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April 2004

Thursday, April 1st, 4 pm
William Chandler, Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
"The Enlargement of the European Union: Promises and Pitfalls"
The grand promises that are at the base of the current eastern enlargement of the European Union are those of democracy and the re-uniting of Europe. They involve the long-term future of the EU, and as with previous enlargements, it is widely believed that this expansion will bring greater growth and new prosperity. However, there also appear to be a variety of pitfalls, which are both immediate and worrisome for many Europeans. Do the challenges of this unprecedented enlargement mean that it was based on unrealistic promises rashly made? In other words, does enlargement mark a progressive advance towards greater integration, or is it a leap in the dark? In this report we examine the institutional, political and policy ramifications of enlargement. 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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Jane Shaw, Dean of New College, Oxford
"From Holy Text to the Visionary: The Making of a British Female Messiah and Her Millenarian Community, 1914-1933"
Co-sponsored by the History Department and the Center for British Studies.

IIS Seminar Room, 223 Moses Hall
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IES SYMPOSIUM
TOWARDS A NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT? THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL TRENDS AND STATE TRADITIONS ON PUBLIC SECTOR REFORMS
B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh
"Comparing Public Sector Reforms: The Impact of National Administrative Traditions"

Please feel free to circulate this announcement. Coffee and light refreshments will be served. 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).

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Balint Magyar, Minister of Education of the Republic of Hungary
"From Communism to the European Union:
Affirmative Action and Education in Hungary"
Co-sponsored by the European Law Society, Slavic Center, the Graduate Assembly and the Institute of European Studies.

140 Boalt Hall
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IES CONFERENCE
LUSO-AMERICAN EDUCATION FOUNDATION

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Anders Ahnlid, Minister, Trade Embassy of Sweden, Washington, D.C.
"Trade Policy and the Enlargement of the European Union"
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Political Science.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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IES CONFERENCE
SHOW AND TELL: THE STATE OF VISUAL CULTURE STUDIES TODAY
Visual culture has emerged in the past decade as the most vigorously expanding new interdisciplinary field in the humanities, incorporating insights from art history, cinema
and new media studies, philosophies of vision, and the anthropology of the senses. Along with its aggressive growth have come inevitable questions about its impact on traditional disciplines dealing with visual issues and its own unsettled methodological presuppositions. Bringing together UC Berkeley faculty with distinguished international pioneers in the field, this conference will explore the current state and future prospects of visual culture studies.

View the conference program...

Wurster Hall Auditorium, 112 Wurster Hall
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Claude Hagege, Professor and researcher with the College of France
"A Paradox in Linguistic Typology, or What Do Languages Allow Us to Ask?"
This lecture is sponsored by the French Studies Program.

182 Dwinelle Hall
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IES LECTURE SERIES 2003-2004
BEYOND THE GULF: US-EUROPEAN RELATIONS AFTER IRAQ
Robert Reich, Former US Secretary of Labor
"Jobs, Trade, and Aging: The Problems of Advanced Economies"

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Mitchell Ash, Professor of Modern History, University of Vienna
"Learning from Persecution: Scientific Change and Self-Reflection after 1933"
Scientific change is often presented after the fact as a continuous and linear process. The obvious and deep breaks in the careers and research programs of many scientists after their dismissal and forced migration from Nazi Germany appear at first glance to contradict such narrative preferences. How can the scientific changes that took place in this period be characterized? This talk continues earlier work by the author and others on this subject in an effort to develop a systematic answer to this question.

Fundamental to such an effort is the following critical point: It is incorrect to assume that the justly celebrated 'contributions' to science that emigre scientists achieved after 1933 can be counted as 'losses' to German-speaking science. Such accountings of loss and gain presuppose a static concept of science and culture, but precisely this example supports the more dynamic view of both as open rather than closed systems. Recent research on emigre scholars and scientists after 1933 shows that many of them did not simply transfer already finished knowledge from one place to another, but rather developed new approaches and often turned to new topics as they interacted with changed socio-cultural and research environments.

