Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
December 1-15, 2011
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our
website<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>hp>.
Friday, December 2
Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group
Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics and Society Working Group, Center for European
Studies
"Reflections on 20 Years of East-West Collaboration: The Network of East-West Women
in New York and Poland, 1991-2011"
Ann Snitow, Director, Gender Studies Program and Associate Professor of Literature and
Gender Studies, The New School
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Monday, December 5
Hokkaido Roundtable
Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Political Mobilization: Non-titular Nations versus Titular
Nations in the Former Soviet Republics
"Avoiding 'Transdniestr North': Reflections on Non-Titular Ethnic
Mobilization in North-East Estonia since 1990"
David J. Smith, Professor of Baltic History and Politics, Central and East European
Studies of Glasgow University
"Political Mobilization and Framing: Ethno-National, Ethno-Territorial, and Economic
Movements"
Cynthia S. Kaplan, Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of Political Science of
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Concord or Division? The Unexpectedly Underwhelming Role of Ethnicity in Russian
Politics, 1991-2011"
Dmitry Gorenburg, Senior Analyst, CNA Strategic Studies; Center Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, December 6
Cold War Studies Seminar
"Poland, Solidarity, and Martial Law, 1980-1981: A Thirty-Year Retrospective"
Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
Robert Kupiecki, Ambassador of Poland to the United States of America
Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University;
Associate, Davis Center
Thomas W. Simons Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; U.S. Foreign Service Officer
1963-1998; Former Ambassador to Poland and Pakistan
1737 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room K354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, December 6
Exhibition Opening
Co-sponsored by the Kosciuszko Foundation
"Poland, Solidarity, and Martial Law, 1980-1981: A 30-Year Retrospective, featuring
photographs and other items from Harvard's Jerzy and Olenka Polak Collection"
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse
2:15-3:15 p.m.
Exhibition runs December 6, 2011 to January 17, 2012
Tuesday, December 6
Historian's Seminar
"Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the
Soviet Union, 1921-1941" (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Michael David-Fox, Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet History, Georgetown
University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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