IES Annual Report 2002-2003

Faculty and Graduate Student Research sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, and by our National Resource Center for West European Studies, is the heart of IES activity. Much of the research that IES initiates and sponsors takes place in focused faculty research groups, each led by a principal investigator or "convener." These "convener groups" are comprised of faculty from UC Berkeley, other University of California campuses, and other prominent scholars from the EU and Europe. Each project spans one to two years, and during that time, participants conduct research, meet together in closed workshops and working groups to discuss preliminary findings, and hold a major research conference at the conclusion of the project. Research results are published in the Institute's Working Paper Series Brochure, and later collected in an edited volume or as a special issue of a major scholarly journal. The conveners of these projects, together with the Center Chairs, constitute the Institute's core faculty.

In addition to these long-term research projects, IES is home to a number of shorter term study groups and hosts a number of scholarly conferences and a series of lectures on particular themes. During the 2002-03 academic year, research projects, study groups, and conferences and lecture series addressed the theme of "Europe's Changing economic, political, strategic, and cultural Geography." What follows is a description of these projects and their activities.

Europe's Changing Economic Geography
Europe's Changing Political Geography
Europe's Changing Strategic Geography
Europe's Changing Cultural Geography

In the summer and fall of 2002, UC Berkeley IES Scholars joined with Scholars from the University of Rome Laboratorio Di Economia Politica Internazionale/Istituto Affari Internazionali for a two-part workshop to discuss the impact of EU enlargement on Southern Europe. The first meeting was held in Rome at the Instituto Affari Internazionali. It provided the participants -- all of whom have studied extensively the economic and political implications of European integration -- with an opportunity to consider how southern Europeans view the enlargement of the European Union. In the Rome meeting, participants considered the impact of formal EU enlargement to include the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In the Berkeley meeting, participants considered the growing connections between the EU as a whole and other regions of the world.

The Rome conference began with the recognition that enlargement of the European Union to the east contains a number of contentious issues for southern Europeans (Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece). First, these countries are major beneficiaries of the EU's main redistributive programs, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and structural funds. The entrance of relatively poor central and eastern European countries -- several of which have large agricultural sectors -- would redirect these resources away from southern Europeans. Second, enlargement would further shift the center of gravity of the EU to the north and east, reducing the voting power of the southern European bloc and, more intangibly, perhaps changing the "cultural" character of the Union itself.

At the Berkeley meeting, participants concluded that the expansion of European Union relationships, and influence with other regions of the world, holds both opportunities and difficulties for southern Europe. Growing ties with Latin America and the southern Mediterranean in particular have given Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece a chance to take the lead in forging multifaceted relationships with non-European countries with which they have special ties. However -- with respect to the Maghreb countries in particular -- several southern European countries have been caught between the demands of Maghrebis to increase trade and aid relationships, and the demands of their fellow EU members to tighten their borders to illegal immigration. As the EU's outward orientation continues to evolve, these issues will likely take an increasingly central place on the European agenda.

At both meetings, particular attention was paid to the interests of the key southern European actors involved, including businesses, trade unions, and national and European policymakers. The purpose was not to generate a particular publication or set of recommendations, but rather to inform the participants' work on their related projects of the implications of EU enlargement. The workshop in Rome was attended by 30 people, and 20 people attended the workshop in Berkley. Participants included: Paolo Guerrieri, Laboratorio di Economia Politica Internazionale, IAI; Vinod K. Aggarwal, University of California, Berkeley; Nicholas K. Biziouras, University of California at Berkeley; Irene Caratelli, IAI; Beverly Crawford, University of California at Berkeley; Rafaelle Farella, IAI; Edward A. Fogarty, University of California, Berkeley; Lelio Iapadre, University "L'Aquila"; Marina Maiero, IAI; John Ravenhill, Edinburgh University; and Sandro Sideri, University Bocconi/Instituto Orientale di Napoli.

To lay the groundwork for new initiatives on EU enlargement, IES scholars participated in conferences on enlargement in both Europe and in the US. IES Director Gerald D. Feldman and Beverly Crawford, Associate Director of IES, attended a conference at the European Union University at Frankfurt/Oder in the summer of 2002 on Post-communist legacies and political culture in the new member states of the EU. Beverly Crawfordand IES Visiting Scholar Dieter Stiefel participated in a conference on "Eastern Enlargement of the European Union: Confronting New Unknowns?" at IGCC, UC San Diego, May 22-24, 2003. And IES Acting Director Barry Eichengreen participated in a symposium on EU enlargement and its implications for the euro area at the Austrian National Bank in November 2002.

In October 2002, the study group on European Transregionalism, supported by the EU Center and IES, met with a group from ULB in Brussels for a joint conference. Discussions featured a spirited debate on the differences between transregionalism and interregionalism, the relatively weights of different driving factors underlying the move toward different types of transregional trading agreements, and reasons for the EU apparent difference in strategy from the US. Aggarwal remains in touch with Mario Teló and plans to continue the collaboration.

Following the meeting with the ULB participants, the Berkeley study group met together to discuss various conceptual, theoretical, and empirical issues raised the previous day. The revised papers are now being sent in and selected papers can be found on the IES web site at ies.berkeley.edu/pubs. The volume has been accepted for publication by Palgrave and will appear both in hardback and paperback editions.

In January, 2003, IES study group on Comparative Immigration and Integration, under the direction of Professor Philip Martin at UC Davis, sponsored a "Migration Dialogue" seminar is to educate 40 opinion leaders from Europe and North America about the relationship between economic integration and Mexico-US migration. The seminar included a field trip that enabled participants to discuss migration issues first hand with government officials, employers and migrant advocates and migrants. Five panels explored the relationship between migration and economic integration, the importance of border-area factories to substitute trade for migration, the role of remittances and border controls in shaping migration trends, migration policy goals and strategies, and the implications of the US-Mexican experience for migration management in Europe. A 2004 seminar is planned for Bratislava-Vienna to provide a contrasting European perspective on economic integration and migration. Reports of past seminars are at: migration.ucdavis.edu/

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With IES support, the Comparative Immigration and Integration research program (CIIP) continues to publish its highly successful newsletter Migration News and distributes it internationally. Migration News has 3,500 subscribers around the world, and a web site that gets 10,000 hits a day. The Newsletter can be found at: migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/

Research findings from the CIIP study group have resulted in numerous working papers published by IES. They can be accessed at ies.berkeley.edu/pubs. Also as a report of the research of this study group, Philip Martin and Michael Titlebaum have published an article in the most recent issue of Foreign Affairs. Entitled "Is Turkey Ready for Europe?" the article can be accessed at the following url: www.foreignaffairs.org/20030501faessay11222/
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On April 17-18 2003, the EU Center and IES presented a conference entitled "Innovations in Water and Environmental Planning in Mediterranean-Climate Systems: Experiences in California and Portugal." Mediterranean-climate landscapes are characterized by high seasonal and inter-annual variability in water availability, conditions to which aquatic ecosystems and traditional human cultures have adapted in a variety of ways. However, many of the environmental regulations promulgated from Washington DC and Brussels implicitly assume the Atlantic climate prevailing in a seat of power, and apply poorly to Mediterranean system, especially with regard to management of water resources and understanding ecological impacts of alterations to the natural hydroscape. With increasing urbanization, attitudes towards river and streams have evolved, with increasing interest in ecological and recreational functions of urban waterways. Developments are visible in California, and more recently in Portugal. In addition, environmental decision making has evolved in recent years from top-down dictates to more participatory and collaborative processes, as illustrated by recent high-profile water management decisions in Portugal and California. This interdisciplinary conference featured the results of research on recent developments in environmental planning and analysis of impacts in water-related issues in Mediterranean climates.

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In the past decade, there has been a rapid growth in enforcement throughout the world. Today, there are approximately one hundred competition authorities and the number is likely to grow substantially in the next decade. Historically, only a relatively few authorities were active in enforcing their domestic competition laws, and it was rare for domestic laws of sovereign nations to conflict with each other. When they occurred, those conflicts were managed in part by a working group within the OECD and in part through bilateral agreements among nations. In recent years, however, there has been a push for multilateral management of international competition issues; evidenced most recently by the formation of the International Competition Network (72 competition authorities participated in a recent meeting in Naples).

In the spring of 2003, Professor Daniel Rubinfeld of the Boalt School of Law (and sometime advisor to Mario Monti, EU Competition Commissioner) organized a workshop focused on international competition policy. The workshop dealt with the structure and political economy of antitrust policies on the two sides of the Atlantic -- an issue over which there has been considerable transatlantic conflict as a result of the Microsoft case and the recent wave of mergers and acquisitions. Invitees included a small number of policymakers and attorneys active in this area and a corresponding number of academics from law, economics, and political science.

The first session, "How Should Cooperation Proceed: WTO, ICN or Bilateralism?" was with Frédéric Jenny, Vice President, Conseil de la concurrence, France, as moderator; and Douglas Melamed, Edward Swaine, Michael Trebilcockas discussants. The second session was "Lessons from Academe: The Political Economy of Federalism," with Daniel Rubinfeld as moderator and Barry Eichengreen, Robert Inman, and Paul Stephan as discussants.

The third session was "The European Experience," with Philip Lowe as moderator and Damien Neven, Paul Seabright, and Debra Valentine, General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission, as discussants. The fourth session was "The Jurisdictional Reach of Domestic Antitrust Regimes" with Andrew Guzman as moderator; and Edward Iacobucci; William Kolasky, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Dept. of Justice; William Kovacic; and Spencer Weber Waller as discussants.

In recent years the European Union has sought to cultivate closer relations with regional entities in Asia, perhaps partly as a way of "balancing" U.S. influence. An example is the joint meetings of European and Asian finance ministers (the Asia-EU process) now held annually to discuss monetary and financial issues. Many of these discussions have centered on lessons of Europe's experience with the euro for monetary integration and financial development in Asia. Berkeley has already attempted to inform this process by launching a joint initiative of the Institute of European Studies and Institute of East Asian Studies at UC Berkeley to promote research on comparative monetary integration. The result has been a series of working papers on "Lessons of the Euro for the Rest of the World," "Why is There Less Financial Integration in Asia than in Europe?" and "Why Doesn't Asia Have Bigger Bond Markets?" These papers can be found at ies.berkeley.edu/pubs

On behalf of IES and the EU Center, Professor Barry Eichengreen organizes and convenes the Bellagio Group, which meets annually in Europe, bringing together G-10 deputies (deputy finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Ten countries, seven of which are European). The January 2003 meeting was held in Milan under the aegis of the Bank of Italy, while the January 2004 meeting will be held in Brussels with the support and assistance of the National Bank of Belgium. These meetings provide a venue for discussing IES' intellectual agenda on comparative financial integration and EU enlargement.

In September 2002, the IES convener group "The Transformation of Democratic Institutions in Europe" held a conference entitled "New Forms of Democracy" at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center on Lake Como in Italy. The conference considered the empirical evidence and theoretical significance of the move in Europe and the United States away from representative democracy toward direct democracy. Indeed, the past quarter century has seen two concurrent trends with major potential consequences for Western democracies: decreased interest and participation in the institutions of representative democracy and a groundswell of demand for institutional reforms to expand citizen involvement in political decision-making. This project asks whether contemporary changes are really transforming the foundations of the democratic process, or whether these alterations are accommodating popular pressures without altering the basic nature of representative democracy. Is the potential for reform truly being realized, and if so, what are the broader implications for the nature and practice of democracy? The Conference was the culmination of a series of workshops beginning in the spring of 2002. Workshops focused on the problem of the opening up of parties to electoral participation; electoral reforms that increase parties' access to ballots and public financing; the rise of nonpartisan elections; participatory democracy at the local scale; and the injection of courts into the political process.

Selected papers resulting from this project can be found in the IES working papers at ies.berkeley.edu/pubs

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On November 1-2, 2003, the EU Center and IES held a conference at Berkeley entitled "European Union, Nations-State and the Quality of Democracy -- Lessons from Southern Europe." Participants considered the following questions: How has EU membership changed the constellation of political groups, their power and interests? Does EU membership strengthen democracy in the countries of Southern Europe, or does decision-making in Brussels weaken those institutions? Has the rise of the EU changed the essential nature of democracy in Europe? And what changes are we likely to see with the Eastern enlargement of the EU? Selected papers from this conference can be found on the IES web site at ies.berkeley.edu/pubs

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The 2002-03 academic year witnessed the full implementation of the Voteworld research project. Voteworld, operated in collaboration with the Institute for Governmental Studies, aims to provide both archival services and web-based access services for voting in legislatures and international organizations. With Voteworld, individuals will be able to display the votes on an issue, such as the impeachment of President Clinton, on a map of electoral districts or states, using data on the voting records of individual legislators. An alternative presentation of the data will display votes in terms of the ideological orientation of nations or legislators. The entire database will be easily searchable for content. Voteworld seeks to make the political process more transparent and accessible to the general public. voteworld.berkeley.edu

