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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