Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
May 1-15, 2009

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

Friday, May 1
Early Slavists’ Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
 
“Imia i vlast: Iazyk dinasticheskih imen v Drevnei Rusi”
Fjodor Uspenskij, Institute for Slavonic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.


Monday, May 4
Historians’ Seminar & Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar
 
“The Alash Orda between Siberia, the Urals, and Turkistan: Imperial Legacy and Political Geography during the Revolution and Civil War”
Tomohiko Uyama, Professor of Central Asian Studies, Slavic Research Center, University of Hokkaido
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
 
Tuesday, May 5
Historians’ Seminar
 
“Beyond ‘Replacing the Dead’:  The Soviet Postwar Reproductive Regime and the End of Soviet Demography”
Mie Nakachi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Wednesday, May 6
Comparative Economics Seminar
 
“Talking about the Gas Crisis: Vladimir Putin's Press Conference of January 9, 2009”
Michael Moser, Associate Professor, Institute for Slavic Studies, University of Vienna
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
 

Wednesday, May 6
Occasional Seminar
 
“The European Jewish Spiritual Leadership Confronting the Communist Regimes in Romania and Soviet Russia”
Pinchas Goldschmidt, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellow, Center for Jewish Studies; Chief Rabbi, Choral Synagogue, Moscow
 
Comments by:
Steven J. Zipperstein, Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Professor in Jewish Culture and History, Stanford University
 
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