Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
October 1-15, 2010
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our web
calendar<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>hp>.
Friday, October 1
Early Slavists' Seminar
"Camels in Rus´"
Inés García de la Puente, Associate, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 6
Public Lecture
"Why Kyrgyzstan Matters"
Baktybek Beshimov, Former Member of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan; Visiting Scholar, Davis
Center
Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies;
Chair, Department of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room)
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Reception to follow in the concourse
RSVP to Joan Gabel<mailto:jgabel@fas.harvard.edu> by Oct. 1 if you plan to attend.
This event will address the major questions raised by the revolution, popular unrest, and
ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan since April 2010. How do these events impact academic
theories of post-Soviet countries' transformation? Conversely, how can existing
theories of governance and international relations shed light on what happened? What
potential areas for new research have been opened by these events? What major questions
does the coup or revolution raise for the field of Central Asian area studies?
Thursday, October 7
Book Talk
"The Caucasus: An Introduction"
(Oxford University Press, 2010)
Thomas de Waal, Senior Associate, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment; Author
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 12
Cold War Studies Seminar
"The Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact, and the Crisis with Czechoslovakia, 1968"
Peter Ruggenthaler, Senior Research Fellow, Boltzmann Institute for Research on War's
Consequences
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, October 13
Historians' Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
"Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Shadow of the Holocaust"
Jason Wittenberg, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Political
Science, University of California, Berkeley
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Friday, October 15
Book Talk
Co-sponsored by the Davis Center Outreach Program
"The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them"
Elif Batuman, Author; PhD in Comparative Literature, Stanford University; Harvard College
'99
1737 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room K354
4:00-6:00 p.m.
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