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.
 
 
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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
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