*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
December 1-15, 2007*
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*Monday, **December 3, 2007*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
/"The Crisis of Ideology of Human Rights: Criminal Cases against Andrei
Piontkovsky, Yuri Samodurov and Stanislav Dmitrevsky"/
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Dmitry Dubrovsky, Executive Director, Ethnic Studies Program, European
University; Chair, Department of Modern Ethnography, Russian Museum of
Ethnography, Saint Petersburg; Fellow on Human Rights and Conflict
Resolution, Kennan Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center for International
Scholars
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, December 5*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
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//"Doing Business in the USSR, Russia and the People's Republic of China"/
Thomas Shillinglaw, Former Legal Counsel, Corning Incorporated
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, December 5*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
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//"A Community under Siege: The Jews of Breslau under Nazism"/
/ /(Stanford University Press, 2007)
Abraham Ascher, Professor Emeritus of History, Graduate Center, City
University of New York
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Thursday, December 6*
*Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar*
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//"Masculinities and Violence in Tajikistan: >From the Domestic to the
Civil War"/
Colette Harris, Senior Lecturer on Conflict, Governance and Development,
University of East Anglia
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Friday, December 7 *
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
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//"Muscovy as a Clan-Based State on the Frontier of Medieval and Early
Modern"/
Cherie Woodworth, Research Affiliate, Yale University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Monday, December 10*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
/Draft Prospectus
/Masha Hedberg, Graduate Student, Department of Government, Harvard
University
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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.
*Tuesday, December 11
Cold War Studies Seminar
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/"What's Wrong with Current U.S.-Russian Relations? The International
Security Dimension"/
Mikhail Rykhtik, Professor of International Relations, Nizhnii Novgorod
State University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, December 12*
*Outreach Program Series*
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/"//Islam in Africa"
/Diana Wylie, Professor of History, Boston University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
4:30-6:30 p.m.
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*Friday, December 14*
*Historians' Seminar*
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/"//Flawed Succession: Stalin's Heirs"
/Uri Ra'anan, University Professor, Boston University; Director,
Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, & Policy, Boston University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
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