*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
March 16-31, 2009__*
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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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*****Tuesday, March 17*
*Historians' Seminar*//
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/"Imperial Apocalypse: World War I and the Destruction of the Russian
Empire" /
Joshua Sanborn, Associate Professor of Russian and East European
History, Lafayette College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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_**Tuesday, March 17*
*Director's Seminar*
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/"Reverberations for Russia and Eurasia from the Global Financial Crisis "/
Fiona Hill, National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia,
National Intelligence Council
1737 Cambridge Street, Knafel Building, 4th Floor, Room K401
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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*Tuesday, March 31*
*Director's Seminar*
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/Title TBA/
Leonid Nikitinsky, Russian Journalist, Winner of the Paul Klebnikov
Fund's 2009 Integrity in Journalism Award
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*/Please note the following upcoming seminars:
/**Wednesday, March 11*
*Special Seminar*
*Co-sponsored by the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University** *
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/"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*
*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.
*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.
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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*
*
*The Malcolm Wiener Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series
presents*
*Thomas F. Remington*
Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science, Emory University
and Senior Fellow, Davis Center for Russian & Eurasian Studies, Harvard
University
*Democracy and Inequality in the Postcommunist Transition:
Evidence from the Russian Regions*
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*Monday, March 2, 2009
12:00-1:45 p.m.
*(Buffet lunch available at 12:00 -- Presentation begins at 12:15)
*Harvard Kennedy School | Allison Dining Room (Taubman 5th floor)*
**
*About the speaker
*Thomas F. Remington is Professor of Political Science at Emory
University. He was founding director of Emory's Program in Russian and
East European Studies. In 1990 he won the Emory Williams Distinguished
Teaching Award. He is author of numerous books and articles on Russian
politics. Among his publications are two books on the Russian
parliament: /The Russian Parliament: Institutional Evolution in a
Transitional Regime, 1989-1999/ (Yale University Press, 2001) and /The
Politics of Institutional Choice: Formation of the Russian State Duma/
(co-authored with Steven S. Smith) (Princeton University Press, 2001).
Professor Remington's research focuses on the development of
representative institutions in post-communist Russia , particularly
parliamentary politics and legislative-executive relations. In addition
to courses dealing with Russian political development, he teaches
courses in comparative political institutions and comparative political
and economic reform.
*Paper available
*http://www.hks.harvard.edu/inequality/Seminar/Seminar.htm
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Harvard Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy
Harvard Kennedy School
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: inequality(a)harvard.edu <mailto:inequality@harvard.edu>
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