The Myths of Civil Society
Michael Kenny, Professor, Department of Politics;
University of Sheffield, UK
This paper develops a critical response to some of the main ways in which
liberal political theorists and scientists, in the English-speaking world,
have conceptualized 'civil society'. It focuses particularly upon the
historical limitations and normative ambitions guiding such arguments
including those of Robert Putnam and Michael Walzer). This critical perspective
is extended as well to incorporate the recent upsurge of liberal theorizing about
a supposed 'global' civil society.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for British Studies
and the Deparment of Political Science . For more
information please contact Heidi
Sutton.
Tuesday, February 1, 4 pm
IES Seminar Room,
201 Moses Hall
Public Intellectuals and the Question
of British Decline
Michael Kenny, Professor, Department of Politics;
University of Sheffield, UK
This article proposes a refocusing of the debate on British decline, to
concentrate attention on declinism rather than on historical decline itself.
In particular, it addresses the ways in which intellectuals have perceived,
diagnosed and proposed remedies for decline. Public intellectuals have
exerted significant influence on British politics in ways not usually
acknowledged in scholarly analysis. We explore three key themes in intellectual
declinism: ideology, methodology and national identity. Declinism has proved
rhetorically enriching to intellectuals of a variety of ideological hues,
the latter drawing on a paradoxically shared reservoir of cultural and
symbolic resources. Declinist intellectuals have influentially framed
arguments about the English nation, the British state and the supposedly
exceptional British developmental experience.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for British Studies
and the Deparment of Political Science. For a copy of the paper
for this workshop, please contact
Julie Taddeo.
Wednesday, February 2, 12 pm
IES Seminar Room,
201 Moses Hall
Patterns of Associational Revolution in Italy and Spain
Dylan Riley, Department of Sociology;
UC Berkeley
This lecture is sponsored by the Italian Studies Program. For more
information please contact Mia
Fuller.
Thursday, February 3, 5 pm
160 Dwinelle Hall
Language Communities or Cultural Empires: The Impact of European Languages
in Former Colonial Territories
IES Conference
This conference aims to explore the impact of the former European
empires on culture, politics, and economics, both in Europe and
in the former colonies through
an examination of the legacies of language communities in the former European
colonial areas, particularly the territories that have achieved statehood
within the 20th century. The conference will address three central
themes: 1) Language
and Nation: the impact of the (former) colonizer's language on nation building
and national identity in former colonial areas; 2) The Diaspora Experience,
the imprint that the colonial language has left on the colonized,
as well as the
cultural impact of immigrants in Britain, France, Portugal, and Spain;
3) European approaches to linguistic integration in the context
of globalization. Read more...
For more information please contact Heidi
Sutton.
Thursday - Friday, February 10-11
Vichy- Taking the waters
back home From Curing the Colonizers chapter 7
Eric Jennings, University of Toronto
Canada
This lecture is sponsored by the French Studies Program. For more
information please contact Heidi
Sutton.
Friday, February 11, 12 pm
IES Seminar Room,
201 Moses Hall
Writing and Reading:
Presentation and discussion of selected text by Pepetela
Pepetela, Writer, Professor of
Sociology at the College of Architecture of the
University Agostinho Neto, Luanda, Angola
This lecture is sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program. For more
information please contact Heidi
Sutton.
Thursday, February 17, 3 pm
IES Seminar Room,
201 Moses Hall
Italian Monarchy and the making
of the Italian nation (1861-1911)
Catherine Brice, Visiting Lecturer
in the Chair of Italian Culture; Institut d'Études Politiques, Paris
This lecture is sponsored by the Italian Studies Program. For more
information please contact Mia
Fuller.
Thursday, February 17, 5 pm
160 Dwinelle Hall
IES Tea Time
All Students, Faculty, and Staff are invited to relax
and share a cup of tea at the Institute of European Studies
This will be our first tea time of the Spring semester.
We hope to see you there!
For more information please contact Heidi
Sutton.
Tuesday, February 22, 3-5 pm
IES Seminar Room,
201 Moses Hall
The Future of Architectural Design? -
A Personal View from the Finnish Perspective
Arto Kiviniemi, Phd candidate, Stanford University
This lecture is sponsored by the Finnish Studies Program. For
more information please contact Heidi
Sutton.
Thursday, February 24, 11:15 pm
6415 Dwinelle Hall
Revisiting Orientalism Through Angolan Literature
Ana Maria Martinho, Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
This lecture is sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program. For more
information please contact Heidi
Sutton.
Thursday, February 24, 4 pm
IES Seminar Room,
201 Moses Hall
Public Sector Reforms: The Fragmentation
of the State and the Challenges of Combining Different Values
Public Symposium: Towards a New Public Management? The Impact
of Global Trends and State Traditions on Public Sector Reforms
Tom Christensen, University of Oslo
&
Per Laegreid, University of Bergen
This symposium is part of the IES-sponsored collaborative
research project on Comparative Administrative Reform directed
by Joel D. Aberbach (University of California, Los Angeles) and
Eckhard Schroeter (University of California, Berkeley)
For more information please contact Heidi
Sutton.
Friday, February 25, 2 pm
IES Seminar Room,
201 Moses Hall
Legislative Behavior
in Europe, the US, and Beyond
This conference will gather experts on legislative behavior from
various angles and will cover different geographical regions.
Special attention will be given to legislative behavior in the
European Union in light of the newly drafted Constitution for
the European Union. One of the main goals of the conference is
to use the comparative perspective to analyze legislative behavior
in the European Parliament and the European Council and to
compare fruitfully legislative behavior in the European Union
with the experience of the US and other democracies. Methodological
and econometric issues in the analysis of legislative behavior
will also be discussed.
View conference
program and read more...
Co-sponsored by the Center on Institutions and Governance and
the Institute of European Studies.
For more information please contact Janeen M. Jackson.
Friday - Saturday, February 25-26
The Joseph P. Harris Room,
119 Moses Hall
Swedish Administrative Reforms in
Comparative Perspective: The Resilience of Administrative Traditions
Public Symposium: Towards a New Public Management? The Impact
of Global Trends and State Traditions on Public Sector Reforms
Jon Pierre, University of Gothenburg
This symposium is part of the IES-sponsored collaborative
research project on Comparative Administrative Reform directed
by Joel D. Aberbach (University of California, Los Angeles) and
Eckhard Schroeter (University of California, Berkeley)
For more information please contact Heidi
Sutton.
Monday, February 28, 12 pm
IES Seminar Room,
201 Moses Hall
