September
19, 2006
Writing the History of the Psychological Subject
in Twentieth-Century Britain
Mathew Thomson , Dept.
of History, University of Warwick
This paper reflects on the challenge of writing a history
of the nature and impact of psychological thinking in twentieth-century
Britain: Psychological Subjects (Oxford University
Press, 2006). It sets the study in relation to previous historiography
and outlines its main ambitions, sources, and conclusions.
It also discusses unresolved difficulties. Finally, it sets
the study within the context of an emerging historiography
that might be seen as constituting a psychological turn in
the writing of modern British history.
Thomson is Senior Lecturer
in the Department of History at the University of Warwick,
where he has taught modern British history since 1998. He
is also a member of the Centre for the History of Medicine
at Warwick, serving as Director of the Centre in 2005-6.
He has written The Problem of Mental Deficiency: Eugenics,
Democracy, and Social Policy in Britain, 1870-1959 (Oxford
University Press, 1998) and Psychological Subjects:
Identity, Culture, and Health in Twentieth-Century Britain (Oxford
University Press, 2006). He is now working on two new projects:
an intellectual biography of the writer and popular social
anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer (1905-85) and a study of
the landscape of the child in post-war Britain.
3 pm, Moses Hall
201
Center for British Studies
September 20, 2006
The Culture and Literature of the African Countries with
Portuguese as the Official Language
Inocencia Mata, University of Lisbon
3:00 pm, European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
Part IV
Portuguese Studies Program
September
21, 2006
IES Fall Tea
Students, Faculty, Friends 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 good cup of tea.
3-5 pm, 201
Moses Hall
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September 21,
2006
Mito dell'italianità e
tentazioni oltremontane nella
cultura musicale italiana dopo l'Unità (1860-1890)
Adriana Guarnieri, Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia
A specialist in the history of Italian opera with an emphasis on relations between
music and literature, Professor Guarnieri is the author of Erik
Satie tra ricerca e provocazione (1979), Tristano,
mio Tristano : gli scrittori italiani e il caso Wagner (1988), Sensualita
senza carne : la musica nella vita e nell'opera di d'Annunzio (1990),
and Musica e letteratura in Italia tra Ottocento e Novecento(2000). She will spend two weeks in September at Berkeley as Visiting Lecturer
in the Chair of Italian Culture.
5:00 pm, 128 Morrison
Cosponsors: The Italian Studies Program, IES, the Department of Italian Studies,
The Italian-American Fund, and the Music Department
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September 22, 2006
Colloquium by Leading Documentary Photographer
(Sessions conducted bilingually in English and Spanish)
Session I
Cristina García Rodero, one of the leading
documentary photographers in the world today and a member of the prestigious
Magnum photo agency, will be visiting the campus for a two-session colloquium
devoted to her body of work. Her presentations will focus
on work carried out over
more than three decades in Spain, Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Mexico, Eastern Europe,
and the United States (particularly the Burning Man festival). Each session
will be accompanied by
commentaries from scholars and visual artists from UCB and other campuses.
9:30 am - 12:30 pm, 370 Dwinelle Hall
Cosponsors: The Spanish Studies Program, IES
The Townsend Center for the Humanities, Center for Latin American Studies.
and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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September 25, 2006
Session II
Colloquium by Leading Documentary Photographer
Public Reception to follow
Cristina García Rodero,
one of the leading documentary photographers in the
world today and a member of the prestigious Magnum
photo agency, will be visiting the campus for a two-session
colloquium devoted to her body of work. Her
presentations will focus on work carried out over
more than three decades in Spain, Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Mexico, Eastern Europe,
and the United States (particularly the Burning Man festival). Each session will
be accompanied by
commentaries from scholars and visual artists from UCB and other campuses.
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Geballe Room, Townsend Center
Cosponsors: The Spanish Studies Program, IES
The Townsend Center for the Humanities, Center for Latin American Studies.
and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
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September
26, 2006
Social Science Research on Stem Cell Science:
A View from the UK
Dr Steven Wainwright & Dr
Clare Williams
King’s
College London, University
of London
In this paper we outline some aspects of the current
state of UK social science research on stem cell science.
We begin with an overview of the Economic & Social
Research Council Stem Cell Initiative (ESRC SCI), which
will invest some £3 million in this field between
2005-2008. We then turn to a brief overview of our
own research programme, and our current ESRC SCI interdisciplinary
research on the scientific, medical, social and ethical
issues around embryonic stem cell research and treatment
in the fields of diabetes and liver disease (and especially
liver cell and islet cell transplantation). This research
explores how a new biomedical technology may be encouraged
or prevented from diffusing from ‘bench to bedside’.
