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March
Coherence, Diversity and Evolution of
Capitalisms: The Institutional Complementarity Hypothesis
Public Symposium: Towards a New Public Management? The Impact
of Global Trends and State Traditions on Public Sector Reforms
Robert Boyer, Economist at CEPREMAP
Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at: brie@socrates.berkeley.edu
For more information please contact the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy.
Tuesday, March 1, 12 pm
Institute of International Studies Conference Room,
223 Moses Hall
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Maurice Halbwachs and the Fortunes of Memory
Annette Becker
Professor, Université de Paris - X, Nanterre, France
Tuesday, March 15, 4:00pm
European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
French Studies Program
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The Portuguese-American Experience:
60 Acres and a Barn
by Alfred Lewis
Guest speakers include
Frank F. Sousa, Director
Center for Portuguese Studies and Culture
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
North Dartmouth, MA
Don Warrin, Associate Director
Regional Oral History Office
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Portuguese Studies Program
Wednesday,
March 16, 2005, noon
- 2:00 pm
201 Moses Hall
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The Taste for Savagery: Joshua
Reynolds and the New World in Britain
Dr. Kate Fullagar, Research Fellow and
Officer for Policy, Australian Academy of the Humanities
Joshua Reynolds’ 1775 portrait of Omai, the first Pacific
Islander to visit Britain, has recently garnered much
public attention. When put
on the market in 2001 for the first time in over 200
years, it was purchased by an anonymous foreign buyer for
10.3 million,
the second
highest price then paid for a British work of art. The
government quickly imposed an export bar on the painting,
prompted by outcries from
various cultural bodies appalled at the prospect of
it leaving British shores indefinitely. Despite an unprecedented
extension of the bar and
the donation of over 12 million for its re-purchasing,
Reynolds Omai remains, for now, lost to the British nation.
The
proffered reasons for
wanting to keep it range from the politically-correct
to the nostalgically-imperial. Likewise, the critical
heritage of the work has
been remarkably contradictory. This paper investigates
both the artistic and social contexts of the work in
order to understand why it
has produced such varied responses and to approach a
fuller appreciation of its historical meaning.
This lecture is sponsored by the Center for British
Studies. For more information please contact Heidi
Sutton.
Wednesday, March 16, 4 pm
IES Seminar Room,
201 Moses Hall
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Public Symposium: Towards a New Public Management?
The Impact of Global Trends and State Traditions on Public
Sector Reforms:
Central Government Re-Organization, and Policy Formation in Western Europe
Werner Jann
University of Potsdam
Friday, March 18, 2:00pm
European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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).
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Public Symposium: Towards a New Public Management?
The Impact of Global Trends and State Traditions on Public
Sector Reforms:
Public Administration Reform in South Africa
Robert Cameron
University of Cape Town
Friday, March 18, 4:00 pm
European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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).
April
Holocaust
Trials: Belarus and the Ukraine
“Following
the Paper Trial: The Holocaust in Domachevo, Belarus, in the
Records
of Polish, German, Soviet and British War Crimes Investigations”Martin Dean, Research
Scholar, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United
States Holocaust
Memorial Museum
“Collaboration on Trial: War Crimes Trials
in Different Regional Settings in Ukraine”
Tanja Penter, Pearl Resnick Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for
Advanced Holocaust
Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Wednesday, April 6, Time TBA
European
Studies Seminar Room, 201
Moses Hall
Contact: Heidi Sutton
IES and ISEES
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Hegel’s
Metaphysics of the Self
The lecture addresses the question why the German idealists were so much interested
in self-consciousness. It seeks to argue that in Hegel’s case this interest
is motivated by metaphysical concerns and not either epistemological or psychological
ones.
Rolf Peter Horstmann, Professor
of Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin
Thursday, April 7, 4 pm
European Studies Seminar Room, 201
Moses Hall
Contact: Heidi Sutton
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Germany,
Britain, and the Future of Europe
William E. Paterson, Director of
the Institute for German Studies , University of Birmingham,
UK
Thursday, April 7, 4 pm
Harris Room, 119
Moses Hall
Contact: Heidi Sutton
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France
and the United States: Facing Common Challenges
Jean-David
Levitte, French Ambassador to the United States
April 25, 4.30-6.00 PM
Seaborg Room, Faculty
Club UC-Berkeley
For more info contact Michelle
Bertho.
French Studies Program
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"An
Indescribable Commotion": Femininity, Adolescence, and School Life
in France and England, 1810-1870
Christina de Bellaigue, National
Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
and Affiliated Scholar, Institute
for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University
Tuesday, April 27, 4 pm
European Studies Seminar Room, 201
Moses Hall
Contact: Heidi Sutton
The Center for British Studies and the French Studies Program
May
Constitutional
Justice in Northern Ireland
Shane O’Neill, Professor of Political Theory, Queen’s
University Belfast, Head of the School of Politics and International
Studies, Queen’s University and Fulbright Scholar and
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Solomon Asch Center for
the Study
of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, May 5, 12 pm (noon)
European Studies Seminar Room, 201
Moses Hall
Contact: Heidi Sutton
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