*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
February 1-15, 2008__*
*Monday, February 4*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
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/"//Competing Nationalisms and the Populist Moment in Contemporary
Polish Politics"
/Peter Vermeersch, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies,
Harvard; Associate Professor, University of Leuven
Papers are available on the web at
http://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 p.m.
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*Monday, February 4*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights *
/"The Duma Elections and the General Situation of Human Rights and Rule
of Law in Russia"/
Lev Ponomarev, Chairman, Movement for Human Rights, Russia
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Tuesday, February 5*
*Occasional Seminar*
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//"Politics of Environmental Reforms: Impact on the Baltic Marine
Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM)"/
Nick Aladin, Head of the Brackish Water Hydrobiology Laboratory,
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, February 6*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies *
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/"Borderline Experiences: Reinterpreting the Jewish Mass Migration from
Eastern Europe, 1880-1930"//
/Tobias Brinkmann, Visiting Scholar, Center for European Studies,
Harvard; Lecturer, History Department and Parkes Institute for the Study
of Jewish/Non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton, UK
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, February 6*
*Outreach Program Series*
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/"//Islam in the West"
/Jocelyne Cesari, Director of the Islam in the West Program, Center for
Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
4:30-6:30 p.m.
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*Friday, February 8 **
**Early Slavists' Seminar*
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"//The Russian and Slavonic Languages in Sixteenth-Century Muscovy"/
Charles J. Halperin, Visiting Scholar, Russian and East European
Institute, Indiana University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, February 13*
*Comparative Economics** Seminar*
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//"The Transdniestrian Conundrum and Moldovan-Russian Relations"/
Paul D. Quinlan, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of History,
Providence College
Robert Weiner, Center Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Political
Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, February 13*
*Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies and Book Talk*
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/"The Unknown Black Book: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Soviet
Territories/"
(Indiana University Press, 2007) /
/Joshua Rubenstein, Center Associate, Davis Center; Northeast Regional
Director, Amnesty International USA
Ilya Altman, Co-chairman, Research and Educational Holocaust Center, Russia
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
/Reception to follow./
*Thursday, February 14*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
*Co-sponsored by the Comparative Politics Seminar*
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/"How Ethnicity Shapes Insurgent Violence: A Matched Analysis of `Sweep'
Operations in Chechnya/"
Jason Lyall, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs,
Princeton University; Olin Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International
Affairs, Harvard
Papers are available on the web at
http://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 p.m.
*Thursday, February 14*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
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/"Viktor Krivulin vs. Dmitrii A. Prigov: Two Strategies of the
Underground from the Soviet Period to the Present"/
Mikhail Berg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Friday, February 15 *
*Historian**s' Seminar*
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//"Progress through Power? Medical Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century
Russia as Imperial Elite"/
Andreas Renner, Professor of East European History, University of Tübingen
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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Harvard University
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