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.

 

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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