In the final part of the paper we focus on one element
of this research. We report on how biomedical scientists,
in both the UK and the USA, view the scientific literature
and their own experimental research in the emerging
field of human Embryonic Stem (hES) cell research.
We focus on the genetic manipulation of stem cells
to make specialised (beta) cells as a potential cure
for diabetes. We draw on Gieryn’s notion of boundary
work as an analytical motif, and suggest this is a
productive way to theorise boundary crossings in the
shifting landscapes of expectations in the field of
new medical technologies. We argue that initial expectations
of a revolution in regenerative medicine have been
damped down by the difficulties of making insulin producing
pancreatic beta cells from stem cells. We contend the
consequent shifts in expectations has led to the emergence
of other more radical experimental strategies (such
as using oncogenes) in the search for potential cures
for Type-1 diabetes. In conclusion, we argue that regenerative
medicine is a fruitful example of the shaping of contested
biomedical landscapes and we contend that embryonic
stem cells are a productive case study of the interactions
between science and society.
Dr Steven P. Wainwright,
King’s College London, Senior Lecturer, Division
of Health & Social Care Research, University of
London
Dr Clare Williams, King’s
College London, Reader in Social Science of Biomedicine,
Division of Health & Social Care Research, University
of London
4 pm,
Moses Hall 201
Center for British Studies
Co-sponsor: Science & Technology
Studies Consortium, UCB
September
27, 2006
CBS Fall Reception
RSVP Reception for those in the campus and Bay
Area communities with an interest in British Studies.
5-7:00 pm, Women's Faculty Club
Contact: Candace Groskreutz
September 28, 2006
Lecture #2
Mito dell'italianità e tentazioni oltremontane nella
cultura musicale italiana dopo l'Unità (1860-1890)
Adriana Guarnieri, Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia
A specialist in the history of Italian opera with an emphasis on relations between
music and literature, Professor Guarnieri is the author of Erik Satie tra
ricerca e provocazione (1979), Tristano, mio Tristano : gli scrittori
italiani e il caso Wagner (1988), Sensualita senza carne : la musica
nella vita e nell'opera di d'Annunzio (1990), and Musica e letteratura in Italia
tra Ottocento e Novecento(2000). She will spend two weeks in September at
Berkeley as Visiting Lecturer in the Chair of Italian Culture.
5:00 pm, 128 Morrison
Cosponsors: Italian Studies Program,
The Department of Italian Studies, The Italian-American Fund, and the Music Department
October 3, 2006
Finnish Film: Matti – Hell is
for Heroes | Matti
- Elämä on ihmisen
parasta aikaa (2006),
Director ALEKSI MÄKELÄ
The famous ski-jumper
Matti Nykänen won everything possible during his
career – and more. Four Olympic gold medals, seven
World Championship titles, four World Cup tour championships
and forty six World Cup circuit victories. Once his career
as a professional athlete ended, however, the other side
of his personality emerged into public view in all of
its vulgarity. His road from worshipped athlete and national
hero to tabloid laughing stock is basically a tragic
story. But not even
Matti JASPER PÄÄKKÖNEN
Taina ELINA HIETALA
6 pm, Dwinelle B-4
October 5, 2006
Aztecs and Earthmen: Declining Civilizations and
Dying Races at the Victorian Freakshow
Nadja Durbach, Associate Professor,
Department of History, University of Utah and Visiting Associate
Professor in the History Department and the Center for British
Studies at the University of California at Berkeley
In 1853 a new act appeared on the freak show circuit in Britain under the title "the
Aztecs." "The Aztecs" sparked considerable interest among
scientists and the general public in the 1850s not merely because their exhibition
fed the desire for glimpses of exotic others. Rather, this act also served
as an object lesson in the decline of civilizations and the extinction of inferior
races. As such it helped to articulate mid-Victorian Britain's understanding
of its own position vis-à-vis other empires, peoples, and civilizations. For, "the
Aztecs," advertised as the last two specimens of a great civilization
now extinct, were exhibited just two years after the Great Exhibition promoted
Britain to itself and to the world as the pinnacle of industrial prowess, national
progress, and imperial might. "The Aztecs" thus served as a
cautionary tale of degeneracy, decline, and the end of civilization, but at
the same time threw into stark relief the many reasons why imperial Britain
was destined to evolve, expand, and ultimately endure. In the 1850s, "the
Aztecs" functioned as living proof of new racial theories that justified
colonial expansion and ultimately the decline and disappearance of indigenous
peoples that accompanied British settlement of new territories. That
the act survived for half a century indicates the enduring appeal of this narrative,
but also mirrors growing concern in Britain about its own potential for decline. By
the 1880s and 90s anxieties over "national efficiency" and "race
deterioration" had become central to debates over domestic and imperial
policies. In the final decades of the nineteenth century then, "the Aztecs's" act
remained popular precisely because it preyed on Britain's own national insecurities,
offering tangible evidence of degeneration, and thus serving as a sensational
warning of the potential for even the greatest civilization to go the way of
the dodo.
