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Seminar Reports
Arranged in reverse chronological order within seminar.
Use "Search this Section" at left to search for a speaker's
name or phrase from seminar title. Click on title of talk to download
seminar report as PDF file. (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader).
Central Asia Seminar
May 1, 2002
“Tensions in Tajikistan Following
the 1997 Peace Accord and September 11”
Kamoloudin Abdullaev (Sumitomo Bank Fellow, Yale University, Center
for International and Area Studies)
April 24, 2002
"Preventing
Conflicts in Central Asia: The Experience of the Swiss Development
Corporation"
Markus Muller (Former Head, Swiss Development Corporation, Central
Asia)
Comparative Economics Luncheon Seminar
March 14, 2003
"Is Putin Good for Democracy?"
Boris Nemtsov (Russian DUMA deputy, leader of of the political party
Union of Right Forces)
March 6, 2003
"Present at the Creation: The Early
Days of the Russian Research Center and Other Reminiscences"
Mark G. Field (Davis Center Associate, Adjunct Professor, Harvard
School of Public Health)
November 1, 2002
“Jumpstarting
Democracy in Moscow: The Novgorod Model?”
Nicolai N. Petro (Professor, Department of Political Science, University
of Rhode Island; former aide to Novgorod mayor Alexander Korsunov)
September 25, 2002
"Russia Again
as Economic Superpower: Fantasy or Possibility"
Marshall I. Goldman (Associate director of the Davis Center and
Professor of Economics, Wellesley College)
February 28, 2002 (Co-sponsored with Comparative Politics
Seminar)
“Institutional
Change and Firm Creation in East-Central Europe: An Embedded Politics
Approach”
Gerald McDermott (Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
February 14, 2002
“Health and
Health Care in Russia: Issues and Solutions”
Igor Denisov (Former Minister of Health of USSR, Russia)
February 13, 2002
“Oligarchs I
Have Known”
Timothy Colton (Morris and Anna Feldberg Professor of Government;
Director, Davis Center)
August 25, 2000
"Radioactive
Waste in Russia's North"
Alexander Nikitin, Environmental activist; former submarine captain
Director’s Seminar
February 4, 2002
"The Prospects
for Peace in Chechnya"
Ilyas Akhmadov, Foreign Minister of Chechnya
November 2, 2001
“Russia
and the US in the Time of Change”
Conversation with Sergei Yastrzhembsky
April 17, 2000
"Belarus:
Statehood and Security"
Stanislav Shushkevich, Member, Belarus National Academy of Sciences;
Former Chairman, Supreme Council of Belarus
January 25, 2000
"The View from
Grozny"
Ilyas Akhmadov, Chechen Foreign Minister
Early Slavists' Seminar
March 8, 2002
"The End of
the Russian Slave Trade in the Black Sea"
Oleksander Halenko (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Shklar
Fellow, Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute)
Historians' Seminar
May 3, 2002
"Workshop on Naziism and Stalinism"
March 1, 2002
"The Emancipation
Reform of 1861 as a Nationalistic Project"
Mikhail Dolbilov (Voronezh State University, Carnegie Research Fellow,
Harriman Institute)
February 22, 2002
"The Birth of
a Socialist Consumer Society: Consumption and Class in the USSR"
Julie Hessler (University of Oregon)
February 8, 2002
"The Cavalier
of the Order of Judas: Chivalry and Parody at the Court of Peter
the Great"
Ernest Zitser (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center)
Literature and Culture Seminar
February 26, 2004
"Shenderovich Live!"
(complete English translation of seminar)
Viktor Shenderovich
Los Angeles Times
article and seminar flyer
March 7, 2002
"Not Our
People: Reflections on Alexander Solzhenitsyn's History of the Jews
in Russia"
Alexander Babyonyshev (Harvard Slavic Department)
February 21, 2002
"Perversion in
Pnin: Reading Nabokov Preposterously"
Eric Naiman (University of California, Berkeley)
Occasional Seminar
October 29, 2002
"Perspectives on the Moscow Hostage
Crisis"
Square table discussion with Timothy Colton (Director, Davis Center;
Professor of Government), Oleg Kharkhordin (Faculty Associate, Davis
Center; Visiting Professor of Government), Richard Pipes (Faculty
Associate, Davis Center; Research Professor of History)
March 19, 2002
"Russia's Regionalization
Processes since Putin" (download full paper)
Jeronim Perovic (Senior Researcher, Center
for Security Studies and Conflict Research, Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology, Zurich)
March 14, 2002
"Soft Security
Issues in Northwest Russia"
Nikita Lomagin (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center)
February 25, 2002
"The Crisis in
Russian Science and the Impact of Foreign Foundations"
Loren R. Graham (Professor of History of Science, MIT; member of
Executive Committee, Davis Center)
February 21, 2002
"Ever Higher!
The Evolution of the Project for the Palace of the Soviets"
Sona Hoisington (University of Illinois, Department of Slavic and
Baltic Languages and Literatures)
February 14, 2002
"The US-Russia
Relationship and the War on Terrorism"
Captain Robert Brannon, USN (National Security Fellow at Kennedy
School of Government; former attaché to US Ambassador James
Collins in Moscow)
December 10, 2001
“Beyond
Afghanistan: The War and its Implications for Central Asia and Russia”
Panel Discussion with Thomas W. Simons, Charles Dunbar, Pauline
Jones Luong, Erika Weinthal, and Carol R. Saivetz
October 10, 2001
"Global
Terrorism and Central Asia"
Square Table Discussion with John Schoeberlein, (Central Asia Forum,
Harvard University) Kelly McMann (Davis Center Associate), and Thomas
Barfield (Department of Anthropology, Boston University)
Undergraduate Colloquium (after-dinner
remarks)
April 28, 2000
"Russia on my Mind:
Some Forward-Looking Recollections"
Edward L. Keenan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of History; Director
of Dumbarton Oaks
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