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[Huri-events-list] HURI Seminar - March 2, 2009

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*The Ukrainian Research Institute invites members of the Harvard community and the general public to the following lecture presented as part of the HURI Seminars in Ukrainian Studies series:* _* *_*Muscovites in Ruthenian Lands in the 16th-17th Centuries /Social Integration, Cultural Identity, Historical Memory/ Konstantin Jerusalimsky /Senior Lecturer in History, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute / **Monday, March _*2*_**, 2009* *4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.* *Room S-050 (Concourse Level)* *CGIS Building South, Harvard University* *1730 Cambridge Street* *Cambridge, MA 02138* */ Upcoming Lectures and Presentations of Interest (Unless indicated otherwise, events are held from 4-6:00 p.m. in Room S-050 of CGIS Building South):/* * Monday, March 9* The Populist Movement (Narodnytstvo) in Ukrainian Literature and Popular Culture Tamara Hundorova /Head, Department of Literary Theory, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Petro Jacyk Distinguished Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute/ * Monday, March 16* Language Policy and Linguistic Attitudes in Ukraine Volodymyr Kulyk /Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington DC)/ *Tuesday, March 17 /- Ukraine Study Group/* Minority Education in Ukraine: The Cases of Hungarians and Crimean Tatars Volodymyr Kulyk /Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington DC)/ /*~ 12:15-2:00 p.m., Omeljan Pritsak Memorial Library, Ukrainian Research Institute ~*/ * Monday, March 23 */~ No seminar - Spring recess ~/ * Monday, March 30* Jewish-Christian Cultural Contacts in Late Medieval Kyiv Moshe Taube /Professor of Linguistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute/ * Monday, April 6* The Consolidation of Army Officer Training in Lviv: Its Significance for Ukraine's Military Development Leonid Polyakov /Former Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine External Consultant, Parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense, Parliament of Ukraine Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute / * Monday, April 13 -/ Petro Jacyk Memorial Symposium/* On the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Mykola Hohol/ Nikolai Gogol /~ Details forthcoming ~/ * Monday, April 20* Should Cossacks Be Allowed to Sell Their Lands? A Contribution to Russo-Ukrainian Relations (1820s) John LeDonne /Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University/ * Monday, April 27* Literary Anthologies and Their Role in Shaping Ukrainian Identity Olena Haleta /Associate Professor of Literature and Director, Centre for the Humanities, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute/ * Monday, May 4* Taras Shevchenko and the Modern Ukrainian Literary Language: A Revisit and New Assessment Michael Moser /Associate Professor, Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Vienna/ *Program subject to change. To check for changes to the HURI Seminar schedule, please visit our website: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html Please note: HURI now utilizes Harvard's list server. For more information, please visit our list at: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/huri-events-list * For further information on HURI events, please contact us at: Tel.: 617-495-4053 Fax: 617-495-8097 E-mail: huri at fas.harvard.edu <mailto:huri@fas.harvard.edu> -- ------------------------- Ukrainian Research Institute Harvard University 34 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Tel: 617-495-4053 Fax: 617-495-8097 Web: http://www.huri.harvard.edu E-mail: huri(a)fas.harvard.edu ------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Huri-events-list mailing list Huri-events-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/huri-events-list

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event title addition (3/5) and seminar addition (3/13) to the March calendar

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/*Please note the following event title addition (3/5) and seminar addition (3/13) to the March calendar:*/ *Thursday, March 5* *Literature and Culture Seminar*// / / /"Narrating a Post-Individualist Self: Lydia Ginzburg's Prose Experiments"/ Emily Van Buskirk, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, March 13* *Director's Seminar* /"Belarus: Between East and West"/ Natalia Petkevich, First Deputy Head, Administration of the President of Belarus 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 in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. ---------------------------------------------------- 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 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Seminar Calendar, March 1-15, 2009

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar March 1-15, 2009__* *__* */For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./* *__* *Sunday, March 1* *Film Screening* Mikhail Bulgakov's /The Master and Margarita/ The Landmark Miniseries directed by Vladimir Bortko February 8: Introduction, Chapters 1-2 February 15: Chapters 3-5 February 22: Chapters 6-8 March 1: Chapters 9-10, Conclusion 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Tsai Auditorium, Room S010 5:30 p.m. * * /Presented in English with Russian subtitles./ * * * * *Monday, March 2* *Occasional Seminar*// / / /"The Future of the Jewish Community in Ukraine" / Shmuel Kaminezky, Chief Rabbi, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Tuesday, March 3* *Occasional Seminar*// / / /"The Church's Strategic Choice"/// Andrei Zolotov, Jr., Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University; Founding Editor, /Russia// Profile/ 1737 Cambridge Street, Knafel Building, 4th Floor, Room K401 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, March 5* *Comparative Politics Seminar*// / / /"Trials and Tribulations: Russia and the European Court of Human Rights"/ Valerie Sperling, Center Associate, Davis Center; Associate Professor of Government, Clark University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, March 5* *Literature and Culture Seminar*// / / /Title TBA/ Emily Van Buskirk, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, March 6- Saturday, March 7* *Teacher Workshop*// / / /"Hitler and Stalin: Comparing Dictatorships in the Twentieth Century"/ 1730 Cambridge Street 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. To Register: Contact 617-495-8095 or davisoutreach[at]fas.harvard.edu *__* *__* *Wednesday, March 11* *Special Seminar* *Co-sponsored by the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University** * / / /"Perceptions of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy in Contemporary Russia and Japan"/ Tetsuo Mochizuki, Professor of Russian Literature and Culture, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Thursday, March 12* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* *Co-sponsored by the Cold War Studies Seminar* * * /The Soviet Hydrogen Bomb Controversy: A Discussion of /The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation Roundtable Discussion: David Holloway, Professor of International Relations, Stanford University Paul Josephson, Chair and Professor of Russian and Soviet History, Colby College Priscilla McMillan, Center Associate, Davis Center Chair: Mark Kramer, Program Director, Cold War Studies Project, Harvard 1737 Cambridge Street, Knafel Building, Concourse Level, Room K031 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Thursday, March 12* *Central Asia** and the Caucasus Working Group*// /"Market Reform's Impact on Bribery, Favoritism, and Clientelism: Evidence from Central Asia and Other Postcommunist Countries"/ Kelly McMann, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve 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 in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. ---------------------------------------------------- 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 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Conference on "The Changing Social Role of Islam in Post-Soviet Eurasia"

