[Daviscalendar-list] Seminar Calendar, March 1-15, 2008

[Davis Center Calendar of Events]

*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
March 1-15, 2008*
 
 
*Monday, March 3*
*Occasional Seminar*
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/"Operational Leadership of the Soviet Terror from the Civil War to the 
Great Terror"/
Stephen Wheatcroft, Professor of History, University of Melbourne, Australia
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, March 5*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
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/"//Are Population and Health Constraints Affecting Russian Society and 
the Military?"
/Murray Feshbach, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Research 
Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
 
 
*Wednesday, March 5*
*Outreach Program Series*
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/"Islam in Africa"
/Jacob Olupona, Professor of African and African-American Studies, 
Harvard Divinity School
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
4:30-6:30 p.m.
 
 
*Thursday, March 6*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
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/"The Information Arms Race: Towards a Cybernetics of Stalinism"/
Terry Martin, Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University; Faculty 
Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
   
*Friday, March 7- Saturday, March 8*
*Conference//*
*Co-sponsored by the Davis Center and The Harvard Ukrainian Research 
Institute*
 
/"Reassessing Post-Soviet Energy Politics: Ukraine, Russia, and the 
Battle for Gas from Central Asia to the European Union"/
 
Session 1: Actors, Agendas and Interests
Session 2: Gas Trade and Energy Security: The Impact on National and 
International Politics
Session 3: From Producer to Consumer: Transit, Prices, and Informal 
Institutions
 
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
 
/For more information:  http://www.huri.harvard.edu//
/To register online: //http://www.huri.harvard.edu/gas_conf_reg.html/
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*Monday, March 10*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
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/"Reflective and Unreflective Partisans?  Experimental Evidence from 
Russia, Poland, and Hungary on the Links between Information, Opinion, 
and Party Identification"
/Joshua Tucker, Associate Professor of Politics, New York University//
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Monday, March 10
**Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*

"/On the Russian Presidential Election of March 2, 2008"/
Andrei A. Piontkovsky, Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute; Senior 
Research Fellow, Institute for System Studies, Russian Academy of 
Sciences, Moscow
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
4:15-6:00 p.m.


* ****Tuesday, March 11*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
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/"The Soviet Union and U.S. Presidential Campaigns during the Cold War//"/
Kostadin Grozev, Visiting Professor of History, University of Texas; 
Professor of Modern History, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, March 13*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
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/"Brodsky, Chekhov and We"/
Lev Loseff, Department Chair and Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
 
*Friday, March 14
**Historians' Seminar*

/"//The Affective Turn:  Emotions and the Writing of History"/
Ronald Suny, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, The University of 
Chicago
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
*Friday, March 14 **
**Early Slavists' Seminar*
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//"From Pamvo Berynda (1627) to Luka Kis(ka (1722): A Relapse from 
Script- to Language-Switching"///
Andriy Danylenko, Shklar Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; 
Lecturer in Russian Language and Culture, Pace University
1737 Cambridge Street, Ground Level, Room N105
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
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