[Daviscenter-list] Seminar Calendar, April 16-30, 2008

*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar April 16-30, 2008* *Thursday, April 17* *Literature and Culture Seminar* / / /"The Stone Women of the Steppe: The Cultural Life of a Modernist Artifact"/ Michael Kunichika, Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian, Amherst College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, April 18* *Early Slavists' Seminar and Book Talk* *Co-sponsored by the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, Seminar in Ukrainian Studies* /"Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past" /(University of Toronto Press, 2008) Serhii Plokhii, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * *Wednesday, April 23 * *Book Talk* / / /"Yeltsin: A Life"/ Timothy J. Colton, Director, Davis Center; Professor of Government and Russian Studies, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Thursday, April 24* *Comparative Politics Seminar*// / / /"Democracy, Governance and Inequality: Evidence from the Russian Regions" /Thomas Remington, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of Political Science, Emory University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Thursday, April 24* *Literature and Culture Seminar* *Co-sponsored by the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies,* *Film History/Theory Seminar* /"On Chaplin in Russian Avant-Garde Art and on the Laws of Fortuity in Art" / Yuri Tsivian, Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University; Professor of Film History, Chicago University 24 Quincy Street, Carpenter Center, Room B-04 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * *Friday, April 25* *Historians' Seminar*// / / / "The Privatization of the Soviet Union, 1945-1991?"/// Stephen Lovell, Reader in Modern European History, King's College, London 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Friday, April 25* *Undergraduate Colloquium* *on Russian and Eurasian Studies* * *Multidisciplinary research presentations by advanced undergraduates from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges. 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level 2:00--5:45 p.m. * * * * *Monday, April 28* *Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*// / / /"State Ownership and Rentierism in the FSU: Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan"/ Pauline Jones-Luong, Associate Professor of Political Science, Brown University 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, April 28* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* "/War on Terror and Human Rights in the North Caucasus"/ Eliza Musaeva, Sakharov Fellow, Davis Center; Human Rights Researcher, Memorial, Ingushetia and Chechnya 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 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