*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar*
*March 19-31, 2007*
*Monday, March 19***
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop *
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/"Return to (Illiberal) Diversity? Anti-Gay Politics and Minority Rights
after the EU's Eastern Enlargement"/
Conor O'Dywer, Harvard Academy Scholar; Assistant Professor of Political
Science, University of Florida
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.
*Monday, March 19 *
*Literary Study Group *
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*/"/*/Steam Heat and the Fireplace: Mayakovsky Confronts the Urban
Romance"**/
Robert A. Rothstein, Professor of Polish Language, Literature, and
Culture; Professor of Slavic and Judaic Studies and of Comparative
Literature; Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, March 21*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
/"Making Yiddish Culture Bolshevik: National Autonomy, Cultural Power,
and the Revolutionary Imperative in Soviet Jewish Culture, 1919-21"/
Kenneth Moss, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Jewish
Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, March 22*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/"The One, the Many, and the Mathematician: Nikolai Bugaev and
Nineteenth-Century Russian Metaphysics"/
Tim Langen, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Missouri-Columbia
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Monday, March 26*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
*/Cosponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies/*
/"State and Society in Latin America and Russia: A Comparative Approach"/
Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Global
Prosperity, The Independent Institute
Tatiana Vorozheykina, Sakharov Human Rights Fellow, Davis Center;
Lecturer, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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