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March 2004

Thursday, March 4th, 4 pm
FINNISH IDENTITY IN FINNISH CINEMA
Mervi Pantti, PhD, Department of Communication, University of Helsinki and The Amsterdam School of Communications Research
"Nousukausi (in Finnish w/ subtitles in English)"
A talk and a viewing of this new film, which won the "Jussi" (Finnish Oscar) for best motion picture in 2003. Nousukausi is an interesting comedy born out of the world of reality-TV and extreme sports: a successful couple in search of the exotic take a "holiday" in which they swap their jobs and comfortable house for four weeks of living on unemployment benefit in a seedy suburb, with no credit cards to buy their way out of trouble.

33 Dwinelle Hall, Reception to follow in 34 Dwinelle Hall
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IES / DEPT. OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE
20TH-CENTURY SPANISH WOMEN AUTHORS
A conference at UC Berkeley sponsored by the Spanish Studies Program and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Talks by contemporary authors about their experiences, their work, and their views on literature. Soledad Puértolas, Regents Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and author of El bandido doblemente armado (Premio Sésamo), Burdeos, Queda la noche (Premio Planeta), etc. Clara Sánchez, author of El misterio de todos los días, Desde el mirador, Ultimas noticias del paraiso (Premio Alfaguara), etc. Panels on authors before the Civil War, the Franco Regime, and the Contemporary Period: Marta Altisent (UC Davis); Nicole Altamirano (UC Berkeley); Emilie Bergmann (UC Berkeley); Alda Blanco (U Wisconsin); Sara Brenneis (UC Berkeley); Bradley Epps (Harvard); Kathleen Glenn (Wake Forest); Louise Johnson (U Sheffield UK); Jo Labanyi (U Southampton UK); Geraldine Cleary Nichols (U Florida); Pilar Nieva de la Paz (CSIC Madrid).

Cosponsors: UC Berkeley Dean of Arts and Humanities, Townsend Center for the Humanities; Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports and the United States Universities; the Embassy of Spain in Washington DC; and the Consul-General of Spain in San Francisco.

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Morrison Room, Doe Library
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John Beattie, University Professor Emeritus of History and Criminology, University of Toronto
"The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of 18th-Century London"
"The Bow Street Runners were the first English detectives. They were established by Henry and John Fielding in the middle years of the eighteenth century, supported by a small subvention from the government, principally to deal with the gangs of street and highway robbers and burglars who were then causing considerable anxiety in London, as they did after every war in the eighteenth century. They have never been seriously studied, even by those engaged in revisionist work on the history of English policing in recent years, no doubt because the Bow Street detectives were not absorbed into the New Police created by Robert Peel in 1829 -- a force that turned its back on detection and prosecution as deterrents to crime, in favor of surveillance and prevention.

"Yet the Runners were at the heart of London policing well into the nineteenth century and had a considerable impact on the way serious crimes were uncovered and prosecuted. I will be concerned in the talk with their work over their first forty years (mainly under Sir John Fielding) and its influence on other aspects of the criminal justice system, including the trial of felons at the Old Bailey. I hope to suggest why their policing practices were valued in the eighteenth century, even though they had fallen out of favor when the Metropolitan Police were created in 1829."

This talk is co-sponsored by the Center for British Studies, History Department, Townsend Center, and Center for the Study of Law and Society.

Seminar Room of the Center for Law and Society, 2240 Piedmont Avenue
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Teolinda Gersão, Portuguese Distinguished Writer in Residence
"Women Writers and Gender Studies"
Sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Presentation will be in Portuguese and English.

Spanish and Portuguese Library, 5125 Dwinelle Hall
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CULTURE AND POLITICS COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Michael Hardt, Associate Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University; co-author (with Antonio Negri) of Empire
"War and Democracy in the Age of Empire"

119 Moses Hall
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Frederic Martel, Researcher in Sociology at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Social
"The Gay Question in France: The Struggle for Domestic Partnership and Gay Marriage"
Martel is the author of three books including a best seller on the sixties and sexual liberation: The Pink and the Black: Homosexuals in France since 1968.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Ulrich Wengenroth, Technical University of Munich, Germany
"Two Systems, One Culture? Science and Techonology in East and West Germany 1949-1989"
From 1945 to 1990 Germany had two strikingly different political systems with very different policy approaches to science and technology. Yet in 1990 no synergies became apparent -- instead, redundancy emerged. The strengths and weaknesses of the two innovation systems were as similar as though the country had never been divided. As a result, East German science and technology -- and the jobs that went with them -- were largely axed. The paper presents the development of science policies in both East and West Germany and addresses the question of what made the two German innovation systems so persistent in their common culture. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Office of History of Science and Technology.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Daniela Coli, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Firenze
"Il problema del fascismo nell’identità italiana"
Sponsored by the Italian Studies Program and the Departments of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies.

Location TBA
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IES RECITAL
Teolinda Gersão, Portuguese Distinguished Writer in Residence
"Literature and Biography"
Sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Presentation will be in Portuguese and English.

Durham Theatre, 5125 Dwinelle Hall
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IES CONFERENCE
31st ANNUAL PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES
This conference is sponsored by the Center for British Studies. For more information, visit their website.

Dwinelle Hall
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Stefan Collini, Professor of Intellectual History and English Literature, Cambridge University and Fellow of Clare Hall
"The Literary Critic and the Village Labourer: Culturein Twentieth-Century Britain"
Sponsored by the Center for British Studies. Co-sponsored by the 19th Century and Beyond Reading Group.

330 Wheeler Hall
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