Please note the following addition and location change to our October seminar
calendar:
**Addition**
Thursday, October 4
Occasional Seminar
Putin and the Valdai Discussion Club, Mark IV
Timothy J. Colton, Director, Davis Center; Professor of Government and Russian
Studies, Harvard University
Marshall I. Goldman, Senior Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of Russian
Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
**Room change**
Friday, October 5
Literature and Culture Seminar
Language and Tradition across Boundaries: A Screening and Discussion of the
Documentary Film Piemule (1984)
Jana evcíková, Director, Piemule (1984)
Tereza Porybna, Fulbright Scholar, Harvard University
24 Quincy Street, Carpenter Center, Harvard Film Archive, Main Lecture Hall
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*/Please note the following additions to our October calendar:/*
*Wednesday, October 10*
*Literature and Culture Seminar
*
/"//Russian Mentality through the Mirror of Language"/
Valentina Apresjan, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, Russian State
University of Humanities**
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 pm
CENTRAL ASIA & CAUCASUS WORKING GROUP, Fall Organizational Meeting,
Tues., Sept. 25
The first meeting this semester of the
Central Asia & Caucasus Working Group
will be held on:
Tuesday, September 25, 4:15-6:00 pm
in CGIS Room S-354 at 1730 Cambridge St., 3rd Floor,
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
All interested people are encouraged to join us.
The Working Group is, first and foremost, and opportunity for us to
get (and give) useful feedback on the projects-in-progress that we are
pursuing -- theses, course papers, articles, conference papers, etc.
The group is a stable, sympathetic group who are generally generous
with their comments.
In the organizational meeting, we will discuss the schedule for future
meetings, which will be on Tuesdays, alternating with the meetings of the
Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar (public seminar series).
We will begin with an introduction to the Working Group and then have a
introductions by participants and with a chance for all to introduce
themselves and mention their particular interests and projects. Please
come prepared to talk a bit about any project that you might be
considering for presentation this semester or this year.
If you need to be added to the Working Group e-mail mailing list
(i.e., if you don't get this message directly from me) or if you know
of someone who would be interested in receiving information about the
Working Group, just send me the name/e-mail address and I'll add it to
the list.
If you would potentially be interested in making a presentation to the
Working Group in the early part of the semester, please let me know as
soon as possible. Typical projects for presentation include thesis
chapters, term paper projects, and papers you are preparing for
conference presentation and/or publication. Note that the presentation
can be something rather "raw", though ideally you should have a (draft)
paper that can be distributed in advance of your presentation.
Here is more info about the Working Group...
About the Working Group
The Working Group on "Society, Politics and Culture in Central Asia and
the Caucasus" forum that meets roughly every other week for discussion
of projects on Central Asia. The Working Group is aimed at providing a
context for focused discussion on Central Asian and Caucasus-related
topics among Harvard graduate students, faculty, and other interested
scholars in the Cambridge and Boston area. Central Asia, for these
purposes, is understood to include the states of Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan,
Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan, as well as closely related
areas: the Caucasus, the Volga Basin, Southwestern Siberia, Mongolia,
Iran, Afghanistan, etc.
Each meeting is devoted to a presentation of some work-in-progress (a
thesis prospectus, chapter, or paper) by one of the Working Group
participants, accompanied by helpful discussion by the group as a
whole. In most cases, a text is distributed in advance so that the
presentation of its content can be brief and we can devote our time to
feedback and discussion. Guest speakers are also sometimes invited.
The Working Group is chaired by John Schoeberlein, Director of the Harvard
Program on Central Asia & the Caucasus. The Working Group is an
activity of
the Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at the Davis Center
for
Russian and Eurasian Studies. The group has been meeting since 1994.
Refreshments are served!
Please contact me with any questions or suggestions you might have.
I look forward to your participation!