Durbach is a Visiting Associate Professor in the History Department and the
Center for British Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Her
first book, Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907,
was published by Duke University Press in 2005. She is currently completing
a book about the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British freak
show.
4 pm, Moses Hall 201
October
13, 2006
Days that Change the World: the Great Quakes of Lisbon (1755)
and San Francisco (1906)
On November 1, 1755, the city of Lisbon was shaken by a
quake of great dimension, followed by a tsunami as well as
large fires. This catastrophe, and its devastating consequences,
originated several debates and philosophic reflections regarding
the course of history (Voltaire, Rousseau and Kant are but
some of the many who wrote on this major event) as well as
the origins and the limits of the forces of good and evil,
and the relationship between nature and religion.
151 years later, in 1906, The Great Quake of San Francisco
would also transform the physical and social landscape of
the city, forcing the migration of citizens and the reconstruction
of the urban fabric.
In both places and times, the individuals faced with the
catastrophe, literally “shaken” by it – either
directly or indirectly – were forced to reflect on
the cultural context of these events.
How does tragedy potentially reinforce prior convictions
or create a space for the birth of new values? What type
of understanding can we have of the world in the face of
major events such as these? How were the Great Quakes of
these two cities represented by those who were directly impacted
and by those who observed them at a distance?
9:30 am-6 pm, 3335 Dwinelle Hall
October 13-14, 2006
Conference on "Poetry of the Everyday"
The conference will bear on French poetry you
might encounter in the street, on the walls, in the subway,
at work or in clubs as well as in bookstores and libraries.
Some of the participants will speak about rap and graffiti
artists; some will give papers on poetry and song--popular
song settings of poems by Baudelaire or Aragon or Queneau,
for example, or links between particular poets and specific
musical forms, such as Jacques Réda and jazz. There
will also be contributions on poets past and current whose
writing sticks close to everyday experience: the sonnet-diary
of William Cliff, for example, or travel sonnets of Roubaud's,
or the portraits by Jacques Jouet of groups at work from
Cantates de Proximité.
This event will take place in The Home Room, International House, 2299 Piedmont
Avenue
October 16, 2006
Industrialisation, Measurement and Revenue in Eighteenth
Century Britain
Will Ashworth , University of Liverpool
The British Industrial Revolution is traditionally seen as a prime moment when
knowledge, the arts, and manufactures combined in a powerful manner. This talk
does not challenge the importance of these themes, but claims that the more
mundane role of state regulation was, perhaps, of much greater significance.
In 1700 England/Britain had very little industry. Within the space of 100 years,
through a system of tariff protection and nurturing, it had quickly industrialised.
Having a sound manufacturing base was crucial to eighteenth century revenues
with 56 percent of all state income coming from the excise by the Seven Years
War (1756-63). The excise pursued two objectives: Firstly, it was intended
to nurture English backward industries to improve their products to meet continental
and illicit rivals (superior choice and the black market obviously lost the
state a considerable sum of money). And, secondly, it had to overcome rival
calculating strategies. The eventual method and form of gauging established
a correlation between the product, its quality and the revenue demands of the
state. This frequently required both the space of production and the actual
product to be reconfigured to meet the criteria of the excise's form of measurement.
As this talk will show this was a contested, mutable and ambiguous process.
Co-sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology (UC Berkeley)
and the History of Health Sciences Program (UCSF)
4 pm, 140 Barrows Hall
Irish Studies International Speakers Series
October 18, 2006
The Reasons for Ireland's Economic Miracle and its Unfinished Business
Paul Sweeney, Economic Advisor to the Irish Congress of Trade Unions
and author of books on the Irish economy and business
Paul Sweeney explains how Ireland, one of the poorest European countries, soared
to become one of the richest economies in the world in just 16 years. It moved
from mass emigration to become a magnet for job seekers, especially those from
Central Europe. Since 1990, the number of net new jobs grew by a staggering
80 per cent, possibly the fastest job creation of any country in the world.
