Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
March 16-31, 2012
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our
website<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>hp>.
Tuesday, March 20
Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights
"The Challenge of Evaluating KGB Archival Documents: Procedures and Pitfalls"
Alexander Gribanov, Former Archivist, Brandeis University; Former Editor, Khronika
tekushchikh sobytii
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, March 20
Historians' Seminar
"Economic Nationalism and Economic 'Ethnicism' in Russia"
Robert Geraci, Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia; Member, Institute
for Advanced Study, Princeton University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 21
Film Screening
Co-sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Kokkalis Program on
Southeast and East-Central Europe, and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
at Harvard University
"Cinema Komunisto"
(2010, 100 minutes, Serbian with English subtitles)
With commentary by filmmaker Mila Turajlić <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2043219/>
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010 (Tsai Auditorium)
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Thursday, March 22
Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, Davis Center for Russian
and Eurasian Studies, and Mahindra Humanities Center
As part of The Jewish Cultures and Societies Seminar Program, and made possible in part by
the Estelle and Howard Rubin Fund
"The Appeal of the 'Protocols of Zion'"
Gary Saul Morson, Professor of Slavic Languages & Literature, Northwestern University
Mahindra Humanities Center
12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Room 133
4:15 p.m.
Thursday, March 29
Informing Eurasia Seminar
"Mapping Permafrost Country: Science and Spatial Representation in the Soviet
Union"
Pey-Yi Chu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Papers will be distributed in advance. Contact Robyn Angley
(rangley@fas.harvard.edu<mailto:rangley@fas.harvard.edu>) for more information.
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