*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
November 1-15, 2008*
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*/For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit
our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./*
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*Monday, November 3 *
*Special Seminar *
*Co-sponsored by the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies, the Department
of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Center for the
Study of World Religions//*
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/"Christian Hajjis: The Forgotten Pilgrims of Ottoman Jerusalem"
/Valentina Izmirlieva, Associate Professor of Slavic Studies, Columbia
University//
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, November 5*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*//
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/"The Modern History of Russian Media- How Did We Get to Where We Are?"/
Andrei Zolotov, Jr., Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard
University; Founding Editor, /Russia// Profile/
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, November 6 *
*Occasional Seminar*//
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/"Winter Palace: >From Katherine the Great to Present Day"
/Anna Konivets, Coordinator, Guggenheim-Hermitage Project; Senior
Research Fellow, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, November 6 *
*Comparative Economics Seminar*//
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/"The Real Truth about Russia"
/John T. Connor Jr., Founder and Portfolio Manager, Third Millennium
Russia Fund//
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, November 6 *
*Literature and Culture Seminar*//
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/"Polish-Jewish Intellectuals in Mainstream Entertainment, 1918-39: An
Unfinished Adventure"
/Knut Andreas Grimstad, Director of the Programme for Literary Studies
and Associate Professor of Polish, University of Oslo//
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Friday, November 7 *
*Occasional Seminar*//
/"The Politics of Survival: Reporting in Russia Today"
/Yevgenia Albats, Professor of Political Science, State University
Higher School of Economics, Moscow; Deputy Editor and Political Editor,
/The New Times/; Talk Show Host, Ekho Moskvy Broadcasting
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Monday, November 10*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*//
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/"//Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder and the Dark Heart of the New Russia"/
Steve LeVine, Chief Foreign Affairs Writer, /Business Week/
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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*Monday, November 10*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*//
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/"Cold War Between Pyongyang and Hanoi: North Korea, Vietnam, and the
Cambodian Question, 1970-1989"/
Balazs Szalontai, Visiting Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, November 12*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*//
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/"Russia Matters: An Insider's Look at the Rise of Russia and the
West's Failure to Engage the Heartland of Eurasia"
/Alfred Kokh, Author; Former Deputy Prime Minister, Russian Federation
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, November 12*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*//
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/"Russian Energy and Foreign Policy: Beyond the Former Soviet Union"
/Anita Orban, Director, Constellation Energy Institute
61 Kirkland Street, Seminar Room
4:15-5:30 p.m.
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*Thursday, November 13*
*Literature and Culture Seminar *//
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Screening of /Current History/ (2006)
Followed by a discussion with the director, Hannah Collins
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Friday, November 14*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
/"'I//gor's retinue said to him' (Rekosha druzhina Igorevi): On Aleksei
Gippius' Article about the Linguotextological Stratification in the
/Initial Chronicle (Nachal'naia Letopis')/"///
Olga Strakhov, Independent Scholar; Library Assistant, Gund Hall
Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 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
https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl.
If you need to register a new visitor login to purchase a parking pass,
choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies"
and enter department code 2020.
If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking
Services Office at 617-495-3772.
Please note that the following seminar has been postponed until further notice:
Monday, October 27
Cold War Studies Seminar
Did Reagan's 'Star Wars' Missile-Defense Program Help Win the Cold War?
Evidence from Formerly Classified Soviet Documents
Pavel Podvig, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security and
Cooperation, Stanford University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
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
https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl.
If you need to register a new visitor login to purchase a parking pass, choose
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and enter department code 2020.
If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services
Office at 617-495-3772.
The Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies (GCWS) presents:
*Traveling People—Traveling Concepts*
Thursday, October 30, 4-6 PM
MIT, Bldg. E51, room 275
Please RSVP to gcws(a)mit.edu <mailto:gcws@mit.edu>
Join the GCWS for a conversation with:
*Tatiana Barchunova*
/Associate Professor of Philosophy/
/Novosibirsk// Statae University, Western Siberia, Russia/
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What are Russian post –socialist perceptions of Western social and
gender theories and methods of conducting empirical research?
Professor Barchunova will discuss the challenge of translating
English-language gender discourse into Russian. She tracks the
distortion of circulating texts and the misrepresentation of ideas and
tries to explain the distortion by several factors. The crisis within
the institution of publishing, the underdevelopment of Russian social
theory, and the lack of funding available to scientific communities to
publish the necessary (and large) volume of texts in translation, she
argues, all threaten to reinforce the conservative turn in cultural
translation.
*Tatiana Barchunova* is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Novosibirsk
State University (Western Siberia) where she received her Ph D in 1991.
Her initial empirical research focus was the post-Soviet gender system,
in particular gender stereotyping in the media. Her work has been
supported by the MacArthur, Soros, and Carnegie Foundations and the
Social Science Research Council. Barchunova edited a collection of
papers "Potolokpola"(/Gender Ceiling/) (Novosibirsk, 1998) and, with E.
Zdravomyslova and A. Temkina, edited a collection of translated Western
feminist texts (Saint-Petersburg, 2000) and co-authored a popular
book /Gender Studies for Dummies/ (2006). Currently she is interested in
religious and consumption networks and leisure activities (such as
historical and martial games, classical and historical dancing clubs,
and Internet dating) and the concept of “naive translation" the latter
of which will be the focus of her GCWS presentation.
Contact Andi Sutton, Program Coordinator, for more information and
directions to this event, at arsutton(a)mit.edu
<mailto:arsutton@mit.edu> or (617) 324-2085
*Directions to building E51 room 275: *
The discussion will take place in building E51 room 275 on MIT campus.
Here's a link to the campus map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E51&Buildings=go
<http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E51&Buildings=go>
To get to E51 by T, take the Red line to Kendall Square. Exit on Main
Street. Walk down Main toward the river, staying on the right hand side
of the street. Take a right on Wadsworth Street and follow it until it
intersects with Amherst Street. Take a right on to Amherst and walk down
until you see a driving ramp on your left. Walk up the ramp and through
the doors. This is E51. Walk up the stairs and room 275 will be the
conference room straight ahead.
If you will be driving, there are parking meters on Main Street and
Ames Street. After 3 p.m. you can also park in most of the MIT
parking lots, including the one right in front of building E51.
*Graduate Consortium in Women’s Studies*
16-287, MIT
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
http://web.mit.edu/gcws
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
*Thursday, October 30, 2008, **4:15 PM - 6:00 PM*
*"Psychiatry and Prejudice: Perceptions of the Orient among European
Jewish Immigrant Psychiatrists in Palestine, 1924-1941"
**Speaker:* Rakefet Zalashik
<http://hebrewjudaic.as.nyu.edu/object/rakefetzalashik.html>, Assistant
Professor/Faculty Fellow of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
*Sponsor: *Jews in Modern Europe Study Group/
/*Location:* Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland
Street, Cambridge
For more information, contact:
Phyllis Albert, Ph.D.
Center for European Studies
Harvard University
617 969 7745
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Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 4:15 PM
"'Glimpses in the Blinding Light': Holocaust Victims Reflect on Their
Tormentors"*
*Speaker:* MARK ROSEMAN, Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies, Indiana
University
*Sponsor:* German Study Group co-sponsored by the Jews in Modern Europe
Study Group
*Location:* Cabot Room, Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street,
Cambridge
*Contact Name:* Professor Alison Frank
*Contact Email:* afrank(a)fas.harvard.edu
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
*/Please note the following addition to the October seminar calendar:
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Friday, October 31*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*//
/"The Big Bang: The Business Cycle Comes to Russia"/
Marshall I. Goldman, Senior Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of Russian
Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College
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
https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl.
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.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
/Please note the following upcoming seminar at Harvard Business School: /
*Monday, October 20*
*Business History Seminar*
/"Gazprom, Past and Present" /
Rawi Abdelal, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business
School; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
Harvard Business School, Baker Library 101
3:30-5:00 p.m., followed by wine and cheese in the Faculty Commons
To order a copy of the paper, please contact Sarah Pettengill at
spettengill(a)hbs.edu.
Directions:
To get to Baker 101, enter through the office Suite 100 West. The
seminar room is adjacent to the back of the suite. Parking is
available. Please email spettengill(a)hbs.edu by noon the day before the
seminar if you plan to park in the HBS lot.
/(Due to recent technical difficulties, all members may not have
received this calendar. We are re-sending this message in case anyone
missed it.)/*
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
October 16-31, 2008*
/*For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit
our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.*/
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Thursday, October 16
Comparative Politics Seminar*
/"Political Change in Russia and Its Foreign Policy Implications"/
Vitaly Kozyrev, Professor, Endicott College and Institute of Asian and
African Studies, Moscow State University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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Thursday, October 16
Literature and Culture Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages and
the Humanities Center *
/"The Observer Observed: Gorky and the Art of the Literary Memoir"/
Donald Fanger, Professor of Literature, Emeritus, Harvard; Faculty
Associate, Davis Center
In conversation with
William Mills Todd III, Professor of Literature, Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures, Harvard; Faculty Associate, Davis Center
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Thompson Room, Room 110
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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Friday, October 17
Historian's Seminar*
/"When I Served the Post as a Coachman: Circulation and Empire in
Russia's 18th Century"/
John Randolph, Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
* Thursday, October 23
Literature and Culture Seminar*
/Poetry Reading with Alexandra Petrova /
Alexandra Petrova, Poet
Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Kresge Room, Room 114
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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Monday, October 27
Cold War Studies Seminar*
/"Did Reagan's 'Star Wars' Missile-Defense Program Help Win the Cold
War? Evidence from Formerly Classified Soviet Documents"/
Pavel Podvig, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security
and Cooperation, Stanford University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
* Tuesday, October 28
Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar*
/"Illegal Labor Migration from Central Asia to the United States"/
Saltanat Liebert, Assistant Professor, Wilder School of Government &
Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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Thursday, October 30
Comparative Politics Seminar*
/"Exiting Anarchy: Coup-Proofing after State Failure in the Caucasus and
Central Asia"/
Jesse Russell Driscoll, Visiting Fellow, Yale University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*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
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**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.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
We are pleased to invite you to a conference on October 24 - 25, 2008:
*"40 Years after Andrei Sakharov's /Reflections on Progress, Peaceful
Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom/: Russia Yesterday, Today and
Tomorrow"*
The conference will bring together participants from the U.S., Russia,
and Europe to discuss reactions to Sakharov's essays /Reflections on
Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom/ (1968), /The
Inevitability of Perestroika /(1988), and the continued relevance of
Sakharov's humanist vision. The conference will also address the nuclear
issues he was concerned with and is conceived as a step to encourage
constructive dialogue at a time when the administrations of both Russia
and the U.S. are in the process of change.
* _Pre-registration is required_ as space is limited.
* _Conference venue_: American Academy of Arts and Sciences,
Norton's Woods Conference Center in Cambridge.
For more information: www.sakharovconference.org or contact:
daviscenter(a)fas.harvard.edu
Sponsored by Department of Physics, Harvard University, Sakharov Program
on Human Rights at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies,
Harvard University, and The Andrei Sakharov Foundation.
Attachments: Agenda and Registration Form
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu
/*Please note the following speaker addition (10/7), seminar addition
(10/8), and speaker change (10/10) to the Davis Center seminar calendar:*/
*Tuesday, October 7*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*//
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/"The 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia 40 Years Later:
Reassessing East-Bloc and Western Reactions to the Prague Spring"/
Guenter Bischof, Professor of History, University of New Orleans
Mark Kramer, Program Director, Cold War Studies Project, Harvard
Peter Ruggenthaler, Senior Research Fellow, Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut
fuer Kriegsfolgen-Forschung, Graz
Jacques Rupnik, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Research Director,
Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, France
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, October 8*
*Brown Bag Lunch*
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/"Impressions of Georgia, September 8-12"/
Edythe Haber, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Russian,
Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Boston
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Friday, October 10
Early Slavists' Seminar*
/"Privileging the Prince: Recovering Evidence for Female Patronage in
Medieval Kiev"/
Olenka Pevny, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Richmond
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 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
https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl .
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.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu