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.

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