*Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies**_
November Seminar Calendar_*
*Tuesday, November 1
Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar
*
/"Spin-Doctoring the Uyghurs: Recent Developments in Cultural Policy in
Xinjiang"/
Arienne Dwyer, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Kansas
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Wednesday, November 2
Comparative Economics Seminar
*/
"Czars to Kommisars and Back Again"/
Murray Seeger, Former Bureau Chief, /Los Angeles// Times/
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
12:30 - 2:00 pm
*Monday, November 7
Central **Asia** and the **Caucasus** Seminar
*/
"//Kyrgyzstan//'s Democratic 'Revolution' and its Implications for
//Central Asia//"/
Steve Young, Office of the Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of
State; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic
1737 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room N262
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Monday, November 7
Sakharov Seminar, Book Talk
*/
"The KGB File of Andrei Sakharov /(Yale University Press, 2005)"
A talk with the editors:
Joshua Rubenstein, Associate, Davis Center; Northeast Regional Director,
Amnesty International USA
Alexander Gribanov, Literary Scholar and Archivist
Chair: Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Monday, November 7
**Co-sponsored by Literature and Culture Seminar, **Davis** **Center**,
and Politics and the Arts Seminar, **Humanities** **Center* *
*/
"Public Interiors Between Two Cultures: A Conversation with
Russian-American Artist Irina Nakhova"
/Moderator: Svetlana Boym, Professor of Slavic and Comparative
Literature, Harvard University
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Room 133
6:00 - 7:30 pm
*/Reception following./*
*Tuesday, November 8
Cold War Studies Seminar
/
/*/"Spies, Solidarity, and the Aftermath of the 1980-1981 Polish Crisis:
A Reassessment Based on the Archives of the Polish Intelligence Services"/
Idesbald Goddeeris, Professor of History, University of Leuven, Belgium
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Wednesday, November 9
Comparative Economics Seminar
*/
"The Siloviki and the Oligarchs: Implications for the Russian Economy"/
Vladislav Inozemtsev, Editor-in-Chief, /Svobodnaia mysl/; Former
Chairman, Moscow Paris Commercial Bank
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
12:30 - 2:00 pm
*Thursday, November 10
Literature and Culture Seminar
*/
"Confessions of a Sinner: Author and Antihero in Russian and American
Traditions"
/Lily Alexander, Professor, Hofstra University and New York University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Monday, November 14
Comparative Economics Seminar
*/
"The //Moscow// Mortgage Market -- It's About Time, But is it Safe?"
/Yuri Kudimov, President and Chairman of the Board, Russian National
Reserve Bank
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250
12:30 - 2:00 pm
*Monday, November 14
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*
Yoshiko Herrera, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Associate Professor of
Government, Harvard University
/"Conditional Norms: Bureaucratic Reform and Internationalization of
Russian Statistics" /
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, November 15
Cold War Studies Seminar
*/
"Reevaluating the //USSR//, 1917-1991: The Contours of Soviet History"/
Andrea Graziosi, Professor of Modern History, University of Naples, Italy
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Wednesday, November 16
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
/"A discussion of Yuri Slezkine's /The Jewish Century/ (//Princeton//
//University// Press, 2004)"/
Zvi Gitelman, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Advanced Holocaust
Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.; Professor,
Political Science, Judaic Studies, University of Michigan
Terry Martin, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Associate Professor of
History, Harvard University
Steven Zipperstein, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor, Jewish
Culture and History; Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford
University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*/Participants are requested to read the book prior to the seminar./*
*Wednesday, November 16
Literary Study Group*
" /'Kamennyi Gost' Pushkina i traditsiia frantsuzskogo libertinazha/"
Igor Nemirovskii, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Visiting Lecturer,
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University;
Senior Researcher, Institute of Russian Literature, St. Petersburg
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450
4:15 - 6:00 pm
* *
*Thursday, November 17
Comparative Politics Seminar*
/"The Prospects for Free and Fair Elections in //Russia// in 2008"/
Leonid Nevzlin, Former Senior Executive, Yukos
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Thursday, November 17
Literature and Culture Seminar
*/
"He Writes Like a Woman: Briusov's Nelli"
/Olga Hasty, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton
University
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Kresge Room (Room 114)
4:15 - 6:00 pm**
*Friday, November 18
Early Slavists' Seminar
*/
//"The Making of the Ruthenian Nation, 1569-1648"
/Serhii Plokhii, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Visiting Professor of
History, Harvard University; Associate Director, Peter Jacyk Centre for
Ukrainian Historical Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies,
University of Alberta
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Monday, November 28
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*
Xi Chen, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research,
Harvard University
/"The Institutional Conversion of the Appeals and Petitions System in
//China//"/
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, November 30
Comparative Politics Seminar
*/"Symposium on Post-Communist Politics and Economics: What Have We
Learned From the Success Stories in //East-Central Europe//?"/
Hilary Appel, Associate Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College
/On Ideas and Economics /
Grzegorz Ekiert, Professor of Government, Harvard University
/On Civil Society and Mobilization
/
Anna Grzymala-Busse, Associate Professor of Political Science,
University of Michigan
/On Party Politics and Institutions/
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:00 - 2:00 pm
*Wednesday, November 30
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**
* *
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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