Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
April 16-30, 2009

For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website:  http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.

Thursday, April 16
Cold War Studies Seminar
 
“Solidarity and Lech Walesa:  Historical Assessments and Controversies”
Michael Szporer, Professor of Communications, Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland University College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
 
Friday, April 17
Early Slavists’ Seminar
 
“A Study of Russian Book Culture: ‘Kurbsky Miscellanies’ and Their Contexts”
Konstantin Erusalimskii, Shklar Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute; Assistant Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Monday, April 20
Historian’s Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
 
“Should Cossacks be Allowed to Sell Their Lands? A Contribution to Russo-Ukrainian Relations”
John P. LeDonne, Center Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
 
Wednesday, April 22
Comparative Economics Seminar
 
“World Economic Recession: How We See It in Moscow”
Visiting Student Group, Moscow State University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Thursday, April 23
Comparative Politics Seminar
 
“Determinants of Regional Democracy Variations in Russia: Geography, Development, and the Forgotten Legacies of Western Engagement”
Tomila Lankina, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Public Policy, De Montfort University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.


Thursday, April 23
Literature and Culture Seminar
 
“Cultural Identity and Community in the Art of Boris Chaliapin”
Dassia Posner, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center; Lecturer in Theater, Boston College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.

 
Friday, April 24
Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies

Multidisciplinary research presentations and film screening by advanced undergraduates from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges.
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level
1:00–5:30 p.m.


Thursday, April 30
Cold War Studies Seminar
 
“Molotov and the Cold War:  A Revisionist View”
Geoffrey Roberts, Professor of Modern History, University College Cork
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
 
Thursday, April 30
Literature and Culture Seminar
 
“Catherine's Retinue: Old Age and Historical Thought in Pushkin and Turgenev”
Luba Golburt, Assistant Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of California, Berkeley
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