Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
November 1-15, 2007
 
 
Thursday, November 1
Comparative Politics Seminar

“Environmental Policy and Regulation: the Role of Risk. A Comparison of Approaches: Russia and Norway”
Louis Skyner, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Centre for European Law, Oslo University; Legal Expert for Projects on Housing and Property Rights in Russia, sponsored by the U.N. Economic Commission for Europe, World Bank, University of Oslo, and the Institute of Law and Public Policy in Moscow
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Thursday, November 1
Exhibition Panel Discussion
Sponsored by the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research

“Armenian Monuments of the Nakhichevan Region”
National Association for Armenian Studies and Research, 395 Concord Avenue, Belmont, Massachusetts
8:00 p.m.
See website for more information:  http://www.nakhichevanmonuments.org/
 
 
Friday, November 2
Exhibition Opening Reception

“Armenian Monuments of the Nakhichevan Region”
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Gallery
5:00-7:00 p.m.
See website for more information:  http://www.nakhichevanmonuments.org/
 

Wednesday, November 7
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies

“Anti-Semitism without Jews in Communist Poland: Thoughts from 1971”
Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Lecturer, Government Department, Harvard University; U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, 1968-1971 and 1990-1993 (as Ambassador)
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
 
Thursday, November 8- Friday, November 9
Symposium on "The Cinema of Sergei Paradjanov"
Co-sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures, The Humanities Center, the Provostial Fund in the Arts & Humanities and the Davis Center

“The Cinema of Sergei Paradjanov”
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
See website for more information:  http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~slavic/events/paradjanov/paradjanov.htm


Friday, November 9
Early Slavists’ Seminar

"The Slavonic 72 Names of the Lord: Between Christianity and the Kabbalah”
Valentina Izmirlieva, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages, Columbia University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
  
Tuesday, November 13
Cold War Studies Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies

“Terror in Beslan:  A Reassessment of the September 2004 Crisis”
John B. Dunlop, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Tuesday, November 13
Historians’ Seminar

“Res Publica in the Imperial State:  A Discourse on Public Property in Russia”
Ekaterina Pravilova, Professor of History, Princeton University
1737 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room N105
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
Tuesday, November 13
Comparative Politics Seminar

“The Yukos Affair: A Cut and Dried Case?”
Richard Sakwa, Professor of Russian and European Politics, University of Kent
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
 
Wednesday, November 14
Comparative Economics Seminar

"The Place of Russia in Global Capitalism”
David Lane, Senior Research Associate in Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Emmanuel College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
 
 
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