*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
May 1-15, 2008*
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*Thursday, May 1*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
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/"Masculinity and Pornography in Sokurov's Films"/
Evgenii Bershtein, Associate Professor of Russian, Reed College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Friday, May 2*
*Historians'** Seminar*
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//"The Tsar, Women's Suffrage, and Revolutions in Early
Twentieth-Century Russia"/
Rochelle Ruthchild, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of
Graduate Studies, Vermont College of The Union Institute and University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Friday, May 2*
*Comparative Economics** Seminar*
/
//"Is There a 'Russian' Economic Model?"/
Stefan Hedlund, Professor of East European Studies, Uppsala University,
Sweden
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Monday, May 5*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
/"Politics and Memory: Does Russia's Unmastered Past Poison Russia's
Present?"/
Evgenia Lezina, Sakharov Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, May 7***
*Director's Seminar*
/ /
/"Russian Viewers Process News: A View from the Object of Media Control"/
Ellen Mickiewicz, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke
University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Friday, May 9*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
* *
/"Northern Russia, Finns, Slavs, and Fish Names: Cultural and
Ichthyological Exertions from 20,000 B.C.E. to A.D. 1700" /
Peter B. Brown, Assistant Professor of History, Rhode Island University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, May 13 *
*Book Talk*
* *
/"Petrostate: Putin, Power and the New Russia" /(Oxford University
Press, 2008)//
Marshall I. Goldman, Senior Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of Russian
Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard
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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 Kokkalis Program would like to invite you to the following event:
Thursday, May 8
2:15 p.m.
The Road from the USSR to EU and NATO Membership: Latvia's Success Story
H.E. Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former president of Latvia and visiting
fellow, Harvard Institute of Politics
Garden Room
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, 27 Kirkland Street at
Cabot Way
Cambridge, MA
As president of the Republic of Latvia from 1999-2007, Vaira
Vike-Freiberga was the first woman to hold the post and played a leading
role in achieving Latvia's membership in NATO and the European Union.
For more information on this and other events, please visit:
_www.ksg.harvard.edu/kokkalis/events.html_
<http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/kokkalis/events.html>
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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 April seminar calendar:/*
*Tuesday, April 22*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
/"Russia. XXI Century"/*
*Vladimir Bukovsky, Author*
*1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard
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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
It is my pleasure to present you with the latest issue of /Development
and Transition/, focusing on questions of* energy and the environment
*in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
The issue discusses land degradation in Central Asia, reforestation in
Uzbekistan, potential flooding in Tajikistan, biodiversity in Cyprus,
environmental NGOs in Central Europe, as well as the successes, failures
and implications of Russia's post-2005 gas policies.
The newsletter is available in both English and Russian at
www.developmentandtransition.net
<http://www.developmentandtransition.net/> . To receive future
issues, please sign up for a free subscription on the website.
/Development and Transition /is a joint publication of the United
Nations Development Programme and the London School of Economics. It
aims to be a forum for policy-oriented discussions and debates about how
the nature, evolution and challenges of development and transition
intersect in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and
also Turkey.
Please take this opportunity to forward this message to your colleagues,
university students, researchers and anyone who may be interested in
this publication. Currently we have over 2,500 external subscribers, and
we aim to increase this number substantially in the coming months.
Best regards,
Viera Petrulakova
Marketing and Production Coordinator
Development and Transition
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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
April 16-30, 2008*
*Thursday, April 17*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/ /
/"The Stone Women of the Steppe: The Cultural Life of a Modernist
Artifact"/
Michael Kunichika, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Amherst College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Friday, April 18*
*Early Slavists' Seminar and Book Talk*
*Co-sponsored by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Seminar in
Ukrainian Studies*
/"Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past" /(University of
Toronto Press, 2008)
Serhii Plokhii, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Ukrainian
History, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, April 23 *
*Book Talk*
/ /
/"Yeltsin: A Life"/
Timothy J. Colton, Director, Davis Center; Professor of Government and
Russian Studies, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Thursday, April 24*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*//
/ /
/"Democracy, Governance and Inequality: Evidence from the Russian Regions"
/Thomas Remington, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of
Political Science, Emory University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, April 24*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
*Co-sponsored by the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies,*
*Film History/Theory Seminar*
/"On Chaplin in Russian Avant-Garde Art and on the Laws of Fortuity in
Art" /
Yuri Tsivian, Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures,
Harvard University; Professor of Film History, Chicago University
24 Quincy Street, Carpenter Center, Room B-04
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Friday, April 25*
*Historians' Seminar*//
/ /
/ "The Privatization of the Soviet Union, 1945-1991?"///
Stephen Lovell, Reader in Modern European History, King's College, London
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Friday, April 25*
*Undergraduate Colloquium* *on Russian and Eurasian Studies*
*
*Multidisciplinary research presentations by advanced undergraduates
from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges.
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level
2:00--5:45 p.m.
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*Monday, April 28*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
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/"State Ownership and Rentierism in the FSU: Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan"/
Pauline Jones-Luong, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown
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, April 28*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
"/War on Terror and Human Rights in the North Caucasus"/
Eliza Musaeva, Sakharov Fellow, Davis Center; Human Rights Researcher,
Memorial, Ingushetia and Chechnya
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
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
*/Please join us for a special exhibition by two of our REECA students!/*
* *
*Thursday, April 10*
*REECA Student Photography Exhibition Opening *
/ /
/"Transitional Spaces: Destruction, Disintegration, and Growth in
Post-Communist Hungary and Estonia" /by Amy Brouillette and Sara Rhodin
1737 Cambridge Street, Ground Level, Fisher Family Commons
5:00--7:00 p.m.
Amy Brouillette is a freelance journalist with a master's degree in
journalism from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She first traveled
to Budapest in the summer of 2005 for an international reporting
seminar, returning in the spring of 2006 to cover Hungary's
parliamentary election for her master's thesis. Her photographs,
displayed on the north-facing wall, depict the story of rapid
development in the Jewish Quarter of Budapest---the striking tug of war
between past and present, in which the past often falls under the bulldozer.
>From 2006 to 2007, Sara Rhodin was a Fulbright Scholar in Estonia, where
she undertook a photography project on the residual effects of the Cold
War on Estonia's landscape and culture. Her photographs, which depict
former military bases, closed cities, and abandoned government
headquarters, capture the dynamic quality of the Cold War's physical
manifestations. Most of the photographs, displayed on the south-facing
wall, were taken in Narva, Sillamae, Paldiski, Klooga, Kiela, and Tallinn.
The exhibition will be on display until April 29.
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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 April seminar speaker change:/*
*Monday, April 14*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
/ /
/"86 Russias"///
Gavril Bilev, Graduate Student, Brown 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.
*/
/**/Please note the following additions to the April seminar calendar:/*
* *
*Thursday, April 3*
*Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar***
/ /
/"The Legacy of Sovietological Islamology//"/
Devin DeWeese, Professor of History and Central Eurasian Studies,
Indiana University
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Tuesday, April 15*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*//
/ /
/"The American Lifestyle and Way of Doing Business"/
//Executive MBA students, Business School, Moscow State University
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
12:30-2:00 p.m.
**
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Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard
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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