John Schoeberlein
Dr. John Schoeberlein \ Director
Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
Davis Center \ Harvard University
1730 Cambridge St., Room S-320 \ Cambridge, MA 02138 \ USA
tel.: +1/617-495-4338 program tel.: +1/617-496-2643 fax: +1/617-495-8319
schoeber(a)fas.harvard.edu
Central Asia Program website: http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu
<Central Eurasian Studies World Wide>: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu
Central-Eurasia-L:
http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/CESWW_Central-Eurasia-L.html
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies
October 1-15, 2007*
*Seminar Calendar*
* *
* *
*Monday, October 1*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
/
//"The Collapse and Resilience of Communist Regimes"/
Martin Dimitrov, Center Associate, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of
Government, Dartmouth College//
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, October 3**
Comparative Economics Seminar*
/
//"Putin and His National Champions"/
Robert Price, ALM Candidate, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, October 3 **
Director's Seminar*
/
"//Current Russian Politics: Between Stability and Uncertainty"/
Boris Kagarlitsky, Director, Institute of Globalization and Social
Movements, Moscow
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
**
*Friday, October 5
Historians' Seminar
*/
//"On the Relevance of Russian Legal History"/
William Butler, Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
12:15-2:00 pm
*Friday, October 5*
*Literature and Culture Seminar
*/
"//Language and Tradition across Boundaries: A Screening and Discussion
of the Documentary Film /Piemule/ (1984)"/
Jana S(evcíková, Director, /Piemule/ (1984)
Tereza Porybna, Fulbright Scholar, Harvard University//
24 Quincy Street, Carpenter Center, Harvard Film Archive, Room B-04
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Friday, October 5
Comparative Economics Seminar
*/
"Comparison of Central Asian Economics//"///
Martin Spechler, Professor of Economics, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana
University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
** *Tuesday, October 9
Cold War Studies Seminar
*/
"//What Can We Expect of Europe?"/
Marten van Heuven, Senior Consultant, RAND Corporation; retired US
Foreign Service Officer; former National Intelligence Office for Europe
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 pm
* *
***** *
*Thursday, October 11
**Occasional Seminar*
/
//"Japan's Northern Territorial Issue Going Forward"/
Akihiro Iwashita, Professor, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido
University; Visiting Fellow, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies,
The Brookings Institution
/"//Holidays in Kazan: City Duma, Public Opinion and Theological
Politics among Muslims after 1905"/
Norihiro Naganawa, Assistant Professor, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido
University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15- 2:00 pm
*Thursday, October 11
Comparative Politics Seminar *
*Cosponsored by the Comparative Economics Seminar*
/
"//Organized Business, Political Competition and Property Rights across
the Russian Federation"/
William Pyle, Associate Professor of Economics, Middlebury College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 pm
*Friday, October 12*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
/
"//The Philosopher's Speech and the Prehistory of the PVL"/
Alan Timberlake, Professor of Slavic Languages & Literature, University
of California, Berkeley
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Monday, October 15*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
/ /
/"Trends in Political Party System Institutionalization in Russia and
Brazil since Transition"
/Dan Epstein, Dissertation Fellow, Davis Center; PhD Candidate,
Department of Government, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
To purchase a parking permit at the Broadway Garage (located at the
intersection of Broadway & Felton St. in Cambridge, MA), 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.
*/Please note the following additions and corrections to our September
calendar:
**Sponsor and location have been updated**
/** **Thursday, September 20*
*Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures *
*Wiktor Weintraub Memorial Lecture*
/
"//World War II in Europe - Who Won?"/
Norman Davies, Professor Emeritus, University of London; Research
Fellow, Oxford University
12 Quincy Street, Barker 110, Thompson Room
Begins 4:15 p.m.
*__*
*__**/**Room change**/*
*Tuesday, September 25*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
*Co-sponsored by the Comparative Economics Seminar*
/
//"Russian Reforms: Comparing the New Economic Policy (1921-1928) with
Post-Soviet Russia (1992-2006)" /
Yury Goland, Senior Researcher, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy
of Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, S050
12:30-2:00 p.m.
