*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
November 1-15, 2008*
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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./*
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*Monday, November 3 *
*Special Seminar *
*Co-sponsored by the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies, the Department
of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Center for the
Study of World Religions//*
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/"Christian Hajjis: The Forgotten Pilgrims of Ottoman Jerusalem"
/Valentina Izmirlieva, Associate Professor of Slavic Studies, Columbia
University//
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, November 5*
*Comparative Politics Seminar*//
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/"The Modern History of Russian Media- How Did We Get to Where We Are?"/
Andrei Zolotov, Jr., Fellow, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard
University; Founding Editor, /Russia// Profile/
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, November 6 *
*Occasional Seminar*//
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/"Winter Palace: >From Katherine the Great to Present Day"
/Anna Konivets, Coordinator, Guggenheim-Hermitage Project; Senior
Research Fellow, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Thursday, November 6 *
*Comparative Economics Seminar*//
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/"The Real Truth about Russia"
/John T. Connor Jr., Founder and Portfolio Manager, Third Millennium
Russia Fund//
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, November 6 *
*Literature and Culture Seminar*//
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/"Polish-Jewish Intellectuals in Mainstream Entertainment, 1918-39: An
Unfinished Adventure"
/Knut Andreas Grimstad, Director of the Programme for Literary Studies
and Associate Professor of Polish, University of Oslo//
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Friday, November 7 *
*Occasional Seminar*//
/"The Politics of Survival: Reporting in Russia Today"
/Yevgenia Albats, Professor of Political Science, State University
Higher School of Economics, Moscow; Deputy Editor and Political Editor,
/The New Times/; Talk Show Host, Ekho Moskvy Broadcasting
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Monday, November 10*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*//
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/"//Putin's Labyrinth: Spies, Murder and the Dark Heart of the New
Russia"/
Steve LeVine, Chief Foreign Affairs Writer, /Business Week/
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room S450
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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*Monday, November 10*
*Cold War Studies Seminar*//
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/"Cold War Between Pyongyang and Hanoi: North Korea, Vietnam, and the
Cambodian Question, 1970-1989"/
Balazs Szalontai, Visiting Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, November 12*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*//
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/"Russia Matters: An Insider's Look at the Rise of Russia and the
West's Failure to Engage the Heartland of Eurasia"
/Alfred Kokh, Author; Former Deputy Prime Minister, Russian Federation
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, November 12*
*Comparative Economics Seminar*//
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/"Russian Energy and Foreign Policy: Beyond the Former Soviet Union"
/Anita Orban, Director, Constellation Energy Institute
61 Kirkland Street, Seminar Room
4:15-5:30 p.m.
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*Thursday, November 13*
*Literature and Culture Seminar *//
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Screening of /Current History/ (2006)
Followed by a discussion with the director, Hannah Collins
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Friday, November 14*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
/"'I//gor's retinue said to him' (Rekosha druzhina Igorevi): On
Aleksei
Gippius' Article about the Linguotextological Stratification in the
/Initial Chronicle (Nachal'naia Letopis')/"///
Olga Strakhov, Independent Scholar; Library Assistant, Gund Hall
Library, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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