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Dear Davis Center Colleagues: We are pleased to announce the upcoming event of the Project on Islam in Eurasia: Conference on "The Changing Social Role of Islam in Post-Soviet Eurasia" March 20-21, 2009 Harvard University Project on Islam in Eurasia CGIS South Room S020 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA The Project on Islam in Eurasia will hold a conference on "The Changing Social Role of Islam in Post-Soviet Eurasia" on March 20-21, 2009. The conference will gather a number of the scholars who have been most focused on trying to understand the social transformations in which Islam plays a role in the post-Soviet period. The purposes of the conference are to assess the current state of scholarship and to identify key issues that deserve further investigation. This conference is a part of the Project on Islam in Eurasia, which seeks to develop a better understanding of the dynamic changes which are taking place in the social life of post-Soviet Muslim societies. The Project also aims to help this understanding reach a wider audience both in the West and in the region itself, and especially to help policy-makers make more informed decisions related to this topic. Unfortunately, scholarship, public attention, and policy making have been heavily focused on the "problems," "risks," and "threats" that Islam is considered to pose for post-Soviet societies and states, with very little attention being devoted to the broad spectrum of other issues for which Islam plays an important role. For more information about the focus and activities of the Project on Islam in Eurasia, please see our website (http://islam-eurasia.fas.harvard.edu) We invite those interested in attending the conference to submit the Registration Form on our website: http://islam-eurasia.fas.harvard.edu/ie_conf_09.html Please note that while the conference is free and open to the public, the number of attendees that we can accommodate is limited, and we will select attendees, in part on a first-come, first-served basis, but also taking into consideration the prospective attendee's profile, since we are aiming to foster a strong discussion in the conference and audience participation is a crucial part. The target group of attendees would include scholars and advanced students who are studying themes related to the conference, and those who work in government and development institutions, as well as non-governmental entities which are concerned with social policy and the situation regarding religion in this region. In completing the form below, please make sure the extent to which you fit this profile (or another profile that could be as relevant for the conference). Note that we will accommodate others as well as space allows. The conference will be held in Room S020 on the Concourse Level of the CGIS South Building at Harvard University (1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA). The public portion of the conference will begin at 9:00 am on Friday, March 20 and conclude at 5:30 pm on Saturday, March 20, 2009. The following is a list of those who will present papers at the conference with their paper titles (many not yet finalized), and the discussants, who will also play a major role in the conference. The order of presentations is not yet finalized. Each presentation, together with the discussant's response and general discussion, will be given 45 minutes. Paper Presentations: Bakhtiyar Babadjanov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Tashkent) -- TBA [based on field research in Uzbekistan] Bayram Balci (French Institute for Central Asian Studies, Tashkent) -- TBA [based on field research in Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan] Vladimir Bobrovnikov (Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Moscow) -- [Tentative: The Transformation of Shari'a into Communal Rituals in Post-Soviet Daghestani Kolkhozes] Kathleen Collins (Univ. of Minnesota) -- TBA [based on survey research and fieldwork in Central Asia and Azerbaijan] Habiba Fathi (Institute for Ismaili Studies, London) -- [Tentative: Views of Secularism among Muslim Believers in Central Asia] Morgan Liu (Ohio State University) -- TBA [based on fieldwork in Southern Kyrgyzstan] Maria Louw (Aarhus University) -- "Navigating Ambiguous Secularisms" Aleksei Malashenko (Carnegie Center, Moscow) -- [Tentative: Sufis, the Shari'a, Islamic Education and the State: Changes from the 1990s to the Present] Makhach Musaev (Institute of History, Makhachkala) -- [Tentative: New Developments in Islamic Education in Daghestan] Nabi Rahimov (Khujand State University) -- [Tentative: Islam and Ideas of Nation in Tajikistan] Rufat Sattarov (Humboldt University, Berlin) -- "Pillars of 'Local Islam': Religious Practices in Today's Azerbaijani Society" John Schoeberlein (Harvard University) -- "A Critique of Conceptual Frameworks for Assessing Post-Soviet Islam" Mukaram Toktogulova (American University of Central Asia, Bishkek) -- [Tentative: Diverse Visions of Islam in Kyrgyzstan] Discussants (list is not finalized): Laura Adams (Harvard University) Devin DeWeese (Indiana University) Jocelyne Cesari (Harvard University) Michael Hall (Open Society Institute, New York) Ed Schatz (Univ. of Toronto) Thomas Simons (Harvard University) For Those Wishing to Attend If you are interested in attending the conference, please complete the form below. Please note that space is limited, so only those to whom we send a confirmation will be able to attend the conference. We will send additional information about the conference to confirmed attendees as the conference dates approach. Please note: attendees must find their own resources to cover conference-related expenses, as we have no resources to assist in covering travel or accommodations. You will also need to make your own arrangements for travel and accommodations. See our website for additional information (http://islam-eurasia.fas.harvard.edu/ie_conf_09.html). I want also to mention - especially to those who expressed interest in presenting their paper at this conference: We had a huge response when we made the preliminary announcement of the conference (over 1,000 responses!). Though we could not accommodate additional presentations in this conference, this tremendous response convinced me that there is a great deal of interesting work being done, and we should strive to organize another conference that would provide the opportunity for presentation and discussion of that work. I have resolved to try to mobilize the resources to hold another conference next year for which we will announce an open Call for Papers if I am successful. We hope in any case to remain in dialogue with those who are unable to present at or attend our March conference. The Project on Islam in Eurasia is a three-year project (and perhaps the beginning of longer-term undertakings), so we look forward to future cooperation with those who share this common interest. For those who are unable to attend, I would mention that the papers of the conference will be published as a book -- check our website for more information about the Project's future publication. Sincerely, John Schoeberlein Director of the Project on Islam in Eurasia and of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at Harvard University Project on Islam in Eurasia, Harvard University http://islam-eurasia.fas.harvard.edu email: islam-eurasia(a)fas.harvard.edu Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Harvard University http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu email: centasia(a)fas.harvard.edu

