TO:
FROM: Lis Tarlow
RE:
Columbia-Harvard forum on "Does Leadership in Russia Matter?"
Dear friends,
On February 21-22, the
While the majority of attendees will be “paying customers,” we may be
able to
accommodate a certain number of our affiliates with subsidized tickets.
These
people need only to provide their own travel and lodgings.
If you are interested in attending as our guest, please let me know as
soon as
possible. Once we know how many people we can invite, we will
accommodate on a
first-come, first-served basis.
Lis Tarlow
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The
Columbia-Harvard
Russia/Eurasia Forum
Does Leadership in
February 21–22, 2008
in
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/seminars_conferences/Harriman.html
To what extent does leadership, as opposed to
underlying
factors and forces, drive events in
On the eve of the 2008 Russian presidential elections, the Harriman Institute and the Davis Center—the country’s leading centers for the study of Russia and the surrounding area—are launching a joint project to foster in-depth comparative discussion of the region and of the big intellectual issues surrounding it. We aim to consider and debate how best to understand trends in this strategically important region of the world by going beyond conventional wisdom and tired stereotypes that often pass for analysis. We invite you to join with professionals, scholars, and other interested citizens for the Columbia-Harvard Russia/Eurasia Forum on February 21–22.
Tentative program
Thursday,
February 21, 6–9 p.m.
Opening Debate: Does Leadership in
Timothy Colton, Director,
Stephen Kotkin, Professor of Modern and Contemporary
History,
Friday,
February 22, 8 a.m.–7:30 p.m.
Panels:
Politics; Culture & the Arts;
Grassroots Organizations & NGOs; Economics
Keynote speaker
Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. National Security Advisor to
President Carter (1977-1981)
Featured
Panelists
Rawi Abdelal, Associate Professor of Business
Administration,
Harvard Business School
Timothy Colton, author of forthcoming biography Yeltsin:
A
Life
Anna Gincherman, Relationship Manager, Women’s
World
Banking
Marshall Goldman, author of forthcoming Petrostate:
Putin,
Power, and the New Russia; Professor Emeritus, Wellesley College
Sergei Guriev, Executive Director, Center for Economic
and
Financial Research, New Economic School
Natalia Ivanova, First Deputy
Editor, Znamya
Sarah Lindemann-Komarova, Cofounder, Siberian Civic
Initiatives Support Center
Rory MacFarquhar, Managing Director, Economic
Research,
Goldman Sachs, Russia
Catharine Nepomnyashchy, Director, Harriman Institute,
Columbia University; Professor, Barnard College
Gleb Pavlovsky, President, Foundation for Effective
Politics
Thomas Remington, Professor of Political Science,
Emory
University
Harlow Robinson, Professor of
History, Northeastern University
Stephen Sestanovich, Ambassador-at-Large and
Special
Advisor to the Secretary of State (1997–2001); Senior Fellow, Council
on
Foreign Relations
Ole Solvang, Executive Director, Stichting Russian
Justice
Initiative
William Taubman, author of Pulitzer Prize–winning
biography Khrushchev:
The Man and His Era (2003); Professor, Amherst College
Venue
All events will take place at the Century Association,
Registration
The conference fee is $600 ($250 academic rate) for
registrations
postmarked by January 31. Includes reception and dinner on Thursday,
and
continental breakfast, lunch, and cocktail reception on Friday. Late
registration: $750 ($300 academic rate). The registration
form
can be downloaded here: http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/seminars_conferences/Russia_Eurasia_Forum_Registration.pdf
Lodging
A special conference rate is available at the Club Quarters Hotel,
Midtown.
Booking details provided upon registration.
Further Information
Please contact Irene Coffman at 212-854-5431 or ibc3@columbia.edu.