*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies
October 1-15, 2007*
*Seminar Calendar*
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*Monday, October 1*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
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//"The Collapse and Resilience of Communist Regimes"/
Martin Dimitrov, Center Associate, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of
Government, Dartmouth College//
1730 Cambridge Street, 2nd Floor, Room S250
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, October 3**
Comparative Economics Seminar*
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//"Putin and His National Champions"/
Robert Price, ALM Candidate, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, October 3 **
Director's Seminar*
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"//Current Russian Politics: Between Stability and Uncertainty"/
Boris Kagarlitsky, Director, Institute of Globalization and Social
Movements, Moscow
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Friday, October 5
Historians' Seminar
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//"On the Relevance of Russian Legal History"/
William Butler, Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S050
12:15-2:00 pm
*Friday, October 5*
*Literature and Culture Seminar
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"//Language and Tradition across Boundaries: A Screening and Discussion
of the Documentary Film /Piemule/ (1984)"/
Jana S(evcíková, Director, /Piemule/ (1984)
Tereza Porybna, Fulbright Scholar, Harvard University//
24 Quincy Street, Carpenter Center, Harvard Film Archive, Room B-04
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Friday, October 5
Comparative Economics Seminar
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"Comparison of Central Asian Economics//"///
Martin Spechler, Professor of Economics, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana
University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
** *Tuesday, October 9
Cold War Studies Seminar
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"//What Can We Expect of Europe?"/
Marten van Heuven, Senior Consultant, RAND Corporation; retired US
Foreign Service Officer; former National Intelligence Office for Europe
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 pm
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*Thursday, October 11
**Occasional Seminar*
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//"Japan's Northern Territorial Issue Going Forward"/
Akihiro Iwashita, Professor, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido
University; Visiting Fellow, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies,
The Brookings Institution
/"//Holidays in Kazan: City Duma, Public Opinion and Theological
Politics among Muslims after 1905"/
Norihiro Naganawa, Assistant Professor, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido
University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15- 2:00 pm
*Thursday, October 11
Comparative Politics Seminar *
*Cosponsored by the Comparative Economics Seminar*
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"//Organized Business, Political Competition and Property Rights across
the Russian Federation"/
William Pyle, Associate Professor of Economics, Middlebury College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 pm
*Friday, October 12*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
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"//The Philosopher's Speech and the Prehistory of the PVL"/
Alan Timberlake, Professor of Slavic Languages & Literature, University
of California, Berkeley
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Monday, October 15*
*Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop*//
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/"Trends in Political Party System Institutionalization in Russia and
Brazil since Transition"
/Dan Epstein, Dissertation Fellow, Davis Center; PhD Candidate,
Department of Government, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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