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Seminar Calendar
February 1-28, 2007
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Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Comparative Economics Seminar
"Women and Men Entrepreneurs in the US, China, and Russia: A Comparative Study"
Bat Batjargal, Associate, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
"Sleep Faster, I Need the Pillow: Sholem Aleichem and the Secular Reading of Russian-Jewish History"
Olga Litvak, Assistant Professor of Modern Jewish History, Princeton University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Occasional Seminar
"Power and Influence: Russia and Energy Policy in Central Asia"
Theresa Sabonis-Helf, Associate Professor of National Security Strategy, National War College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
Friday, February 2, 2007
Early Slavists’ Seminar
“The Expression of Love: Fileo and Agapao in the Greek and Slavonic Texts of the Gospel According to John”
Olga Strakhov, Cataloging Assistant, Gund Hall Library, Harvard Graduate School of Design
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:15 - 2:00 pm
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Seminar on Russian and East European Jewish Studies
"History and Catastrophe: Emanuel Ringelblum and the Warsaw Ghetto Archive"
Samuel Kassow, Professor of History, Trinity College
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Modern Russian History Search
"Imperial Russia's Child Labor Laws: Challenging the Autocratic Paradigm"
Boris Gorshkov, Ph.D. in History, 2006, Auburn University; Visiting Assistant Professor, European and World History, Auburn University
35 Quincy Street, Robinson Hall, first floor library
4:15 - 5:30 pm
For more information, please contact Janet Hatch (Department Administrator, History Department) at (617) 496-4057
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Literature and Culture Seminar
"Czech Movies/German Occupation, 1939-1945"
Peter Demetz, Professor Emeritus of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Yale University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
Friday, February 9, 2007
"Layered Rome and Uncharted Russia: Images of Rome in Russian and Polish Romanticism"
Catherine O'Neil, Assistant Professor of Russian, Language Studies Department, United States Naval Academy
1730 Cambridge Street, 4th Floor, Room #S450
3:15 - 5:00 pm
Friday, February 9, 2007
Comparative Economics Seminar
“The Revival of Sino-Russian Economic and Political Relations and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization”
Pan Guang, Director and Professor, Shanghai Center for International Studies and Institute of European & Asian Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences; Dean, Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS)
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Monday, February 12, 2007
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop
"The Effect of Inequality in Post-Communist Democracies”
Boriana Nikolova, Visiting Graduate Student, University of Chicago
Papers are available on the website 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 pm
Monday, February 12, 2007
Modern Russian History Search
"It is Not at Present the Century of Women: Patronage, Political Crime, and the Limits of Female Power in Eighteenth-Century Russia"
Michelle Marrese, Ph.D. in History, 1995, Northwestern University; NEH Research Fellowship
35 Quincy Street, Robinson Hall, first floor library
4:15 - 5:30 pm
For more information, please contact Janet Hatch (Department Administrator, History Department) at (617) 496-4057.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Comparative Economics Seminar
"Such a Beautiful Dream: How Russia Did Not Become a Market Economy"
Stefan Hedlund, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Professor of East European Studies, Uppsala University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
12:30 - 2:00 pm
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Book Talk
“How Russia Really Works: The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business”
Alena Ledeneva, Reader in Russian Politics and Society, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London
Chair: Timothy Colton, Director, Davis Center; Professor of Government, Harvard University
Discussant: Gerald Easter, Senior Fellow, Davis Center; Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Discussant: Jessica Allina-Pisano, Associate Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room #S030
4:15 - 6:00 pm
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Modern Russian History Search
"The Making of the Russian Empire in Crimea, 1783-1853"
Kelly O'Neill, Ph.D. in History, 2006, Harvard University;
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center
35 Quincy Street, Robinson Hall, first floor library
4:15 - 5:30 pm
For more information, please contact Janet Hatch (Department Administrator, History Department) at (617) 496-4057.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Literature and Culture Seminar
"From Sentimental Friendship to Soviet Citizenship: Women's Community and the Utopian Dimensions of Realism in Chernyshevsky, L. Tolstoy, and Stalinist Film"
Anne Eakin Moss, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davis Center; Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
4:15 - 6:00 pm
Friday, February 16, 2007
Literary Study Group
"The Bow Curve Shore of Time and Space: Pushkin's Prologue to Ruslan and Ludmila"
James Russell, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Armenian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room #S354
3:15 - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, February 20
Modern Russian History Search
“The Muslim Question in Late Imperial Russia”
Elena Campbell, Ph.D. in History, 1999, Russian Academy of Sciences; Lecturer on History, Harvard University
35 Quincy Street, Robinson Hall, First Floor Library
4:15–5:30 p.m.
For more information, please contact Janet Hatch (administrator, History Department) at (617) 496-4057.
Wednesday, February 21
Comparative Economics Seminar
“Cheap Gas, Black Market Cash, and Love for the Motherland: A Look at Turkmenistan’s ‘Golden Century’”
Alex Minier, Director, Ford Hall Forum
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30–2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 21
Exhibition Opening, Reception, and DiscussionCosponsored by the Davis Center, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Initiative on Art and Humanities
“Nostalgic Technologies”
Svetlana Boym, Faculty Associate, Davis Center; Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Friday, February 23
Slavic Conference
Cosponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Davis Center, the Central and East European Society, and the Art and Politics Seminar
“The Post-Romantic Syndrome: German and Russian Anxieties in the 20th Century”
Galin Tihanov, Professor of Comparative Literature, Lancaster University
12 Quincy Street, Humanities Center, Room 133
2:00–4:00 p.m.
Monday, February 26
Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop
“Building Modern Cities: Reform and Revitalization in Urban China”
Meg Rithmire, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard University
Papers are available on the website 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.
Tuesday, February 27
Roundtable Discussion
“Turkmenistan after Turkmenbashi"
Erika Dailey, Director, Turkmenistan Project, Open Society Institute
Irina Liczek, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Niagara University
John Schoeberlein, Director, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus; Lecturer on Anthropology and on Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Thomas W. Simons, Jr., Visiting Scholar, Davis Center; Lecturer on Government, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15–6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 28
Comparative Economics Seminar
“Russia: The New Energy Superpower–Is It for Real?”
Katherine Hardin, Associate, Cambridge Energy Research Associates
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
12:30–2:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 28
Russian and East European Jewish Studies Seminar
“On Communism and the Jews”
Anthony Michels, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ruth Wisse, Professor of Yiddish Literature and Comparative Literature, Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street, 3rd Floor, Room S354
4:15–6:00 p.m.
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