Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Calendar of Events
February 1-15, 2013
Tuesday, February 5
Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights
"The Use and Abuse of History: Ideological Debates and Memories of the Past in
Post-Communist Bulgaria"
Evelina Kelbecheva, Professor of History, American University in Bulgaria
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 6
Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar
"Speaking Soviet with an Accent: Culture and Power in Kyrgyzstan"
Ali Igmen, Associate Professor of History and Director of Oral History Program, California
State University at Long Beach
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 7
Historians' Seminar
"What Ever Happened to Eastern Europe? New Mental Mapping after the Cold War"
Larry Wolff, Professor of History; Director, Center for European and Mediterranean
Studies, New York University
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Friday, February 8
Early Slavists' Seminar
"Spaces of Early Modern Siberian Exchange: Seen and Unseen"
Erika Monahan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center; Assistant Professor, University of New
Mexico
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Friday, February 8
Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group
Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics and Society Working Group, Center for European
Studies
"How Much Land Does a Woman Need? Women, Property Rights and Privatization
(1900-2012)"
Esther Kingston-Mann, Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Boston; Center
Associate, Davis Center
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S153
2:00-4:00 p.m.
Friday, February 15
Book Talk
Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in
Russia<http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674066472>
(Harvard University Press, November 2012)
Thane Gustafson, Senior Director, IHS CERA, and Professor of Government, Georgetown
University
CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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