[Daviscenter-list] Seminar Calendar, December 1-15, 2008

*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar December 1-15, 2008* *__* */For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./* *__* *Tuesday, December 2 * *Comparative Economics Seminar*// / / /"Into the Red: The Birth of the Credit Card Market in Postcommunist Russia"/ (Stanford University Press 2008) Alya Guseva, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. *Tuesday, December 2 * *Cold War Studies Seminar* *Co-sponsored by the Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*// / / /"1968, Charta 77, and 1989 in Czechoslovakia" /Jan Sokol, Visiting Professor, Harvard Divinity School; Founding Signatory, /Charta 77/ 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Monday, December 8* *Comparative Economics Seminar* *Co-sponsored by the Comparative Politics Seminar*// / / /"Whither EU-Russia Economic Partnership?" /Stanislav Tkachenko, Professor, School of International Relations; Former Vice President, St. Petersburg University// 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, December 11* *Comparative Politics Seminar*// / / /"Trajectories of Post-Communist Transformation and How to Account for Them" /Jacques Rupnik, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Research Director, Foundation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, France 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Friday, December 12* *Early Slavists' Seminar* /"'From the Varangians to the Greeks': What Route Does the /PVL/ Really Describe?"/ Inés Garcia de la Puente, Post-doctoral Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and Universitas Complutensis, Spain 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Friday, December 12 * *Comparative Economics Seminar*// / / /"Itera: Myths and Facts" /Lazar Finker, Vice President for Governmental Affairs, Itera International Energy Corporation// 1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250 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. 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