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/. There is no presentation; all participants are expected to have read the paper in advance of the meeting.
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15–2:00 p.m.
 
 
 
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