Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
October 1-15, 2007

Seminar Calendar
 
 
Monday, October 1
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop

“The Collapse and Resilience of Communist Regimes”
Martin Dimitrov, Center Associate, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Wednesday, October 3
Comparative Economics Seminar


“Putin and His National Champions”
Robert Price, ALM Candidate, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.


Wednesday, October 3
Director’s Seminar


Current Russian Politics: Between Stability and Uncertainty”
Boris Kagarlitsky, Director, Institute of Globalization and Social Movements, Moscow
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
   

Friday, October 5
Historians’ Seminar

“On the Relevance of Russian Legal History”
William Butler, Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
12:15-2:00 pm

   
Friday, October 5
Literature and Culture Seminar

Language and Tradition across Boundaries:  A Screening and Discussion of the Documentary Film Piemule (1984)”

Jana Ševcíková, Director, Piemule (1984)
Tereza Porybna, Fulbright Scholar, Harvard University
24 Quincy Street, Carpenter Center, Harvard Film Archive, Room B-04
12:15-2:00 p.m.

 
 
Friday, October 5
Comparative Economics Seminar

“Comparison of Central Asian Economics

Martin Spechler, Professor of Economics, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.


Tuesday, October 9
Cold War Studies Seminar

What Can We Expect of Europe?”
 
Marten van Heuven, Senior Consultant, RAND Corporation; retired US Foreign Service Officer; former National Intelligence Office for Europe

1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 pm

 
 
Thursday, October 11
Occasional Seminar

"Japan’s Northern Territorial Issue Going Forward”
Akihiro Iwashita, Professor, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University; Visiting Fellow, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
 
Holidays in Kazan: City Duma, Public Opinion and Theological Politics among Muslims after 1905”
Norihiro Naganawa, Assistant Professor, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University
 
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15- 2:00 pm

 
 
Thursday, October 11
Comparative Politics Seminar

Cosponsored by the Comparative Economics Seminar

Organized Business, Political Competition and Property Rights across the Russian Federation
William Pyle, Associate Professor of Economics, Middlebury College

1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 pm

 
 
Friday, October 12
Early Slavists’ Seminar

The Philosopher’s Speech and the Prehistory of the PVL”
Alan Timberlake, Professor of Slavic Languages & Literature, University of California, Berkeley
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Monday, October 15
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop
 
“Trends in Political Party System Institutionalization in Russia and Brazil since Transition”
Dan Epstein, Dissertation Fellow, Davis Center; PhD Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
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