Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
April 1-15, 2008

 
Tuesday, April 1
Literature and Culture Seminar
 
“Two Kinds of Theater: Natasha's Visit to the Opera in Tolstoy's War and Peace (Vol. II, Part Five, chapt. IX and X) and Young Krull's First Visit to the Theater in Thomas Mann's Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (Book I, chapt. 5)”
Horst-Jürgen Gerigk, Professor of Russian Literature, Slavisches Institut, Heidelberg University, Germany
12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Room 133
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
 
Wednesday, April 2
Comparative Economics Seminar
 
“Proletarian Aesthetics: Stalin and Technology in East Central Europe”
Paul Josephson, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of History, Colby College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Wednesday, April 2
Outreach Program Series
 
“Islam in Central Asia”
John Schoeberlein, Lecturer on Central Asia, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
4:30-6:30 p.m.
 
 
Thursday, April 3
Comparative Politics Seminar
 
“Who Wants to Revise Privatization and Why? Two Surveys from the Postcommunist World”
Timothy Frye, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 

Thursday, April 3
Wiktor Weintraub Memorial Lecture
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

“Milosz and Brodsky: Poetry with a Foreign Accent”
Irena Grudzinska-Gross, Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of the Institute for Human Sciences, Boston University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
 
Thursday, April 3 - Saturday, April 5
Symposium
 
“Aleksander Pushkin: An Historic Symposium at Harvard”  
Exploring the Dual Heritage of Russia's Greatest Poet and Father of Modern Russian Literature & the Black Russians of the 20th Century
 
Thursday, April 3
Opening Reception, Poetry Recital & Opera Clips
12 Quincy Street, Barker Center, Thompson Room
5:00-7:30 p.m.
 
Friday, April 4
Symposium
20 Quincy Street, Harvard Faculty Club, 2nd Floor Library
9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
 
Saturday, April 5
Symposium
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
 
Advance Registration Requested:  Online at www.charleshamiltonhouston.org or via email to lpaiewon@post.harvard.edu
 
 
Friday, April 4
Early Slavists’ Seminar
 
“Heroic Literature in Kievan Rus’: Beyond the Igor Tale”
Susana Torres Prieto-Hay, Lecturer in Slavonic, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; Postdoctoral Fellow, Universite Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV, France
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.


Tuesday, April 8
Cold War Studies Seminar and Book Talk

“Of Spies and Spokesmen: My Life as a Cold War Correspondent”
Nicholas Daniloff, Professor of Journalism, Northeastern University; Former Moscow Bureau Chief, U.S. News and World Report
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Tuesday, April 8
Cold War Studies Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Occasional Seminar

“The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev”
Vladislav Zubok, Associate Professor of History, Temple University
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
 
Wednesday, April 9
Director’s Seminar
 
“Vladimir Putin- Well-Suited for the Number Two Role- A Behavioral Movement Analysis”
Brenda Connors, Senior Fellow, Strategic Research Department, U.S. Naval War College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
 
Thursday, April 10
Comparative Politics Seminar
 
“(Un)happiness in Transition”
Sergei Guriev, Associate Professor and Rector, New Economic School, Moscow
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Thursday, April 10
Art Exhibition Opening Reception
 
“Transitional Spaces: Destruction, Disintegration and Growth in Post-Communist Hungary and Estonia”
Amy Brouillette, Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center
Sara Rhodin, Graduate Student Associate, Davis Center
1737 Cambridge Street, Ground Level, Fisher Family Commons
5:00-7:00 p.m.
 
 
Friday, April 11
Film Screening
Co-sponsored by the Korea Institute
 
“Koryo Saram” 
Y. David Chung, Film Co-director
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010
6:30 p.m.
 
For more information, please visit: http://koryosaram.net/
 
 
Monday, April 14
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop
 
“State Ownership and Rentierism in the FSU: Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan”
Pauline Jones-Luong, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown University
 
Papers are available on the web at http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. There is no presentation; all participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the meeting.
 
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Tuesday, April 15
Comparative Politics Seminar
 
“Coming to Terms with a Past: Electoral Turnovers and Coalitional Commitments in Slovakia’s Quest for a Lustration Law”
Jana Kunicova, Governance Specialist, World Bank
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
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