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

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