Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Seminar Calendar
November 1-15, 2010

 

For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our web calendar.

 

Wednesday, November 3

Occasional Seminar

 

"Skolkovo:  Russia's Attempt to Become a High-Tech Leader"

Loren Graham, Professor (Emeritus) of the History of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University; Executive Committee Member, Davis Center

1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354

12:15-2:00 p.m.

 

 

Wednesday, November 3

Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies

 

"From 'Narodnichestvo' to the Jewish 'Narod': Lev Shternberg's Search for a Secular Humanistic Judaism"

Sergei Kan, Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies, Dartmouth College; Center Associate, Davis Center

1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354

4:15-6:00 p.m.

 

 

Thursday, November 4

Comparative Economics Seminar

 

"Horizontal vs. Vertical in Today’s Russian Media"

Maxim Trudolubov, William Montalbano Nieman Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University; Editorial Page Editor, Vedomosti Daily

1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354

12:30-2:00 p.m.

 

 

Tuesday, November 9

Historians’ Seminar

 

“Soviet Environmental History as Lived Experience: The Fate of the Russian Pomors”

Stephen Brain, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of History, Mississippi State University

1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354

4:15-6:00 p.m.

 

 

Friday, November 12

Early Slavists’ Seminar

 

"Marriage, Family Politics, and Identity in Medieval Eastern Europe"

Christian Raffensperger, Assistant Professor of History, Wittenberg University

1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354

12:15-2:00 p.m.

 

 

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