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April | May
April
Holocaust
Trials: Belarus and the Ukraine
“Following
the Paper Trial: The Holocaust in Domachevo, Belarus, in
the Records
of Polish, German, Soviet and British War Crimes Investigations”Martin Dean, Research
Scholar, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United
States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
“Collaboration on Trial: War Crimes
Trials in Different Regional Settings in Ukraine”
Tanja Penter, Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for
Advanced Holocaust
Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Wednesday, April 6, Time TBA
European
Studies Seminar Room, 201
Moses Hall
Contact: Heidi Sutton
IES and ISEES
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Hegel’s
Metaphysics of the Self
The lecture addresses the question why the German idealists were so much
interested in self-consciousness. It seeks to argue that in Hegel’s
case this interest is motivated by metaphysical concerns and not either epistemological
or psychological
ones.
Rolf Peter Horstmann, Professor
of Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin
Thursday, April 7, 4 pm
European Studies Seminar Room, 201
Moses Hall
Contact: Heidi Sutton
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Germany,
Britain, and the Future of Europe
William E. Paterson, Director of
the Institute for German Studies , University of Birmingham,
UK
Thursday, April 7, 4 pm
Harris Room, 119
Moses Hall
Contact: Heidi Sutton
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The Modern Invention of Renaissance Italy: Architecture, Spectacle,
and
Tourism
D. Medina Lasansky, Cornell University
Monday, April 11, 5 pm, 104 Wurster Hall
Sponsored by the Italian Studies Department, the Townsend
Center for the Humanities, and the Architecture Research
Colloquium
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Scholar in Residence - Lecture
End of Poverty? The French Revolution
and the Promise of a World Without Want
Gareth Stedman Jones, Professor
of History and Political Science at King’s
College, Cambridge and Director of the Center for History and
Economics at King’s
College, Cambridge
Respondent: Catherine Gallagher, English
Wednesday, April 13
4:00pm, 3335
Dwinelle Hall
Center for British Studies
Co-sponsored by the History Department &
the Townsend Center for the Humanities
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Scholar in Residence - Student Workshop
Millennium and Enlightenment:
Robert Owen and the Second Coming of the Truth
Gareth Stedman Jones, Professor of
History and Political Science at King’s
College, Cambridge and Director of the Center for History and
Economics at King’s
College, Cambridge
Thursday, April 14, 4:00pm
2227 Dwinelle Hall
For Pre-circulated papers, please contact:
ctrbs@berkeley.edu
Center for British Studies
Co-sponsored by the History Department &
the Townsend Center for the Humanities
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Scholar in Residence - Student Workshop
National Bankruptcy and Social Revolution:
European Observers on Britain, 1789-1848
Gareth Stedman Jones, Professor of
History and Political Science at King’s
College, Cambridge and
Director of the Center for History and Economics at King’s
College, Cambridge
Thursday, April 21, 4:00pm
European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
For Pre-circulated papers, please contact:
ctrbs@Berkeley.edu
Center for British Studies
Co-sponsored by the History Department &
the Townsend Center for the Humanities
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Dante and Islam: The Last Word
Karla Mallette, American University of Beirut & Northwestern University
Thursday April 21, 5 pm, 160 Dwinelle Hall
Sponsored by the Italian Studies Department and the Italian
Studies Program
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Portugese
Studies Conference, April 21-24
The Voice and Choice of Women in Portugal (and in the Diaspora) Read
more ...
Thursday, April 21, Tan
Oak Room, MLK Student Union
Panels 9am-5:45pm
Friday, April 22, 370
Dwinelle Hall
Panels 8:30am-6:15pm
Saturday, April 23, Wurster
Hall Auditorium
Panels 8:30am-6:15pm
Sunday, April 24, Kroeber
Hall Auditorium
Panels 8:30am-12:45pm
Gallery Exhibit & Reception, 12:45pm-2pm
Film & Director's Discussion, 2pm-6pm
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Medium Cool Romanticism: Audiovision circa 1800
For more information and Colloquium Program please visit the
Institute of European Studies website at: http://ies.berkeley.edu/cbs/events.html
For more details contact Prof. Ian Duncan:
iduncan@berkeley.edu
Tuesday, April 22, 2:00pm
Maud Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
Center for British Studies
Co-sponsored by the English Department &
the Townsend Center for the Humanities
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France
and the United States: Facing Common Challenges
Jean-David
Levitte, French Ambassador to the United States
April 25, 4.30-6.00 PM
Seaborg Room, Faculty
Club UC-Berkeley
For more info contact Michelle
Bertho.
French Studies Program
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German-Jewish Relations Today
Rolf Schütte, Visiting
Scholar, Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley
Tuesday, April 26, 4:00pm
European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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"An
Indescribable Commotion": Femininity, Adolescence, and School Life
in France and England, 1810-1870
Christina de Bellaigue, National
Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
and Affiliated Scholar, Institute
for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University
Tuesday, April 27, 4 pm
European Studies Seminar Room, 201
Moses Hall
Contact: Heidi Sutton
The Center for British Studies and the French Studies Program
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Memory and Modernity: S. Paolo fuori le Mura in Rome as Emblematic Monument
(1823-1930)
Richard Wittman, U.C. Santa Barbara
Thursday April 28th, 5 pm, 160 Dwinelle Hall
Sponsored by Italian Studies Department and the Academic
Senate Committee on
Research
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French Business and European Integration 1920-1990
Patrick Fridenson
Director
of Studies at EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sciences Sociales), Editor for the
magazine Entreprises et Histoire,
Director of the Magazine Le Mouvement Social, Former
President of the French Association of Economist-Historians,
President-elect of the Business History Conference
Thursday,
April 28, 12.00-2.00 pm, Room
119 Moses Hall, Institute of Governmental Studies
French Studies
May
Road Rage and French Society 1890-1940
Patrick Fridenson
Director of Studies at EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sciences Sociales), Editor
for the magazine Entreprises et Histoire, Director of the Magazine Le Mouvement
Social, Former President of the French Association of Economist-Historians,
President-elect of the Business History Conference
Monday,
May 2, 4:00 pm, Room 201 Moses Hall
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EU-Russia Relations
Rolf
Schütte,Visiting Scholar, Institute of European
Studies, UC Berkeley, Career Diplomat in the German Foreign
Service. Previously he worked at the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace in Washington and at the American Jewish
Committee in
New York
Tuesday,
May 3, 12.30 pm, Room 223 Moses Hall,
Institute of Governmental Studies
Sponsored by the Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley
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IES Tea Time
All Students, Faculty, and Staff are invited to relax and share a cup
of tea at the Institute of European Studies. We hope to see you there!
Tuesday,
May 3, 3:00 -
5:00pm
European Studies Seminar Room, 201
Moses Hall
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Constitutional
Justice in Northern Ireland
Shane O’Neill, Professor of Political Theory, Queen’s
University Belfast, Head of the School of Politics and International
Studies, Queen’s University and Fulbright Scholar and
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Solomon Asch Center for
the Study
of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, May 5, 12 pm (noon)
European Studies Seminar Room, 201
Moses Hall
Contact: Heidi Sutton
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