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.
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 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.
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Broadway), please visit Harvard
University Parking Services. To register a new visitor login, choose
“Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies” and enter
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the Parking Services Office at 617-495-3772.
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