Daviscalendar-list March 2007

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Seminar Calendar: April 1-15, 2007

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar April 1-15, 2007* *Monday, April 2 Historians' Seminar* / "//The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance and Its Implications for the Cold War"/ Sally Paine, Professor of Strategy and Policy, Naval War College 1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Monday, April **2* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* /"Sakharov the Physicist"/ Bruno Coppi, Professor of Physics, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Richard Wilson, Professor of Physics, Harvard University Harvard University Physics Department, Jefferson Lab, Lecture Room 250 4:15-6:00 p.m. Directions to the Jefferson Lab from Harvard Square: Upon exiting the T station, walk into Harvard Yard to the statue of John Harvard. Facing the statue, take the path to your left, exit the yard, and veer left, around the Science Center (modern white building). The large red-brick building in front of you is Jefferson. Elevator access to both Jefferson and Lyman is through Lyman. More information can be found here: http://hetg.physics.harvard.edu/hetgdirections.htm * * * * *Tuesday, April 3 Director's Seminar* /"Of Novelty and Oblivion: What We Can Learn from Dissidents under Communism"/ Aleksa Djilas, Writer, Sociologist, Historian, and Broadcaster; Fellow, Russian Research Center, 1987-1993 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Tuesday, April 3* *REECA Thesis Research Presentations* Jessica Brozyna: /"The Site of Change: The City in Pavel Filonov's Paintings"/ Catherine Drew: /"The Foreign Policy of Small States: Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Policy under President Bakiyev" / Benjamin Sharma: /"Idealism Betrayed: Alexander Yakovlev and Disillusionment with the Soviet System"// / 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, April 5 Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop * */ /*/"Priests of Prosperity: The Transnational Central Banking Community and Post-Communist Transformation"/ Juliet Johnson, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, McGill University 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. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Thursday, April 5** **Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar* / //"Political Instability in Kyrgyzstan: Sources of Hope and Despair"/ Edil Baisalov, President, Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Thursday, April 5* *Literature and Culture Seminar* /"The Borderland Laboratory: The Art of Bridge-Building in an Age of Multi-Ethnic Crisis"/ Krzysztof Czyzewski, Founder, Borderlands Foundation of Arts, Cultures, and Nations; Editor, /Krasnogruda / 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, April 6** **Early Slavists' Seminar* / //"Imam Shamil, the Great Caucasian War, and the Chechens: Historical Considerations in a Regional Perspective"/ Emil Souleimanov, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Senior Lecturer, Institute of Political Science, Charles University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Tuesday, April 10** **Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar* / //"The Rise of Islam in Eurasia: Comparative Perspectives and Potential Consequences"/ Galina Yemelianova, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Tuesday, April 10* *REECA Thesis Research Presentations* Nina Aron: /"The Black Widow's Web: Gender and Violence in the Chechen Conflict"/ Boris Milman: /"State and Soldier in the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War"/ Christian Packard: /"Buriat Intellectualism, Education, and Identity in Contemporary Buriatia"/ Sogomon Tarontsi: /Title TBA/ 1730 Cambridge Street, Room TBA 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Wednesday, April 11 Literary Study Group* / //"Art Is Inoculation: The Infectious Imagination of Lev Tolstoy"/ Jacob Michael Emery, Lecturer on Literature, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, April 11 Historians' Seminar* */Cosponsored by the /**/Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar/* */ /*/"Armenia and Russian Religious Policy in the Context of Caucasian Geopolitics"/ Paul Werth, Professor of History, University of Nevada 1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450 4:15-6:00 p.m. */Please save the date for the following upcoming event!/* *Friday, April 27* *Undergraduate Colloquium* *on Russian and Eurasian Studies* * *Multidisciplinary research presentations by students from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges. 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Rooms S020, S040, S050, and 3rd floor, Room S354 2:00-5:45 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 at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml. Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or problems, contact the Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772.

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Thurs., March 29 / South Caucasus: Challenges and Solutions

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South Caucasus: Challenges and Solutions Mr. Elin Suleymanov Consul General of Azerbaijan Los Angeles Mr. Irakli Alasania Ambassador of Georgia to the United Nations Thursday, March 29 10:00-11:30 am Littauer Building, Room L275 79 JFK Street John F. Kennedy School of Government The Eurasia Security Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government is very pleased to welcome Mr. Elin Suleymanov, Consul General of Azerbaijan in Los Angeles, and Mr. Irakli Alasania, Ambassador of Georgia to the United Nations, to discuss ongoing challenges in the South Caucasus.