The 2002-03 academic year saw the hosting of two conferences on the creation and establishment of the European Union's new constitutional structure. These two conferences, held in Berkeley and San Francisco, were led by Gerard Roland and Barry Eichengreen and based on the book Built to Last: A Political Architecture for Europe written in collaboration with Erik Berglöf, Guido Tabellini and Charles Wyplosz for the Center for Economic Policy Research. The conference at Berkeley was hosted in collaboration with the UC Berkeley Haas Business School and IGS, and the one in San Francisco was co-hosted with the San Francisco branch of the World Affairs Council.

In January 2003, IES, under the direction of Professors Chris Ansell of Berkeley Department of Political Science and David Vogel of the Haas School of Business, convened a meeting of 34 European and American scholars in the first of a series of meetings examining the evolving institutional and regulatory framework of European food safety. These institutions have undergone a major transformation following public health crises associated with "mad cow disease" and international trade disputes over beef growth hormones and genetically-modified foods. These institutional transformations have far-reaching implications for understanding both consumer protection and trade policy, and they also provide a powerful lens for examining the ongoing construction of the European Union, which this project has begun to draw out.

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Professor Hans Sluga heads the IES Culture, Politics, and Society Colloquium, bringing in distinguished speakers from both Europe in the United States. The theme of the colloquium in 2002-03 was "The State in European and American Perspective." Participants considered the question of the future viability of the state as the pressures of globalization increase and as supranational institutions -- taking on state functions -- proliferate and gain influence. Speakers were Margaret Gilbert, Gary Gutting, and Raymond Geuss.

With support from IES and BRIE, Professor Jonah Levy of the Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley held two workshops -- one in October and one in May -- for his convener group entitled "The European State after Statism." Conventional wisdom has it that state intervention in the economy is decreasing with the "race to the bottom" under deepening globalization. High unemployment and slow growth place pressure on states for deregulation and lower taxes. Keynesianism is no longer viable, the argument goes, and centralized wage bargaining creates burdens on the economy in the form of high labor costs.

This project seeks to "bring the state back in" through empirical investigations of those changes that challenge existing forms of state intervention, as well as those that may fuel new demands for state intervention. The project puts forth this hypothesis: "If old forms of intervention are discredited and cleared away, new forms of regulation are also emerging." At the first workshop, held in October 2002, participants presented a two-page outline of their proposed papers, which were then discussed among the group. For the second workshop held in May 2003, participants submitted very rough drafts of their papers. The papers were presented to the group by the commentators, rather than the authors. The collection of papers will be presented at the 2003 meeting of the American Political Science Association, with Professor Peter Gourevitch of UC San Diego, serving as commentator. The final workshop will be at the end of October or beginning of November 2003.

An edited volume manuscript will be given to publishers by the end of 2003. Completed papers will be available in the Fall of 2003 at ies.berkeley.edu/pubs

Recognizing that America's European allies were becoming increasingly vocal in their objections to US foreign policy, IES initiated a series of workshops on "Transatlantic Turbulence." Of course intermittent disputes have always roiled the waters, with storms over bananas to beef, with disappointments over Kyoto and land mines, and differences over missile defense and arms control. But the war with Iraq, the West's changing relations with Russia, the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, the avowed views of the Bush Administration on the "axis of evil," and "regime change" and preemption, have led to extraordinary transatlantic tension.

IES initiated a series of workshops led by prominent scholars and journalists to discuss these issues. On November 7, 2002, Klaus Leggewie, Professor of Political Science at the University of Giessen and recent fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, led the first seminar in this series, entitled "Transatlantic Relations: Usual Schism or New Partnership?" James Kitfield, the Foreign Affairs and national Security Correspondent for the National Journal, followed in late November. In the spring, Professor Helga Haftendorn of the Free University of Berlin focused the workshop on the theme "The Crisis of Transatlantic Relations and the Future of NATO." She was followed by Professor Paul Schroeder of the University of Illinois; Charles Kupchan, Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; Dr. Josef Joffe, Chief Editor of the German weekly magazine, Die Zeit; Michael Daxner, Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at the University of Oldenburg, Formerly Principal Officer at the UN Mission to Kosovo; and Jost Halfmann, Professor of Sociology at the Technical University of Dresden and IES Visiting Scholar. Over 50 people attended these workshops.

On September 10 2002, the EU Center, in conjunction with the Library of Congress and the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies, sponsored a conference marking the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks, entitled "Transatlantic Relations One Year after September 11." The continuing fight against terrorism and the possibility of military action against Iraq dominated the conference proceedings. 200 people attended the conference.

Dr. James Billington, Librarian of Congress, gave the welcoming remarks to the assembled guests. The remarks of two other guest speakers, Congressman Gil Gutknecht (R-MN) and German Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, set the stage for the debate that followed. Panel topics included foreign and defense policy, domestic security, economic relations, and mutual perceptions. On the domestic security and broader economic levels, panelists noted that there were few divisions among Europeans and Americans. The topic of mutual perceptions focused the discussion on the debate over terrorism and the impending war with Iraq. The strong rhetoric reported in the media suggested significant divisions between Europe and the US, but publics were far less divided than elites. If there is a rift, concluded one speaker, then it lies between the policymaking elite. This may be symptomatic of a deeper shift in strategic culture, of diverging views on the use of force, on threat perception, or on such basic strategic concepts as containment, deterrence, and preemption.

In April 2003 the Institute of European Studies and Graduate School of Journalism jointly hosted a symposium entitled "Looking at America from Abroad: A European Media Perspective," at which a series of prominent U.S. and European journalists contrasted press coverage of the war on the two continents. Participants included Peter Schneider from Germany, Federico Rampini from Italy, Patrick Jarreau from Le Monde, and Godfrey Hodgson from Great Britain. The symposium was attended by 100 people.

Professor Aaron Belkin of UC Santa Barbara established a study group in the Spring of 2003 to examine how NATO and the UN, as integrated military forces, function when troops are governed by sharply divergent personnel policies. The group is exploring this question in the context of sexuality policy. Member countries of these institutions maintain very different policies and regulations with respect to the rights and obligations of gay and lesbian service personnel. The U.S. armed forces, for example, discharge
open gays and lesbians while all other original NATO members aside from Turkey allow known homosexuals to serve. Yet soldiers from the U.S. fight side by side with openly gay European and Canadian soldiers. How do military units function when service members are governed by conflicting regulations? The first working paper, "Multinational Units and Homosexual Personnel," appears in the digital IES working paper collection at ies.berkeley.edu/pubs

Europe's Changing Cultural Geography

On February 28, 2003, the IES study group on European Society and Culture held a first meeting to discuss the interdisciplinary project on "Rethinking Diversity in Europe." A group of about 15 colleagues and students joined the meeting. The group discussed the ongoing collaborative archive and sourcebook project on multicultural Germany within the larger European and American framework of rethinking diversity. Professor Tony Kaes, of the German Department and the Department of Film at UC Berkeley, presented a slim reader assembled in preparation for the meeting, consisting of the project description and sample texts from the documentation.

Among the questions discussed by participants in the workshop were the following: What are the limits of diversity? Does it only concern minorities and margins? How do different European nation states and their institutions employ the rhetoric of cultural diversity? What is to be gained from a cross-national comparison? And how would a cross-disciplinary exchange between humanities and social sciences frame questions of diversity? Each participant spoke briefly about his/her current project(s) in relation to these questions. The conveners also used the meeting to plan a two-day conference for September 2003. A

View the final report of that conference follows...

Ethnicity and Media in Scandinavia
On April 17-18, 2003, with support from the Finnish Studies Program and IES, the UC Berkeley Scandinavian Department organized and hosted the conference "Ethnicity and Media in Scandinavia." With a rising tide of immigration now facing Europe, the cultures of the Scandinavian countries have recently undergone significant changes. The conference aimed to explore such questions as what it means to be a Scandinavian, whether an ethnic "outsider" ever becomes a Scandinavian, and what level of involvement Scandinavian countries ought to have in the European Union.

The conference was a huge success, with the entire faculty and graduate student body of the department taking part as presenters or discussants. Two scholars who have done significant work in the field of ethnicity and culture in Scandinavia were invited to give lectures on their research: Professor Rochelle Wright, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, spoke on the topic of "Challenging the Patriarchy: Ethnicity and Gender in Recent Swedish Film;" and Professor Tim Tangherlini, from UCLA, addressed the conference on the topic of "Meet the Danes: From Venstre to Zlatko Buric."

Graduate students also presented papers discussing the following topics: Meir Goldschmidt's 19th-century Danish novel A Jew; laws regarding naming and their nationalist implications in the Scandinavian countries, particularly Iceland; Medieval Irish perceptions of ethnic diversity among Vikings; a novel by a contemporary Pakastani-Norwegian youth and its pedagogical function in Norwegian public schools. The conference successfully fulfilled three goals: introduction of a significant and relevant Scandinavian topic to a larger audience, intellectual exchange between graduate students and expert visiting faculty, and integration of graduate student research with oral performance.

Constructing the Mediterranean Region
The Mediterranean is the world's most volatile region. In the area that ties together southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, the cultural cleavages between the West and Islam -- and the economic gap between North and South -- collide. From this clash of civilizations and extreme economic inequality emerge the central threats of the post-Cold War era: religious fundamentalism, nuclear proliferation, international terrorism, interstate military conflict, migration, and drug trade.

In recent years, the European Union has attempted to build a Mediterranean regional identity, through the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP), which will attenuate these two divisions and mitigate the threats that they fuel. The EU has generously funded EMP efforts to entice leaders of Middle Eastern and North African countries to abandon the use of force and construct joint regional economic enterprises in order to enhance regional economic welfare, security and stability. This effort in turn, is intended to create regional interests and identities that transcend national boundaries. Participants in this conference examined the progress and disappointments of the EMP process and discussed the conditions under which that clash could be muted and civilizations could converge. Participants included Emanuel Adler, Fulvio Attinà, Federica Bicchi, Nick Biziouras, Beverly Crawford, Stephen C. Calleya, Richard Gillespie, Metin Heper, George Joffé, Gema Martín-Muñoz, Raffaella A. Del Sarto, Etel Solingen, Alfred Tovias, and Álvaro de Vasconcelos.

The "Better Understanding of Islam" Series
Olivier Roy, Senior Researcher at the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), and consultant for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, (field: Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Political Islam) came to Berkeley for a series of guest lectures in courses, seminars, and public events to promote a better understanding of Islam. In Professors Kiren Chaudry and Beshara Doumani's undergraduate course on Middle East Politics, Professor Roy lectured on the varieties of Political Islam. He also presented a guest lecture on the internationalization of Islam in Professor Steven Fish's course on Russia after Communism. He participated in a debate on Afghanistan on "Forum," a radio program on the Bay Area's public radio station KQED. At the Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, he presented a seminar on Islam in the Carnegie Seminar Series. He was also invited at Stanford to give a talk in a Workshop on Regional Security in Central Asia. Two public events were organized during his stay: he was one of the keynote speakers at the Annual conference of the World Affairs Council at the Asilomar Conference Center "From Pakistan to Kazakhstan: The Great Unknown," and he gave a public lecture on "Political Islam," cosponsored by the Institute of International Studies and the Institute of Area Studies course on "Issues in US Foreign Policy after 9-11".

The Legacy of Leo Lowenthal
A conference entitled "The Legacy of Leo Lowenthal" was given to pay tribute to a founding member of the Frankfurt Institut für Sozialforschung. The conference was organized by Martin Jay and was held on April 11-12, 2003. The conference began with the presentation of a paper by Jan Phillip Reemstmaof Hamburg, entitled "Prospero and the Demons." Reemstma was followed by Professor Helmut Dubiel, then Max Weber, Professor at NYU. Dubiel focused on the globalization of the Holocaust, and drew on Lowenthal's classic essay on "Terror's Atomization of Man."

The afternoon session began with Howard Bloch, a distinguished professor of medieval French literature at Yale and an intimate friend of Lowenthal during his Berkeley years. He spoke on animals in the Bayeux tapestry and "the image of man," a reference to Lowenthal's collection Literature and the Image of Man. He was followed by Richard Wolin, historian and political theorist at the CUNY Graduate Center, who discussed Lowenthal and the integrity of the intellectual. The afternoon concluded with four superb personal reminiscences by former colleagues, friends and students from Berkeley: Michael Bernstein, Ann Swidler, James Stockinger and Thomas Laqueur. Each brilliantly evoked Lowenthal's presence, remarkable even well after his official retirement from the Sociology Department. A reception finished the day's events.

Research, Study Groups and Conferences