*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
April 1-15, 2007*
*Monday, April 2
Historians' Seminar*
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"//The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance and Its Implications
for the Cold War"/
Sally Paine, Professor of Strategy and Policy, Naval War College
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Monday, April **2*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
/"Sakharov the Physicist"/
Bruno Coppi, Professor of Physics, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Richard Wilson, Professor of Physics, Harvard University
Harvard University Physics Department, Jefferson Lab, Lecture Room 250
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Directions to the Jefferson Lab from Harvard Square:
Upon exiting the T station, walk into Harvard Yard to the statue of John
Harvard. Facing the statue, take the path to your left, exit the yard,
and veer left, around the Science Center (modern white building). The
large red-brick building in front of you is Jefferson. Elevator access
to both Jefferson and Lyman is through Lyman.
More information can be found here:
http://hetg.physics.harvard.edu/hetgdirections.htm
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*Tuesday, April 3
Director's Seminar*
/"Of Novelty and Oblivion: What We Can Learn from Dissidents under
Communism"/
Aleksa Djilas, Writer, Sociologist, Historian, and Broadcaster; Fellow,
Russian Research Center, 1987-1993
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Tuesday, April 3*
*REECA Thesis Research Presentations*
Jessica Brozyna: /"The Site of Change: The City in Pavel Filonov's
Paintings"/
Catherine Drew: /"The Foreign Policy of Small States: Kyrgyzstan's
Foreign Policy under President Bakiyev" /
Benjamin Sharma: /"Idealism Betrayed: Alexander Yakovlev and
Disillusionment with the Soviet System"// /
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, April 5
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop *
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/*/"Priests of Prosperity: The Transnational Central Banking Community
and Post-Communist Transformation"/
Juliet Johnson, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science,
McGill 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.
*Thursday, April 5**
**Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar*
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//"Political Instability in Kyrgyzstan: Sources of Hope and Despair"/
Edil Baisalov, President, Coalition for Democracy and Civil Society
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Thursday, April 5*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/"The Borderland Laboratory: The Art of Bridge-Building in an Age of
Multi-Ethnic Crisis"/
Krzysztof Czyzewski, Founder, Borderlands Foundation of Arts, Cultures,
and Nations; Editor, /Krasnogruda /
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Friday, April 6**
**Early Slavists' Seminar*
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//"Imam Shamil, the Great Caucasian War, and the Chechens: Historical
Considerations in a Regional Perspective"/
Emil Souleimanov, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Senior Lecturer,
Institute of Political Science, Charles University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, April 10**
**Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar*
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//"The Rise of Islam in Eurasia: Comparative Perspectives and Potential
Consequences"/
Galina Yemelianova, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Russian and East
European Studies, University of Birmingham
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, April 10*
*REECA Thesis Research Presentations*
Nina Aron: /"The Black Widow's Web: Gender and Violence in the Chechen
Conflict"/
Boris Milman: /"State and Soldier in the Soviet Union during the Great
Patriotic War"/
Christian Packard: /"Buriat Intellectualism, Education, and Identity in
Contemporary Buriatia"/
Sogomon Tarontsi: /Title TBA/
1730 Cambridge Street, Room TBA
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, April 11
Literary Study Group*
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//"Art Is Inoculation: The Infectious Imagination of Lev Tolstoy"/
Jacob Michael Emery, Lecturer on Literature, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, April 11
Historians' Seminar*
*/Cosponsored by the /**/Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar/*
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/*/"Armenia and Russian Religious Policy in the Context of Caucasian
Geopolitics"/
Paul Werth, Professor of History, University of Nevada
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*/Please save the date for the following upcoming event!/*
*Friday, April 27*
*Undergraduate Colloquium* *on Russian and Eurasian Studies*
*
*Multidisciplinary research presentations by students from Harvard,
Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges.
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Rooms S020, S040, S050, and 3rd
floor, Room S354
2:00-5:45 p.m.
To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton
Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard
University Parking Services at
http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml.
Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and
follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or
problems, contact the
Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772.
South Caucasus: Challenges and Solutions
Mr. Elin Suleymanov
Consul General of Azerbaijan
Los Angeles
Mr. Irakli Alasania
Ambassador of Georgia to the United Nations
Thursday, March 29
10:00-11:30 am
Littauer Building, Room L275
79 JFK Street
John F. Kennedy School of Government
The Eurasia Security Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government
is very pleased to welcome Mr. Elin Suleymanov, Consul General of
Azerbaijan in Los Angeles, and Mr. Irakli Alasania, Ambassador of Georgia
to the United Nations, to discuss ongoing challenges in the South
Caucasus.
*A reminder...*
*
Thursday, March 22*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/"The One, the Many, and the Mathematician: Nikolai Bugaev and
Nineteenth-Century Russian Metaphysics"/
Tim Langen, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Missouri-Columbia
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*A reminder...