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March 22, Tim Langen

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*A reminder...* * Thursday, March 22* *Literature and Culture Seminar* /"The One, the Many, and the Mathematician: Nikolai Bugaev and Nineteenth-Century Russian Metaphysics"/ Tim Langen, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Missouri-Columbia 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m.

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March 21, Kenneth Moss

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*A reminder... Wednesday, March 21* *Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies * / / /"Making Yiddish Culture Bolshevik: National Autonomy, Cultural Power, and the Revolutionary Imperative in Soviet Jewish Culture, 1919-21"/ Kenneth Moss, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History, Johns Hopkins University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m.

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Mon. 3/26 Sakharov Seminar: Time Change

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*/Please note that the following seminar will begin at 4:00 and not at 4:15./ **Monday, March 26* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* */Cosponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies/* /"State and Society in Latin America and Russia: A Comparative Approach"/ Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Global Prosperity, The Independent Institute Tatiana Vorozheykina, Sakharov Human Rights Fellow, Davis Center; Lecturer, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010 4:00-6:00 p.m.

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Seminar Calendar: March 19-31, 2007

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar* *March 19-31, 2007* *Monday, March 19*** *Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop * / / /"Return to (Illiberal) Diversity? Anti-Gay Politics and Minority Rights after the EU's Eastern Enlargement"/ Conor O'Dywer, Harvard Academy Scholar; Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Florida 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. 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Monday, March 19 * *Literary Study Group * */ /* */"/*/Steam Heat and the Fireplace: Mayakovsky Confronts the Urban Romance"**/ Robert A. Rothstein, Professor of Polish Language, Literature, and Culture; Professor of Slavic and Judaic Studies and of Comparative Literature; Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, March 21* *Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies* /"Making Yiddish Culture Bolshevik: National Autonomy, Cultural Power, and the Revolutionary Imperative in Soviet Jewish Culture, 1919-21"/ Kenneth Moss, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, The Johns Hopkins University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, March 22* *Literature and Culture Seminar* /"The One, the Many, and the Mathematician: Nikolai Bugaev and Nineteenth-Century Russian Metaphysics"/ Tim Langen, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Missouri-Columbia 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Monday, March 26* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* */Cosponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies/* /"State and Society in Latin America and Russia: A Comparative Approach"/ Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Global Prosperity, The Independent Institute Tatiana Vorozheykina, Sakharov Human Rights Fellow, Davis Center; Lecturer, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010 4:15-6:00 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 at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml. Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or problems, contact the Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772.

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Zvi Gitelman, Wednesday, March 14

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This is a reminder that the next session of the *Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies at the Davis Center *will be: ** ***Wednesday, March 14*** / / /"What the Soviets Knew about the Holocaust and What They Did with It"/ Zvi Gitelman, Professor of Judaic Studies and Director of Academic Programs, University of Michigan 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *All are welcome.*

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POSTPONED- Thursday, March 8- Historians’ Seminar with Uri Ra'anan

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/*Please note that the following seminar has been postponed until further notice:*/ ***Thursday, March 8* *Historians’ Seminar* / / /“Light on the Post-Stalin Succession”/ Uri Ra’anan, Director, Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology, and Policy, Boston University; Professor of International Relations, Boston University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15–6:00 p.m. -- -------------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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March calendar correction - Thursday 3/15 Occasional Seminar with Robert Nurick

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*/Please note the following correction to the March 2007 seminar calendar:/* *Thursday, March 15* *Occasional Seminar* * * /"Energy and the Baltic States: The Energy Dimension of Russian-European Relations"/ Robert Nurick, Senior Fellow, Nonproliferation Studies Center, Monterey Institute, Washington Office 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m.

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Gregory Freidin, March 7

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This is a reminder that the next session of the *Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies at the Davis Center *will be: * Wednesday, March 7* ** //"The Other Babel" /Gregory Freidin/, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *All are welcome.*

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