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

*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar May 1-15, 2008* *__* * * *Thursday, May 1* *Literature and Culture Seminar* / / /"Masculinity and Pornography in Sokurov's Films"/ Evgenii Bershtein, Associate Professor of Russian, Reed College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, May 2* *Historians'** Seminar* / //"The Tsar, Women's Suffrage, and Revolutions in Early Twentieth-Century Russia"/ Rochelle Ruthchild, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Graduate Studies, Vermont College of The Union Institute and University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Friday, May 2* *Comparative Economics** Seminar* / //"Is There a 'Russian' Economic Model?"/ Stefan Hedlund, Professor of East European Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Monday, May 5* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* /"Politics and Memory: Does Russia's Unmastered Past Poison Russia's Present?"/ Evgenia Lezina, Sakharov Fellow, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Wednesday, May 7*** *Director's Seminar* / / /"Russian Viewers Process News: A View from the Object of Media Control"/ Ellen Mickiewicz, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Friday, May 9* *Early Slavists' Seminar* * * /"Northern Russia, Finns, Slavs, and Fish Names: Cultural and Ichthyological Exertions from 20,000 B.C.E. to A.D. 1700" / Peter B. Brown, Assistant Professor of History, Rhode Island University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Tuesday, May 13 * *Book Talk* * * /"Petrostate: Putin, Power and the New Russia" /(Oxford University Press, 2008)// Marshall I. Goldman, Senior Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 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. -- ---------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu