/*Please note the following addition to the March seminar calendar:*/
*Monday, March 3*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/ /
/"The Economics of Terror under Stalin"/
Paul Gregory, Professor of Economics, University of Houston
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
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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
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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
Conference co-sponsored by
The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and The Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies
*Reassessing Post-Soviet Energy Politics
Ukraine, Russia, and the Battle for Gas from Central Asia to the
European Union
7--8 March 2008*
*Center for Government and International Studies
1730 Cambridge St., Case Study Room S020, Cambridge, MA
Register at: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html#2008_3_7-8
*
*Session 1. Actors and Interests in the Aftermath of the 2006 Gas Crisis
Friday, March 7, 2008
9:15 a.m.--12:00 noon*
*Chair: Oxana Shevel*
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies
*Welcome and Opening Remarks*
Timothy Colton
Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
*"The Gas Crisis of 2005-2006: A Retrospective View"*
Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute
*"In the Wake of the 2006 Ukrainian--Russian Gas Agreement: New Rules of
the Game"*
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and
International Relations, Seton Hall University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies
*"Russia and the Rise of Gazprom"*
Rawi Abdelal
Associate Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Faculty Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
*"RosUkrEnergo: The Unexpected Guest Settles in for a Long Stay"*
Roman Kupchinsky
formerly Coordinator of Corruption Studies, RFE/RL, Inc., Prague
*"The Missing Pieces? Central Asia and Its Neighbors"*
Carol Saivetz
Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
*Session 2. Gas Trade and Energy Schemes: Their Role in National and
International Politics
Friday, March 7, 2008
2:30--5:00 p.m.*
*Chair: Lisbeth Tarlow*
Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
*"Current Issues and Challenges in Ukraine's Energy Economy"*
Volodymyr Saprykin
Director of Energy Programs, Ukrainian Centre for Political and Economic
Studies, Kyiv
*"How the Gas Issue Plays in Ukrainian Politics and How Ukrainian
Politicians Play the Gas Issue"*
Taras Kuzio
President, Kuzio Associates (an independent consultancy and government
communications company), Washington DC and Kyiv.
*"Private Interests and the Russian State: Gazprom and Power"*
Mikhail Zygar
Energy Specialist, Special Correspondent, Kommersant, Moscow
*"Energy: A Case Study in Russia's Political Gamesmanship"*
Marshall Goldman
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus),
Wellesley College
former Associate Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
*"Gas Trade and Politics: The Chain of Political and Econonomic
Interests from Central Asia to the European Union"*
Martha Brill Olcott
Senior Associate, Russian and Eurasian Program,Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace in Washington DC
*"Main Current Issues in European--Russian Energy Relations"*
Ferdinand Pavel
Research Associate, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin
Member, German Advisory Group with the Ukrainian Government, Kyiv
*"The Former Soviet Union and European Energy Security: A View from
Washington"*
Gene Fishel
Senior Analyst, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State (on leave).
*Session 3. From Producer to Consumer: Pricing Mechanisms, Transit, and
Informal Institutions
Saturday, March 8, 2008
9:30--12:00 noon*
*Chair: Lubomyr Hajda *
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute
*"Putting a Price on Gas: Pricing Mechanisms---Transparent and Opaque"*
Andrei Konoplyanik
Deputy Secretary General, Energy Charter Secretariat, Brussels
*"Getting the Gas from There to Here: Transit and Transit Competition"*
Christof van Agt
formerly Office of Non-Member Countries, International Energy Agency, Paris
*"Transition, Weak Institutions, and Intermediary Companies: Filling
Gaps, Filling Pockets"*
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and
International Relations, Seton Hall University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies
*"Plus a change: Continuity or Change in Intermediary Company Schemes?"*
Alla Yeremenko
Senior Correspondent, Section of Economic Security, Dzerkalo Tyzhnia /
Zerkalo Nedeli, Kyiv
*Concluding Remarks*
Margarita M. Balmaceda
Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and
International Relations, Seton Hall University
Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute and Davis Center for Russian and
Eurasian Studies
Lubomyr Hajda
Associate Director, Ukrainian Research Institute
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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 March seminar calendar:*/
*Wednesday, March 12
**Cold War Studies Seminar*
/ /
/"New Evidence Regarding the Czechoslovak Crisis, 1945-1948: A View from
the Schönborn Palace" /
Igor Lukes, Professor of Political Science, Boston 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
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.
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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
The Sakharov Program on Human Rights is pleased to welcome Evgenia
Lezina, a recipient of the spring 2008 Sakharov Fellowship.
Evgenia ("Jane") Lezina of Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow holds a MA in
Political Science from the Moscow School of Social and Economic
Sciences. Recognized as the best graduate of 2005, her thesis was a
comparison of political transformation in post-Nazi Germany and
post-Soviet Russia. Currently, she is enrolled in the "Political Systems
and Institutional Change" Program at the Lucca Institute for Advanced
Studies in Italy, working on her PhD Thesis "Strategies of Overcoming a
Totalitarian System." She is also actively involved in civil society
initiatives and democracy building and advocacy in Russia. At Harvard,
she plans to get acquainted with the work of civic education
organizations in the USA to gather the necessary material for a course
on civic education, on political culture and civil society, to be
introduced in Russia. She also hopes that acquaintance with the work of
human rights organizations will allow her to study and adapt to the
Russian conditions their successful practices and positive experience.
Please join me in extending to Jane Lezina a very warm welcome and best
wishes for a productive and enjoyable semester.
Tatiana Yankelevich, Director
Sakharov Program on Human Rights
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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
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
March 1-15, 2008*
*Monday, March 3*
*Occasional Seminar*
/ /
/"Operational Leadership of the Soviet Terror from the Civil War to the
Great Terror"/
Stephen Wheatcroft, Professor of History, University of Melbourne, Australia
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
* *
* *
*Wednesday, March 5*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/ /
/"//Are Population and Health Constraints Affecting Russian Society and
the Military?"
/Murray Feshbach, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Research
Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, March 5*
*Outreach Program Series*
/ /
/"Islam in Africa"
/Jacob Olupona, Professor of African and African-American Studies,
Harvard Divinity School
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
4:30-6:30 p.m.
*Thursday, March 6*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/ /
/"The Information Arms Race: Towards a Cybernetics of Stalinism"/
Terry Martin, Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University; Faculty
Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Friday, March 7- Saturday, March 8*
*Conference//*
*Co-sponsored by the Davis Center and The Harvard Ukrainian Research
Institute*
/"Reassessing Post-Soviet Energy Politics: Ukraine, Russia, and the
Battle for Gas from Central Asia to the European Union"/
Session 1: Actors, Agendas and Interests
Session 2: Gas Trade and Energy Security: The Impact on National and
International Politics
Session 3: From Producer to Consumer: Transit, Prices, and Informal
Institutions
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
/For more information: http://www.huri.harvard.edu//
/To register online: //http://www.huri.harvard.edu/gas_conf_reg.html/
* *
* *
*Monday, March 10*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
/ /
/"Reflective and Unreflective Partisans? Experimental Evidence from
Russia, Poland, and Hungary on the Links between Information, Opinion,
and Party Identification"
/Joshua Tucker, Associate Professor of Politics, New York University//
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
* *
* *
*Monday, March 10
**Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
"/On the Russian Presidential Election of March 2, 2008"/
Andrei A. Piontkovsky, Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute; Senior
Research Fellow, Institute for System Studies, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
4:15-6:00 p.m.
* ****Tuesday, March 11*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
/ /
/"The Soviet Union and U.S. Presidential Campaigns during the Cold War//"/
Kostadin Grozev, Visiting Professor of History, University of Texas;
Professor of Modern History, University of Sofia, Bulgaria
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*
*
*Thursday, March 13*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/ /
/"Brodsky, Chekhov and We"/
Lev Loseff, Department Chair and Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Friday, March 14
**Historians' Seminar*
/"//The Affective Turn: Emotions and the Writing of History"/
Ronald Suny, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, The University of
Chicago
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Friday, March 14 **
**Early Slavists' Seminar*
/
//"From Pamvo Berynda (1627) to Luka Kis(ka (1722): A Relapse from
Script- to Language-Switching"///
Andriy Danylenko, Shklar Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute;
Lecturer in Russian Language and Culture, Pace University
1737 Cambridge Street, Ground Level, Room N105
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
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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
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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
Dear Colleagues:
I am writing to seek your assistance on behalf of Thomas Remington
(visiting scholar) and his wife, Nancy Roth Remington.
Last night a three building fire resulted in them losing their local
housing
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/02/cambridge_fire.html.
The Center doesn't normally use this listserv for housing assistance,
but given the circumstances, we are compelled to put the word out on
their behalf.
Tom and Nancy hope to find long-term housing through the spring 09 term
no later than April 1st, though sooner if possible, and will gratefully
move into short-term housing in the meantime. They prefer housing within
walking distance to the Center, between Porter and Kendall Squares.
Please contact them directly if you know of any living situations that
might be suitable for them either short-term or long-term.
You can reach them as follows:
Tom: <tremingt(a)fas.harvard.edu> or cell phone: 770-235-8185
Nancy: <Nancy.Remington(a)gmail.com> or cell phone: 404-432-8402
Thank you.
Maria Altamore
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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
The Center for European Studies at Harvard University, the Harvard
History Department, and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian
Studies at Harvard cordially invite you:
Zaleski Lecture: "Post Communist Transition in Comparative Perspective"
a public lecture by
LESZEK BALCEROWICZ, former chairman of the National Bank of Poland
"Balcerowicz is a genuine hero--a man of principle, perseverance and
courage who as finance minister, deputy prime minister and head of
Poland's central bank managed the turnaround of one of Europe's poorest
and most dysfunctional economies. While his 'shock therapy' for the
Polish economy in the early 1990s was risky and painful, it produced
some of the strongest growth and lowest inflation on the continent."
-Washington Post, April 11, 2007
Thursday, February 21, 2008
4:15-6:00pm
Busch Hall, Lower Level Conference Room
27 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Directions
http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu/about/directions.html
For further information
http://www.ces.fas.harvard.edu
617-495-4303 x240
Jason Beerman
beerman(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
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
February 16-29, 2008*
* *
*Wednesday, February 20*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/ /
/"Parties, Statist Stakeholders, and Informalization in Post-Soviet
Welfare State Reform"
/Linda J. Cook, Professor of Political Science, Brown University; Center
Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, February 21*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/ /
/"Framed? The Dialogical Performance of Space in Stalinist Comedy"
/Anna Wexler Katsnelson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Monday, February 25*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
/
/Introduction to/ "Understanding the Management of Energy Dependency in
the Post-Soviet World"/ / /
Margarita Balmaceda, Center Associate, Davis Center; Associate
Professor, The Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International
Relations, Seton Hall 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.
* *
* *
*Monday, February 25 *
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
*Co-sponsored by the Cold War Studies Seminar*//
/
"//Russia// and a New Cold War?"/
Edward Lucas, Former Moscow Correspondent, /The Economist///
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
* *
* *
*Thursday, February 28*
*Special Performance*
/
"//Rossiya, My Native Land"/ in Russian poetry and songs//
Students of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard//
12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Thompson Room 110
4:30 p.m.
* *
* *
*Friday, February 29*
*Historians' Seminar*//
/
//"Russia's Place in Eurasia: A Reconsideration"/
John LeDonne, Center Associate, Davis Center //
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
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.
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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
Call for Papers:
Slovo
________________________________________
An inter-disciplinary journal of Russian, Eurasian and East European affairs
published by postgraduates of the School of Slavonic and East European
Studies.
________________________________________
anthropology - economics - film - geography - history - international
studies - linguistics - literature - media - music - politics - sociology
CALL FOR PAPERS Volume 20.2 (Autumn 2008)
Deadline: 14 March 2008
Contributions, including research articles, book and film reviews, and
review articles are welcome from all research students and academics.
Submissions to the Board of Editors may be sent via e-mail attachment
(slovo(a)ssees.ucl.ac.uk) or on a CD in Microsoft Word format. All research
articles must include a 100-200 word abstract and adhere to the MHRA Style
guide in advance of submission (available for download for free from the
MHRA website).
All manuscripts are refereed and undergo a review process. Contributions
submitted must not be under consideration by other publications at the
time of submission. The editors reserve the right to make any changes
thought to be necessary or appropriate to typescripts accepted for
publication. A duplicate should be retained by the author. No disks or
hard copies shall be returned. The maximum length for consideration of an
article is 6,000 – 7,000 words (including footnotes), and 700 words for a
review.
The deadline for article submissions for Volume 20.2 is the 14th of March.
If you have any queries about becoming a contributor for Slovo please do
not hesitate to get in touch with us via slovo(a)ssees.ucl.ac.uk and we will
be happy to assist.
* * *
Not ready to submit an article? Then why not write a book or film review?
Contact Slovo for more details.
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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
The Sakharov Program on Human Rights is pleased to welcome Sakharov
Fellow Eliza Musaeva, who will be in residence at the Davis Center this
semester.
Eliza Musaeva (Ph.D., Psychology, Moscow Pedagogical University), a
native of Grozny, has written about the psychological trauma experienced
by survivors and witnesses to atrocities in Chechnya. A well-known human
rights researcher, she led the headquarters of Memorial in Ingushetia
and in Chechnya. She worked for the International Helsinki Federation
for Human Rights in Vienna for nearly four years, until the recent
suspension of the Federation’s activities. Her work there involved
frequent travel to Ingushetia and Chechnya, as well as to Uzbekistan.
Eliza works to inform Russian and international institutions about
severe human rights violations and the general human rights situation in
the region. Her efforts include monitoring the situation, publishing
reports on current problems, and issuing statements and open letters on
urgent cases.
At Harvard, Eliza will study the mechanisms that ensure a state’s
respect for human rights and its adherence to domestic and international
standards. She intends to conduct a comparative analysis of the “War on
Terror” in the Russian Federation and other countries, and to study the
use of preventive counterterrorism measures in countries outside the
Russian Federation.
Please join me in extending to Eliza Musaeva a very warm welcome and
best wishes for a productive and enjoyable semester.
Tatiana Yankelevich
Sakharov Program on Human Rights
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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
