*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
April 16-30, 2010__*
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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, April 19*
*Comparative Economics Seminar *
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/Title TBA/
Evgeniya Shamis, Fellow, Eisenhower Foundation; Founder and CEO of
"Personnel Touch" Training and Consulting Bureau, Moscow
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, April 22*
*Occasional/Historians' Seminar *
/"The Cask and the Hoops: Why Did Stalin's Army Collapse during the
First Days of Operation Barbarossa?"/
Mark Solonin, Author
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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/Talk will be delivered in Russian with English translation./
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*Thursday, April 22*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/"Wonderlands of the Russian Avant-Garde: Technology and Art in the 1920s"/
Julia Vaingurt, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center; Assistant Professor
of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois
at Chicago
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Friday, April 23*
*Undergraduate Colloquium* *on Russian and Eurasian Studies*
Multidisciplinary research presentations by advanced undergraduates from
Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges.
1730 Cambridge Street, Room S050 and Concourse
1:15-5:00 p.m.
/All are welcome to attend./
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*Friday, April 23*
*Exhibition Opening*
/"Eurasian Exposure: Engaging the Old and New"/
Photographs by Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton students.
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse
5:00-6:00 p.m.
/All are welcome to attend.///
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*Wednesday, April 28*
*Book Talk/Director's Seminar*
/"Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts"/
(Oxford University Press, 2009)
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David Engerman, Associate Professor of History, Brandeis University;
Center Associate, Davis Center
Discussant: Andrew Jewett, Assistant Professor of History and of Social
Studies, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Thursday, April 29*
*Book Talk/Central Asia and the Caucasus Seminar*
/"The Spectacular State: Culture and National Identity in Uzbekistan"/
(Duke University Press, 2010)
Laura Adams, Program Co-Director, Program on Central Asia and the
Caucasus, Davis Center; Center Associate, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, April 29*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/"The Unknown History of Soviet Music"/
Simon Morrison, Visiting Professor of Music, Harvard University;
Professor of Music, Princeton University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Friday, April 30*
*Early Slavists' Seminar*
/"The Beginnings of Modernity? Confession among the East Slavs in the
Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century"/
Nadezhda Kizenko, Associate Professor of History, State University of
New York at Albany
1730 Cambridge Street, 3^rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Suite 301
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.495.4037
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