[Daviscenter-list] Davis Center December Seminar Calendar

*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies _December Seminar Calendar_* *Friday, December 1, 2006** *Historians' Seminar* * /"//Science and the People: The Emergence of the Concept of the Narod, 1825-1850" / Nathaniel Knight, Professor of History, Seton Hall University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 1:00 - 3:00 pm * * *Friday, December 1, 2006 * *Literary Study Group * /"Alexei Gastev and Technologies of the Laboring Body"/ Anastasia Graf, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm ***Tuesday, December 5, 2006*** **Historians' Seminar** /"//Stolypin and the Uses of History: Land and Dispossession in Late Twentieth Century Russia" / Jessica Allina Pisano, Associate, Davis Center; Professor of History, University of Ottowa 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 1:00 - 3:00 pm * * * * *Wednesday, December 6, 2006 Comparative Economics Seminar* /"Emerging Capitalism in Russia and China" / Sheila Puffer, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor, College of Business Administration, Northeastern University Dan McCarthy, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor, College of Business Administration, Northeastern University, Jeanne Wilson, Center Associate, Davis Center; Chair, Professor of Political Science, Wheaton College 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:30 - 2:00 pm * * * * *Wednesday, December 6, 2006 **Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies* /"Re-writing East European Jewish Urban History?" / Elissa Bemporad, Historian of Russian and Yiddish Collections, Gruss-Lipper Project on Jewish Life in Poland, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Rebecca Kobrin, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Columbia University Discussant: Steven Zipperstein, Associate, Davis Center; Professor in Jewish Culture and History, and Director, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm *Friday, December 8, 2006** Early Slavists' Seminar* /"The Orthodox Convent in an Age of Reform: Continuity and Change in the Convent of the Intercession, 1700-1800"/ Marlyn Miller, PhD candidate, Russian History, Brandeis University 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm *Monday, December 11, 2006 Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop * * */"Comparative Politics of Tax Reform in Eastern Europe"/ Gerald Easter, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Associate Professor of Political Science, Boston College Papers are available on the website 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 pm *Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Cold War Studies Seminar * * */"The Soviet Union, the Turkish Crisis of 1945-1946, and the Origins of the Cold War"/ Elvis Beytullayev, Visiting Scholar, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 12:15 - 2:00 pm * * * * *Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Central Asia Seminar* /"Prospects for Democratization of Society in Azerbaijan" / Igbal Aghazadeh, Opposition Leader and Member of Parliament, Azerbaijan 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm * * * * *Thursday, December 14, 2006 Literature and Culture Seminar * * "*/From 'Kitten on the Keys' to 'Bugatti Step' in Ten Easy Lessons, or How Novelty Piano Came to Prague in the 1920s"/ Derek Katz, Assistant Professor of Music, University of California Santa Barbara 1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354 4:15 - 6:00 pm To purchase a parking permit at the Broadway Garage (located at the intersection of Broadway & Felton St. in Cambridge, MA), 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 301B Cambridge, MA 02138 Phone: 617.495.4037 Fax: 617.495.8319 http://www.daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu