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.

 

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 Turajliĉ

 

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) for more information.

 

 

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