*Davis** **Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies
_December Seminar Calendar_*
*Thursday, December 1
Comparative Economics Seminar
*/
"Charting //Poland//'s Economic Course: Between Old and New //Europe//"/
Wojciech Bienkowski, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Warsaw School of
Economics, Poland
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
12:30 - 2:00 pm**
*Thursday, December 1
Literature and Culture Seminar
*/
"Martiros Sarian: 'European in //Asia//, Asian in //Europe//'"/
John Malmstad, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Friday, December 2
Historians' Seminar
*/"Russian Liaison 544R: Meeting the Russians on the Ground in
//Germany//, 1945-1946"
/Mark Field, Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
1:00 - 3:00 pm
*Tuesday, December 6
**Cold War Seminar
*/
"Soviet Counterinsurgency Campaigns in the Western Borderlands,
1944-1949: The Role of Food Policy"/
Alex Statiev, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Olin Institute for Strategic
Studies, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Wednesday, December 7
Comparative Economics Seminar*
"Is Russia a Normal Country? Andrei Shleifer's Perspective"**
Barney Schwalberg, Associate, Davis Center; Department of Economics,
Emeritus, Brandeis University
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
12:30 - 2:00 pm
*Wednesday, December 7
Book Talk
*/
"//The Transfigured Kingdom: Sacred Parody and Charismatic Authority at
the Court of Peter the Great"/ (Cornell University Press, 2004)**
Erik Zitser, Associate, Davis Center; Manager, Fung Library; Librarian,
Davis Center Collection
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*/Reception following./*
*Friday, December 9
Early Slavists' Seminar
*/
"The 'Muscovite' Type of the Chetii Apostol and Textual Criticism at the
//Moscow// Printing Yard"/
Olga Strakhov, Library Assistant, Gund Hall Library, Graduate School of
Design, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Friday, December 9
Historians' Seminar
*/"Metropolitan Filaret Drozdov, 1782-1867: Defender of the Faith or
Tool of the Autocracy?"
/Nicholas Racheotes, Associate, Davis Center; Department of History,
Framingham State College
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450
1:00 - 3:00 pm
*Monday, December 12
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*
/"The Post-Soviet Potemkin Village: Politics and Property Rights in
//Russia// and //Ukraine//"/
Jessica Allina-Pisano, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center; Department of
Political Science, Colgate University
Papers are available on the website at
www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Epostcomm/>. 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
12:30 - 2:00 pm
*Tuesday, December 13
Occasional Seminar*
"The Paradox of Alexander Yakovlev's Greatness"**
Loren Graham, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Department of History of
Science, Emeritus, Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Wednesday, December 14
Comparative Economics Seminar*
* *"Collective Action and Post-Communist Enterprise: The Economic Logic
of Russia's Business Associations"**
William Pyle, Department of Economics, Middlebury College
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
12:30 - 2:00 pm**
* *
//*Wednesday, December 14
**Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
*/
"Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century: A Genealogy of
Modernity"/
Gershon Hundert, Visiting Professor, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard
University; Department of Jewish Studies and History, McGill University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
**
For questions about any Davis Center sponsored events, please contact
Penny Skalnik at daviscrs(a)fas.harvard.edu
<mailto:daviscrs@fas.harvard.edu> or 617.495.4037.
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Harvard University
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Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
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