*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
November 14-30, 2007*
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*Wednesday, November 14*
*Outreach Program Series*
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/"//Islam in Russia"
/Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Lecturer,
Government Department, Harvard University; Former U.S. Ambassador to
Poland and Pakistan
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
4:30-6:30 p.m.
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*Monday, November 19*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
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//"The Politics of Citizenship Policy in New Post-Soviet States"/
Oxana Shevel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tufts University//
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.
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*Monday, November 19*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
/"The Dissident Movement in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Civil
Institutions"/
Elena Skryakova, Sakharov Fellow, Davis Center; Member, International
Board, Memorial Society
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
/Note: Question & answer session will be conducted in Russian./
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*Monday, November 26*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights *
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/"The Current State of Democracy in Russia: The December 2007 Duma
Elections"/
William Hill,* *Professor, National War College; Retired Foreign Service
Officer; Head, OSCE Mission to Moldova (2003-06, 1999-2001)
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, November 27 *
*Occasional Seminar*
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/"In Search of Ideology in Putin's Russia"
/Alfred Evans, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, California State
University, Fresno
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Tuesday, November 27*
*Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar*
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/"Femicide as Terrorism: the Case of Uzbekistan's Unveiling Murders"
/Marianne R. Kamp, Director of the Women's Studies Program, University
of Wyoming
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, November 28*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
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/"//Gazprom's Strategy in Europe"
/Richard J. Anderson, Colonel, U.S. Army; ISSP Senior Service Fellow,
The Fletcher School, Tufts University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, November 28*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
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/"//Polonophilia in Interwar Yiddish Culture: The Case of Avrom Sutzkever"
/Yuri Vedenyapin, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Preceptor in Yiddish,
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Thursday, November 29*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*
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/"The Incredible Transformation: Democracy, Partisanship and
Postcommunist Economic Reform"
/Timothy Frye, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of Political
Science, Columbia University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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Harvard University
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