[Daviscenter-list] Seminar Calendar, November 16-30, 2009

*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar November 16-30, 2009__* *__* */For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./* *_ _**Monday, November 16* *Cold War Studies Seminar* /"Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment"/ Stephen Kotkin, Professor of History, Princeton University Charles Maier, Professor of History, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Monday, November 16* *Committee on **Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lunchtime Lecture* /"Between Reform and Revolution: Islamic Debates in Early Soviet Central Asia"/ Adeeb Khalid, Professor of Asian Studies and History, Carleton College// 1730 Cambridge Street, 2^nd Floor, Room S250 1:00-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Monday, November 16* *Occasional Seminar* /"Historicizing Violence against Women: Current Challenges for the Women's Movement in Russia"**/ Marianna Muravyeva, Associate Professor of Law and Political and Legal Theories, Herzen State Pedagogical University; Researcher, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki 1730 Cambridge Street, 1^st Floor, Room S153 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Tuesday, November 17* *Comparative Economics Seminar* /"Yukos: The Everybody Does it Defense vs. the State"/ Alan Siegel, Retired Senior Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * *Wednesday, November 18* *Comparative Economics Seminar* /"Integration and Disintegration in the Post-Soviet Area"/ Sobirjon Kurbonov, Fellow, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, November 19* *Comparative Economics Seminar* /"Quality of Institutions and Length of Presidential Terms"/ Maria Snegovaya, Fellow, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Friday, November 20* *Early Slavists' Seminar* Roundtable discussion:/ "Bureaucratic 'Modernization' in 18th-Century East Central Europe" / Peter Collmer, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Zurich Alison Frank, Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University Iryna Vushko, Shklar Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Monday, November 23* *Cold War Studies Seminar* /"Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Achievements and Limits of Non-Violent Action during the Cold War"/ Adam Roberts, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Oxford University Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of Politics, Oxford University with commentaries by Merle Goldman, Professor Emeritus of History, Boston College Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center Charles Maier, Professor of History, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard University Parking Services at https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl. If you need to register a new visitor login in order to purchase a parking pass, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020 on the online registration form. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. ---------------------------------------------------- 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