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
Historians’ 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.
 
 
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Harvard University
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