Wednesday, March 21*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies *
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/"Making Yiddish Culture Bolshevik: National Autonomy, Cultural Power,
and the Revolutionary Imperative in Soviet Jewish Culture, 1919-21"/
Kenneth Moss, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Modern
Jewish History, Johns Hopkins University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*/Please note that the following seminar will begin at 4:00 and not at
4:15./
**Monday, March 26*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
*/Cosponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies/*
/"State and Society in Latin America and Russia: A Comparative Approach"/
Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Global
Prosperity, The Independent Institute
Tatiana Vorozheykina, Sakharov Human Rights Fellow, Davis Center;
Lecturer, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010
4:00-6:00 p.m.
David Shrayer-Petrov and Maxim D. Shrayer
Reading, Discussing and Signing
Tuesday March 20^th at 7 pm at the Harvard Coop
Autumn in Yalta: A Novel and Three Stories
Born in Leningrad in 1936 and immigrated to the United States in
1987, medical scientist, poet and critically acclaimed fiction author
David Shrayer-Petrov writes powerful stories that blend Russian, Jew-
ish, and American traditions. Encompassing an autobiographical novel
and three short stories, his latest book, /Autumn in Yalta/, explores the
forces and contradictions of love through different ethnic, religious,
social, and sexual lenses. In these haunting stories we find echoes of
the Russian masters Chekhov and Nabokov and the magisterial Jew-
ish and American storytellers Bashevis Singer and Malamud. Love and
memory, medicine and healing, dual identity and the experience of
exile are the chief components of the book. Fluidly translated by the
author's son, Maxim D. Shrayer, this collection includes an afterword
detailing the unique father-son, author-translator relationship.
Tuesday March 20^th at 7 pm
This event is proudly brought to you by The Harvard Coop Author Series and
will be located on Level Three.
1400 Massachusetts Avenue
Harvard Square, Cambridge
617.499.2000 . www.thecoop.com
AUTHOR'S NOTE
DR. DAVID SHRAYER-PETROV, a well-known
contemporary Russian-American writer and medi-
cal scientist, has published twenty books includ-
ing the award-winning Jonah and Sarah and the
Russian Booker Prize nominee Herbert and Nelly.
MAXIM D. SHRAYER is professor of Russian and
English at Boston College. His books include The
World of Nabokov's Stories, Russian Poet/Soviet
Jew, and An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Litera-
ture, 1801-2000.
*Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of the Study Group on Jews in Modern Europe, Center for
European Studies, I am happy to call your attention to the following event:
Monday, March 19, 4:15 - 6:00 p.m.
"The Life of Jews in Poland Before the Holocaust"
Speaker: RABBI BEN-ZION GOLD, Director Emeritus, Harvard Hillel
Rabbi Ben Zion Gold will read from and discuss his newly-published memoir,
with a reception to follow.
Cosponsored by The Center for Jewish Studies and Harvard Hillel
Location:
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies
Lower Level Conference Room
20 Kirkland Street, Cambridge
*
*Phyllis Albert, Ph.D.
Center for European Studies
Harvard University
617 969 7745 *
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar*
*March 19-31, 2007*
*Monday, March 19***
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop *
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/"Return to (Illiberal) Diversity? Anti-Gay Politics and Minority Rights
after the EU's Eastern Enlargement"/
Conor O'Dywer, Harvard Academy Scholar; Assistant Professor of Political
Science, University of Florida
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.
*Monday, March 19 *
*Literary Study Group *
*/ /*
*/"/*/Steam Heat and the Fireplace: Mayakovsky Confronts the Urban
Romance"**/
Robert A. Rothstein, Professor of Polish Language, Literature, and
Culture; Professor of Slavic and Judaic Studies and of Comparative
Literature; Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, March 21*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
/"Making Yiddish Culture Bolshevik: National Autonomy, Cultural Power,
and the Revolutionary Imperative in Soviet Jewish Culture, 1919-21"/
Kenneth Moss, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Jewish
Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, March 22*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/"The One, the Many, and the Mathematician: Nikolai Bugaev and
Nineteenth-Century Russian Metaphysics"/
Tim Langen, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Missouri-Columbia
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Monday, March 26*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
*/Cosponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies/*
/"State and Society in Latin America and Russia: A Comparative Approach"/
Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Global
Prosperity, The Independent Institute
Tatiana Vorozheykina, Sakharov Human Rights Fellow, Davis Center;
Lecturer, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010
4:15-6:00 p.m.
To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton
Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard
University Parking Services at
http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml.
Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and
follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or
problems, contact the
Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772.
This is a reminder that the next session of the *Seminar on Russian and
East European Jewish Studies at the Davis Center *will be:
**
***Wednesday, March 14***
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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.
*All are welcome.*
/*Please note that the following seminar has been postponed until
further notice:*/
***Thursday, March 8*
*Historians’ Seminar*
/ /
/“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.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301B
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
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