Davis
Center for
Russian
and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
October 1-15, 2008
Wednesday,
October 1
Comparative
Politics Seminar
Co-sponsored
by the Comparative Economics Seminar
“A
Failed Transition of the Mind? Russian Economic Debates on Transition”
Joachim Zweynert, Scientific Head, Hamburg Institute of
International Economics, Thuringia (Erfurt)
1730 Cambridge Street,
3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Thursday,
October 2
Comparative
Economics Seminar
“From Weddings to War:
Reflections on a Summer as a Journalist in Moscow”
Sara Rhodin, AM Candidate, REECA, Harvard; 2008 New York
Times Moscow
Bureau Intern
1730 Cambridge Street,
3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Friday,
October 3
Literature and Culture Seminar
Screening and Discussion
of Recent Work
Andrei Khrzhanovsky, Animated Film-maker
1730 Cambridge Street,
Concourse Level, Room S050
12:00-3:00 p.m.
Monday,
October 6
Book Talk
“Eurasia's New Frontiers: Young States, Old Societies,
Open Futures” (Cornell University
Press, 2008)
Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Lecturer,
Government
Department, Harvard; Former US Ambassador to Poland and Pakistan
1730 Cambridge Street,
3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, October 7
Cold War Studies Seminar
“The 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia
40
Years Later: Reassessing East-Bloc and
Western Reactions to the Prague Spring”
Guenter Bischof, Professor of History, University of New
Orleans
Mark Kramer, Program Director, Cold War Studies Project,
Harvard
Peter Ruggenthaler, Senior Research Fellow,
Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut
fuer Kriegsfolgen-Forschung, Vienna
1730 Cambridge Street,
3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Friday,
October 10
Early Slavists’
Seminar
“Dressing a Wolf in
Sheep's Clothing:
The Composition of the Life of Alexander Nevskii”
Donald Ostrowski, Associate, Davis Center;
Research Advisor, Division of Continuing Education, Harvard
1730 Cambridge Street,
3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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Harvard University
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