Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies

Seminar Calendar
December 1-15, 2011

 

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

 

Friday, December 2

Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group

Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics and Society Working Group, Center for European Studies

 

“Reflections on 20 Years of East-West Collaboration: The Network of East-West Women in New York and Poland, 1991-2011”

Ann Snitow, Director, Gender Studies Program and Associate Professor of Literature and Gender Studies, The New School

1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450

2:00-3:30 p.m.

 

 

Monday, December 5

Hokkaido Roundtable

 

Comparative Analysis of Ethnic Political Mobilization: Non-titular Nations versus Titular Nations in the Former Soviet Republics

“Avoiding ‘Transdniestr North’: Reflections on Non-Titular Ethnic Mobilization in North-East Estonia since 1990”

David J. Smith, Professor of Baltic History and Politics, Central and East European Studies of Glasgow University

 

“Political Mobilization and Framing:  Ethno-National, Ethno-Territorial, and Economic Movements”

Cynthia S. Kaplan, Professor of Comparative Politics, Department of Political Science of University of California, Santa Barbara

 

“Concord or Division? The Unexpectedly Underwhelming Role of Ethnicity in Russian Politics, 1991-2011”

Dmitry Gorenburg, Senior Analyst, CNA Strategic Studies; Center Associate, Davis Center

 

1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354

4:15-6:00 p.m.

 

 

Tuesday, December 6

Cold War Studies Seminar

 

“Poland, Solidarity, and Martial Law, 1980-1981:  A Thirty-Year Retrospective”

 

Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University

Robert Kupiecki, Ambassador of Poland to the United States of America

Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University; Associate, Davis Center

Thomas W. Simons Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; U.S. Foreign Service Officer 1963-1998; Former Ambassador to Poland and Pakistan

 

1737 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room K354

12:15-2:00 p.m.

 

 

Tuesday, December 6

Exhibition Opening

Co-sponsored by the Kosciuszko Foundation

 

“Poland, Solidarity, and Martial Law, 1980-1981:  A 30-Year Retrospective, featuring photographs and other items from Harvard's Jerzy and Olenka Polak Collection”

1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse

2:15-3:15 p.m.

 

Exhibition runs December 6, 2011 to January 17, 2012

 

 

Tuesday, December 6

Historian’s Seminar

 

“Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921-1941” (Oxford University Press, 2011)

Michael David-Fox, Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet History, Georgetown University

1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354

4:15-6:00 p.m.

 

 

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