This talk focuses on one of several processes involved changes in research programmes and approaches resulting from the reflexion of emigre psychologists on the wider implications of their own persecution. Included in the discussion are the most famous example of such a change, The Authoritarian Personality study (Adorno et al. 1950), the work of Kurt Lewin (e.g. Lewin, Lippitt & White, 1939) and studies by Bruno Bettelheim (1943) and others on the behavior of concentration camp inmates. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Office of History of Science and Technology.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Claude Hagege, Professor and researcher with the College of France
"Language and Languages: Between Biology and Sociology"
This lecture is co-sponsored by the French Studies Program, the France-Berkeley Fund, and the Linguistics Department.

370 Dwinelle Hall
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IES RESEARCH SEMINAR
POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN EUROPE
Peter Gourevitch, Professor, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC San Diego
"Coalitional Foundations of Corporate Governance: Class, Sector and Interests"

IIS Seminar Room, 223 Moses Hall
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Luca D’Isanto, Department of Religious Studies
"The Messianic in Italian Political Theory: Echoes of Dante in Giorgio Agamben and Tony Negri"
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Italian Studies Program and the Department of Italian Studies.

160 Dwinelle Hall
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Hartmut Lehmann, Director of the Max Planck Institute for History, Goettingen, Germany
"Miracles within Catastrophes. Some Examples from Early Modern Germany"
This lecture is sponsored by the Library, the Institute of European Studies, the Department of History and the Berkeley Reformation Seminar in conjunction with the 8th UC Colloquium on Early Modern Central Europe.

A related colloquium will take place on Saturday, April 17 and Sunday morning, April 18, see next event below.

Morrison Library, Doe Memorial Library
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UC COLLOQUIUM
8th UC COLLOQUIUM ON EARLY MODERN CENTRAL EUROPE
Graduate student papers and a workshop will be presented. Download the program (pdf, 142kb).

For more information interested persons may contact Tom Brady (tabrady@socrates.berkeley.edu) or Elaine Tennant (etennant@socrates.berkeley.edu) for details.



Jasminka Sohinger, Visiting Scholar, Institute of European Studies, Professor of Economics at the University of Zagreb, Croatia
"Transforming Competitiveness in European Transition Economies: The Role of
Foreign Direct Investment"
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has become one of the main drivers of globalization and integration of the European transition economies into the world economy, especially the European Union. Its growth-enhancing capacity has played a significant role in transforming their competitiveness -- both locally and in international markets -- and its propensity to stimulate institution buliding is changing both economic and political landscapes in the region. The economic conditionality of FDI and the EU access-driven reforms are working hand in hand to reach the goals of transition and the convergence process. The achievement of both goals is seen as the best guarantor of peace and security in the region. This lecture is sponsored by the Institute of European Studies, and co-sponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European and Euroasian Studies.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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THE 2004 PEDER SATHER SYMPOSIUM
SHAPING GLOBAL ORDER: THE ROLE OF SMALL STATES AND MULTILATERAL PROCESSES IN A HEGEMONIC WORLD
This symposium is co-sponsored by the Consulates General of Norway and Sweden and the University of California, Berkeley; with the support of the Institute of International Studies, the European Union Center, International and Area Studies, and the Sanford S. Elberg lectures. For more information including a full program of lectures, go to: globetrotter.berkeley.edu/SpecialEvents/Sather2004.html

Haas School of Business
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Peter Longerich, Director of the Research Centre for the Holocaust and Twentieth-Century History and the Royal Holloway, University of London. Currently, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
"About Innocence, Normality and Absurdity -- Dealing with the Nazi Past in Postwar Germany"
Sponsored and Funded by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and co-sponsored by IES and the Center for Jewish Studies.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Paul Duguid, Research Specialist, Social & Cultural Studies in Education and a member of the UCB Port Project
"The Making of Methuen: The Anglo-Portuguese Commercial Treaty in the English Imagination" (300th anniversary of the treaty.)
Sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Brian A. Catlos, Assistant Professor, History, University of California, Santa Cruz
"The Victors and the Vanquished: Christians and Muslims of Catalonia and Aragon, 1050-1300"
Based on an exhaustive archival investigation, The Victors and the Vanquished traces the transformation of the independent Islamic society of the eleventh-century Ebro valley into a mudéjar society under Christian rule in the thirteenth century. Starting with a review of traditional approaches to studying medieval religious minorities, I will proceed to discuss the source material which I had access to for this study and the methodology which I adopted. Using something akin to “network analysis” provided me with surprising and original insights into the mudéjar situation, and led me to a theoretical position which has wide application in the historical study of minorities. Confessional identity is revealed to be not the defining factor in inter-ethnic relations, but rather one of many factors which may or may not influence relations according to event-specific circumstances. I will conclude the presentation with a micro-historical case study which illustrates and reflects my findings. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Spanish Studies Program.

