*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
June 1-15, 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, June 9*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
/"The Cold War and the Origins of International Human Rights Regimes
after the Second World War"/
Nadia Boyadjieva, Professor of International Law and International
Relations, University of Plovdiv
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.
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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
*From:* Jennifer Amadeo-Holl [jennifer(a)nber.org]
*Sent:* Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:57 PM
*To:* jennifer Amadeo-Holl
*Subject:* Fri May 15 @ 12pm: LISA COOK and INA GANGULI: "Science in the
Former USSR" Econ of S+E Workshop
We invite you to attend the *Ec2888hf /Economics of Science and
Engineering Workshop,
/*held jointly with the Harvard Business School's */Science Based
Initiative Seminar (SBBI).
/WHEN: *Friday, May 15, 2009 @ 12-1:30pm
*LOCATION: *Harvard Business School, Baker Library 102
*SEMINAR TITLE: *"Science in the former USSR"
*LUNCH* - please RSVP no later than 72 hrs prior to the seminar to be
included in the lunch.
*To RSVP for lunch*: please contact* sbbi(a)hbs.edu <mailto:sbbi@hbs.edu>*
*For questions on the seminar*: please contact* sbbi(a)hbs.edu
<mailto:sbbi@hbs.edu>*
*SPEAKER 1:
*Lisa D. Cook, Ph.D. (James Madison College, International Relations,
Michigan State University) Visiting Scholar (Innovation Policy and the
Economy, National Bureau of Economic Research)
*PRESENTATION TITLE:
*"A Green Light for Red Patents? Outsourcing Patent Protection in the
Soviet Union and Russia, 1963 to 2007."
*SPEAKER 2:
*Ina Ganguli, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, (John F. Kennedy
School of Government)
*PRESENTATION TITLE:
*"Scientific Productivity and Migration after the End of the USSR:
Evidence from the Intl Science Foundation."
*SPEAKER 1: *Lisa D. Cook, Ph.D., Michigan State and NBER
"A Green Light for Red Patents? Outsourcing Patent Protection in the
Soviet Union and Russia, 1963 to 2007."
*ABSTRACT:
*
> Developing countries will need to incur significant new costs to
> address legal obligations associated with enhanced intellectual
> property rights (TRIPs). In many countries, it is too early to predict
> whether increased patent protection increases innovative activity.
> Recent economic history may provide a useful laboratory for
> understanding the effects of patent reform on innovative activity. A
> unique new data set allows examination of patenting behavior by
> citizens of the Soviet Union (1971-1991) and of Russia (1992-2007). I
> find that Soviet inventors obtained tens of thousands of patents
> abroad, despite prohibitions on ownership of private property in the
> U.S.S.R. Further, outsourcing patent protection appears to promote
> innovative activity in the short run but not in the long run. An
> important implication of these findings is that emerging markets and
> developing countries may increasingly need to invest in their own
> institutions of intellectual property protection over time rather than
> outsourcing them.
> *BIO:*
> Lisa D. Cook is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics
> and at James Madison College (International Relations) at Michigan
> State University. She was an honors graduate of Spelman College and a
> Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, where she obtained a B.A. in
> Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. She received a Ph.D. in economics
> from the University of California, Berkeley. She has been a
> post-doctoral fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard
> University (Kennedy School of Government), Senior Adviser on Finance
> and Development at the Treasury Department and Council on Foreign
> Relations International Affairs Fellow under the Clinton and Bush
> Administrations, and a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at
> Stanford University. She has also worked or completed internships at
> Salomon Brothers, the World Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of New
> York, Bank of America (formerly Citizens and Southern Bank), and the
> Brookings Institution (Research Assistant to Alice Rivlin). Her
> current teaching and research interests include economic growth and
> development, the economics of intellectual property rights, and
> financial institutions and markets. Dr. Cook is the author of a number
> of published articles, book chapters, and working papers. She has
> received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Bill and
> Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Bureau of Economic Research,
> and the Economic History Association. With fellow economist and
> co-author Jeffrey Sachs, she has advised the governments of Rwanda and
> Nigeria. She has lived in France, the United Kingdom, Senegal, and
> Russia; speaks French, Wolof, Russian, and Spanish; and has traveled
> widely in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. During the 2008-2009
> academic year, Professor Cook served on the Obama Presidential
> Transition Team and is an Innovation Policy and the Economy Fellow at
> the National Bureau of Economic Research.
>
*SPEAKER 2: *Ina Ganguli, Doctoral Candidate in Public Policy, JFK School
"Scientific Productivity and Migration after the End of the USSR:
Evidence from the Intl Science Foundation."
> *ABSTRACT:
> *With the economic collapse that followed the break-up of the Soviet
> Union in 1991 came dramatic drops in funding for science and the wages
> of scientists. This, along with the sudden mobility that followed the
> end of the USSR, led many scientists to emigrate to the United States,
> Israel or Europe to continue their careers. Others remained at home
> and sought opportunities to continue their research, despite the
> economic instability. Some, meanwhile, left science completely. In
> this project, I study the migration decisions and productivity of
> leading Soviet scientists after the end of the USSR. I draw upon
> information from programs from the International Science Foundation
> (ISF), a large-scale grant-giving institution created by George Soros
> to support scientists from the former USSR beginning in 1993. Using
> data on publications, citations, and affiliation collected through the
> SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and the Science Citation Index
> (SCI), I present initial evidence on the impact of grants on
> scientists' outcomes.
> *BIO:
> *Ina Ganguli is a doctoral candidate in Public Policy at the John F.
> Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Ina's research
> areas are labor economics, international development and program
> evaluation, with a focus on immigration, education, innovation, and
> gender issues. Ina holds a B.A. in Mathematical Methods in the Social
> Sciences from Northwestern University, and a Master of Public Policy
> from the University of Michigan.
>
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You can find the Spring 09 schedule at:
http://my.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40231
OR go to: http://www.hbs.edu/units/tom/seminars/2008/science/
To join the mailing list, please contact *jennifer(a)nber.org*
<mailto:jennifer@nber.org>
*/Please note the time for today's seminar is 4:15-6:00 p.m. (not
12:15-2:00 p.m.)/**__*
*Thursday, May 7*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*//
/"Russian Policy toward the Commonwealth of Independent States: Recent
Trends and Future Prospects"/
Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Harvard
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 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
*/Please note the following 5/7 seminar reminder /**__*
*Thursday, May 7*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*//
/"Russian Policy toward the Commonwealth of Independent States: Recent
Trends and Future Prospects"/
Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Harvard
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
You are cordially invited..
PEN New England / Hotel Marlowe Reading Series
PEN New England
invites you to a reading with
MAXIM D. SHRAYER
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
6:15 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
during the Hotel Marlowe's wine hour, beginning at 5:00 p.m.
Maxim D. Shrayer will read from his most recent book, the literary memoir Waiting for America: A Story of Emigration. He is the author of The World of Nabokov's Stories, Russian Poet/Soviet Jew and other books and is the recipient of a 2007 National Jewish Book Award. His collection of stories, Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, is forthcoming. Shrayer was born in 1967 in Moscow and immigrated to the United States in 1987. He is a Professor of Russian and English at Boston College, a bilingual writer and translator and lives in Chestnut Hill, MA, with his wife and two daughters.
Porter Square Books will be selling books at this reading. The Hotel Marlowe is located at 25 Edwin H. Land Boulevard, Cambridge. Inexpensive parking is available in the Cambridgeside Galleria garage with direct entry into the hotel from Levels A and C. Enter the garage from the Land Boulevard entrance, directly next to the Hotel Marlowe entrance. The hotel is closest to the Lechmere T-stop, and is within walking distance of Charles and Kendall Square.
About PEN New England
PEN (Poets/Playwrights, Essayists/Editors, Novelists) New England is an organization of distinguished and accomplished writers, aspiring authors, and all who love the written word. Our mission is to advance the cause of literature in New England and defend free expression everywhere. PEN New England is one of three regional branches of PEN American Center, and part of International PEN, the oldest human rights organization in the world, and also the international literary organization. PEN NE is honored to collaborate with the Hotel Marlowe and Porter Square Books to produce the PEN/Marlowe Reading Series, now in its sixth year. The monthly reading series is co-chaired by essayist/photographer, Emily Hiestand, and fiction writer, Edith Pearlman.
PEN New England
Lesley University
29 Everett Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617) 349-8113
pen-ne(a)lesley.edu
*/Please note the following 5/6 seminar reminder and 5/14 addition to
the May calendar:/*
**
*Wednesday, May 6*
*Occasional Seminar*//
/ /
/"The European Jewish Spiritual Leadership Confronting the Communist
Regimes in Romania and Soviet Russia"/
Pinchas Goldschmidt, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Daniel Jeremy
Silver Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies; Chief Rabbi, Choral Synagogue,
Moscow
Comments by:
Steven J. Zipperstein, Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study;
Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
***Thursday, May 14*
*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
Richard Wilson, Professor of Physics (Emeritus), Department of Physics,
Harvard University
Priscilla McMillan, Center Associate, Davis Center
Chair:
Mark Kramer, Program Director, Cold War Studies Project, Harvard University
1737 Cambridge Street, Knafel Building, Concourse Level, Room K031
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
*Russian and Soviet History Book Sale
*Books from the collection of Richard Pipes, Frank B. Baird Jr.
Professor of History, emeritus
CGIS South Building, 3rd floor
1730 Cambridge Street
Wednesday, May 7, 2009
10 am - 6 pm
Stop by the 3rd floor of the CGIS South building this Wednesday to
browse an array of books on Russian and Soviet history. The books are in
both English and Russian, among other languages, and cover both the
imperial period, the 1917 Revolution, the Soviet period, and some on the
post-Soviet period.
Emeritus Professor Richard Pipes was a member of the Harvard faculty
from 1950 until his retirement in 1996, and was involved with the Davis
Center throughout his career. He is the author of numerous major works
on Russian history, including /The Unknown Lenin /in 1996, /Russia Under
the Bolshevik Regime/, and /The Russian Revolution/. He chaired the
CIA's "Team B" during that competitive analysis exercise in 1976, and
was the head of the East European and Soviet desk at the National
Security Council under President Ronald Reagan.
Organized by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the
Davis Center Collection, Fung Library