* *
* *
*/**New listing**/*
*Thursday, September 27*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/
"//'Ordinary Fascism': Reflection of the Filmmaker and Scholar"/
Maya Turovskaya, Filmmaker
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
September 16-30, 2007*
*__*
* *
*Monday, September 17*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
/
//Organizational Meeting///
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
* *
* *
*Wednesday, September 19*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/
//"Putin's Russia"/
Gennady Kochetkov, Head,
<http://iskran.iip.net/engl/kotchetkov-en.html.>Center for
Administrative Management Studies, Institute for U.S. and Canadian
Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
Victor Supyan, Deputy Director, Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies,
Russian Academy of Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
*__*
*__*
*Thursday, September 20*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/
"//World War II in Europe - Who Won?"/
Norman Davies, Professor Emeritus and Supernumerary Fellow, Wolfson
College, University of Oxford
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*__*
*__*
*Tuesday, September 25*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
*Cosponsored by the Comparative Economics Seminar*
/
//"Russian Reforms: Comparing the New Economic Policy (1921-1928) with
Post-Soviet Russia (1992-2006)" /
Yury Goland, Senior Researcher, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy
of Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 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.
The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
cordially invites you to a
*Fall Reception*
*Wednesday, September 26, 2007*
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level
4:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Family and friends are welcome.
/RSVP by Friday, September 14/
/daviscenter(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:daviscenter@fas.harvard.edu> or
(617) 495-4037/
*Monday, September 17*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
/
//Organizational Meeting/
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
This workshop brings together graduate students, post-docs, and area
faculty to discuss new work related to politics and economics in the
post-communist (and communist) countries of Eastern Europe, the former
Soviet Union, and Asia. In 2007-2008 the workshop is being chaired by
Gerald Easter <mailto:easterg@bc.edu> (of Boston College), Dmitry
Gorenburg <mailto:gorenburg@gmail.com> (of Harvard University and AAASS)
and Pauline Luong (of Brown University).
The regime changes and economic transformations underway in the
socialist and post-socialist world have provided a unique natural
experiment for many of the existing theories of political science and
economics. The workshop has forged an explicit link between the
theoretical literature on institutions, transitions, economic reform,
and democratization and evidence from the post-communist cases. Workshop
participants have presented both theoretical propositions and empirical
findings, permitting critical reevaluation of theories and analytical
treatment of data.
In order to support the workshop's emphasis on substantive discussions
of new scholarly work, all presenters submit a written paper, and all
participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the
meeting. At the meeting, the presenter briefly summarizes the paper and
participants offer comments on the written work. In addition, all
presenters are expected to commit to attending all workshop sessions.
All meetings will be from 12:15 to 2:00 pm, at the Davis Center
<http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/>, 1730 Cambridge St., Room S354.
Lunch will be available beginning at 12:15 and discussion of papers will
start promptly at 12:30. See the schedule
<http://www.fas.harvard.edu/%7Epostcomm/Schedule.html> for dates and
specific presentation information. If you would like further
information or would like to be included on our e-mail list for future
announcements of scheduled meetings please contact Gavril Bilev
(gavril_bilev(a)brown.edu).
> From Andrey N Petrov,
> Department of Geography & Programme in Planning
> University of Toronto
> 100 St. George Street
> Toronto, ON, Canada
> M5S 3G3
The Russian, Central Eurasian and East European Specialty Group of the
Association of American Geographers invites papers for a keynote
session "Russia and the Circumpolar world: transforming nations,
contested frontiers" at the AAG Annual Meeting, April 15-19, 2008 in
Boston, MA. Contributors from a variety of disciplines, especially
those involved with the International Polar Year of 2007-2009, are
welcome.