3335 Dwinelle Hall
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INTERNATIONAL PANEL DISCUSSION
CHANGING WORLD VIEWS OF THE US
Featuring: Michael Naumann, Chief Editor and Publisher, Die Zeit, Germany
Panelists to include: Roberto Guareschi, Former Executive Editor of Clarin, Argentina; Mariko Horikawa, Correspondent Yomiuri Shimbun in, Japan; Muzamil Jaleel, Chief of Bureau in Kashmir for The Indian Express, India; Lili Sadeghi, Reporter who has worked with Reuters, ABC, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, Iran; Francis Pisani, Correspondent for Reforma, El País, and Le Monde, France. This discussion is sponsored by The Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-sponsored by The World Affairs Council of Northern California, Institute of East Asian Studies, and the Institute of Government Studies.

North Gate Hall Library
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Irene Bloemraad, Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley
"Understanding Portuguese Immigrants Political Invisibility: Is it Them or Is it Us?"
Sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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IES CONFERENCE
DISCONTENTS AND FRENCH CIVILIZATION
View the conference program...

Geballe Room, The Townsend Center
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IES LECTURE SERIES 2003-2004
BEYOND THE GULF: US-EUROPEAN RELATIONS AFTER IRAQ
Douglas Porch, Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School
"Europe, America and the 'War on Terror'"
The Iraq War and its aftermath has found the United States profoundly at odds with some of its European allies, led by France and Germany, over the nature of the terrorist threat and the best way to fight it. The Spanish elections, concurrent with opinion polls that find European opinion profoundly suspicious of the Bush administrations motives in pursuing the Global war on terror, have, in the view of some, greatly weakened the centrality of the transatlantic link in the foreign policies of Europe and the United States. The current unpleasantness is viewed as symptomatic of a growing divergence of outlook and temperament between Europe and America. However, a longer perspective might indicate otherwise, that disputes among the Western allies are an old story, and conflict within cooperation remains the usual pattern of transatlantic relations. Indeed, despite the outcome of the Spanish election, the inter-allied crisis ignited by the Iraq War appears to be subsiding, because the aftermath of that conflict has reminded Washington of the limits of military power, while Europe understands that American presence is a requirement for its stability. Indeed, the reaction of Spanish voters to the Madrid bombings expressed through the ballot box hopefully serve to remind one of the benefits of reaffirming the West's strategic partnership.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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IES RESEARCH SEMINAR
POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IN EUROPE
Sophie Meunier, Research Associate, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Princeton University
"Globalization and Europeanization: A Challenge to French Politics"
For more information on Sophie Meunier, go to: www.princeton.edu/~smeunier

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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Portuguese Studies Program films presentation:
"Os Caminhos da Liberdade" and "As Armas e o Povo"
The subject of both documentaries is the 25th of April, 1974 Revolution. Discussion will follow the film presentation.

IIS Seminar Room, 223 Moses Hall
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Liz Borgwardt, Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, UC Berkeley,
and Assistant Professor of Diplomatic & Constitutional History, University of Utah
"'Once you state a moral principle you are stuck with it:' Churchill, Roosevelt, and the 1941 Atlantic Charter as a Human Rights Instrument"
This paper is drawn from a book-length study about the transformation of human rights in the World War II era (forthcoming book: Inventing Human Rights: The 1941 Atlantic Charter and America in the World, Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press). This lecture is sponsored by the Center for British Studies.

IES Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
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IES CONFERENCE
MACAU -- A SPACE OF ENCOUNTERS
Macau -- Ponto de Encontro de Culturas
Sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program. View the conference schedule and speaker bios...

Robert & Ida Rooms, International House
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