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.

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