Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Seminar Calendar
May 1-15, 2012
For upcoming events not yet published in this calendar, please visit our
website<http://thyme.hmdc.harvard.edu/davis/index.php>hp>.
Tuesday, May 1
Roundtable
"Bulgaria's Evolution since 1989: International and Domestic Dimensions"
Venelin Ganev, Professor of Political Science, University of Miami
Irina Nedeva, Hubert Humphrey Fellow (Fulbright Scholar), University of Maryland
Stefan Tafrov, Bulgarian Ambassador to the United Nations
Nikolay Valkov, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Chair: Mark Kramer, Program Director, Project on Cold War Studies, Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
Tuesday, May 1
Seminar
"NO BOUNDARIES: An Exploration of Borderless Creativity in the 21st Century through
the Music, Poetry and Art of Lera Auerbach"
Lera Auerbach, Pianist, Composer and Poet
Harvard Department of Music, Paine Hall, Room 9
(Behind the Science Center, located at 1 Oxford Street, in Harvard's North Yard)
4:00-6:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 3
Comparative Politics Seminar
"State Authority and International Economic Cooperation: Russia's Natural Gas
Relations with Turkmenistan"
Boris Barkanov, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
Friday, May 4
Gender, Socialism and Postsocialism Working Group
Co-Sponsored by the Gender, Politics and Society Working Group, Center for European
Studies
"Nashi devushki: Gender and Youth Activism in Putin's and Medvedev's
Russia"
Valerie Sperling, Professor of Political Science, Clark University; Associate, Davis
Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Friday, May 11
Early Slavists' Seminar
A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia
(Northern Illinois University Press, 2012)
Russell E. Martin, Professor of History, Westminster College; Co-director, Muscovite
Biographical Database, Moscow
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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