[Daviscalendar-list] Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies - March Seminar Calendar

Thu Mar 2 09:43:09 EST 2006

*Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies*
*_March Seminar Calendar_*

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*Wednesday, March 1, 2006*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*

/"What China Could Learn from India's Slow and Quiet Rise"/
Yasheng Huang, Associate Professor, Sloan School of Management, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153
12:30 - 2:00 pm

*Thursday, March 2, 2006*
*Harvard Slavic Department*

A Concert of "Love in Russian Songs and Poetry," with performances by 
the students of the Slavic Department
Thompson Room, Barker Center 110, 12 Quincy Street
4:30 - 6:00 pm
For more information, please visit the Slavic Department website:  
/_http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~slavic_        /

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*Friday, March 3, 2006*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*

/"Workers and Peasants Unite!  Land Reform in Ukraine"/
Brennan Klose, Associate, McKinsey & Company
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S020
12:30 - 2:00 pm

*Monday, March 6*
*Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar*

/"Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan: Light at the End of the Tunnel?"/
Michael Hall, Director, Crisis Group Central Asia Project in Bishkek, 
Kyrgyzstan
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm

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*Tuesday, March 7, 2006*
*Co-sponsored by **Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar and Historians' 
Seminar*

/"Radical Politics in a Muslim Society: Muslim Communities in Early Soviet /
/Central Asia"/
 Adeeb Khalid, Professor of History, Carleton College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm  **

*Tuesday, March 7, 2006*
*Co-sponsored by Cold War Studies Seminar and Comparative Economics Seminar*

/"The Cold War: A New History" /
John Lewis Gaddis, Professor of History, Yale University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S010
4:15 - 6:00 pm

*Wednesday, March 8, 2006*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*

/"Necroeconomics and Lessons from Post-Communist //Georgia//"/
Vladimer Papava, Fulbright Fellow, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, The 
Nitze School, Johns Hopkins University
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st^ Floor, Room #S153
12:15 - 2:00 pm

*Wednesday, March 8, 2006*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*

/"West European Jews Rethink East European Jewry, 1880-1920"  /
Paula Hyman, Professor of Modern Jewish History, Yale University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm

*Thursday, March 9, 2006*
*Director's Seminar*

/"Looking Anew at the Young Stalin:  The Making of a Bolshevik"/
Ronald G. Suny, Professor of History, University of Michigan
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm

*Thursday, March 9, 2006*
*Co-Sponsored by the Literature and Culture Seminar and Seminar on 
Russian and East European Jewish Studies*

/"Dispirited Patriots: Jews and Russian Literature" /
Brian Horowitz, Professor and Director of Jewish Studies, Tulane University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm

*Friday, March 10, 2006*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*

/"New Light on an Oral Igor Tale: A Newly Discovered Tale about the 
Kulikovo Battle"/
Robert Mann, Independent Scholar
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm

*Friday, March 10, 2006*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*

/"'Nauseating' Displays of Loyalty: Credible Intra-Factional 
Communication through Ideological Campaigns" /
Victor Chung-Hon Shih, Department of Political Science, Northwestern 
University

Please note -- this is a special meeting of the workshop, which will 
include a presentation.  Thus, the paper does not have to be read in 
advance, but it will be available on the website at 
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Epostcomm/>.   Also note the room change 
from our usual meeting place.  Discussion will start at 12:30, but lunch 
will be available from 12:00 pm.

1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room #S250
12:30 - 2:00 pm

*Tuesday, March 14, 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

*Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Literary Study Group*

/"Humor in the Silver Age and Beyond: Teffi and Zoshchenko"/
Edythe C. Haber, Associate, Davis Center; Professor Emerita, University 
of Massachusetts, Boston
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm

*Thursday, March 16 2006*
*Occasional Seminar*

/"In the Name of God, In the Name of Infinity: Religion and Science in 
Russia" /
Loren Graham, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Professor of the History 
of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room #S250
12:15 - 2:00 pm

*Thursday, March 16, 2006
Literature and Culture Seminar*

/"The Holocaust and the Matter"/
Bozena Shallcross, University of Chicago
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm

*Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Cold War Studies Seminar*

/"Hungarian Churches and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution:  Defeat out of 
Victory?"/
Nicolas Bauquet, Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Davis Center; Ph.D. 
Candidate in Modern History, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques 
-Institut d'études politiques de Paris
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm

*Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*

/"Zhabotinskij as a Writer"/
Michael Stanislawski, Professor of History and Associate Director, 
Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd^ Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm

*Thursday, March 23, 2006
Literature and Culture Seminar*

/Poetry Reading/
Vera Pavlova, Poet
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm

*Thursday, March 23
The Sakharov Seminar*
/"The Cold War, Soviet Dissent, and the Andrei Sakharov Archive"/
Benjamin Nathans, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153
4:15 - 6:00 pm

*Friday, March 24, 2006*
*Historians' Seminar*
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/"Baron Ungern's Mongolian Pogrom:  The Genealogy of an Imperial Massacre"/
Willard Sunderland, Professor of History, University of Cincinnati
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
1:00 - 3:00 pm**
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*Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Comparative Economics Seminar*
/ 
"Uncounted Costs of World War II:  The Effect of Changing Sex Ratios on 
Marriage and Fertility of Russian Women" /
Elizabeth Brainerd, Williams College
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 at fas.harvard.edu 
<mailto:daviscrs at fas.harvard.edu> or 617.495.4037.

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