*Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies*
*_October Seminar Calendar_*
*Thursday, October 6
Occasional Seminar
*/
//"Veterans' Issues in //Russia//" /
Dmitry Yazov, Former Defense Minister of the USSR
General Colonel Yuriy Bukreev, Former Russian Ground Forces Commander
Alexander Kanshin, President of MEGAPIR Veterans Association
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
2:00 - 3:30 pm
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*Thursday, October 6
Literature and **Culture** **Seminar**
*/
//Poetry// //Reading//
/Sergei M. Gandlevsky
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Room 114
4:00 - 6:00 pm
*Friday, October 7
**Early Slavists' Seminar*
/"Scribal Practices and Copying Probabilities in the Textual Transmission of the
/Povest' vremennykh let/"/
Donald Ostrowski, Research Advisor in the Social Sciences and Lecturer in Extension
Studies, Harvard Extension School
1730 Cambridge Street,
3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
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*
*Tuesday, October 11
Literature and Culture Seminar
*/
//"Mute Capitals"
/ Elena G. Rabinovich, Institute for Philological Studies, St.
Petersburg University
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Room 230
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*
*
*Wednesday, October 12
Comparative Economics Seminar
*/
//"Leadership and Corruption: Putin's First Term"
/Alena Ledeneva, Senior Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
Studies; Reader in Russian Politics and Society, School of Slavonic and
East European Studies, University College London, UK
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*
*
*October 14-15, 2005*
*Symposium on "The Arts, National Identity and Politics in **Belarus**" *
Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the
Ukrainian Research Institute, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
Studies, the Orsa-Romano Cultural and Educational Foundation, and the
North American Association for Belarusian Studies
/See attachment for more information./
*
*
*Monday, October 17
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop
*
/"Why Communism Didn't Collapse: Exploring Regime Resilience in
//China//, //Vietnam//, //Laos//, //North Korea//, and //Cuba//"/
Martin Dmitrov, Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
Studies; An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for East Asian
Research
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
* *
*Wednesday, October 19
Comparative Economics Seminar
*/
//"The Soviets and Other Economic Peculiarities at the UN"
/Pedro A. Sanjuan, Former Appointee to the UN Secretariat
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
12:15 - 2:00 pm
* *
* Wednesday, October 19
Literary Study Group
*/
//"Seeing Chekhov Whole: Notes on Translating His Complete Dramatic Corpus"
/Laurence Senelick, Professor of Drama and Oratory, Tufts University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:00 - 6:00 pm
*
*
*Thursday, October 20
Literature and Culture Seminar
*/
//"The Jewish Question in the Genre System of Dostoevsky's /Diary of a
Writer/ and the Problem of the Authorial Image"/
Raffaella Vassena, Università degli Studi of Milan
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
* *
*Friday, October 21
Historians' Seminar
*/
//"Ritual at the //Eighteenth-Century Russian Court//"
/Simon Dixon, University of Leeds, UK
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
1:00 - 3:00 pm
*Monday, October 24
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
/"The Case of the Missing Poet: Anti-Semitism and the Beginnings of
Czech-Jewish Literature."/
Jonathan Bolton, Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies; Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and
Literatures, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
* *
*Tuesday, October 25
Cold War Seminar
*/
//"The //Warsaw// Pact in Retrospect: A Look Back after 50 Years"
/Vojtech Mastny, Senior Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Wednesday, October 26
Book Talk
*/
//"The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms
Race"/*/ /***
Priscilla McMillan, Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*/Reception following./*
*Friday, October 28
Early Slavists' Seminar
*/
"/Stepennaia kniga/: What We Know and What We'd Like to Know"/
Gail Lenhoff, University of California at Los Angeles
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Friday, October 28
Historians' Seminar
*/
//"The Russo-Japanese War: Past and Present"
/Bruce Menning, Professor of Military Strategy, US Army Command and
General Staff College
Sally Paine, Professor, Naval War College
Norman Saul, Professor, University of Kansas
Lisbeth Tarlow, Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies
David Wolff, Senior Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
John LeDonne, moderator and Associate, Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S450
1:00 - 3:00 pm
*Friday, October 28
Literary Study Group
*/
//"The 'Other' /Verbitskaia/"/ /
/ Charlotte Rosenthal, Associate Professor of Russian, Dept. of Modern &
Classical Languages & Literatures, University of Southern Maine
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
3:00 - 5:00 pm
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*
*Monday, October 31
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop
*
/"Informal Institutions, Practices, Networks: The Use of Concepts in
Post-Communist Studies"**/
Alena Ledeneva, Senior Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
Studies; Reader in Russian Politics and Society, School of Slavonic and
East European Studies, University College London, UK. 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
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