Monday, December 2nd
4-6pm
Presented by Candace Slater
Join us as we celebrate the release of several new books by Portuguese authors:
Afinado Desconcerto &
Livro de Possuidos by Maria Lúcia Dal
Farra, and
Fernando Pessoa-Resposta à Decadência by Haquira Osakabe.
Click here to view an article on Maria Lúcia Dal
Farra printed in the popular Portuguese magazine Deja.
Co-sponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Portuguese Studies Program
For more information please contact
Deolinda Adao
Geballe Room, Townsend Center
Stephens Hall
CANCELLED
Tuesday, December 3rd
noon-2pm
Based on current debates regarding the constitutionalization of the European Union, the
lecture will discuss the diverse drafts of a European constitution, contradictory
expectations and approaches, preconditions of implementing a constitution and specifics
of the European constitutional "telos", compared to constitutionalism in the United
States.
Sponsored by Goethe-Institute and DAAD. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information please contact
Heidi Sutton
223 Moses Hall
Thursday, December 5th
4pm
, Director, Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis, School of Sociology
and Social Policy, The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland
"GIS and a Re-examination of the Great Irish Potato Famine"
Sponsored by the Geographic Information Science Center, (GISC). Cosponsored by IES, Center
for British Studies, and the Demography Department.
For more information please contact
Caverlee Cary
220 Stephens Hall
Gebaulle Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Monday, December 9th
4-6pm
, Berkeley Center for Information Society IES Visiting Scholar
"Policy in the Information Age: The model of Finland vs. Silicon
Valley"
Sponsored by The Fisher Center for the Strategic Use of IT. Co-Sponsored by IES
For more information please contact
Heidi Sutton
135 Cheit Hall
The Fisher Center for the Strategic Use of IT
Haas School of Business
Additional information regarding European Cultural Events in the
Bay Area can be found at the following sites:
Alliance Francaise
Goethe
Institut
Italian Cultural
Institute
For more information on IES Lectures and Events,
call 510-643-5777 or
e-mail:
ies@berkeley.edu 
