30 Apr
2007
30 Apr
'07
12:59 p.m.
*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies*
*_May 1-14 Calendar of Events_*
*Tuesday, May 1*
*****Cold War Studies Seminar*
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****/"Soviet Strategic Culture and Military Policy during the Cold War"/
Dima Adamsky, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center For International
Affairs, Harvard University; Research Fellow, Mayrock Center for East
European and Eurasian Studies, Hebrew University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, May 2*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
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///"//China//'s Continental Energy Strategy: Russia and Central Asia"///
Vitaly Kozyrev, Fellow, Department of Political Science, Amherst College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, May 3*
*****Historians' Seminar*
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**///////"Urban Freedom in Russian Historiography (Late 19th and Early
20th Centuries)"/
////Wladimir Berelowitch, Professor of History, École des hautes études
en sciences sociales and University of Geneva
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, May 3*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
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/"//Production Choreographies: Vsevolod Meyerhold, Alexei Gastev, and
the Politics of Biomechanics"///
Asya Graf, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Monday, May 7*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
*/"State Building, /*/Human Rights, and Islamic Radicalization in the
North Caucasus"/
*Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya,** *Sakharov Human Rights Fellow, Davis Center;
Programs Director, Memorial Human Rights Center, Northern Caucasus;
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Grozny University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, May 8*
*****Historians' Seminar*
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///"Romanov Russia in Qajar Iran (1795-1925)"/
////Robert Crews, Professor of History, Stanford University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, May 9*
*****Research Travel Workshop*
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////Reports by recently-returned research travelers and advice for those
now planning trips to the region.
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
1:00-3:00 p.m.
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****If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Hillary Colter at
hcolter(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:hcolter@fas.harvard.edu> or 617-495-4038
by Friday, May 4, 2007.****
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*Thursday, May 10 *
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
*/Cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research/*
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*//* /"Mao, Stalin, and the Politics of 1953 in China"/
Hua-yu Li, Associate Professor of History, Oregon State University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, May 10 *
*Film **Screening and Talk*
Documentary filmmaker and Center Associate Robin Hessman will show her
27-minute Student Academy Award-winning short film, "Portrait of a Boy"
(codirector James Longley). The film was her diploma work at VGIK, the
All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography. She will also present a
10-minute piece of her current work in progress, "Russia's Pepsi
Generation," a documentary that looks at the last generation of Soviet
children to grow up behind the Iron Curtain. The film will be broadcast
on PBS in 2009.
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Friday, May 11*
*****Early Slavists' Seminar*
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///"//The Strategic Dilemmas of Seventeenth-Century East European
Warfare"///
////Peter Brown, Professor of History, Rhode Island College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Monday, May 14*
*Book Talk*
/By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey /
(The MIT Press, January 2007)
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*János Kornai*, Author; Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Harvard
University; Permanent Fellow, Emeritus, Collegium Budapest Institute
for Advanced Study; Distinguished Research Professor, Central European
University
Chair: *Timothy Colton*, Director, Davis Center; Professor of
Government, Harvard University
Discussant: *Francis Bator*, Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus,
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Discussant: *Paul Hollander*, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor
of Sociology, Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
4:15-6:00 p.m.
****If you plan to attend the book talk, please RSVP to Penelope Skalnik
at pskalnik(a)fas.harvard.edu <mailto:pskalnik@fas.harvard.edu> or
617-384-8438 by Friday, May 4, 2007.****
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