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Former Prime Minister of Georgia, Feb. 25

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> *The Boston Security Analysts Society presents:* > Economic Successes and Challenges in the Caucasus > Lado Gurgenidze, former Prime Minister of Georgia > Wednesday, February 25, 2009 > Hyatt Regency Boston > Adrienne Room, 4th Floor > One Avenue de Lafayette, Boston > Registration -- 12:15pm > Luncheon & Presentation -- 12:30pm - 2:00pm > Despite the geopolitical significance of the Caucasus, the countries > in that region face many challenges to continue economic growth. Mr. > Gurgenidze experienced many of these issues during his tenure as the > Prime Minister of Georgia, and will provide a unique insight in his > discussion of the economic achievements in the region and his thoughts > on its future. > Mr. Gurgenidze was the Prime Minister of Georgia from November 2007 > through November 2008. Prior to serving as Prime Minister, he was the > CEO of JSC Bank of Georgia and a Managing Director at ABN Amro in London. *Registrations must be received in advance. For more information and to register, click the link below: _http://www.bsas.org/BSAS_Programs_Events/PEC01-01.asp?ID=131_ ----- Alyssa Baig Department Head, Programs and Membership The Boston Security Analysts Society T: 617.426.0270, ext. 7 abaig(a)bsas.org <mailto:abaig@bsas.org> _www.bsas.org_ <outbind://11/www.bsas.org>

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2/11/2009 Square Table Series on Energy Politics

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*/Please note the following addition to the February seminar calendar: /* *Wednesday, February 11* *Square Table Series on Energy Politics* *Co-sponsored by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute* /"Untangling the Economic and Political Issues behind the Russian--Ukrainian Gas Crisis"/ Rawi Abdelal, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Marshall I. Goldman, Senior Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College Taras Kuzio, Adjunct Professor, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University; Editor, /Ukraine Analyst: Strategic Intelligence on Ukraine's Politics and Economics/ Tammy Lynch, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Conflict, Ideology & Policy, Boston University 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. If you need to register a new visitor login in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. ---------------------------------------------------- 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 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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HURI Seminar - February 9, 2009

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*The Ukrainian Research Institute invites members of the Harvard community and the general public to the following lecture presented as part of the HURI Seminars in Ukrainian Studies series:* / / *Politics, Elite Conflict and Gas Crises /Ukraine in the Approach to Presidential Elections/ Taras Kuzio /Adjunct Professor, Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University (Ottawa) Editor, "Ukraine Analyst" / **Monday, February 9, 2009* *4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.* *Room S-050 (Concourse Level)* *CGIS Building South, Harvard University* *1730 Cambridge Street* *Cambridge, MA 02138* */ Upcoming Lectures and Presentations of Interest (Unless indicated otherwise, events are held from 4-6:00 p.m. in Room S-050 of CGIS Building South):/* *Monday, February 16* /~ No seminar - Presidents' Day ~/ *Monday, February 23* The Gospels in Vernacular Ukrainian: Contrasting the Language Programs of Panteleimon Kulish (1871) and Antin Kobylians'kyi (1874, 1877) Andriy Danylenko /Lecturer in Modern Languages and Cultures, Pace University Associate, Ukrainian Research Institute/ *Monday, March 2* Muscovites in Ruthenian Lands in the 16th-17th Centuries: Social Integration, Cultural Identity, Historical Memory Konstantin Jerusalimsky /Senior Lecturer in History, Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute/ *Monday, March 9* The Populist Movement (Narodnytstvo) in Ukrainian Literature and Popular Culture Tamara Hundorova /Head, Department of Literary Theory, Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Petro Jacyk Distinguished Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute/ *Monday, March 16* Language Policy and Linguistic Attitudes in Ukraine Volodymyr Kulyk /Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington DC)/ *Monday, March 23 */~ No seminar - Spring recess ~/ *Monday, March 30* Jewish-Christian Cultural Contacts in Late Medieval Kyiv Moshe Taube /Professor of Linguistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jaroslaw and Nadia Mihaychuk Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute/ *Monday, April 6* The Consolidation of Army Officer Training in Lviv: Its Significance for Ukraine's Military Development Leonid Polyakov /Former Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine External Consultant, Parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense, Parliament of Ukraine Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute / *Monday, April 13 -/ Petro Jacyk Memorial Symposium/* On the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Mykola Hohol/ Nikolai Gogol /~ Details forthcoming ~/ *Monday, April 20* Should Cossacks Be Allowed to Sell Their Lands? A Contribution to Russo-Ukrainian Relations (1820s) John LeDonne /Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University/ * Monday, April 27* Literary Anthologies and Their Role in Shaping Ukrainian Identity Olena Haleta /Associate Professor of Literature and Director, Centre for the Humanities, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv Eugene and Daymel Shklar Research Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute/ *Monday, May 4* Taras Shevchenko and the Modern Ukrainian Literary Language: A Revisit and New Assessment Michael Moser /Associate Professor, Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Vienna/ *Program subject to change. To check for changes to the HURI Seminar schedule, please visit our website: http://www.huri.harvard.edu/calendar.html Please note: HURI now utilizes Harvard's list server. For more information, please visit our list at: http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/huri-events-list * For further information on HURI events, please contact us at: Tel.: 617-495-4053 Fax: 617-495-8097 E-mail: huri at fas.harvard.edu <mailto:huri@fas.harvard.edu> -- ------------------------- Ukrainian Research Institute Harvard University 34 Kirkland Street Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Tel: 617-495-4053 Fax: 617-495-8097 Web: http://www.huri.harvard.edu E-mail: huri(a)fas.harvard.edu ------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Huri-events-list mailing list Huri-events-list(a)lists.fas.harvard.edu http://lists.fas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/huri-events-list

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Seminar Calendar, February 16-28, 2009

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*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar February 16-28, 2009__* *__* */For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./* *__* *Wednesday, February 18* *Comparative Economics Seminar*// / / /"Entrepreneurship in Russia and China: The Impact of Formal Institutional Voids"/ Daniel McCarthy, Professor of Global Management and Innovation, Northeastern University Sheila Puffer, Professor of International Business, Northeastern University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, February 19* *Comparative Politics Seminar*// / / /"Accountability under Authoritarianism: Why Communism Failed in Europe but Survived in Asia"/ Martin Dimitrov, Center Associate, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *__* *Thursday, February 19* *Literature and Culture Seminar*// / / /"//Poetry Reading and Discussion of Poetry in Translation"/ Polina Barskova, Assistant Professor of Russian Literature, Hampshire College Ilya Kaminsky, Assistant Professor of English, San Diego State University 12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Kresge Room, Room 114 ** 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Sunday, February 22* *Film Screening* Mikhail Bulgakov's /The Master and Margarita/ The Landmark Miniseries directed by Vladimir Bortko February 8: Introduction, Chapters 1-2 February 15: Chapters 3-5 February 22: Chapters 6-8 March 1: Chapters 9-10, Conclusion 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Tsai Auditorium, Room S010 5:30 p.m. * * /Presented in English with Russian subtitles./ * * 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 in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. ---------------------------------------------------- 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 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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Announcing Spring Visitors

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The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies is pleased to welcome several new vistors joining us in the spring semester. You will find their biographies and contact information below.* * *Peter Collmer* is a Postdoctoral Fellow and an Adjunct Professor at the Historical Institute of the University of Zurich. Although his current research focuses on administrative culture in 18^th century Poland, he is well versed in a broad range of historical topics and has taught courses in Russian historical literature in the 19^th century, the military frontier of Habsburg Austria, reform discourse in 18th-century Poland and Russia, and the nation and nationalism in the history of East Central Europe. He completed his dissertation in 2004 at the University of Zurich where he studied relations between Switzerland and Russia, 1848-1919, and has published numerous books and articles in Switzerland. He is affiliated with the Davis Center as a Visiting Scholar for the calendar year 2009. pcollmer(a)fas.harvard.edu. *Amelia Glaser*, an Assistant Professor of Russian Literature at the University of California, San Diego, earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 2004 from Stanford University. Her dissertation was titled /The Marketplace and the Church: Jews, Slavs and the Literature of Exchange, 1829-1929. /Her publications include a book length translation from Yiddish, /Proletpen: America's Rebel Yiddish Poets /(Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2005), and her translations include works by Mendelstam, Ginzburg and Malevich. She has also published articles in /Jewish Social Studies, East European Jewish Studies, Gendernye Issledovani /and others. She joins the Davis Center as a Visiting Scholar for the spring semester, 2009. amelia.glaser(a)gmail.com. *Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt* is the Chief Rabbi of the Choral Synogogue in Moscow and heads the rabbinical court of the CIS. Goldschmidt played a major role in founding and developing communal structures of post-Soviet Jewry from colleges, day schools, and rabbinical schools, to political umbrella structures, such as the Russian Jewish Congress and the Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations of Russia. He has addressed the US Senate, the EU Parliament, The Council of Europe, The Israeli Knesset, Oxford University, and the OSCE Berlin Conference on anti-Semitism regarding Jewish political issues. As a proponent of inter-religious dialogue, he takes an active part in the Jewish-Catholic, and Jewish-Islamic, inter-religious dialogues, speaking at numerous inter-religious gatherings in New York, Paris, Astana, Seville and Moscow. He also leads the Conference of European Rabbis, the rabbinical umbrella group of Europe. Goldschmidt possesses an M.A. from Ner Israel Rabbinical College, as well as an M.S. from Johns Hopkins University. Goldschmidt received the Jerusalem Prize for exceptional spiritual leadership from the Israeli Parliament in the year 2000. He comes to Harvard University as a Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellow at the Center for Jewish Studies and a Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center during the spring 2009 semester. goldschm(a)fas.harvard.edu. *Baktybek Isakov*, a CARTI fellow sponsored by the Open Society Institute, is finishing his Ph.D. in History at the Kyrgyz-Turkish MANAS University. His current project, /Kyrgyz Pastoralism in Song Kol and Changes in Family and Household Organization from Collectivization to Privatization/, relates to his general interest in nomadism, tribalism and kinship in Kyrgyzstan. He has presented papers on Islamic and Shamanistic rituals of childbirth among nomadic Kyrgyz people and the condition of the Kyrgyz government during the reign of the Mongol Empire. He joins the Davis Center as a Fellow in the spring semester 2009. baktybek26(a)mail.ru. *Dmitry Poletaev* is a Senior Researcher in the State Research Institution Council for the Study of Productive Forces in the Russian Academy of Sciences. His current research in the area of irregular migration, and human trafficking has been supported by the International Labor Organization, the Open Society Institute, the MacArthur Foundation, the Carnegie Foundation and the Moscow Public Scientific Fund, among others. He earned his Ph.D. in 2001 from the Russian Institute for the Studies of Foreign Economic Relations in Moscow and has published over 40 articles. His dissertation was titled /Illegal Foreign Labor in Russi//a/. He completed his MA in economics with a specialty in statistics in 1996 at the Moscow State Institute of Economics and Statistics. During the spring semester of 2009, Dr. Poletaev is a Sakharov Fellow for Human Rights at the Davis Center. poletaev(a)fas.harvard.edu.

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ATTN: NEW SEMINAR POSTING FOR TODAY- “The Prospects for Israeli-Russian Relations in the Wake of the Gaza War” with Natan Sharansky

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*/Please note the following addition to the February seminar calendar:/* *Tuesday, February 3* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* /“The Prospects for Israeli-Russian Relations in the Wake of the Gaza War”/ Natan Sharansky, Chairman, Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies; Former Israeli Deputy Prime Minister 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 1:00-2:00 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. ---------------------------------------------------- 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 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu

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