IES Tea Time
IES invites you to share some good conversation and a real cup
of tea. Open to all students, faculty and staff, and the public.
For more information please contact
Heidi
Sutton.
Wednesday, September 8th, 3-5 pM
IES Seminar Room,
201
Moses Hall
The
Development of the U.S. and European Economies in Comparative
Perspective
This conference is organized by UC Berkeley's Institute for European
Studies, the Austrian Marshall Fund Foundation, the Austrian
Cultural Institute, New York and the Vienna Institute for International
Economic Studies (wiiw) in the framework of the Berkeley-Vienna
Program. Support from the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation
is gratefully acknowledged.
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conference program... For more information please contact
Heidi
Sutton.
Thursday-Friday, September 9th-10th
IIS Seminar Room
, 223
Moses Hall
EU Policy-Making: Reforming the CAP and EU Trade in
Beef & Dairy with Developing Countries
Michael Nelson and Michael Halderman
Michael Halderman received his Ph.D. in Political Science
from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1987 and since
then has been an independent consultant based in Berkeley.
Previously he had spent six years working and carrying out
research in Africa and four years working with the United Nations
Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva. His main
research and work interests include policy, institutional and
implementation issues related to rural development, international
trade, environmental factors, civil society, and conflict mitigation.
He has consulted for the World Bank, several UN organizations
(FAO, IFAD, ILO, UNDP, UNRISD), bilateral development agencies
(Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, United States) and European
NGOs.
Michael Nelson is a doctoral
candidate in Political Science at the University of California,
Berkeley. His main research interests are international and
transnational economic law, the international relations of
African states, and international food politics. Michael is
also a former U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer (Ghana, 1997 - 1999).
For
more information please contact Heidi
Sutton.
Tuesday, September 14th, 4pm
IES Seminar Room, 201
Moses Hall
From Party to Movement?
The German Radical Right
in Transition
Michael Minkenberg, Professor of Political Science, Europa-Universität Viadrina
Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
In international comparisons, the German radical right today seems a rather marginal
force. Neither does any of the right-wing radical parties hold seats in the Bundestag,
European Parliament or, with few and temporary exceptions, in the state parliaments.
Nor is there a charismatic leader like Jean-Marie Le Pen or Jörg Haider
who keeps providing a continuous national focus of attention and feeding the
public discourse with his ideas. Instead, the development of the radical right
in Germany fourteen years after unification is characterized by a general fragmentation
along with clear-cut differences between old and new Länder. More precisely,
it undergoes a decline of the party spectrum along with a consolidation in movement
sector and subcultural milieus, particularly in the East. This lecture traces
these changes since the highof electoral support and party development in the
early 1990s and discusses the question to what extent differences in opportunity
structures and cultural legacies between East and West contribute to these developments.
Lecture sponsored by the Institute of European Studies, DAAD. For more information
please
contact Heidi
Sutton.
Monday, September 20th, 12:30pm
IES Seminar Room, 201
Moses Hall
From Ancient to Modern: The Uses of History
and the Idea of America in Victorian Imperial Thought
Duncan Bell, Fellow, Christ’s College, Cambridge
Duncan Bell is a Fellow of Christ's College. After taking a degree in War Studies
at the University of London (King's College), he completed the M.Phil in International
Relations at Cambridge, and spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in the Department
of Political Science, Columbia University, New York. He recently completed his
doctoral thesis in the Faculty of History at Cambridge. His primary research
interests are in contemporary (international) political theory and intellectual
history.
This lecture is sponsored by the Center for British Studies and Political Theory/Philosophy.
For
more
information
please
contact Heidi
Sutton.
Monday, September 20th, 4pm
IES Seminar Room, 201
Moses Hall
Berkeley-Viadrina Cooperation
Program
Michael Minkenberg, Professor of Political Science, Europa-Universität Viadrina
Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Public Lecture open to anyone interested, specifically students interested in
European Studies. This informal presentation will introduce the cooperation program
that has existed between Berkeley and Viadrina for 2 years now. It will highlight
the components of the program (student and faculty exchanges) and introduce the
audience to
the profile of Europa-Universität Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), at the German-Polish
border. Specific Viadrina study programs such as Master of European Studies,
as well as the research focus of Viadrina faculty in Central and Eastern Europe,
EU studies, religion and modernity, and migration and identity studies will be
highlighted. Presentation sponsored by the Institute of European Studies, DAAD.
For
more information
please
contact Heidi
Sutton.
Monday, September 27, 4pm
IES Seminar Room, 201
Moses Hall
Society Does Not Exist: Jonathan Coe and the Post-Consensus
Novel
Ben Graves
CBS Dissertation Workshop
Sponsored by the Center for British Studies.
For
more information
please
contact Heidi
Sutton.
Wednesday, September 29, 4pm
IES Seminar Room, 201
Moses Hall
