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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
October 16-31, 2008
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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.
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Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
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