[Daviscenter-list] Seminar Calendar, October 1-15, 2010

Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Seminar Calendar October 1-15, 2010 For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our web calendar<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>hp>. Friday, October 1 Early Slavists' Seminar "Camels in Rus´" Inés García de la Puente, Associate, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 6 Public Lecture "Why Kyrgyzstan Matters" Baktybek Beshimov, Former Member of the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan; Visiting Scholar, Davis Center Timothy Colton, Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government and Russian Studies; Chair, Department of Government, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room) 4:00-6:00 p.m. Reception to follow in the concourse RSVP to Joan Gabel<mailto:jgabel@fas.harvard.edu> by Oct. 1 if you plan to attend. This event will address the major questions raised by the revolution, popular unrest, and ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan since April 2010. How do these events impact academic theories of post-Soviet countries' transformation? Conversely, how can existing theories of governance and international relations shed light on what happened? What potential areas for new research have been opened by these events? What major questions does the coup or revolution raise for the field of Central Asian area studies? Thursday, October 7 Book Talk "The Caucasus: An Introduction" (Oxford University Press, 2010) Thomas de Waal, Senior Associate, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment; Author 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Tuesday, October 12 Cold War Studies Seminar "The Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact, and the Crisis with Czechoslovakia, 1968" Peter Ruggenthaler, Senior Research Fellow, Boltzmann Institute for Research on War's Consequences 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 13 Historians' Seminar Co-sponsored by the Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies "Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Shadow of the Holocaust" Jason Wittenberg, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. Friday, October 15 Book Talk Co-sponsored by the Davis Center Outreach Program "The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them" Elif Batuman, Author; PhD in Comparative Literature, Stanford University; Harvard College '99 1737 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room K354 4:00-6:00 p.m. To purchase a parking permit for the Broadway Garage (located on Felton Street, between Cambridge Street and Broadway), please visit Harvard University Parking Services<https://www2.uos.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/permit/purchase.pl>pl>. To register a new visitor login, choose "Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies" and enter department code 2020. All parking-related questions should be directed to the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772. --- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA 02138 T 617.495.4037 F 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu