[Daviscenter-list] Seminar Calendar: Oct. 16-31, 2007

*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies October 16-31, 2007 Seminar Calendar * *Tuesday, October 16 Comparative Politics Seminar*/ / /"Media Freedom, Quality of Government, and the Resource Curse: An Application to Russia" /Kostantin Sonin, Assistant Professor, New Economic School (CEFIR), Moscow 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Wednesday, October 17 Comparative Economics Seminar* / "Russian Multinationals: Natural Resource Champions//"/ Daniel McCarthy, Professor of Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Northeastern University Sheila Puffer, Professor of International Business & Strategy, Northeastern University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. * * *Wednesday, October 17 Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies* /"In Search of Jewish-Russian Literature" /Maxim D. Shrayer, Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Russian and English, Boston College; Editor, /An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature: Two Centuries of Dual Identity in Prose and Poetry /(M.E. Sharpe, 2007) Discussant: Julie Buckler, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, October 19 **Special Seminar **Co-sponsored by the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies **and the Davis Center//* /"//The City of War: A Planned Cosmogony"/ Ekaterina Taratuta, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Political Science, Saint Petersburg State University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. *Monday, October 22 Lecture/Concert Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Davis Center* /"The Social Philosophy of the Genre of Popular Song in the Post-Industrial Network Society"/ Psoy Korolenko (Pavel Lion), Ph.D., Moscow State University Harvard Yard, Dudley House, Junior Common Room 4:15 p.m. *Wednesday, October 24 Co-sponsored by the Comparative Economics Seminar and the Comparative Politics Seminar* / //"Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness"/ Scott Gehlbach, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 pm *Thursday, October 25 Co-sponsored by the Literature and Culture Seminar and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures* **/Reading of Poems and Stories/* *Ksenia Golubovich, Writer, Critic, Translator and Editor, Moscow 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. */Please note: The reading will be in Russian, with discussion in English or Russian./* * * *Monday, October 29 **Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*// /"The Trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev - a Show Trial or an Anti-Show Trial?"/ Elizabeth Wood, Associate, Davis Center; Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Papers are available on the web at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. There is no presentation; all participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the meeting./ / 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * *Wednesday, October 31 Comparative Economics Seminar* /"//Gazprom's New Skyscraper: Saint Petersburg at Risk?"/ Arkadi Nebolsine, President, International Society for Preservation of Russian Monuments and Landscape 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m.* * * * *Wednesday, October 31 Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies* / "//The Bund and the Jewish Religion, 1897-1917: A Reconsideration"/ David Fishman, Professor of Jewish History, Jewish Theological Seminary; Director, Project Judaica 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. To purchase a parking permit at the Broadway Garage (located at the intersection of Broadway & Felton St. in Cambridge, MA), please visit Harvard University Parking Services at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml. Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or problems, contact the Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772.