Seminars

The Davis Center sponsors seminars and working groups spanning a variety of topics and disciplines. These events are free and open to the public. For current listings, please visit our calendar of events. You may also sign up to receive our public events listings twice a month by email.

• Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar
• Central Asia and Caucasus Working Group
• Cold War Studies Seminar
• Comparative Economics Seminar
• Director's Seminar
• Early Slavists' Seminar
• Historians' Seminar
• Literature and Culture Seminar
• Occasional Seminar
• Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop
• Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights

Central Asia and Caucasus Seminar

A series of public seminars on topics in the history, culture, and politics of the Central Asia region. Primary focus is on the former Soviet Central Asian republics and the Caucasus, with some work on surrounding regions.
Chairs: Laura Adams (ladams@fas.harvard.edu) and John Schoeberlein (schoeber@fas.harvard.edu)

Central Asia and Caucasus Working Group

A biweekly forum for discussion of projects and works-in-progress on Central Asia and the Caucasus. Participants are expected to attend regularly. They include Harvard graduate students, faculty, and other interested scholars from the greater Boston area. Guest speakers are occasionally invited.
Chairs: Laura Adams (ladams@fas.harvard.edu) and John Schoeberlein (schoeber@fas.harvard.edu)

Cold War Studies Seminar

Features scholars who have been working in the newly-opened archives of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Intended to shed new light on events from the Cold War era and encourage the use of archival evidence to test theories of domestic and international politics. Sponsored by the Harvard Project on Cold War Studies.
Chair: Mark Kramer (mkramer@fas.harvard.edu)

Comparative Economics Seminar

Meetings of Davis Center and University economists, often with a guest speaker.
Chair: Marshall Goldman (goldman3@fas.harvard.edu)

Director's Seminar

A forum for discussing issues of broad interest to the Davis Center community.
Chair: Terry Martin (martin11@fas.harvard.edu)

Early Slavists’ Seminar

Brings together scholars interested in early Slavic studies from a variety of disciplinary perspectives—history, literature, linguistics, and the arts.
Chair: Don Ostrowski (don@wjh.harvard.edu)

Historians’ Seminar

Each year, the Historians’ Seminar brings a series of accomplished scholars working in the field of Russian history to the Davis Center. The seminar is intended to highlight innovative and influential research and to foster dialogue among those interested in the early modern and modern periods (to 1991). Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and Center associates are most welcome to attend.
Chair: Terry Martin (martin11@fas.harvard.edu)

Literature and Culture Seminar

Talks on Slavic literatures and cultures, with special emphasis this year on problems of methodology and theory, literature, and contemporary culture.
Chairs: Stephanie Sandler (ssandler@fas.harvard.edu) and Joanna Nizynska (nizynska@fas.harvard.edu)

Occasional Seminar

Presentations of recent research on a wide range of topics by members of the Davis Center and invited guests.
Chair: Lisbeth Tarlow (tarlow@fas.harvard.edu)

Post-Communist Politics and Economics Workshop

This workshop brings together graduate students, post-docs, and area faculty to discuss new work related to politics and economics in the post-communist (and communist) countries of Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Asia. Visit the Workshop's home page for more information.
Chairs: Martin Dimitrov, Dmitry Gorenburg, Oxana Shevel, Pauline Jones Luong. Contact via Gavril Bilev (gavril_bilev@brown.edu), workshop coordinator.

Sakharov Seminar on Human Rights

Presentations of recent research on a wide range of human rights issues by members of the Davis Center and invited guests.
Chair: Mark Kramer (mkramer@fas.harvard.edu)