Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
April 16-30, 2012
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our
website<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>hp>.
Wednesday, April 18
Comparative Economics Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Cold War Studies Seminar
"The Politics of the Cold War Everyday: Lifestyle Issues in Communist Hungary's
Long-Term Planning, 1960-1975"
György Péteri, Professor of Contemporary European History and Director, Program on East
European Cultures and Societies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Friday, April 20
Early Slavists' Seminar
"Montage in the Litsevoi letopisnyi svod (Illustrated Chronicle Compilation)"
Donald Ostrowski, Research Advisor in the Social Sciences, Harvard University Extension
School; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Friday, April 20
Lecture
Sponsored by the Study Group on the Jews in Modern Europe, Center for European Studies
Co-sponsored by the Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies, Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies; Harvard Center for Jewish Studies;
German Study Group, Center for European Studies; Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
"The Political Culture of Russian-speaking Jews in Germany, Israel and Ukraine"
Olena Bagno-Moldavski, Research Fellow, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, University of
Michigan
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 25
Historian's Seminar
"How Capitalism came to Russia: 19th Century Petersburg as the Crucible of New
Developments"
Lev Lurie, Author and Cultural Historian
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Thursday, April 26
Comparative Politics Seminar
"The Postcommunist Economies: Legacies and Convergence"
Daniel Treisman, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Friday, April 27
Comparative Politics Seminar
"More than Moscow: Protest in Russia, 1991 and 2011-2012"
Harley Balzer, Associate Professor, Georgetown University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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