On Friday, February 24, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the New Eurasia Foundation of  Russia will co-sponsor a one-day symposium on "Russia's Future: More of the Same, or Something Different?" (see program below), to be held at Harvard in the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050. Russian and American scholars will analyze current trends in Russia -- political, social, economic, and in the international environment -- with an eye to drawing possible scenarios for Russia's future.

Please feel free to circulate this to your colleagues and students. If you have any questions, you may contact Penny Skalnik at daviscrs@fas.harvard.edu.

We look forward to seeing you.

Lisbeth Tarlow
Associate Director, Davis Center

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Co-sponsored by the New Eurasia Foundation of  Russia and the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Friday, February 24, 2006
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S050

Program

8:15 - 9:00     Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15     Welcome by Lisbeth L. Tarlow (Davis Center) and Andrei Kortunov (New Eurasia Foundation)

Chair and Discussant: Elise Giuliano (University of Miami; Davis Center)
Andrey Akhremenko (Moscow State University): "Forces for Change"

Alexey Shcherbinin (Tomsk State University): "The View From Siberia"

10:45 - 11:00       Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30   Panel II.  Shifting Social Values in Post-Soviet Russia

Chair and Discussant: Linda Cook (Brown University; Davis Center)

Mikhail Chernysh (Russian Academy of Sciences): "The Evolution of Social Identity in the Period of Transition"

Artem Rykun (Tomsk State University): "Values and Identity in Post-Soviet Siberia: The Tomsk Initiative"

12:30 - 1:45    Lunch Break

Chair and Discussant: Gerald Easter (Boston College; Davis Center)

Rustem Nureev (Moscow Higher School of Economics): "The View from Moscow"

Timur Gareev (Kaliningrad State University): "The View from Kaliningrad"

3:30 - 3:45     Coffee Break

3:45 - 5:15     Panel IV.  Russia and Global Politics

Chair and Discussant: Martin Dimitrov (Dartmouth College; Davis Center)

Irina Busygina (Moscow State University for International Relations): "The Role of Moscow"

Maria Guzikova (Ural State University): "Future Scenarios for the Urals"

5:15 - 5:30     Concluding Remarks, Timothy Colton (Harvard University; Davis Center)

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