin: An Historic Symposium at Harvard"/ / /
Exploring the Dual Heritage of Russia's Greatest Poet and Father of
Modern Russian Literature & the Black Russians of the 20^th Century
Thursday, April 3
Opening Reception, Poetry Recital & Opera Clips
12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Thompson Room
5:00-7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 4
Symposium
20 Quincy Street, Harvard Faculty Club, 2nd Floor Library
9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 5
Symposium
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
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/Advance Registration Requested: Online at
www.charleshamiltonhouston.org <http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org/>
or via email to lpaiewon(a)post.harvard.edu
<mailto:lpaiewon@post.harvard.edu>/
*Friday, April 4*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
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/"Heroic Literature in Kievan Rus': Beyond the Igor Tale"/
Susana Torres Prieto-Hay, Lecturer in Slavonic, Universidad Complutense
de Madrid, Spain; Postdoctoral Fellow, Universite Paris Sorbonne-Paris
IV, France
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, April 8 *
*Cold War Studies Seminar and Book Talk*
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"//Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life as a Cold War Correspondent"/
Nicholas Daniloff, Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University;
Former Moscow Bureau Chief, U.S. News and World Report
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, April 8 *
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
*Co-sponsored by the Occasional Seminar*
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//"The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev"/
Vladislav Zubok, Associate Professor of History, Temple University
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, April 9*
*Director's Seminar *//
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/"Vladimir Putin- Well-Suited for the Number Two Role- A Behavioral
Movement Analysis"/
Brenda Connors, Senior Fellow, Strategic Research Department, U.S. Naval
War College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Thursday, April 10*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*//
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/"(Un)happiness in Transition"
/Sergei Guriev, Associate Professor and Rector, New Economic School, Moscow
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, April 10*
*Art Exhibition Opening Reception*//
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/"Transitional Spaces: Destruction, Disintegration and Growth in
Post-Communist Hungary and Estonia"
/Amy Brouillette, Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center
Sara Rhodin, Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center
1737 Cambridge Street, Ground Level, Fisher Family Commons
5:00-7:00 p.m.
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*Friday, April 11*
*Film Screening*
*Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute //*
/"Koryo Saram" /
Y. David Chung, Film Co-director/
/1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010
6:30 p.m.
/For more information, please visit:
http://koryosaram.net////
*Monday, April 14*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
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/"State Ownership and Rentierism in the FSU: Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan"/
Pauline Jones-Luong, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown
University
Papers are available on the web at
http://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 p.m.
*Tuesday, April 15*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*//
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/"//Coming to Terms with a Past: Electoral Turnovers and Coalitional
Commitments in Slovakia's Quest for a Lustration Law//"
/Jana Kunicova, Governance Specialist, World Bank
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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Harvard University
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