[Daviscenter-list] Seminar Calendar, March 1-15, 2008

*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar March 1-15, 2008* *Monday, March 3* *Occasional Seminar* / / /"Operational Leadership of the Soviet Terror from the Civil War to the Great Terror"/ Stephen Wheatcroft, Professor of History, University of Melbourne, Australia 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, March 5* *Comparative Economics Seminar* / / /"//Are Population and Health Constraints Affecting Russian Society and the Military?" /Murray Feshbach, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center; Research Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. *Wednesday, March 5* *Outreach Program Series* / / /"Islam in Africa" /Jacob Olupona, Professor of African and African-American Studies, Harvard Divinity School 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 4:30-6:30 p.m. *Thursday, March 6* *Literature and Culture Seminar* / / /"The Information Arms Race: Towards a Cybernetics of Stalinism"/ Terry Martin, Professor of Russian Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, March 7- Saturday, March 8* *Conference//* *Co-sponsored by the Davis Center and The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute* /"Reassessing Post-Soviet Energy Politics: Ukraine, Russia, and the Battle for Gas from Central Asia to the European Union"/ Session 1: Actors, Agendas and Interests Session 2: Gas Trade and Energy Security: The Impact on National and International Politics Session 3: From Producer to Consumer: Transit, Prices, and Informal Institutions 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 /For more information: http://www.huri.harvard.edu// /To register online: //http://www.huri.harvard.edu/gas_conf_reg.html/ * * * * *Monday, March 10* *Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*// / / /"Reflective and Unreflective Partisans? Experimental Evidence from Russia, Poland, and Hungary on the Links between Information, Opinion, and Party Identification" /Joshua Tucker, Associate Professor of Politics, New York University// 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Monday, March 10 **Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* "/On the Russian Presidential Election of March 2, 2008"/ Andrei A. Piontkovsky, Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute; Senior Research Fellow, Institute for System Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 4:15-6:00 p.m. * ****Tuesday, March 11* *Cold War Studies Seminar* / / /"The Soviet Union and U.S. Presidential Campaigns during the Cold War//"/ Kostadin Grozev, Visiting Professor of History, University of Texas; Professor of Modern History, University of Sofia, Bulgaria 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * *Thursday, March 13* *Literature and Culture Seminar* / / /"Brodsky, Chekhov and We"/ Lev Loseff, Department Chair and Professor of Russian, Dartmouth College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Friday, March 14 **Historians' Seminar* /"//The Affective Turn: Emotions and the Writing of History"/ Ronald Suny, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, The University of Chicago 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Friday, March 14 ** **Early Slavists' Seminar* / //"From Pamvo Berynda (1627) to Luka Kis(ka (1722): A Relapse from Script- to Language-Switching"/// Andriy Danylenko, Shklar Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute; Lecturer in Russian Language and Culture, Pace University 1737 Cambridge Street, Ground Level, Room N105 12:15-2:00 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 at http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/par.shtml. Click on the "One-Day Online Permit" tab in the left hand column, and follow the instructions from there. If you have any questions or problems, contact the Parking Services Office at 617.495.3772. -- ---------------------------------------------- Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301 Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu