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, 3rd 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, 2nd 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, 1st 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, 3rd 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, 3rd 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, 3rd 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, 3rd 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, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
 
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