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February 2004

Monday, February 2nd, 12 noon
IES LECTURE SERIES 2003-2004
BEYOND THE GULF: US-EUROPEAN RELATIONS AFTER IRAQ
Ian Lesser, Vice Pres. and Director of Studies, Pacific Council on International Policy
"Turkey, Europe and the United States in a Time of Strategic Uncertainty"
Dr. Lesser is Vice President and Director of Studies at the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles. He came to the Council from RAND, where he was a senior political scientist specializing in strategic studies and Mediterranean affairs. In 1994-95 he was a member of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, where his responsibilities included southern Europe, Turkey, North Africa and the multilateral track of the Middle East peace process. Earlier in his career he was deputy director of the Political-Military Studies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; senior fellow at the Atlantic Council; and staff consultant at International Energy Associates. His recent publications include Turkish Foreign Policy in an Age of Uncertainty (2003); Greece’s New Geopolitics (2001) NATO Looks South (2000); Countering the New Terrorism (1999); and A Sense of Siege: The Geopolitics of Islam and the West. He is a frequent commentator for television, radio and print media.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Sir Keith Thomas, Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
"Friendship and Sociability in Early Modern England"
Keith Thomas is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He was formerly President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His books include Religion and the Decline of Magic, Man and the Natural World, and The Oxford Book of Work (March 2003).

This lecture is sponsored by the Center for British Studies and co-sponsored by the History Department.

370 Dwinelle Hall
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Leonard Smith, Professor of History, Oberlin College
"Jean Norton Cru and the Subjectivity of Objectivity"
This lecture is sponsored by the French Studies Program.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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IES LECTURE SERIES 2003-2004
BEYOND THE GULF: US-EUROPEAN RELATIONS AFTER IRAQ
Stephen Krasner, Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Relations, Deputy Director, Stanford Institute of International Studies
"Failed States and Gradations of Sovereignty"
Conventional sovereignty has failed, but the policy instruments currently available to repair these failures are inadequate. Many societies are troubled because they suffer under failed, weak, or abusive national authority structures. Outlaw states, which may be effectively (if not justly) governed but are bent on aggressive policies, can produce weapons of mass destruction and support transnational terrorist networks. Any adequate effort to confront the problems produced by troubled societies or outlaw states will have to transcend the conventional rules of sovereignty. Alternative institutional arrangements, such as trusteeships and shared sovereignty, must be legitimated if international threats are to be reduced and the prospects for individuals in troubled societies improved.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Nuno Severiano Teixeira, Professor of International Relations, New University, Lisbon
"The European Union as an International Actor"
Sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program. Read an article about Teixeira in the newest issue of eNews...

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Marc Morjé Howard, Assistant Professor of Government, Georgetown University
Research Fellow, German Marshall Fund (2004)
"Foreigners or Citizens? Citizenship Policies in the Countries of the EU"
This project focuses on the increasingly important issue of citizenship within the countries of the European Union (EU). Most EU countries are facing an impending demographic crisis -- due to low birth rates and an aging population -- and the incorporation of immigrants into the working population may be the only means of averting an eventual crisis or collapse of the pension systems. At the same time, anti-immigrant xenophobia has increased significantly over the last decade, thereby placing contradictory pressures on political elites, who tend to be more responsive to the short-term demands of the electorate. The demographic problem, however, is a longer-term one, and I argue that the key to understanding its eventual resolution will depend on how EU countries define and enforce their citizenship policies. Although citizenship has become a burgeoning topic in the fields of political theory and legal studies, it has been relatively ignored by more empirically-oriented political scientists. This project seeks to integrate the study of migration and citizenship into the main theoretical and substantive debates within the field of comparative politics, by means of a careful empirical study about how and why citizenship policies vary across the countries of the EU. It therefore seeks to fill the gap between the increasingly rich literature in political theory and the more descriptive but generally unsystematic case studies and edited volumes on citizenship.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Roberto Dainotto, Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures, Duke University
"Escape to Europe"
Sponsored by the Italian Studies Program and the Department of Italian Studies.

160 Dwinelle Hall
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Horst Kern, President, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany
"German University Reform: Elite Universities and the University of Göttingen"
Co-sponsored by the Institute for European Studies and UC Education Abroad Program.

CSHE Library, South Hall Annex
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Horst Kern, President, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany
"German/American Academic Exchange Programs: Long-Term Consequences to Both Countries"
Co-sponsored by the Institute for European Studies and U.C. Education Abroad Program.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Werner Hoyer, Former State Minister at German Foreign Office and current member of the German Bundestag
"The Birth of a European Constitution: Process and Obstacles"

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Tito Cardoso e Cunha, Professor of Rhetoric, Department of Communication Studies Universidade Nova de Lisboa
"Silence"
Sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Veronica Pimenoff, PhD (anthropoloy), MD (psychiatrist) and author
"Destiny and Choices in Literature and Medical Ethics"
Sponsored by the the Finnish Studies Program.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Kai Eide, Ambassador, NATO Permanent Representative of Norway
Peter Ricketts, KCMG, NATO Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom
"NATO and the Future of Transatlantic Relations"
NATO has emerged as a prominent force after Bosnia, not only in for security in Europe but some see it as having a vital role in the War on Terrorism. Questions as to what the future role of NATO is as well as the complex and evolving relationship between Europe and the US are coming to the fore. Leaders are gearing up for the Istanbul Summit in June 2004 which marks the seventh time heads of state and government have gathered since 1990 to contemplate the future course of the Alliance. Some see Istanbul as an opportunity to continue a successful transformation; others see it as an effort to mask fundamental strains in transatlantic relations.

As NATO member governments prepare for the Istanbul Summit their forces are heavily engaged in a range of stability operations, and simultaneously working to enhance their capabilities to respond to future tasks. In addition, the role and scope of NATO is expanding with seven countries to be admitted to NATO at the Istanbul Summit. These countries include: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

IIS Seminar Room, 223 Moses Hall
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IES Tea Time
Faculty, students, and staff are all welcome! Our informal tea time is a good opportunity for friends and colleagues to get together for good conversation and a real cup of tea.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Teolinda Gersão, Portuguese Distinguished Writer in Residence
"Welcome Reception and Presentation of the Author and her work within the context of Portugal's contemporary literature"
Sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Presentation in Portuguese and English.

Geballe Room, Townsend Center for the Humanities (Stephens Hall)
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Clarissa Clo, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"'Una Mattina Ci Siam Svegliati’: Music Subcultures and Antifascism in Contemporary Italy"
Sponsored by the Italian Studies Program and the Department of Italian Studies.

160 Dwinelle Hall
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CGES CONFERENCE
NEW RESEARCH AND WRITING IN MODERN GERMAN HISTORY
Californian historians studying modern German history have been very active as researchers and trainers of graduate students, but until now have faced a lack of forums in which to present and discuss both the new work recently published and the work in progress by professors and graduate students. This workshop provides the first opportunity to assemble scholars and create a statewide network that will facilitate future interaction and collaboration. It is designed to bring together faculty and graduate students working in the field of German history at all the University of California campuses. A select group of other institutions in the Bay Area -- Stanford, St. Mary's College, and the University of San Francisco -- have also been invited. The meeting is intended primarily for those working on German issues of the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, with the intent to bridge specialized fields by addressing questions in the realm of modern German history that remain relevant to all researchers.

View the conference program...

Hotel Durant
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