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.

 
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