Please see below for an interesting upcoming webinar.
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
617-495-4037
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/
Webinar: By the Numbers: Quantitative Data Sources in Eurasian Studies
DATE: Friday February 10th, 2PM EST
Please join the SSRC Eurasia Program for a basic, informal, and open discussion of issues relating to the availability of quantitative data sources for social scientists interested in Eurasia, including how to access these data, where to obtain training in quantitative analysis, and how to integrate cultural, linguistic, and experiential insights with quantitative approaches in the study of continuity and change across Eurasia.
Topics to be covered include:
Data Availability and Access
Linking Available Data to Research Questions
The Importance of Engaging with Quantitative Data
Training Opportunities
AUDIENCE: graduate students, practitioners, faculty
GOALS: To raise awareness, provide links to sources, spur interest in further research and training, and discuss upcoming Title VIII SSRC summer workshops in quantitative methods for graduate students and faculty.
Moderator:
Cynthia Buckley, Program Director, SSRC; IC2, University of Texas at Austin
Speakers:
Nicole Butkovich Kraus, Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ani Sarkissian, Political Science, Michigan State University
Christopher Whitsel, Sociology, North Dakota State University
To register for the webinar, please follow the following link:
https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/797961182
Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested in this event. If you are unable to attend at the scheduled time, contact us for information on how to watch a recording of the event.
About the speakers:
Trained as a social demographer, Cynthia Buckley has experience in data collection, sample design, and secondary data analysis in the U.S. and several regions of Eurasia. A faculty member at the University of Texas, Austin, she has taught numerous seminars related to research methodology, quantitative, and qualitative analysis in the US, Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. Her research on Eurasia includes several peer reviewed articles using the World Bank Living Standards Monitoring Surveys, the UN Gender and Generation Survey, the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, secondary statistics in the area of public health, and the Demographic and Health Surveys.
Nicole Butkovich Kraus is a Sociology PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison currently completing her dissertation, entitled, "The Construction of Xenophobia in the Russian Federation." Her work, presented at a number of national conferences, explores the causes and correlates of xenophobic attitudes in the Russian Federation. In addition to experience teaching undergraduate and graduate statistics, Nicole is well versed in a broad variety of cross sectional and multilevel statistical approaches. She has established a strong network within the Russian public opinion and human rights fields, as well as familiarization with both polling and survey resources in the Russian Federation. She is currently completing work on Russian nationalism and xenophobia entitled: "Does Pride equal Prejudice?" with Professor Yoshiko Herrera.
Ani Sarkissian is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2006. Her cross national research focuses on the effects of religious regulations, organizations, beliefs, and practices on political development and regime change. Drawing on substantial fieldwork and detailed knowledge of secondary statistics in Armenia, Georgia, and Turkey, she has published well- received articles in several journals including Democratization, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Journal of Church and State, and Religion, State, and Society. She is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Authoritarian Politics and the Varieties of Religious Repression.
Christopher Whitsel is Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Dakota State University. His research focuses on post-Socialist transition and the increase in educational inequality in Central Asia. He recently published an analysis of compulsory education policy and attainment in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan and is working on a new project outlining costs of education in the region. Professor Whitsel has worked extensively with economic, educational, and health surveys in Central Asia, integrating these findings with his ethnographic insights from wide-ranging fieldwork in Tajikistan and other regions of Central Asia.
Please note that the following seminar has been canceled:
Friday, January 27
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Politics, State-Building, and Identities in the Western Balkans after 1945"
Todor Chobanov, Senior Adviser, Ministry for Economics, Energy, and Tourism, Republic of Bulgaria
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.495.4037
F 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
February 1-15, 2012
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>.
Thursday, February 2
Informing Eurasia Seminar
"Is There a Russo-Eurasian Cyber Empire?"
Dirk Uffelmann, Chair of Slavic Literatures and Cultures, Universität Passau
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Papers will be distributed in advance. Contact Robyn Angley (rangley(a)fas.harvard.edu<mailto:rangley@fas.harvard.edu>) for more information.
Friday, February 3
Hokkaido Roundtable
"Violence and Reconciliation around Ethnic Boundaries in the Caucasus Region"
"Perpetual - or Perpetuating - Conflict? Perspectives on the Georgia-Abkhazia Conflict"
Peter Kabachnik, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy, College of Staten Island
"War, Rock Concerts, and Promoting Pressure from Below: Anti-Separatist Strategies under the Saakashvili Administration"
Robyn Angley, Research Programs Coordinator, Davis Center
"The Circassian Dilemma"
Fatima Tlisova, Independent Scholar
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Monday, February 13
Literature and Culture Seminar
The Free World
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011)
David Bezmozgis, Lisa Goldberg Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; writer and filmmaker
12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Kresge Room (Room 114)
5:00-6:30 p.m.
Click here<http://www.bezmozgis.com/freeworld.html> for more information about the book.
Tuesday, February 14
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Soviet-Japanese Conflicts after World War II and the Legacy Today"
David Wolff, Professor of Russian History, University of Hokkaido
Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard University Parking Services<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.495.4037
F 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Please note updated speaker titles, location, and room number of the following event. For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>.
Wednesday, January 25
Comparative Politics Roundtable
"Russian Politics in 2012: What Next?"
Timothy J. Colton, Department Chair and Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
Maria Gaidar, M.A. Candidate, Mid-Career Master in Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School
Scott Gehlbach, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Loren Graham, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Executive Committee Member, Davis Center
Chair: Alexandra Vacroux, Executive Director, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room)
12:15-2:00 p.m.
To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard University Parking Services<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.495.4037
F 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
January 16-31, 2012
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>.
Monday, January 23
"Succession in North Korea: Perspectives from Harvard"
Presented by the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Asia Center, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations at the Korea Institute, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the U.S.-Japan Program, Harvard University
Panelists:
Carter Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History
Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Moderated by Andrew D. Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History; Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Welcoming remarks by Sun Joo Kim, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History; Director, Korea Institute
1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South, Room S010 (Tsai Auditorium)
4:00 p.m.
Reception to follow
January 23 - March 15, 2012
Exhibition
"Images of Korea: Photographs by Harvard Faculty"
1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse
Wednesday, January 25
Comparative Politics Seminar
"Russian Politics in 2012: What Next?"
Timothy J. Colton, Department Chair and Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
Maria Gaidar, M.A. Candidate, Mid-Career Master in Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School
Scott Gehlbach, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Loren Graham, Professor Emeritus of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Executive Committee Member, Davis Center
Alexandra Vacroux, Executive Director, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, Room TBA
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Friday, January 27
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Politics, State-Building, and Identities in the Western Balkans after 1945"
Todor Chobanov, Senior Adviser, Ministry for Economics, Energy, and Tourism, Republic of Bulgaria
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard University Parking Services<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
T 617.495.4037
F 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu