Davis Center
for Russian
and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
November 1-15, 2008
For upcoming events not yet published in this
calendar, please visit
our website:
http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.
Monday,
November 3
Special Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Mashtots Chair in
Armenian Studies, the Department of Near Eastern
Languages
and Civilizations, and the Center for the Study of World
Religions
“Christian Hajjis: The Forgotten Pilgrims of
Ottoman Jerusalem”
Valentina Izmirlieva, Associate Professor of Slavic Studies,
Columbia University
1730 Cambridge Street,
3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Wednesday,
November 5
Comparative Politics Seminar
“The Modern History of
Russian Media- How Did We Get to Where We Are?”
Andrei Zolotov, Jr., Fellow, Nieman Foundation for
Journalism, Harvard University; Founding Editor, Russia
Profile
1730 Cambridge Street,
3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Thursday,
November 6
Occasional Seminar
“Winter
Palace:
>From Katherine the Great to Present Day”
Anna Konivets, Coordinator, Guggenheim-Hermitage Project;
Senior
Research Fellow, State Hermitage Museum,
St. Petersburg
1730 Cambridge Street,
3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Thursday,
November 6
Comparative Economics Seminar
“The Real Truth about Russia”
John T. Connor Jr., Founder and Portfolio Manager, Third
Millennium Russia
Fund
1730 Cambridge Street,
4th Floor, Room S450
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Thursday,
November 6
Literature and Culture Seminar
“Polish-Jewish
Intellectuals in Mainstream Entertainment, 1918-39: An Unfinished
Adventure”
Knut Andreas Grimstad, Director of the Programme for
Literary
Studies and Associate Professor of Polish, University of Oslo
1730 Cambridge Street,
3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Friday,
November 7
Occasional Seminar
“The Politics of
Survival: Reporting in Russia Today”
Yevgenia Albats, Professor of Political Science, State University
Higher
School of Economics, Moscow; Deputy
Editor and Political Editor, The New
Times; Talk Show Host, Ekho Moskvy Broadcasting
1730 Cambridge Street,
3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Monday,
November 10
Comparative Economics Seminar
“Putin’s
Labyrinth: Spies, Murder and the Dark
Heart of the New Russia”
Steve LeVine, Chief Foreign
Affairs Writer, Business Week
1730
Cambridge Street,
4th Floor, Room S450
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Monday,
November 10
Cold War Studies Seminar
“Cold War Between Pyongyang
and Hanoi: North Korea, Vietnam,
and the Cambodian Question, 1970-1989”
Balazs Szalontai, Visiting Scholar, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars
1730 Cambridge Street,
3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Wednesday,
November 12
Comparative Economics Seminar
“Russia Matters: An Insider’s Look
at the Rise of Russia and
the West’s Failure to Engage the Heartland of Eurasia”
Alfred Kokh, Author; Former Deputy Prime Minister, Russian
Federation
1730 Cambridge Street,
3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Wednesday,
November 12
Comparative Economics Seminar
“Russian Energy and Foreign Policy: Beyond
the Former Soviet Union”
Anita Orban, Director, Constellation Energy Institute
61 Kirkland Street,
Seminar Room
4:15-5:30 p.m.
Thursday,
November 13
Literature and Culture Seminar
Screening of Current History
(2006)
Followed by a discussion with the director, Hannah
Collins
1730 Cambridge Street,
Concourse Level, Room S050
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Friday,
November 14
Early Slavists’ Seminar
“‘Igor’s
retinue said to him’ (Rekosha druzhina Igorevi): On Aleksei Gippius’
Article
about the Linguotextological Stratification in the Initial Chronicle (Nachal'naia
Letopis’)”
Olga Strakhov, Independent
Scholar; Library Assistant, Gund Hall Library, Graduate School
of Design, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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