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.
 
 
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