Peter Murrell, University of Maryland
"Institutions and Firms in Transition Economies"
Part of the Comparative Economics Seminar. Sponsored by the Ford Foundation Crossing Borders Grant with the participation of the Institute of European Studies, the Institute of East Asian Studies, and the Institute of Slavic East European and Eurasian Studies
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
119 Moses Hall

David Bell
"Napoleon I and the Culture of War in Revolutionary Europe"
Co-sponsored by the French Studies Program
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
223 Moses Hall

Clara Núñez, Professor, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid
"Some Neglected Effects of the Spanish Civil War: Education and Human Capital in Twentieth-Century Spain"
Co-sponsored by the History Department and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
3335 Dwinelle Hall, Level C

José Pereira Bastos, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
"In Search of Hidden Meanings: Identity Processes and Strategies" PART I
Sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program.
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
201 Moses Hall

Various Speakers
"Race, across time, in France. Genealogy of a Concept."
How was the notion of "race" ( or the "other") conceived at various periods in French History? At what point did the concept harden into the concept we presuppose today? How does a concept of race emerge in relation to considerations of class and gender? Have the French, as is often claimed, tended to down play the concept of race in favor of ideas of national identification? Participants in this conference are working together to create an anthology of non literary texts that elaborate conceptions of race or cultural otherness in France, over time, from the Middle Ages to the present. At the conference they will present the research undertaken in connection with this anthology, tracing the concept of race as it evolves over time in France in texts ranging from travel accounts, missionary reports, newspaper articles, academic presentations, colonial administrative directives, the writings of ethnographers, etc. This conference is devoted to tracking the concept of race over time from the Middle Ages to the present day in France.
Co-Sponsored by the French Studies Program, the French Department, and the History Department.
For more information please contact Heddy Riss
303 Doe Library

Margaret Gilbert, Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut
"Shared Values, Social Unity, and Liberty"
Part of the Culture and Politics Colloquium
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
234 Moses Hall
The Dennes Room

José Pereira Bastos, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
"In Search of Hidden Meanings: Identity Processes and Strategies" PART II
Sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program.
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
201 Moses Hall

Albert Kümmel, Fedor Lynen Fellow at University of California, Santa Barbara
"Zöllner and Helmholtz: Academic Communication as Witchcraft"
The astrophysicist Karl Friedrich Zöllner became a convinced spiritualist during a trip to London where he met the spiritualist and physicist William Crookes. Zöllner's experiments with the American medium and juggler Henry Slade in autumn 1877 and spring 1878 became the starting point of a vivid spiritualistic mass movement in Germany. Trying to obtain acceptance among first-rate German scientists and scholars, he experienced harsh rejection. Accordingly, Zöllner reacted with insulting propaganda against his unbelieving colleagues and made Hermann von Helmholtz one of his favorite targets. The lecture interprets Zöllner's sarcastic rhetoric in terms of witchcraft. In this context, witchcraft is seen as a discourse that results in serious harmful effects to its participants.
Co-sponsored with the History Department and the Office for History of Science and Technology
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
123 Dwinelle Hall

Charles A. Kupchan, Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service and Department of Government, Georgetown University.
"The Rise of Europe and the End of the American Era"
Part of the Transatlantic Turbulence Lecture Series
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
201 Moses Hall

Dr. Jan Herman Brinks
"Germany's New Right"
Part of the Transatlantic Turbulence Lecture Series
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
201 Moses Hall

IES Teatime
Our informal tea time is a good opportunity for friends and colleagues to get together for good conversation and a REAL cup of tea. Faculty, students, and staff from our campus community will all be welcome.
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
201 Moses Hall

José Pereira Bastos, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
"In Search of Hidden Meanings: Identity Processes and Strategies" PART III
Sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program.
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
201 Moses Hall

Gary Gutting, Professor of Philosophy, Notre Dame University
"Foucault and the Philosophy of Experience"
Part of the Culture and Politics Colloquium
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
234 Moses Hall
The Dennes Room

José Pereira Bastos, Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
"In Search of Hidden Meanings: Identity Processes and Strategies" PART IV
Sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program.
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
201 Moses Hall

Mark Bevir, Associate Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
"New Labour's Welfare State"
Co-sponsored by the Center for British Studies and the UK Seminar
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
119 Moses Hall
Harris Room

Raymond Geuss, Lecturer in Philosophy, Cambridge University
"Outside Ethics: German and Anglo American Perspectives"
Part of the Culture and Politics Colloquium
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
201 Moses Hall