*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Calendar of Events*
*March 1-16, 2007*
*Friday, March 2***
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
*/Cosponsored by the /**/Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute/*
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/"The e-PVL: An Electronic Edition of the Rus' Primary Chronicle"/
David J. Birnbaum, Professor of Slavic Languages, University of Pittsburgh
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Monday, March 5*
*Literary Study Group*
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/"A Soviet Skyscraper in New York: The USSR Pavilion for the 1939
World's Fair"/
Sona Hoisington, Associate, Davis Center; Professor Emerita, University
of Illinois at Chicago
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, March 6*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
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/"Fiscal Relations in Russia" /*//*
Oktyabrina Khaikhadaeva, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Chair,
Department of Economics, Buryat State University**
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, March 7*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"The Illusion of Westernization in Russia and China"/
Steven Rosefielde, Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, March 7*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
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/"The Other Babel"/
Gregory Freidin, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford
University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Thursday, March 8*
*Historians' Seminar*
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/"Light on the Post-Stalin Succession"/
Uri Ra'anan, Director, Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology,
and Policy, Boston University; Professor of International Relations,
Boston University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Monday, March 12*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop *
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/"Implementation of Deregulation Reform in Russia: 2001-2006"/
Mikhail Pryadilnikov, PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard
University Papers are available on the website at
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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*Wednesday, March 14*
*Comparative Economics Seminar *
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/"Has Moscow Joined the 'Beijing Consensus'? The Transition to
Capitalism in Russia and China"/
Peter Rutland, Professor of Government, Wesleyan University
Commentator: Stefan Hedlund, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Professor of
East European Studies, Uppsala University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, March 14*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies *
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/"What the Soviets Knew about the Holocaust and What They Did with It"/
Zvi Gitelman, Professor of Judaic Studies and Director of Academic
Programs, University of Michigan
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Thursday, March 15*
*Occasional Seminar*
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/"Energy and Russian Policy in the Baltics"/
Robert Nurick, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, March 15*
*Special Event*
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/"'Nature' in Russian Poetry and Song"/
Performed by students of the Slavic Department.
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Thompson Room
4:30 p.m.
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