*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar*
*October 1-15, 2008*
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*Wednesday, October 1*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*
*Co-sponsored by the Comparative Economics Seminar*
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/"//A Failed Transition of the Mind? Russian Economic Debates on
Transition"/
Joachim Zweynert, Scientific Head, Hamburg Institute of International
Economics, Thuringia (Erfurt)
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, October 2*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*
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/"From Weddings to War: Reflections on a Summer as a Journalist in
Moscow//"/
Sara Rhodin, AM Candidate, REECA, Harvard; 2008 New York Times Moscow
Bureau Intern
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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*Friday, October 3*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*//
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/Screening and Discussion of Recent Work/
Andrei Khrzhanovsky, Animated Film-maker
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
12:00-3:00 p.m.
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*Monday, October 6*
*Book Talk*//
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/"Eurasia's New Frontiers: Young States, Old Societies, Open Futures"/
(Cornell University Press, 2008)
Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Lecturer,
Government Department, Harvard; Former US Ambassador to Poland and Pakistan
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, October 7*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*//
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/"The 1968 Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia 40 Years Later:
Reassessing East-Bloc and Western Reactions to the Prague Spring"/
Guenter Bischof, Professor of History, University of New Orleans
Mark Kramer, Program Director, Cold War Studies Project, Harvard
Peter Ruggenthaler, Senior Research Fellow, Ludwig Boltzmann-Institut
fuer Kriegsfolgen-Forschung, Vienna
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Friday, October 10
Early Slavists' Seminar*
/"Dressing a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: The Composition of the Life of
Alexander Nevskii"/
Donald Ostrowski, Associate, Davis Center; Research Advisor, Division of
Continuing Education, Harvard
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit
our website:
http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php. *
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Harvard University
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