Federico Rampini, West Coast Correspondent, La Repubblica
"The Struggle between Foreign-Led Modernization and Italian Post-Modernity"
Federico Rampini is the senior economic columnist and West Coast correspondent of La Repubblica, the largest national newspaper in Italy. He writes columns and editorials on international affairs, the global economy, US-European relations. He has published numerous books on political and economic topics such as the crisis of the Welfare State (Il crack delle nostre pensioni, 1994); the growing influence of Germany over Europe (La Germanizzazione, 1996); the European Union and the competition between the American and European models of capitalism (Effetto Euro, 2001; Dall'euforia alla crisi, 2002). Among many other noteworthy activities, he was a Media Fellow participant of the World Economic Forum in Davos, has lectured at the university Ecole Polytechnique in Paris (1988), and has taught at the Publitalia Management School in Milano.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Italian Studies and the Italian Studies Program
For more information contact Danielle Levin 6231 Dwinelle Hall 510-642-0072, issahr@uclink.berkeley.edu
223 Moses Hall

Various Speakers
"Arabic, Hebrew, and Spanish Literature: Three Golden Ages in the Iberian Peninsula. A Symposium-Seminar in Memory of Americo Castro (1885-1972)."
Challenging a historiographic tradition that was more often than not nationalistic and overtly anti-Semitic, the philologist, historian of Spain, and specialist in Spanish literature, Americo Castro (1885-1972), taught that Spanish civilization could not be understood properly without acknowledging the multilevelled contributions of, and interactions among, Christians, Jews, and Muslims on Iberian soil. Following this avenue of thought, the Symposium-Seminar (to be held from Friday, May 2 to Saturday, May 3, 2003) will explore aspects of Arabic, Hebrew, and Spanish literature in the Peninsula, both during the Middle Ages, when it was predominantly under Islamic rule, and during the sixteenth and seventeenth-centuries, when the old, Islamic system of religious tolerance broke down under the aigis of Christendom.
Click here for a complete symposium schedule
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
223 Moses Hall

Keynote Speaker: Olivier Roy, Senior researcher at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), Political Sciences. Part-time consultant for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, (field: Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Political Islam). Click here for an interview with Olivier Roy conducted by Henry Kreisler as part of the Conversations with History series.
Annual Conference of the World Affairs Council, "From Pakistan to Kazakhstan: The Great Unknown"
This series is funded by the Institute of European Studies with funding from the Department of Education under Title VI. Click here for a lecture series flyer.
For more information contact the World Affairs Council, (415) 293-4600 or visit their website
Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, California

Olivier Roy, Senior researcher at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), Political Sciences. Part-time consultant for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, (field: Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Political Islam). Click here for interview with Olivier Roy conducted by Henry Kreisler as part of the Conversations with History series.
"Political Islam"
Olivier Roy comes to Berkeley for a series of joint courses and seminars and public events to promote a better understanding of Islam. This series is sponsored by the Institute of European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, with funding from the US Department of Education under Title VI. Cosponsored by the Institute of International Studies and the IAS 180.1 course, "Issues in US Foreign Policy after 9-11." Click here for a lecture series flyer.
For more information please contact Heddy Riss
Room 100
Genetics and Plant Biology Building

Jussi Kauhanen, Professor of Public Health in the University of Kuopio, Finland.
"Health in the 21st Century Finland"
Co-sponsored by the Finnish Studies Program
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
201 Moses Hall

Robert Pippin, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
"Mine and Thine? The Kantian Theory"
Part of the Culture and Politics Colloquium Series
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton
223 Moses Hall

Various Speakers
"Yiddish Culture Between the Wars"
The conference aims to bring together scholars of Yiddish studies across disciplines to examine transformations of European Yiddish culture, life, and letters in the period from 1918 to 1939. The interwar period witnessed the peak of modern Yiddish cultural production. During these years of blossoming and breakdown of European Jewish life, it is estimated that there were over 15 million Ashkenazi Jews in the world; and, for the vast majority, Yiddish was the primary language. The massive devastation of the khurbn produced a dilemma in which the major upheavals in Jewish life following the Great War have been relegated to the margins of Jewish history, or are too often seen solely as a preface for the next world war. The aim of this conference is to reconsider the multifarious expressions of Yiddish life, which emerged between the wars. Click here for a lecture series flyer.
For more information please contact Heddy Riss
223 Moses Hall