Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
February 16-28, 2010

For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website:  http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.

Tuesday, February 16
Occasional Seminar
Co-sponsored by the International Security Program, Belfer Center, Harvard University
 
“Caspian Energy: Phase Two”
Brenda Shaffer, Professor of Political Science, University of Haifa; Former Research Director, Caspian Studies Program, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Wednesday, February 17
Comparative Economics Seminar
 
“Early Soviet Theories of Russian Business Cycles: The Kondratiev-Pervushin Controversy”
Thomas C. Owen, Center Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Thursday, February 18
Literature and Culture Seminar
 
“By Fire and Word: Collectivizing the Novel in Bol’shie Pozhary”
Boris Wolfson, Assistant Professor of Russian, Amherst College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.


Friday, February 19
Early Slavists’ Seminar
 
“Capital Punishment in Muscovy: Violence, Spectacle, Ideology”
Nancy Kollmann, Professor of History, Stanford University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.


Wednesday, February 24
Comparative Economics Seminar
 
“Politics of the Russian-Georgian War Coverage by US Television”
Ivan Katchanovski, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.


Wednesday, February 24
Historians’ Seminar
Co-sponsored by the International Seminar at the Weatherhead Center for International Studies
 
“The Origins of Crimes against Humanity (1860-1915-1945): The Russian Empire, International Law, and the 1915 Note on the Armenian Genocide”
Peter Holquist, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse, Room S050
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
Please note that there is a pre-distributed paper for this talk.  For a PDF copy of the paper, please contact the Davis Center (daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu).
 
 
Thursday, February 25
Literature and Culture Seminar
 
“Life with a Red and a Yellow Star: Jiří Weil and the Totalitarian Regimes of the 20th Century”
Bettina Kaibach, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; University Teacher, English Department and Slavic Department, University of Heidelberg
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 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
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