[Daviscalendar-list] Seminar Calendar, February 1-16

[Davis Center Calendar of Events]

  *Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies*
*_Seminar Calendar, February 1-16, 2007 _*

*/Please note: This covers only the first half of February./*
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Thursday, February 1, 2007
Occasional Seminar
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/"Power and Influence: Russia and Energy Policy in Central Asia"/
Theresa Sabonis-Helf, Associate Professor of National Security Strategy, 
National War College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm

 

*Friday, February 2, 2007
Early Slavists' Seminar
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/"The Expression of Love: Fileo and Agapao in the Greek and Slavonic 
Texts of the Gospel According to John"/
Olga Strakhov, Cataloging Assistant, Gund Hall Library, Harvard Graduate 
School of Design
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm

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*Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
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/"History and Catastrophe: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Warsaw Ghetto 
Archive"/
Samuel Kassow, Professor of History, Princeton University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm

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*Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Modern Russian History Search
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/"Imperial Russia's Child Labor Laws:  Challenging the Autocratic Paradigm"/
Boris Gorshkov, Ph.D. in History, 2006, Auburn University; Visiting 
Assistant Professor, European and World History, Auburn University
35 Quincy Street, Robinson Hall, first floor library
4:15 - 5:30 pm

/For more information, please contact Janet Hatch (Department 
Administrator, History Department) at (617) 496-4057.///

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*Thursday, February 8, 2007
Literature and Culture Seminar
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/"Czech Movies/German Occupation, 1939-1945"/
Peter Demetz, Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages and Literatures, 
Yale University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm

 

*Friday, February 9, 2007
Comparative Economics Seminar
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/"The Revival of Sino-Russian Economic and Political Relations and the 
Shanghai Cooperation Organization"/
Pan Guang, Director and Professor, Shanghai Center for International 
Studies and Institute of European & Asian Studies, Shanghai Academy of 
Social Sciences; Dean, Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS)
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room #S354
12:30 - 2:00 pm*
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*Monday, February 12, 2007**
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*

 
/ "The Effect of Inequality in Post-Communist Democracies"/
Boriana Nikolova, Visiting Graduate Student, University of Chicago
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, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm

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*Monday, February 12, 2007
Modern Russian History Search
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/"/It is Not at Present the Century of Women:/ Patronage, Political 
Crime, and the Limits of Female Power in Eighteenth-Century Russia"/
Michelle Marrese, Ph.D. in History, 1995, Northwestern University; NEH 
Research Fellowship
35 Quincy Street, Robinson Hall, first floor library
4:15 - 5:30 pm

/For more information, please contact Janet Hatch (Department 
Administrator, History Department) at (617) 496-4057.///

 

*Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Book Talk*

*/"/*/How Russia Really Works: The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business"/
Alena Ledeneva, Reader in Russian Politics and Society, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London

Chair: Timothy Colton, Director, Davis Center; Professor of Government, 
Harvard University
Discussant:  Gerald Easter, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Assistant 
Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Discussant:  Jessica Allina-Pisano, Associate Professor, School of 
Political Studies, University of Ottawa

1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S030
4:15 - 6:00 pm

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*Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Modern Russian History Search
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/"The Making of the Russian Empire in Crimea, 1783-1853"/
Kelly O'Neill, Ph.D. in History, 2006, Harvard University; Post-Doctoral 
Fellow, Davis Center
35 Quincy Street, Robinson Hall, first floor library
4:15 - 5:30 pm

/For more information, please contact Janet Hatch (Department 
Administrator, History Department) at (617) 496-4057.///

 

*Thursday, February 15, 2007
Literature and Culture Seminar

*/"From Sentimental Friendship to Soviet Citizenship: Women's Community 
and the Utopian Dimensions of Realism in Chernyshevsky, L. Tolstoy, and 
Stalinist Film"/
Anne Eakin Moss, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center; Visiting Scholar, 
Johns Hopkins University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm

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*Friday, February 16, 2007
Literary Study Group
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/"The Bow Curve Shore of Time and Space: Pushkin's Prologue to /Ruslan 
and Ludmila/"/
James Russell, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Armenian 
Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
3:15 - 5:00 pm

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