Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
March 1-15, 2012
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website.
Thursday, March 1
Informing Eurasia Seminar
“Colonial Knowledge and late Imperial Settlement of the Central Asian Steppe”
Ian Campbell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Papers will be distributed in advance. Contact Robyn Angley (rangley@fas.harvard.edu) for more information.
Friday, March 2
Symposium on the Contemporary Caucasus
Roundtable: History and Memory / 12:15-2:00 p.m.
Chair: John Schoeberlein, Harvard University
Tea Kamushadze, Tbilisi State University, “Placing the Industrial City of Rustavi in the National History of Georgia”
Medo Badashvili, Tbilisi State University, “Muslim Women's Identity Issues in Post-Soviet Georgia”
Nadia Proulx, University of Montreal, “Subversive Literature and Ambiguous Moralities in North Ossetia Alania”
Krista Goff, University of Michigan, “Ethnic Minorities and the (post-)Soviet Azerbaijani National Imagination”
Roundtable: Building State Capacity/ 2:30-4:45 p.m.
Chair: Robyn Angley, Harvard University, “Georgia's Over-Qualified Opposition: Parliamentary, Extra-Parliamentary, Pro-Western, Pro-Russian, and More”
Simon Payaslian, Boston University, “Perilous Sovereignty: Human Rights in Armenia”
Thomas De Waal, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, “Dilemmas of State/Society Engagement in the South Caucasus”
Julie George, CUNY Queens College, “State-building, Ideology and Legitimacy in Georgia”
Stephen Jones, Mt. Holyoke College, “Georgia's Democracy: What's Working and What's Not”
Lasha Tschantouridze, Norwich University, “Peace and State Capacity in Georgia”
Film Screening: “Mimino” (Georgia, 1977) / 6:00-8:00 p.m.
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room)
This event is open to the public but seating is limited, so RSVP to lbeshear@fas.harvard.edu by Wednesday, February 29 if you plan to attend.
Friday, March 2
Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group
Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics and Society Working Group, Center for European Studies
“Women’s Holidays in Early Soviet-Western Ideological Struggles: International Women’s Day and Mother’s Day”
Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor Emerita, The Union Institute and University
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 8
Comparative Politics Seminar
“Did the Color Revolutions Really Happen? Regime Evolution in the Former Soviet Union 2002-2010”
Lincoln Mitchell, Associate Research Scholar, Harriman Institute, Columbia University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Friday, March 9
Early Slavists’ Seminar
“Grass: Ecology, Productivity, and Civilization on the Western Steppe”
Cherie Woodworth, Independent Scholar, Center for Comparative Research, Yale University; Center Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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