[Daviscenter-list] Seminar Calendar, October 16-31, 2008

/(Due to recent technical difficulties, all members may not have received this calendar. We are re-sending this message in case anyone missed it.)/* Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar Calendar October 16-31, 2008* /*For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website: http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.*/ * Thursday, October 16 Comparative Politics Seminar* /"Political Change in Russia and Its Foreign Policy Implications"/ Vitaly Kozyrev, Professor, Endicott College and Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * Thursday, October 16 Literature and Culture Seminar Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Literatures and Languages and the Humanities Center * /"The Observer Observed: Gorky and the Art of the Literary Memoir"/ Donald Fanger, Professor of Literature, Emeritus, Harvard; Faculty Associate, Davis Center In conversation with William Mills Todd III, Professor of Literature, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard; Faculty Associate, Davis Center Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Thompson Room, Room 110 4:15-6:00 p.m. * Friday, October 17 Historian's Seminar* /"When I Served the Post as a Coachman: Circulation and Empire in Russia's 18th Century"/ John Randolph, Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * Thursday, October 23 Literature and Culture Seminar* /Poetry Reading with Alexandra Petrova / Alexandra Petrova, Poet Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Kresge Room, Room 114 4:15-6:00 p.m. * Monday, October 27 Cold War Studies Seminar* /"Did Reagan's 'Star Wars' Missile-Defense Program Help Win the Cold War? Evidence from Formerly Classified Soviet Documents"/ Pavel Podvig, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * Tuesday, October 28 Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar* /"Illegal Labor Migration from Central Asia to the United States"/ Saltanat Liebert, Assistant Professor, Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs, Virginia Commonwealth University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * Thursday, October 30 Comparative Politics Seminar* /"Exiting Anarchy: Coup-Proofing after State Failure in the Caucasus and Central Asia"/ Jesse Russell Driscoll, Visiting Fellow, Yale University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 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 **Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or problems, contact the **Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772. * -- ---------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu