*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies
_December Seminar Calendar_*
*Friday, December 1, 2006**
*Historians' Seminar*
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/"//Science and the People: The Emergence of the Concept of the Narod,
1825-1850" /
Nathaniel Knight, Professor of History, Seton Hall University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
1:00 - 3:00 pm
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*Friday, December 1, 2006 *
*Literary Study Group *
/"Alexei Gastev and Technologies of the Laboring Body"/
Anastasia Graf, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
***Tuesday, December 5, 2006***
**Historians' Seminar**
/"//Stolypin and the Uses of History: Land and Dispossession in Late
Twentieth Century Russia" /
Jessica Allina Pisano, Associate, Davis Center; Professor of History,
University of Ottowa
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
1:00 - 3:00 pm
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*Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"Emerging Capitalism in Russia and China"
/ Sheila Puffer, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor, College of
Business Administration, Northeastern University
Dan McCarthy, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor, College of
Business Administration, Northeastern University,
Jeanne Wilson, Center Associate, Davis Center; Chair, Professor of
Political Science, Wheaton College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:30 - 2:00 pm
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*Wednesday, December 6, 2006
**Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
/"Re-writing East European Jewish Urban History?" /
Elissa Bemporad, Historian of Russian and Yiddish Collections,
Gruss-Lipper Project on Jewish Life in Poland, YIVO Institute for Jewish
Research
Rebecca Kobrin, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Columbia
University
Discussant:
Steven Zipperstein, Associate, Davis Center; Professor in Jewish Culture
and History, and Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford
University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
*Friday, December 8, 2006**
Early Slavists' Seminar*
/"The Orthodox Convent in an Age of Reform: Continuity and Change in the
Convent of the Intercession, 1700-1800"/
Marlyn Miller, PhD candidate, Russian History, Brandeis University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
*Monday, December 11, 2006
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop *
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*/"Comparative Politics of Tax Reform in Eastern Europe"/
Gerald Easter, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Associate Professor of
Political Science, Boston College
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 pm
*Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Cold War Studies Seminar *
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*/"The Soviet Union, the Turkish Crisis of 1945-1946, and the Origins of
the Cold War"/
Elvis Beytullayev, Visiting Scholar, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
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*Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Central Asia Seminar*
/"Prospects for Democratization of Society in Azerbaijan" /
Igbal Aghazadeh, Opposition Leader and Member of Parliament, Azerbaijan
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
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*Thursday, December 14, 2006
Literature and Culture Seminar *
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"*/From 'Kitten on the Keys' to 'Bugatti Step' in Ten Easy Lessons, or
How Novelty Piano Came to Prague in the 1920s"/
Derek Katz, Assistant Professor of Music, University of California Santa
Barbara
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
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Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B
Cambridge, MA 02138
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