*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
November 16-30, 2009__*
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*/For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit
our website:
http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php./* *_
_**Monday, November 16*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
/"Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment"/
Stephen Kotkin, Professor of History, Princeton University
Charles Maier, Professor of History, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Monday, November 16*
*Committee on **Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lunchtime Lecture*
/"Between Reform and Revolution: Islamic Debates in Early Soviet Central
Asia"/
Adeeb Khalid, Professor of Asian Studies and History, Carleton College//
1730 Cambridge Street, 2^nd Floor, Room S250
1:00-2:00 p.m.
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*Monday, November 16*
*Occasional Seminar*
/"Historicizing Violence against Women: Current Challenges for the
Women's Movement in Russia"**/
Marianna Muravyeva, Associate Professor of Law and Political and Legal
Theories, Herzen State Pedagogical University; Researcher, Helsinki
Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
1730 Cambridge Street, 1^st Floor, Room S153
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Tuesday, November 17*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"Yukos: The Everybody Does it Defense vs. the State"/
Alan Siegel, Retired Senior Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, November 18*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"Integration and Disintegration in the Post-Soviet Area"/
Sobirjon Kurbonov, Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, November 19*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
/"Quality of Institutions and Length of Presidential Terms"/
Maria Snegovaya, Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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*Friday, November 20*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
Roundtable discussion:/ "Bureaucratic 'Modernization' in 18th-Century
East Central Europe"
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Peter Collmer, Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Post-Doctoral Fellow,
University of Zurich
Alison Frank, Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard
University
Iryna Vushko, Shklar Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Monday, November 23*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*
/"Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Achievements and Limits of
Non-Violent Action during the Cold War"/
Adam Roberts, Professor Emeritus of International Relations, Oxford
University
Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of Politics, Oxford University
with commentaries by
Merle Goldman, Professor Emeritus of History, Boston College
Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center
Charles Maier, Professor of History, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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