*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies*
*_May 1-14 Calendar of Events_*
*Tuesday, May 1*
*****Cold War Studies Seminar*
**
****/"Soviet Strategic Culture and Military Policy during the Cold War"/
Dima Adamsky, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center For International
Affairs, Harvard University; Research Fellow, Mayrock Center for East
European and Eurasian Studies, Hebrew University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, May 2*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
//
///"//China//'s Continental Energy Strategy: Russia and Central Asia"///
Vitaly Kozyrev, Fellow, Department of Political Science, Amherst College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, May 3*
*****Historians' Seminar*
**
**///////"Urban Freedom in Russian Historiography (Late 19th and Early
20th Centuries)"/
////Wladimir Berelowitch, Professor of History, École des hautes études
en sciences sociales and University of Geneva
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, May 3*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
**
/"//Production Choreographies: Vsevolod Meyerhold, Alexei Gastev, and
the Politics of Biomechanics"///
Asya Graf, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Monday, May 7*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
*/"State Building, /*/Human Rights, and Islamic Radicalization in the
North Caucasus"/
*Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya,** *Sakharov Human Rights Fellow, Davis Center;
Programs Director, Memorial Human Rights Center, Northern Caucasus;
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Grozny University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, May 8*
*****Historians' Seminar*
****////
///"Romanov Russia in Qajar Iran (1795-1925)"/
////Robert Crews, Professor of History, Stanford University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, May 9*
*****Research Travel Workshop*
//
////Reports by recently-returned research travelers and advice for those
now planning trips to the region.
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
1:00-3:00 p.m.
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****If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Hillary Colter at
hcolter(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:hcolter@fas.harvard.edu> or 617-495-4038
by Friday, May 4, 2007.****
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*Thursday, May 10 *
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
*/Cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research/*
*//*
*//* /"Mao, Stalin, and the Politics of 1953 in China"/
Hua-yu Li, Associate Professor of History, Oregon State University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, May 10 *
*Film **Screening and Talk*
Documentary filmmaker and Center Associate Robin Hessman will show her
27-minute Student Academy Award-winning short film, "Portrait of a Boy"
(codirector James Longley). The film was her diploma work at VGIK, the
All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography. She will also present a
10-minute piece of her current work in progress, "Russia's Pepsi
Generation," a documentary that looks at the last generation of Soviet
children to grow up behind the Iron Curtain. The film will be broadcast
on PBS in 2009.
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Friday, May 11*
*****Early Slavists' Seminar*
****//
///"//The Strategic Dilemmas of Seventeenth-Century East European
Warfare"///
////Peter Brown, Professor of History, Rhode Island College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Monday, May 14*
*Book Talk*
/By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey /
(The MIT Press, January 2007)
* *
*János Kornai*, Author; Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard
University; Permanent Fellow, Emeritus, Collegium Budapest Institute
for Advanced Study; Distinguished Research Professor, Central European
University
Chair: *Timothy Colton*, Director, Davis Center; Professor of
Government, Harvard University
Discussant: *Francis Bator*, Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Discussant: *Paul Hollander*, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor
of Sociology, Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
4:15-6:00 p.m.
****If you plan to attend the book talk, please RSVP to Penelope Skalnik
at pskalnik(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:pskalnik@fas.harvard.edu> or
617-384-8438 by Friday, May 4, 2007.****
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/*Please note the following seminar:*/
*Thursday, April 26*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
*/Cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, the Korea
Institute, and the /**/Program on U.S.-Japan Relations at the
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs/*
/"Japan: Between Russia, China, Korea, the US and the Deep Blue Sea"/
Akio Kawato, Chief Economist, Research Institute of Capital Formation,
Development Bank of Japan; former Ambassador of Japan to Uzbekistan
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
2:30-4:00 p.m.
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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
/*Please note the following seminar cancellation:
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*Friday, April 27**
**Early Slavists' Seminar*
/
//"Ruthenian Law, Ruthenian Language--What Did the Lithuanian Statutes
Mean for the History of the Ruthenian Language?"/
Michael Moser, Associate Professor, Institute of Slavic Studies,
University of Vienna
Ukrainian Research Institute, 34 Kirkland Street, Main Seminar Room
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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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
A reminder...
