Davis
Center for
Russian
and Eurasian Studies
May 1–14 Calendar of Events
Tuesday,
May 1
Cold War
Studies Seminar
“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
“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
“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.
Thursday, May 3
Literature and Culture Seminar
“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
“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
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.
****If you plan to attend, please RSVP to Hillary Colter at hcolter@fas.harvard.edu or
617-495-4038
by Friday, May 4, 2007.****
Thursday, May 10
Cold War Studies Seminar
Cosponsored by the Fairbank Center
for East Asian
Research
“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
“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)
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@fas.harvard.edu
or 617-384-8438 by Friday, May 4, 2007.****