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 Kiška (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.
 
 
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
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