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September 2003

Tuesday, August 26th, 4pm
Dr. Laura Gowing, Department of History, King's College, London
"The Body in Early Modern England"
In this lecture, Dr. Gowing will draw on her new book Common Bodies: Women, Touch, and Power in 17th Century England.

English Department Lounge, 330 Wheeler Hall
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton



Dieter Ziegler, Professor, History Department, University of Bochum, Germany
"The German Banks and the Economic Persecution
of the Jews in the Third Reich"
In this lecture, Professor Ziegler will discuss the results of the latest research on the role of the German great banks (Deutsche Bank, Dresdner Bank, Commerzbank) in the process of economic persecution of the German Jews in the Third Reich, highlighting reasons for the flawless implementation of anti-Jewish measures by the great banks (including the question of antisemitism as a driving force). Ziegler will also address the banks' attitude during the last five decades and the reasons for the sudden change in their attitude in the late 1990s, when commissions of independent historians were set up by the three great banks.

European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton



Gert-Joachim Glaessner, Professor of Political Science, Humboldt University, Berlin
"German Responses to 9/11: Internal Security and the New Anti-Terrorism Act"
Securing internal and external peace, freedom and social welfare is one of the most prominent goals of democratic society and its political institutions. In Germany, as in other democracies, security plays an important role in public debate. After the events of September 11, 2001, security occupied center-stage during political debates, and figured prominently in party manifestos in the September 2002 federal elections. New security and anti-terrorism laws passed by parliament support both the majority and opposing parties. Glaessner's talk will focus on the security situation in Germany and crime prevention measures taken by the federal and state governments. It gives particular attention to the anti-terrorism legislation.

European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton



Dirk Moses, Professor, Department of History, University of Sydney, Australia
"Holocaust and Genocide: Entanglement of Master Concepts"
The conventional wisdom holds that the Holocaust is a paradigm of genocide, both in its definitional development by Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) and the United Nations between 1946 and 1948. On this reading, Holocaust is the master concept to which genocide is subordinated. Professor Moses will question this view by revisiting the writings of Lemkin, the course of the UN debates, and the development of genocide studies as a discipline in the last twenty years. Moses believes that Lemkin and the UN convention on genocide have been misunderstood by scholars for most of the postwar period, and will argue that only now are their signs that the concept they propounded is informing academic research.

European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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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.

European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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IES LECTURE SERIES
BEYOND THE GULF: US-EUROPEAN RELATIONS AFTER IRAQ
Cem Özdemir, Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the US
"Transatlantic Tensions and the Future of Immigration Policy"
On September 15, Cem Ozdemir, the first Turkish-German to serve in the Bundestag (Parliament of Germany), will address the IES on the problems of immigration policy since September 11, 2001. His presentation will highlight the differences between the U.S. and Germany in the war on terror, focusing on the ways each country is grappling with controversial immigration politics. From Schilly to Ashcroft, Ozdemir will discuss how Germany and America could profit from each other's experience integrating ethnic and religious minorities.

European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton



Sir Joseph Pilling, Permanent Under Secretary, Northern Ireland Office
"A Conversation About the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
and the Role of Civil Service"
Sir Joseph Pilling has spent over 30 years with the Irish government, working in a plethora of fields including health, education, terrorism, prison services, and high-profile criminal policy. On September 18th, he will lead an informal discussion about the role of the civil service in the peace process in Northern Ireland.

European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
Sponsored by the Center for British Studies
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Benjamin Stora, Professeur des Universités et Directeur de l'Institut Maghreb-Europe à Paris
"France-Algérie: De la mémoire à l'histoire"
Beaucoup de choses ont été dites et écrites en Algérie et en France, entre 1999 et 2002 autour de la guerre d'Algérie. Il y a eu entre autres le vote à l'Assemblée Nationale française, d'une proposition de loi visant à la reconnaissance du terme de «guerre» pour qualifier les évènements advenus en Algérie entre 1954 et 1962. De nombreuses polémiques lui ont fait suite, dont le point culminant fut sans doute la parution du livre du général Aussaresses, qui a déclaré avoir assassiné des leaders du nationalisme algérien.

European Studies Seminar Room, 223 Moses Hall
Sponsored by the French Studies Program. This lecture will be spoken in French.
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McKinsey & Company box lunch
The German office of McKinsey & Company will be on campus again next week. They will hold a box lunch for all interested German-speaking students on campus.

Howard Room, The Faculty Club
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Constantin Goschler, Professor, History Department, Humboldt University, Berlin
"Restitution in West Germany and East Germany, 1945-2000"
Over the past few years, the case of restitution for Nazi victims has become more pressing than ever, certainly due in part to recent restitution claims which have been fostered worldwide. In this presentation, Dr. Goschler will discuss the different approaches taken by Eastern and Western Germany to address restitution claims of former Nazi victims, and try to offer a "pragmatic" perspective to restitution which hopefully might also provide some useful lessons with respect to more recent cases of restitution claims.

European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
For more information please contact Heidi Sutton



IES CONFERENCE
THE 1970s, BEFORE AND AFTER: THEORIES AND PRACTICES OF SEXUALITY AND CULTURE IN FRANCE AND THE USA

Thursday, September 25th, 8pm George Chauncey, Professor, University of Chicago "Why 'Come Out of the Closet'?" Ambiguity, Authenticity, and the Shifting Boundaries of the Public and Private Self from the 1950s to the 1970s. 370 Dwinelle Hall Respondent: Michael Lucey, French and Comparative Literature.

Friday, September 26th, 10am Joan Scott, Professor, Institute for Advanced Study "French Universalism in the 1990s" 370 Dwinelle Hall Respondent: Tyler Stovall, History Department.

Friday, September 26th, 12 noon Didier Eribon, Paris, France and UC Berkeley "Toward an Ethic of Subjectivation: French Resistances to Psychoanalysis in the 1970s" 370 Dwinelle Hall Respondent: Judith Butler, Rhetoric and Comparative Literature.

Friday, September 26th, 2:30pm Round table discussion with speakers and respondents. 3335 Dwinelle Hall

Conference Co-sponsors: the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Dean of Arts and Humanities, the Dean of Social Sciences, the Departments of Comparative Literature, French, History and Women's Studies, the French Studies Program.

For more information please contact Heidi Sutton