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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
October 16-31, 2008*
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Thursday, October 16
Comparative Politics Seminar*
/"Political Change in Russia and Its Foreign Policy Implications"/
Vitaly Kozyrev, Professor, Endicott College and Institute of Asian and
African Studies, Moscow State University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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Thursday, October 16
Literature and Culture Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages and
the Humanities Center *
/"The Observer Observed: Gorky and the Art of the Literary Memoir"/
Donald Fanger, Professor of Literature, Emeritus, Harvard; Faculty
Associate, Davis Center
In conversation with
William Mills Todd III, Professor of Literature, Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures, Harvard; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Thompson Room, Room 110
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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Friday, October 17
Historian's Seminar*
/"When I Served the Post as a Coachman: Circulation and Empire in
Russia's 18th Century"/
John Randolph, Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
* Thursday, October 23
Literature and Culture Seminar*
/Poetry Reading with Alexandra Petrova /
Alexandra Petrova, Poet
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Kresge Room, Room 114
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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Monday, October 27
Cold War Studies Seminar*
/"Did Reagan's 'Star Wars' Missile-Defense Program Help Win the Cold
War? Evidence from Formerly Classified Soviet Documents"/
Pavel Podvig, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security
and Cooperation, Stanford University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
* Tuesday, October 28
Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar*
/"Illegal Labor Migration from Central Asia to the United States"/
Saltanat Liebert, Assistant Professor, Wilder School of Government &
Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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Thursday, October 30
Comparative Politics Seminar*
/"Exiting Anarchy: Coup-Proofing after State Failure in the Caucasus and
Central Asia"/
Jesse Russell Driscoll, Visiting Fellow, Yale University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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Harvard University
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