*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
February 16-29, 2008*
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*Wednesday, February 20*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
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/"Parties, Statist Stakeholders, and Informalization in Post-Soviet
Welfare State Reform"
/Linda J. Cook, Professor of Political Science, Brown University; Center
Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, February 21*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
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/"Framed? The Dialogical Performance of Space in Stalinist Comedy"
/Anna Wexler Katsnelson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Monday, February 25*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
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/Introduction to/ "Understanding the Management of Energy Dependency in
the Post-Soviet World"/ / /
Margarita Balmaceda, Center Associate, Davis Center; Associate
Professor, The Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International
Relations, Seton Hall 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.
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*Monday, February 25 *
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
*Co-sponsored by the Cold War Studies Seminar*//
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"//Russia// and a New Cold War?"/
Edward Lucas, Former Moscow Correspondent, /The Economist///
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, February 28*
*Special Performance*
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"//Rossiya, My Native Land"/ in Russian poetry and songs//
Students of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard//
12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Thompson Room 110
4:30 p.m.
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*Friday, February 29*
*Historians' Seminar*//
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//"Russia's Place in Eurasia: A Reconsideration"/
John LeDonne, Center Associate, Davis Center //
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or
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Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
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