*Davis** Center** for Russian and Eurasian Studies *
*Seminar Calendar
April 13-30, 2007*
*Friday, April 13
Occasional Seminar*
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//"Clausewitz, Counterinsurgency, and the Russian-Chechen Conflict in
Comparative Perspective"/
Andrew Mumford, Doctoral Candidate in Politics, University of Sheffield;
Visiting Scholar, Conflict and Terrorism Center, Pennsylvania State
University
Thomas Waldman, Doctoral Candidate in Politics, University of Sheffield;
Visiting Scholar, Conflict and Terrorism Center, Pennsylvania State
University
Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Monday, April 16*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
*/"/*/Russian Society: Can It Come into Being*?"*/
Tatiana Vorozheykina, Sakharov Human Rights Fellow, Davis Center;
Lecturer, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, April 17**
**Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar *
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//"Imagining the State: How Perceptions of the State Influence Customary
Law in the Kyrgyz Aksakal Courts"/
Judith Beyer, Ph.D. Candidate, Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology, Halle/Saale
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Wednesday, April 18
Historians' Seminar*
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*/"Russia, Prussia, and East Prussia in the Seven Years' War (1758-62):
Frontiers, Military Administration, and Russian Expansion"/
Francine-Dominique Liechtenhan, Professor of History, Université
Paris-Sorbonne
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
*Thursday, April 19*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/"Imperial Nationalism and Dostoevsky's /House of the Dead/"/
Edyta Bojanowska, Lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard
University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Friday, April 20
Literary Study Group* /
"//Vladimir Soloviev's Vision(s) Revisited"/
Maria Nemcova Banerjee, Professor of Russian, Smith College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
3:15-5:00 p.m.
*Monday, April 23
Exhibition Opening*
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Cosponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, the
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, the Davis Center for
Russian and Eurasian Studies, and the Asia Center/
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"Here Be Giants: A Quarter-Century of Political-Photographic
Explorations of That Broad Swath of the Eurasian Landmass Formerly Known
as the Sino-Soviet Space"/
Opening talk and slideshow, with reception to follow.
Gwendolyn Stewart, Photojournalist; Center Associate, Davis Center;
Research Associate, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020
4:00 p.m.
*Monday, April 23*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
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/Cosponsored by the //University Committee on Human Rights Studies and
the Northeast Office of Amnesty International USA/
/"Wars on Terror in the North Caucasus: Politics, Identity, Human Rights"/
Screening of the documentary/ The Crying Sun/, followed by discussion.
Ousam Baysaev, Reporter, Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty (Chechnya)
Zarema Mukusheva, Videographer, Memorial Human Rights Center, Grozny;
Recipient, 2005 Reebok Human Rights Award
Joshua Rubenstein, Northeast Regional Director, Amnesty International USA
Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, Sakharov Human Rights Fellow; Assistant
Professor of Political Science, Chechen State University
Shamil Tangiev, Director, Memorial Human Rights Center, Grozny
1737 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room N354,
5:00-7:00 p.m.
*Tuesday, April 24
Cold War Studies Seminar*
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//"Bulgaria and the Fulbright Program during the Late Communist Period"/
Anne Freed, Former Fulbright Scholar, Bulgaria
Roy Freed, Former Fulbright Scholar, Bulgaria
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, April 25
Comparative Economics Seminar*
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//"Russian Oil and Gas: How Long Will the Bonanza Last?"/
John Grace, Geologist, Earth Science Associates
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30-2:00 p.m.
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*Wednesday, April 25**
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies*
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//"On Reconciling the Histories of Two Chosen Peoples: Twentieth-Century
Narratives of Polish-Jewish Relations"/
David Engel, Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of Hebrew and
Judaic Studies, and Professor of History, New York University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, April 26*
*Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights*
*/Cosponsored by Harvard Law School/*
*/"/*/Russia// and the European Convention on Human Rights: The Role of
Courts and NGOs"/
Anton Burkov, Human Rights Lawyer, Urals Centre of Constitutional and
International Human Rights Protection, NGO /Sutyajnik/; Kapitza Scholar,
University of Cambridge
Location and Time TBA
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*Thursday, April 26**
**Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar*
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//"Memories on the Edge of Disaster: Earthquakes in Central Eurasia"/
Douglas Northrop, Associate Professor of Modern Central Asian Studies,
University of Michigan
1730 Cambridge Street, 1st Floor, Room S153
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Thursday, April 26*
*Literature and Culture Seminar*
/"Lianozovo and Moscow Conceptualist Poetry"/
Gerald Janecek, Professor of Russian, University of Kentucky; Editor,
/Slavic and East European Journal/
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15-6:00 p.m.
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*Friday, April 27**
**Early Slavists' Seminar*
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//"Ruthenian Law, Ruthenian Language--What Did the Lithuanian Statutes
Mean for the History of the Ruthenian Language?"/
Michael Moser, Associate Professor, Institute of Slavic Studies,
University of Vienna
Ukrainian Research Institute, 34 Kirkland Street, Main Seminar Room
12:15-2:00 p.m.
*Friday, April 27*
*Undergraduate Colloquium* *on Russian and Eurasian Studies*
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*Multidisciplinary research presentations by advanced undergraduates
from Harvard, Wellesley, and Wheaton colleges.
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Rooms S020, S040, S050, and 3rd
Floor, Room S354
2:00-5:45 p.m.
*Monday, April 30
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop *
/"Transforming Bureaucracy: Conditional Norms and the International
Standardization of Statistics in Russia"/
Yoshiko Herrera, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Harvard
University
Papers are available on the web at
www.fas.harvard.edu/~postcomm/. There
is no presentation; all participants are expected to have read the paper
in advance of the meeting.
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:15-2:00 p.m.
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