[Daviscalendar-list] Seminars: October 1-15, 2006

*Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies _October 1-15, 2006 Seminar Calendar_* *Monday, October 2, 2006 Cold War Studies Seminar */ //"Hungary and the Cold War, 1945-1956" /László Borhi, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm * * ***Monday, October 2, 2006 Cold War Studies Seminar */ //"The Hungarian Revolution and Its Implications: A Fifty-Year Perspective" /László Borhi, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of History, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm * ** * *Tuesday, October 3, 2006 Cold War Studies Seminar */ //"Cold War Ecology and the East German Communist Regime" /Arvid Nelson, Professor of Environmental Studies, Yale University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm * Wednesday, October 4, 2006 Comparative Economics Seminar */ //"State Property Privatization in Ex-Soviet Republics: Moldova as an Example"/ Sergei Evstratiev, Member of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Moldova's High Economic Council 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:30 - 2:00 pm */Note: Seminar will be given in Russian./* * Wednesday, October 4, 2006* *Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies * /Re-"reading" the Bugut Monument: Mythology, Representation, and State Formation in Medieval Inner Asia / Michael Drompp, J. J. McComb Professor of History, Rhodes College 1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room #S250 Room opens 12:30, presentation 1:00 You may bring your own lunch to the seminar room; snacks will be provided. * Thursday, October 5, 2006 Literature and Culture Seminar */ "After Theater: Constructing Russian Theater History"/ Maria Neklyudova, Senior Lecturer, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm *Friday, October 6, 2006 Literary Study Group* * */"Kasha vs. Cachet Blanc: Russian Cuisine in Russian Culture"/ Lynn Visson, Editor-in-Chief, Hippocrene Books; author: /The Russian Heritage Cookbook/ and /The Art of Uzbek Cooking/ 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 3:00 - 5:00 pm *Tuesday, October 10, 2006 Cold War Studies Symposium* /"The 1956 Hungarian Revolution in Retrospect: Failed Illusions?" / Federigo Argentieri, Professor of Politics, John Cabot University (Rome) Csaba Békés, Director, Cold War Studies Center (Budapest) Charles Gati, Professor of International Affairs, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University András Simonyi, Hungarian Ambassador to the United States Attila Szakolczai, Senior Researcher, Institute for the Study of the 1956 Revolution (Budapest) Chaired by Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S050 12:15 - 3:30 pm */Refreshments will be served./* *Thursday, October 12, 2006 Literature and Culture Seminar */"Vanishing Points: Benjamin, Teige, and the Liquidations of Aura"/ Peter Zusi, Center Associate, Davis Center; Special Program Instructor, Division of Continuing Education, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm To purchase a parking permit at the Broadway Garage (located at the intersection of Broadway & Felton St. in Cambridge, MA), 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 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu