[Daviscenter-list] Seminar Calendar: March 19-31, 2007

*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar* *March 19-31, 2007* *Monday, March 19*** *Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop * / / /"Return to (Illiberal) Diversity? Anti-Gay Politics and Minority Rights after the EU's Eastern Enlargement"/ Conor O'Dywer, Harvard Academy Scholar; Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Florida 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. *Monday, March 19 * *Literary Study Group * */ /* */"/*/Steam Heat and the Fireplace: Mayakovsky Confronts the Urban Romance"**/ Robert A. Rothstein, Professor of Polish Language, Literature, and Culture; Professor of Slavic and Judaic Studies and of Comparative Literature; Adjunct Professor of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, March 21* *Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies* /"Making Yiddish Culture Bolshevik: National Autonomy, Cultural Power, and the Revolutionary Imperative in Soviet Jewish Culture, 1919-21"/ Kenneth Moss, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, The Johns Hopkins University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Thursday, March 22* *Literature and Culture Seminar* /"The One, the Many, and the Mathematician: Nikolai Bugaev and Nineteenth-Century Russian Metaphysics"/ Tim Langen, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Missouri-Columbia 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Monday, March 26* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* */Cosponsored by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies/* /"State and Society in Latin America and Russia: A Comparative Approach"/ Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Global Prosperity, The Independent Institute Tatiana Vorozheykina, Sakharov Human Rights Fellow, Davis Center; Lecturer, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S010 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 http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml. 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.