*Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
_November 13 - 30, 2006 Seminar Calendar_*
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Monday, November 13, 2006
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop *
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*/"The Hobbesian Nightmare: Violent Death after Communism"/
Elina Treyger, Graduate Student, Department of Government, Harvard
University; J.D. candidate, Harvard Law School
Papers are available on the website at
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, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
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*Monday, November 13, 2006*
*Sakharov Seminar*
/"Russia, 2006: More 'Neo-Soviet' than 'Post-Soviet'? Did
Samizdat and
Dissent 'Change History'?"/
Martin Dewhirst, Honorary Research Fellow, Glasgow University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
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*Tuesday, November 14, 2006*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
/"Intellectuals, Revolutionaries, and Political Morality during the Cold
War"/
Paul Hollander, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
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*Tuesday, November 14, 2006*
*Roundtable Discussion*
/"Remembering Anna Politkovskaya"/
Chair: Timothy Colton, Director, Davis Center; Professor of Government
and Russian Studies, Harvard University
With comments by:
Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center
Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International USA
Tatiana Yankelevich, Director, Sahkarov Program on Human Rights, Davis
Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Wednesday, November 15, 2006*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"The European Union: Before and After the 2004 Enlargement: What
Prospects for Ukraine?"/
David Lane, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of
Cambridge, United Kingdom
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354
12:30 - 2:00 pm
*Thursday, November 16, 2006*
*Sakharov Seminar*
/"OSCE Election Observation in the FSU: Is It Worth It?"/
Martin Dewhirst, Honorary Research Fellow, Glasgow University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S050
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Monday, November 20, 2006*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*
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/"/*/Japan// and Slavic Eurasia: Putting an End to the 'Distant
Neighbor'Syndrome"
/Osamu Ieda, Professor, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University//
Kimitaka Matsuzato, Professor, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
Shinichiro Tabata, Professor, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
David Wolff, Professor, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S050
12:15 - 2:00 pm
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*Monday, November 27, 2006
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop *
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*/"Goskomstat as a Bureaucracy: Organizational Norms and Identity, Past
and Present"/
Yoshiko Herrera, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social
Sciences, Department of Government, Harvard University
Papers are available on the website at
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, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Wednesday, November 29, 2006*
*Literature and Culture Seminar
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//"Liars, 'Bad' Writing, and Stories That Come True: The Odessan Moment
in Russian Literature"
/Rebecca Stanton, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center; Assistant
Professor, Slavic Department, Barnard College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
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Harvard University
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