[Daviscalendar-list] Davis Center- April Seminar Calendar

Tue Mar 28 09:52:02 EST 2006

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

*Tuesday, April 4, 2006***
*Literary Study Group*

/"Whose Whitman? When //Russia// First Heard //America// Singing"/
Barry P. Scherr, Professor of Russian and Provost, Dartmouth College
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room #S450
4:15 - 6:00 pm

*Tuesday, April 4, 2006*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
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/"//Europe// on the Move:  Forced Population Transfers during the Early 
Cold War, A Historiographical Reassessment"/
Antonio Ferrara, Visiting Scholar, Watson Institute for International 
Studies, Brown University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm

*Thursday, April 6, 2006***
*Literature and Culture Seminar*

/"Shakespeare's //Bohemia//"/
Alfred Thomas, Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and 
Literatures, University of Illinois at Chicago
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm

*Friday, April 7, 2006**
Early Slavists' Seminar*
*Co-sponsored by the Historians' Seminar*

/ "Roundtable Discussion of Isabel de Madariaga's /Ivan the Terrible: 
First Tsar of Russia/"/
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm

*Monday, April 10, 2006**
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*

/"Do Grievances Matter in Nationalist Mobilization? Evidence from 
//Russia//"/
Elise Giuliano, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center

Paper is 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

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*Monday, April 10, 2006**
Sakharov Seminar*
/"New Challenges for Human Rights Work in //Russian Federation//: Can It 
Go On?"/
Arkadiy Leybovskiy and Kirill Babichenko, Sakharov Human Rights Fellows, 
Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm

*Monday, April 10, 2006**
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

*/"The Lay of the Merchant Kalashnikov"/ by M. Yu. Lermontov
Performed by the students of the Slavic Department
Thompson Room, Barker 110, 12 Quincy Street
5:00 p.m.

*Wednesday, April 12, 2006**
Comparative Economics Seminar*

/"Energy as a Potential Tool in the CIS"/
Vadim Socor, Senior Fellow and Senior Analyst, Jamestown Foundation
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153
12:30 - 2:00 pm
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*Thursday, April 13, 2006**
Comparative Politics Seminar*
*Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies*

"/Democratization in the Western Balkans: Illiberal Regimes and the 
Leverage of International Actors"/

Milada Vachudova, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University 
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Discussant: Jacques Rupnik, Visiting Scholar, Center for European 
Studies; Visiting Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director 
of Research, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Institut 
d'Etudes Politiques de Paris

1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S050
12:30 - 2:00 pm
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*Monday, April 17, 2006*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*

/"A Cyclical Theory of //Russia//'s Historical Change" /
Georgi Derluguian, Associate Professor of Sociology, Northwestern 
University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm

*Tuesday, April 18, 2006*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
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/"Coming to Terms with the Communist Past in Central and Eastern Europe: 
The Czech Case in Comparative Perspective"/
Jacques Rupnik, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies; Visiting 
Professor of Government, Harvard University; Director of Research, 
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Fondation Nationale 
des Sciences Politiques -Institut d'études politiques de Paris
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm

*Wednesday, April 19, 2006*
*Occasional Seminar*

/"'Against the French Cult': Modern Western Art and Cultural Politics in 
the Early Stalin Era" /
Ilia Dorontchenkov, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Slavic 
Languages, Brown University
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room #S153
12:15 - 2:00 pm
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*Thursday, April 20, 2006*
*Director's Seminar*

/"300 Years of Mass Killing in the Ukrainian Borderlands of //Russia// 
and //Poland//, 1647-1947"/
Norman Naimark, Professor of Eastern European Studies, Stanford University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm

*Thursday, April 20, 2006*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*

/"Avant-Garde Art for the Tourist Age:  S(tyrský and Toyen in //Paris//, 
1925-1928"/
Matthew S. Witkovsky, Assistant Curator, Department of Photographs, 
National Gallery of Art
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm

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*Friday, April 21, 2006**
Early Slavists' Seminar*

/"Was the Original of the /Hypatian Chronicle/ an Illuminated Manuscript?"/
Oleksiy Tolochko, Visiting Scholar, Harvard Ukrainian Research 
Institute; Senior Research Associate, Institute of History, National 
Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room #S250
12:15 - 2:00 pm

*Monday, April 24, 2006**
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*

/"Explaining Patterns of Post-Soviet Violence"/
Elina Treyger, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard 
University; JD Candidate, Harvard Law School

Paper is 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**
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*Tuesday, April 25, 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

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*Wednesday, April 26, 2006*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*

/"/'Jupiter'/ and the Jew: The Correspondence between the Sculptor Mark 
Antokolskii and the Writer Ivan Turgenev" /
Musya Glants, Associate, Davis Center; Independent Scholar
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
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*Thursday, April 27, 2006*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*

"/A New Icarus:  The Gender Politics of the //St. Petersburg// /Mit'ki/"/
Alexander Mihailovic, Professor of Comparative Literatures and 
Languages, Hofstra University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm

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