*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
April 16-30, 2008*
*Thursday, April 17*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
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/"The Stone Women of the Steppe: The Cultural Life of a Modernist
Artifact"/
Michael Kunichika, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Amherst College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Friday, April 18*
*Early Slavists' Seminar and Book Talk*
*Co-sponsored by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Seminar in
Ukrainian Studies*
/"Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past" /(University of
Toronto Press, 2008)
Serhii Plokhii, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Ukrainian
History, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, April 23 *
*Book Talk*
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/"Yeltsin: A Life"/
Timothy J. Colton, Director, Davis Center; Professor of Government and
Russian Studies, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Thursday, April 24*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*//
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/"Democracy, Governance and Inequality: Evidence from the Russian Regions"
/Thomas Remington, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of
Political Science, Emory University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, April 24*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
*Co-sponsored by the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies,*
*Film History/Theory Seminar*
/"On Chaplin in Russian Avant-Garde Art and on the Laws of Fortuity in
Art" /
Yuri Tsivian, Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures,
Harvard University; Professor of Film History, Chicago University
24 Quincy Street, Carpenter Center, Room B-04
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Friday, April 25*
*Historians' Seminar*//
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/ "The Privatization of the Soviet Union, 1945-1991?"///
Stephen Lovell, Reader in Modern European History, King's College, London
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Friday, April 25*
*Undergraduate Colloquium* *on Russian and Eurasian Studies*
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*Multidisciplinary research presentations by advanced undergraduates
from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges.
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level
2:00--5:45 p.m.
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*Monday, April 28*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
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/"State Ownership and Rentierism in the FSU: Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan"/
Pauline Jones-Luong, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown
University
Papers are available on the web at
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. There is no presentation; all
participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the meeting.
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Monday, April 28*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
"/War on Terror and Human Rights in the North Caucasus"/
Eliza Musaeva, Sakharov Fellow, Davis Center; Human Rights Researcher,
Memorial, Ingushetia and Chechnya
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
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