Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
October 16-31, 2009

For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our website:  http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php.

Monday, October 19
Cold War Studies Seminar
 
“Twenty Years Later:  The Opening of the Berlin Wall and the End of the Cold War”
Charles Maier, Professor of History, Harvard University
Mary Sarotte, Professor of History, University of Southern California
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.


Tuesday, October 20
Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar
 
“Sharia Courts in Central Asia: Evidence from Qazi Documents”
Elyor Karimov, Professor of History, Institute of History, Uzbek Academy of Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.


Wednesday, October 21
Occasional Seminar
 
“Russia in Limbo”
 
Richard Pipes, Professor of History (Emeritus), Harvard University; Former Director of East European and Soviet Affairs, National Security Council (1981-1982)
 
Comments by: R. Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs. U.S. Department of State (2005-2008)
 
Chair: Marshall I. Goldman, Senior Scholar, Davis Center; Professor of Russian Economics (Emeritus), Wellesley College  
 
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
Professor Pipes' talk will be based on his recent article published in the Wall Street Journal.  For the text, please visit the Wall Street Journal online:  http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970203550604574358733790418994-lMyQjAxMDA5MDIwNDEyNDQyWj.html
 
 
Thursday, October 22
Literature and Culture Seminar
 
“Facing Two Faces of Totalitarianism - The Poetry of Vladimir Holan and his Contemporaries, 1938-1954”
Urs Heftrich, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Professor and Chair of Slavic Literatures, University of Heidelberg
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
 
 
Friday, October 23
Early Slavists’ Seminar
 
“The Moral Economy of Magic in 17th-Century Muscovy”
Valerie Kivelson, Professor of History, University of Michigan
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.


Tuesday, October 27
Cold War Studies Seminar
 
“Stalin and the European Communist Parties after World War II”
Silvio Pons, Director, Gramsci Foundation (Rome); Professor of Modern History, University of Rome
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.


Thursday, October 29
Occasional Seminar
 
“Translating for Mikhail Gorbachev:  An Inside Look at World Events”
Pavel Palazhchenko, Author; Former Interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev and Eduard Shevardnadze
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
 
 
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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