Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
April 1-15, 2009
 
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website:  http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.

Thursday, April 2
Comparative Politics Seminar
 
“Antifascism, Youth Scenes, and Urban Space: Findings from Recent Fieldwork in Provincial Russia”
Mischa Gabowitsch, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts; Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Tuesday, April 7
Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar
 
“Moral Reasoning and Intelligibility: Becoming Muslim in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan”
Johan Rasanayagam, Lecturer on Anthropology, University of Aberdeen
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
 
Wednesday, April 8
Comparative Economics Seminar
 
“Russia Incorporated:  The Market Economy in an FSB-Controlled State in the Twenty-First Century”
Yuri Felshtinsky, Author and Historian
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Friday, April 10
Early Slavists’ Seminar
 
“Kallisti:  The Bride-Show and Muscovite Marriage Politics”
Russell E. Martin, Associate Professor of History, Westminster College; President, Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture, Inc. (ASEC)
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Friday, April 10
Historians’ Seminar
 
“Demographic Crisis and Gender in Russia after WWII”
Elizabeth Brainerd, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Economics, Williams College
Mie Nakachi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Tuesday, April 14
Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights

“Forced Labor and Human Trafficking in Today’s Russia”
Dmitry Poletaev, Sakharov Fellow, Davis Center; Senior Research Fellow, Council for the Study of Productive Forces, Russian Academy of Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Wednesday, April 15
Comparative Economics Seminar
 
“Kazakhstan:  Road to Independence”
Ariel Cohen, Senior Research Fellow, Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Security, The Heritage Foundation
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
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
Fax: 617.495.8319
http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu