[Daviscalendar-list] Seminar Calendar: Oct. 16-31, 2007

[Davis Center Calendar of Events]

*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies
October 16-31, 2007
Seminar Calendar

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*Tuesday, October 16 
Comparative Politics Seminar*/ 
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/"Media Freedom, Quality of Government, and the Resource Curse: An 
Application to Russia"
/Kostantin Sonin, Assistant Professor, New Economic School (CEFIR), Moscow
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.

  

*Wednesday, October 17
Comparative Economics Seminar*

/ "Russian Multinationals: Natural Resource Champions//"/
Daniel McCarthy, Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, 
Northeastern University
Sheila Puffer, Professor of International Business & Strategy, 
Northeastern University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.

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*Wednesday, October 17
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*

/"In Search of Jewish-Russian Literature"

/Maxim D. Shrayer, Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Russian and 
English, Boston College; Editor, /An Anthology of Jewish-Russian 
Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry /(M.E. 
Sharpe, 2007)

 

 

Discussant: Julie Buckler, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Professor of 
Slavic Languages and Literatures

1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.

 

*Friday, October 19
**Special Seminar
**Co-sponsored by the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies 
**and the Davis Center//*

/"//The City of War: A Planned Cosmogony"/
Ekaterina Taratuta, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Political Science, 
Saint Petersburg State University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

 

*Monday, October 22
Lecture/Concert
Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
and the Davis Center*

/"The Social Philosophy of the Genre of Popular Song in the 
Post-Industrial Network Society"/
Psoy Korolenko (Pavel Lion), Ph.D., Moscow State University
Harvard Yard, Dudley House, Junior Common Room
4:15 p.m.

 

*Wednesday, October 24
Co-sponsored by the Comparative Economics Seminar
and the Comparative Politics Seminar*
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//"Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand?  State Bureaucracy and Privatization 
Effectiveness"/
Scott Gehlbach, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of 
Wisconsin-Madison
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 pm

 

*Thursday, October 25
Co-sponsored by the Literature and Culture Seminar
and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures*

**/Reading of Poems and Stories/*
*Ksenia Golubovich, Writer, Critic, Translator and Editor, Moscow
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.

*/Please note: The reading will be in Russian, with discussion in 
English or Russian./*

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*Monday, October 29
**Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//

/"The Trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev - a Show Trial or 
an Anti-Show Trial?"/
Elizabeth Wood, Associate, Davis Center; Professor of History, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Papers are available on the web at 
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. There is no presentation; all 
participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the 
meeting./
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1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.

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*Wednesday, October 31
Comparative Economics Seminar*

/"//Gazprom's New Skyscraper: Saint Petersburg at Risk?"/
Arkadi Nebolsine, President, International Society for Preservation of 
Russian Monuments and Landscape
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.*
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*Wednesday, October 31
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*

/ "//The Bund and the Jewish Religion, 1897-1917: A Reconsideration"/
David Fishman, Professor of Jewish History, Jewish Theological Seminary; 
Director, Project Judaica
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.

 

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