Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
September 16-30, 2010
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please see our web
calendar<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>hp>.
Wednesday, September 15
Central Asia and Caucasus Working Group
Organizational Meeting
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 16
Roundtable
"Valdai Debriefing"
Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies,
Department of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
Richard Pipes, Frank B. Baird, Jr. Professor of History (Emeritus), Harvard University;
Faculty Associate, Davis Center
Chair: Terry Martin, Director, Davis Center; George F. Baker III Professor of Russian
Studies, History Department, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, September 21
Comparative Economics Seminar
"Russian Peat Bogs and Other Burning Matter"
Marshall Goldman, Senior Scholar, Davis Center; Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of
Russian Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, September 21
Book Talk
"Death Orders: The Vanguard of Modern Terrorism in Revolutionary Russia"
(Praeger Security International, 2010)
Anna Geifman, Professor of History, Boston University; Center Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 23
Occasional Seminar
"The Cask and the Hoops: Why Did Stalin's Army Collapse during the First Days of
Operation Barbarossa?"
Mark Solonin, Author
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Talk will be delivered in Russian with English translation.
Wednesday, September 29
Comparative Economics Seminar
"The Russian Revolution in Entrepreneurial Leadership"
Daniel McCarthy, Alan S. McKim and Richard A. D'Amore Distinguished Professor of
Global Management and Innovation, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, College of
Business Administration, Northeastern University; Center Associate, Davis Center
Sheila Puffer, Cherry Family Senior Fellow of International Business, College of Business
Administration, Northeastern University; Center Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Thursday, September 30
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Rebels, Terrorists, Peacemakers: Conflict in the Philippine South and U.S. Foreign
Policy"
Astrid Tuminez, Assistant Dean of Education and Director of Research, School of Public
Policy, National University of Singapore
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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