[Daviscenter-list] Seminar Calendar: April 13-30, 2007

*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies * *Seminar Calendar April 13-30, 2007* *Friday, April 13 Occasional Seminar* / //"Clausewitz, Counterinsurgency, and the Russian-Chechen Conflict in Comparative Perspective"/ Andrew Mumford, Doctoral Candidate in Politics, University of Sheffield; Visiting Scholar, Conflict and Terrorism Center, Pennsylvania State University Thomas Waldman, Doctoral Candidate in Politics, University of Sheffield; Visiting Scholar, Conflict and Terrorism Center, Pennsylvania State University Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Monday, April 16* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* */"/*/Russian Society: Can It Come into Being*?"*/ Tatiana Vorozheykina, Sakharov Human Rights Fellow, Davis Center; Lecturer, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Tuesday, April 17** **Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar * / //"Imagining the State: How Perceptions of the State Influence Customary Law in the Kyrgyz Aksakal Courts"/ Judith Beyer, Ph.D. Candidate, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Wednesday, April 18 Historians' Seminar* * */"Russia, Prussia, and East Prussia in the Seven Years' War (1758-62): Frontiers, Military Administration, and Russian Expansion"/ Francine-Dominique Liechtenhan, Professor of History, Université Paris-Sorbonne 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. *Thursday, April 19* *Literature and Culture Seminar* /"Imperial Nationalism and Dostoevsky's /House of the Dead/"/ Edyta Bojanowska, Lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. ** *Friday, April 20 Literary Study Group* / "//Vladimir Soloviev's Vision(s) Revisited"/ Maria Nemcova Banerjee, Professor of Russian, Smith College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 3:15-5:00 p.m. *Monday, April 23 Exhibition Opening* / Cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Asia Center/ / "Here Be Giants: A Quarter-Century of Political-Photographic Explorations of That Broad Swath of the Eurasian Landmass Formerly Known as the Sino-Soviet Space"/ Opening talk and slideshow, with reception to follow. Gwendolyn Stewart, Photojournalist; Center Associate, Davis Center; Research Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 4:00 p.m. *Monday, April 23* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* * * /Cosponsored by the //University Committee on Human Rights Studies and the Northeast Office of Amnesty International USA/ /"Wars on Terror in the North Caucasus: Politics, Identity, Human Rights"/ Screening of the documentary/ The Crying Sun/, followed by discussion. Ousam Baysaev, Reporter, Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty (Chechnya) Zarema Mukusheva, Videographer, Memorial Human Rights Center, Grozny; Recipient, 2005 Reebok Human Rights Award Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International USA Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, Sakharov Human Rights Fellow; Assistant Professor of Political Science, Chechen State University Shamil Tangiev, Director, Memorial Human Rights Center, Grozny 1737 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room N354, 5:00-7:00 p.m. *Tuesday, April 24 Cold War Studies Seminar* / //"Bulgaria and the Fulbright Program during the Late Communist Period"/ Anne Freed, Former Fulbright Scholar, Bulgaria Roy Freed, Former Fulbright Scholar, Bulgaria 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:15-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, April 25 Comparative Economics Seminar* / //"Russian Oil and Gas: How Long Will the Bonanza Last?"/ John Grace, Geologist, Earth Science Associates 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 12:30-2:00 p.m. * * * * *Wednesday, April 25** Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies* / //"On Reconciling the Histories of Two Chosen Peoples: Twentieth-Century Narratives of Polish-Jewish Relations"/ David Engel, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Professor of History, New York University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * *Thursday, April 26* *Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights* */Cosponsored by Harvard Law School/* */"/*/Russia// and the European Convention on Human Rights: The Role of Courts and NGOs"/ Anton Burkov, Human Rights Lawyer, Urals Centre of Constitutional and International Human Rights Protection, NGO /Sutyajnik/; Kapitza Scholar, University of Cambridge Location and Time TBA ** *Thursday, April 26** **Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar* / //"Memories on the Edge of Disaster: Earthquakes in Central Eurasia"/ Douglas Northrop, Associate Professor of Modern Central Asian Studies, University of Michigan 1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * *Thursday, April 26* *Literature and Culture Seminar* /"Lianozovo and Moscow Conceptualist Poetry"/ Gerald Janecek, Professor of Russian, University of Kentucky; Editor, /Slavic and East European Journal/ 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354 4:15-6:00 p.m. * * *Friday, April 27** **Early Slavists' Seminar* / //"Ruthenian Law, Ruthenian Language--What Did the Lithuanian Statutes Mean for the History of the Ruthenian Language?"/ Michael Moser, Associate Professor, Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna Ukrainian Research Institute, 34 Kirkland Street, Main Seminar Room 12:15-2:00 p.m. *Friday, April 27* *Undergraduate Colloquium* *on Russian and Eurasian Studies* * *Multidisciplinary research presentations by advanced undergraduates from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges. 1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Rooms S020, S040, S050, and 3rd Floor, Room S354 2:00-5:45 p.m. *Monday, April 30 Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop * /"Transforming Bureaucracy: Conditional Norms and the International Standardization of Statistics in Russia"/ Yoshiko Herrera, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University Papers are available on the web at www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. 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