Synopsis
In the recent years, all Arctic countries quickly moved to re-evaluate
the importance of their northern frontiers. Pivotal changes in the
Arctic, coincided with the growing mutual interest and competition,
require a new look at international issues of economic, political,
environmental and social nature in the region. Some of related
activities have been started under the auspice of the International
Polar Year. This session focuses on economic transformations in the
Circumpolar realm, and specifically, on the Russian frontier, as
compared to other Arctic countries. We invite papers that analyze the
place, role and potential of Russia as the past, present and future
actor in the Circumpolar region. Comparative studies of economic,
political and social transformations in Russia and other northern
countries are also welcome.
Please, direct your questions and notes of intent to session
organizers Tim Heleniak (University of Maryland) heleniak(a)umd.edu and
Andrey Petrov (University of Toronto) andreyn.petrov(a)utoronto.ca by
October 1st . Abstracts must be submitted to organizers and to AAG by
October 20th. 2007. AAG membership is not required. Conference
information is available at
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/2008/index.htm
For information about the Russian, Central Eurasian and East European
Specialty Group see www.rceeegeography.org
Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to the official end of summer and the resumption of Davis Center
activities...
A group of rectors of seven universities in Russia and Ukraine will be
visiting Harvard next week as part of a working/good-will tour of Boston
and other local universities. They are members of a forum organized by a
company in Waltham which is providing them with training on such issues
as student transitioning from academia to the commercial world.
I am writing to invite you to an informal lunch and conversation with
the group here at the Davis Center next *Monday, September 10, at
12:15-2:00, Seminar Room 354*. They will give brief presentations about
their own universities and the state of higher education in Russia and
Ukraine, and time permitting, they are eager to hear about your
research. We want to give them a warm welcome, so I encourage you to
come. Below is a description of the forum and its sponsoring
organization, as well as a list of participating rectors.
For lunch planning, *please let us know by Thursday, September 6*, if
you will be attending by emailing Penny Skalnik <pskalnik(a)fas.harvard.edu>.
Regards,
Lis Tarlow
<http://www.marshal.harvard.edu/>
>>>>>
>>>>> NetCracker Technology is a company headquartered in Waltham,
>>>>> Massachusetts. NetCracker began in October 1993 and has grown
>>>>> to over 1000 employees with offices in the United States,
>>>>> Europe, Australia, Canada, Russia, and throughout the world.
>>>>> NetCracker is the leading global solution company that enables
>>>>> Telecommunications Companies to offer services to their
>>>>> subscribers. This involves keeping up with the latest trends
>>>>> in the industry as well as utilizing the benefits available
>>>>> from cutting edge technology. NetCracker delivers service and
>>>>> resource management through its software and implementation
>>>>> expertise.
>>>>>
>>>>> This past year NetCracker was contacted with regards to the
>>>>> creation of a forum of presidents from prestigious
>>>>> universities in Russia and the Ukraine. This forum has three
>>>>> primary goals:
>>>>> * Provide an atmosphere for students to make the transition
>>>>> from academia to the commercial world.
>>>>> * Provide an advising forum for issues.
>>>>> * Discuss bridging the gap between the sciences and the arts.
>>>>> This forum is comprised of presidents of seven universities in
>>>>> Moscow, Kiev, Samara, and Sumy. These universities are
>>>>> renowned world-wide and all have excellent technical programs.
>>>>> We have established a cooperative environment with all seven
>>>>> and our employees share with these students projects,
>>>>> experiences, and opportunities. Below is a list of members of
>>>>> this forum and their respective universities. The head of the
>>>>> forum is academician Nikolay Kuznetsov who is the president of
>>>>> the IT/telecom international society that will be the
>>>>> "umbrella" organization for this activity.
>>>>>
>>>>> This March there will be a conference held in Moscow for those
>>>>> listed below. Our offices in Moscow, Kiev, Samara, and Sumy
>>>>> will be invited. In September our Waltham office will sponsor
>>>>> this delegation here in Massachusetts. At that time I would
>>>>> like to arrange a meeting and tour at Harvard. All presidents
>>>>> speak English and this would be a rare opportunity for all
>>>>> involved to meet. We can discuss the tour and any lecture that
>>>>> may be appropriate.
>>>>>
>>>>> Their backgrounds are varied: Telecom, Math, Applied Math,
>>>>> Chemistry, Biology, etc.... They are most curious about
>>>>> education, student life, and how students juggle work and
>>>>> studies and what is the university doing to prepare students
>>>>> for the commercial world. For instance they would be
>>>>> interested in dorms, libraries, classrooms, labs. There may be
>>>>> someone on your faculty that prepare students for the
>>>>> commercial world and can offer some advice. They would also
>>>>> share with what they have done in regards to this.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The presidents and universities in this delegation are as
>>>>> follows (alternative spelling is in red):
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Russia,
>>>>> Moscow)
>>>>> < http://phystech.edu/>http://phystech.edu/
>>>>> <http://phystech.edu/%3Ehttp://phystech.edu/>
>>>>> Nikolay Kudryavtsev, in 1997 he was elected rector (president)
>>>>> of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University).
>>>>> < http://phystech.edu/people/kudryavtsev.html >
>>>>> http://phystech.edu/people/kudryavtsev.html
>>>>> Nikolay Kudriavcev.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Moscow State University of Railway Engineering (Russia, Moscow)
>>>>> < http://www.miit.ru/engl/indexen.htm >
>>>>> http://www.miit.ru/engl/indexen.htm
>>>>> Boris Levin
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. Moscow Technical University of Communications and
>>>>> Informatics (Russia, Moscow)
>>>>> < http://www.mtuci.ru/english/ > http://www.mtuci.ru/english/
>>>>> Adjemov Artem S., Rector, Doctor of Technical Science,
>>>>> professor, academician of the International Communication
>>>>> Academy, member of the International Academy of Communications
>>>>> and Informatization. Tel. (495) 273-51-39
>>>>> < http://www.mtuci.ru/english/rektorat.htm >
>>>>> http://www.mtuci.ru/english/rektorat.htm
>>>>> Artem Adzhemov
>>>>>
>>>>> 4. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia, Moscow)
>>>>> < http://www.msu.ru/en/ > http://www.msu.ru/en/
>>>>> Moiseev Evgeniy Ivanovitch Docteur ès sciences, Professeur,
>>>>> Membre de l'Académie des Science de Russie, Doyen de la
>>>>> Faculté de Mathématiques et de Cybernétique.
>>>>> < http://www.msu.ru/fr/info/uchsov.html >
>>>>> http://www.msu.ru/fr/info/uchsov.html
>>>>> Evgeny Moiseev
>>>>>
>>>>> 5. Samara State Aerospace University (Russia, Samara)
>>>>> < http://www.old.ssau.ru/english/ >
>>>>> http://www.old.ssau.ru/english/
>>>>> http://old.ssauru/sotrudniki/s/soifer_v_a.html
>>>>> Viktor Soifer
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 6. National Technical University of Ukraine "KPI"
>>>>> (Ukraine, Kiev)
>>>>> < http://www.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua/en/ > http://www.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua/en/
>>>>> Rector at KPI. < http://www.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua/en/about/ >
>>>>> http://www.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua/en/about/
>>>>> Michael Zgurovsky
>>>>>
>>>>> 7. Sumy State University (Ukraine, Sumy)
>>>>> < http://www.sumdu.edu.ua/eng/ > http://www.sumdu.edu.ua/eng/
>>>>> Anatoliy V. Vasylyev, Rector at Sumy State University.
>>>>> < http://www.sumdu.edu.ua/eng/general/structure/head/ >
>>>>> http://www.sumdu.edu.ua/eng/general/structure/head/
>>>>> Anatoly Vassilyev
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Bonnie Ward, Vice President | 781-419-3312 | <
>>>>> http://www.NetCracker.com <http://www.netcracker.com/> >
>>>>> www.NetCracker.com <http://www.netcracker.com/> >>> >
>>>>> Transforming the Service Layer^(TM)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>