*Wednesday, April 25**
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
/
//"On Reconciling the Histories of Two Chosen Peoples: Twentieth-Century
Narratives of Polish-Jewish Relations"/
David Engel, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of Hebrew and
Judaic Studies, and Professor of History, New York University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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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
/*Please note the following event from the Committee on Inner Asian and
Altaic Studies:*/
*
Thursday, April 26*
*Second Richard N. Frye Fund Lecture*
/"Basmïls and Qïpchaqs: Some Unexplored Elements in the Shaping of the
Peoples of Medieval Eurasia"/
Peter Golden, Professor, History, Rutgers University
1730 Cambridge Street, CGIS South Building, Tsai Auditorium
4:00 p.m.
An informal reception, to which all are invited, will follow the lecture.
For more information, please contact the IAAS Office at iaas(a)fas.harvard.edu
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Minda de Gunzburg
Center for European Studies, and the Department of Economics at Harvard
cordially invite you to attend a presentation of János Kornai's book,
/By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey/,
recently translated into English and published by MIT Press.
Attached is a short description of the book as well as some biographical
information about the author, as compiled by the publisher.
If you plan to attend the book talk, please RSVP to Penelope Skalnik at
pskalnik(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:pskalnik@fas.harvard.edu> or
617-384-8438 by Friday, May 4, 2007.
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*Monday, May 14
Book Talk*
/By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey /
(The MIT Press, January 2007)
* *
*János Kornai*, Author; Professor Emeritus of Economics, Harvard
University; Permanent Fellow Emeritus, Collegium Budapest Institute for
Advanced Study; Distinguished Research Professor, Central European
University
Chair: *Timothy Colton*, Director, Davis Center; Professor of
Government, Harvard University
Discussant: *Francis Bator*, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Discussant: *Paul Hollander*, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor
Emeritus of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*
/Reception following talk. All are welcome./*
*/Please note the following updated seminar listing:/
Thursday, April 26*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
*/Cosponsored by Harvard Law School
/**/"/*/Russia and the European Convention on Human Rights: The Role of
Courts and NGOs"/
Anton Burkov, Human Rights Lawyer, Urals Centre of Constitutional and
International Human Rights Protection, NGO /Sutyajnik/; Kapitza Scholar,
University of Cambridge
*Harvard Law School, 1563 Massachusetts Avenue, Pound Hall, Room 407
4:15-6:00 p.m.*
/*Please note the following seminar cancellation:*/
*Friday, April 13
**Occasional Seminar*
/"Clausewitz, Counterinsurgency, and the Russian-Chechen Conflict in
Comparative Perspective"/
Andrew Mumford, Doctoral Candidate in Politics, University of Sheffield;
Visiting Scholar, Conflict and Terrorism Center, Pennsylvania State
University
Thomas Waldman, Doctoral Candidate in Politics, University of Sheffield;
Visiting Scholar, Conflict and Terrorism Center, Pennsylvania State
University
Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
April 13-30, 2007*
*Friday, April 13
Occasional Seminar*
/
//"Clausewitz, Counterinsurgency, and the Russian-Chechen Conflict in
Comparative Perspective"/
Andrew Mumford, Doctoral Candidate in Politics, University of Sheffield;
Visiting Scholar, Conflict and Terrorism Center, Pennsylvania State
University
Thomas Waldman, Doctoral Candidate in Politics, University of Sheffield;
Visiting Scholar, Conflict and Terrorism Center, Pennsylvania State
University
Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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* *
*Monday, April 16*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
*/"/*/Russian Society: Can It Come into Being*?"*/
Tatiana Vorozheykina, Sakharov Human Rights Fellow, Davis Center;
Lecturer, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, April 17**
**Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar *
/
//"Imagining the State: How Perceptions of the State Influence Customary
Law in the Kyrgyz Aksakal Courts"/
Judith Beyer, Ph.D. Candidate, Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology, Halle/Saale
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, April 18
Historians' Seminar*
*
*/"Russia, Prussia, and East Prussia in the Seven Years' War (1758-62):
Frontiers, Military Administration, and Russian Expansion"/
Francine-Dominique Liechtenhan, Professor of History, Université
Paris-Sorbonne
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Thursday, April 19*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/"Imperial Nationalism and Dostoevsky's /House of the Dead/"/
Edyta Bojanowska, Lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
**
*Friday, April 20
Literary Study Group* /
"//Vladimir Soloviev's Vision(s) Revisited"/
Maria Nemcova Banerjee, Professor of Russian, Smith College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
3:15-5:00 p.m.
*Monday, April 23
Exhibition Opening*
/
Cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, the
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Asia Center/
/
"Here Be Giants: A Quarter-Century of Political-Photographic
Explorations of That Broad Swath of the Eurasian Landmass Formerly Known
as the Sino-Soviet Space"/
Opening talk and slideshow, with reception to follow.
Gwendolyn Stewart, Photojournalist; Center Associate, Davis Center;
Research Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
4:00 p.m.
*Monday, April 23*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
* *
/Cosponsored by the //University Committee on Human Rights Studies and
the Northeast Office of Amnesty International USA/
/"Wars on Terror in the North Caucasus: Politics, Identity, Human Rights"/
Screening of the documentary/ The Crying Sun/, followed by discussion.
Ousam Baysaev, Reporter, Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty (Chechnya)
Zarema Mukusheva, Videographer, Memorial Human Rights Center, Grozny;
Recipient, 2005 Reebok Human Rights Award
Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International USA
Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, Sakharov Human Rights Fellow; Assistant
Professor of Political Science, Chechen State University
Shamil Tangiev, Director, Memorial Human Rights Center, Grozny
1737 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room N354,
5:00-7:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, April 24
Cold War Studies Seminar*
/
//"Bulgaria and the Fulbright Program during the Late Communist Period"/
Anne Freed, Former Fulbright Scholar, Bulgaria
Roy Freed, Former Fulbright Scholar, Bulgaria
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, April 25
Comparative Economics Seminar*
/
//"Russian Oil and Gas: How Long Will the Bonanza Last?"/
John Grace, Geologist, Earth Science Associates
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
* *
* *
*Wednesday, April 25**
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
/
//"On Reconciling the Histories of Two Chosen Peoples: Twentieth-Century
Narratives of Polish-Jewish Relations"/
David Engel, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of Hebrew and
Judaic Studies, and Professor of History, New York University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
* *
*Thursday, April 26*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
*/Cosponsored by Harvard Law School/*
*/"/*/Russia// and the European Convention on Human Rights: The Role of
Courts and NGOs"/
Anton Burkov, Human Rights Lawyer, Urals Centre of Constitutional and
International Human Rights Protection, NGO /Sutyajnik/; Kapitza Scholar,
University of Cambridge
Location and Time TBA
**
*Thursday, April 26**
**Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar*
/
//"Memories on the Edge of Disaster: Earthquakes in Central Eurasia"/
Douglas Northrop, Associate Professor of Modern Central Asian Studies,
University of Michigan
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
4:15-6:00 p.m.
* *
*Thursday, April 26*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/"Lianozovo and Moscow Conceptualist Poetry"/
Gerald Janecek, Professor of Russian, University of Kentucky; Editor,
/Slavic and East European Journal/
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
* *
*Friday, April 27**
**Early Slavists' Seminar*
/
//"Ruthenian Law, Ruthenian Language--What Did the Lithuanian Statutes
Mean for the History of the Ruthenian Language?"/
Michael Moser, Associate Professor, Institute of Slavic Studies,
University of Vienna
Ukrainian Research Institute, 34 Kirkland Street, Main Seminar Room
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Friday, April 27*
*Undergraduate Colloquium* *on Russian and Eurasian Studies*
*
*Multidisciplinary research presentations by advanced undergraduates
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.
*Monday, April 30
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop *
/"Transforming Bureaucracy: Conditional Norms and the International
Standardization of Statistics in Russia"/
Yoshiko Herrera, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Harvard
University
Papers are available on the web 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 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.
* *
*A reminder...*
**
*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.
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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