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

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