*Davis** **Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies
_April Seminar Calendar_*
*Tuesday, April 4, 2006***
*Literary Study Group*
/"Whose Whitman? When //Russia// First Heard //America// Singing"/
Barry P. Scherr, Professor of Russian and Provost, Dartmouth College
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room #S450
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Tuesday, April 4, 2006*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
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/"//Europe// on the Move: Forced Population Transfers during the Early
Cold War, A Historiographical Reassessment"/
Antonio Ferrara, Visiting Scholar, Watson Institute for International
Studies, Brown University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Thursday, April 6, 2006***
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/"Shakespeare's //Bohemia//"/
Alfred Thomas, Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and
Literatures, University of Illinois at Chicago
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Friday, April 7, 2006**
Early Slavists' Seminar*
*Co-sponsored by the Historians' Seminar*
/ "Roundtable Discussion of Isabel de Madariaga's /Ivan the Terrible:
First Tsar of Russia/"/
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Monday, April 10, 2006**
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*
/"Do Grievances Matter in Nationalist Mobilization? Evidence from
//Russia//"/
Elise Giuliano, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center
Paper is 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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*Monday, April 10, 2006**
Sakharov Seminar*
/"New Challenges for Human Rights Work in //Russian Federation//: Can It
Go On?"/
Arkadiy Leybovskiy and Kirill Babichenko, Sakharov Human Rights Fellows,
Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Monday, April 10, 2006**
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
*/"The Lay of the Merchant Kalashnikov"/ by M. Yu. Lermontov
Performed by the students of the Slavic Department
Thompson Room, Barker 110, 12 Quincy Street
5:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, April 12, 2006**
Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"Energy as a Potential Tool in the CIS"/
Vadim Socor, Senior Fellow and Senior Analyst, Jamestown Foundation
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153
12:30 - 2:00 pm
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*Thursday, April 13, 2006**
Comparative Politics Seminar*
*Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies*
"/Democratization in the Western Balkans: Illiberal Regimes and the
Leverage of International Actors"/
Milada Vachudova, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discussant: Jacques Rupnik, Visiting Scholar, Center for European
Studies; Visiting Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director
of Research, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Institut
d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S050
12:30 - 2:00 pm
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*Monday, April 17, 2006*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*
/"A Cyclical Theory of //Russia//'s Historical Change" /
Georgi Derluguian, Associate Professor of Sociology, Northwestern
University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Tuesday, April 18, 2006*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
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/"Coming to Terms with the Communist Past in Central and Eastern Europe:
The Czech Case in Comparative Perspective"/
Jacques Rupnik, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies; Visiting
Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of Research,
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Fondation Nationale
des Sciences Politiques -Institut d'études politiques de Paris
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Wednesday, April 19, 2006*
*Occasional Seminar*
/"'Against the French Cult': Modern Western Art and Cultural Politics in
the Early Stalin Era" /
Ilia Dorontchenkov, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Slavic
Languages, Brown University
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153
12:15 - 2:00 pm
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*Thursday, April 20, 2006*
*Director's Seminar*
/"300 Years of Mass Killing in the Ukrainian Borderlands of //Russia//
and //Poland//, 1647-1947"/
Norman Naimark, Professor of Eastern European Studies, Stanford University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Thursday, April 20, 2006*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/"Avant-Garde Art for the Tourist Age: S(tyrský and Toyen in //Paris//,
1925-1928"/
Matthew S. Witkovsky, Assistant Curator, Department of Photographs,
National Gallery of Art
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
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*Friday, April 21, 2006**
Early Slavists' Seminar*
/"Was the Original of the /Hypatian Chronicle/ an Illuminated Manuscript?"/
Oleksiy Tolochko, Visiting Scholar, Harvard Ukrainian Research
Institute; Senior Research Associate, Institute of History, National
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room #S250
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Monday, April 24, 2006**
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*
/"Explaining Patterns of Post-Soviet Violence"/
Elina Treyger, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard
University; JD Candidate, Harvard Law School
Paper is 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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*Tuesday, April 25, 2006**
Cold War Studies Seminar*
/"Dealing with the //USSR// and //Eastern Europe// in the 1980s: Views
Inside the //U.S.// Government"/
Thomas Simons, Jr., Associate, Davis Center; Former U.S. Ambassador to
Poland
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
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*Wednesday, April 26, 2006*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
/"/'Jupiter'/ and the Jew: The Correspondence between the Sculptor Mark
Antokolskii and the Writer Ivan Turgenev" /
Musya Glants, Associate, Davis Center; Independent Scholar
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
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*Thursday, April 27, 2006*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
"/A New Icarus: The Gender Politics of the //St. Petersburg// /Mit'ki/"/
Alexander Mihailovic, Professor of Comparative Literatures and
Languages, Hofstra University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
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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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