[Daviscenter-list] Seminar Calendar, February 1-15, 2008

*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar February 1-15, 2008__* *Monday, February 4* *Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*// / / /"//Competing Nationalisms and the Populist Moment in Contemporary Polish Politics" /Peter Vermeersch, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard; Associate Professor, University of Leuven 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, February 4* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights * /"The Duma Elections and the General Situation of Human Rights and Rule of Law in Russia"/ Lev Ponomarev, Chairman, Movement for Human Rights, Russia 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. ** *Tuesday, February 5* *Occasional Seminar* / //"Politics of Environmental Reforms: Impact on the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM)"/ Nick Aladin, Head of the Brackish Water Hydrobiology Laboratory, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * ********** * *Wednesday, February 6* *Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies * / / /"Borderline Experiences: Reinterpreting the Jewish Mass Migration from Eastern Europe, 1880-1930"// /Tobias Brinkmann, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies, Harvard; Lecturer, History Department and Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton, UK 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, February 6* *Outreach Program Series* / / /"//Islam in the West" /Jocelyne Cesari, Director of the Islam in the West Program, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 4:30-6:30 p.m. * ** * *Friday, February 8 ** **Early Slavists' Seminar* / "//The Russian and Slavonic Languages in Sixteenth-Century Muscovy"/ Charles J. Halperin, Visiting Scholar, Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Wednesday, February 13* *Comparative Economics** Seminar* / //"The Transdniestrian Conundrum and Moldovan-Russian Relations"/ Paul D. Quinlan, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of History, Providence College Robert Weiner, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *** * * **** * *Wednesday, February 13* *Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies and Book Talk* / / /"The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet Territories/" (Indiana University Press, 2007) / /Joshua Rubenstein, Center Associate, Davis Center; Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International USA Ilya Altman, Co-chairman, Research and Educational Holocaust Center, Russia 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. /Reception to follow./ *Thursday, February 14* *Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*// *Co-sponsored by the Comparative Politics Seminar* / / /"How Ethnicity Shapes Insurgent Violence: A Matched Analysis of `Sweep' Operations in Chechnya/" Jason Lyall, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University; Olin Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard 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. *Thursday, February 14* *Literature and Culture Seminar* / / /"Viktor Krivulin vs. Dmitrii A. Prigov: Two Strategies of the Underground from the Soviet Period to the Present"/ Mikhail Berg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, February 15 * *Historian**s' Seminar* / //"Progress through Power? Medical Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century Russia as Imperial Elite"/ Andreas Renner, Professor of East European History, University of Tübingen 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 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. -- ---------------------------------------------- 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