And real incomes for workers rose by 50 per cent in the 10 years to 2005.
Sweeney is the author of the first book on Ireland's economic miracle, the Celtic
Tiger, Ireland's Economic Miracle Explained. This was followed by another
book on the Celtic Tiger and many newspaper articles. Sweeney is the Economic
Advisor to the Irish trade union centre, the Irish Congress of Trade unions,
which plays an important role in Ireland's unique form of social partnership.
4 pm, 201 Moses Hall
Sponsored by the new Irish Studies International Speaker
Series. Co-sponsored by Center for British Studies, Consul
General of Ireland, Western Institute for Irish Studies,
Department of History, Celtic Studies. Co-sponsored
by the Irish Consulate of San Francisco, the Department of History
October 23, 2006
Science and Satire in Early Modern England
Mordechai Feingold , California Institute of Technology
Abstract forthcoming.
4 pm, 140 Barrows Hall
Co-sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology (UC Berkeley)
and the History of Health Sciences Program (UCSF)
October
25, 2006
Portugal Between Two Empires
Miriam Halpem Perreira, Dept. of History, Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho
e da Empresa (ISCTE), Portugal
3:00 pm, European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
Sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program,
and the Depts. of History and of Spanish & Portuguese, UCB
October 26, 2006
IES Cordially Invites you to our annual
Fall Festival!
Please join us for hors d'oeuvres, drinks and music, to celebrate the new academic
year. Open to friends, community, students, faculty, and staff.
4:00-6:00 pm, the Great Hall, Bancroft Hotel, opposite Kroeber Hall
October 27,
2006
Greek Ambassador's Visit to Berkeley
By invitation only.
October 30, 2006
Through
the Looking Glass: Reflections on Europe's Identity Crisis
Richard Lewis, Guest Lecturer,
Vrije Universiteit Brussels
12:00 pm, 201 Moses
Thursday, November 2, 2006
Thursday Night Finnish Movies
FC Venus (2005)
A romantic comedy about men, women, and soccer.
For more info: http://www.matilarohr.com/en/press/fc_venus.html
6:00 pm, B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Finnish Studies Program
November 3, 2006
The Mirror Turn Lamp: Senses
of the Nation Before Nationalism
Helmet
Walser Smith, Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
4:00 pm, 201 Moses
Department of History
November 6, 2006
When All Intellectual Property
was Theft: The Nineteenth-Century Assault on Patenting
and Copyright
Adrian Johns, Visiting Scholar, University
of Chicago
Co-sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology (UC Berkeley)
and the History of Health Sciences Program (UCSF)
4:00-6:00 pm,
370 Dwinelle Hall
Center for British Studies
Office for History of Science & Technology, UCB; History
of Health Sciences Program, UCSF
November 7, 2006
Rithmomachia and other Board Games in Portugal
Jorge
Nuno, Faculdade, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
3:00-5:00 pm, 201 Moses
Portuguese Studies Program
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
From Sibelius to Lordi - Evolution and Revolution of Finnish Music
Heikki Koskinenm, Musician and Music Educator
11:00 am (in English), 1:45 pm (in Finnish), 1615 Dwinelle Hall
Finnish Studies Program
November 8, 2006
Deputy Foreign Minister of Greece
12:30 pm, Room TBA
November 8, 2006
Madness and Modernity: The Response of Marcel
Gauchet and Gladys Swain to Foucault's Model of Exclusion
Wim
Weymans, Visiting Professor and Fulbright Scholar
12:30 pm, 201 Moses
French Studies Program
November 9, 2006
Nazi Camps and Prisons: Towards
a Comparative History of Confinement in the Third Reich
Dr.
Nickolaus Wachsmann, Visiting Scholar, University of
London
12:00 pm, 201 Moses
Center for German & European Studies
November 9, 2006
History, Historians, and Conservatism
Reba Soffer, Professor of History Emeritus
at California State University, Northridge, has written extensively
about 19th and 20th-century British intellectual history.
A Guggenheim Fellow and past President of the North American
Conference on British Studies, she is the author of two prize-winning
books, Ethics and Society in England. The Revolution
in the Social Sciences, 1870-1914 and Discipline and
Power. The Universities, History and the Making of
an English Elite, 1850-1930. Her History, Historians,
and Conservatism in the Twentieth Century is forthcoming
from Oxford University Press.
Co-sponsored by the Dept. of History.
4:00 pm, 201 Moses
Center for British Studies
Department of History
November 15, 2006
The Paradox of Political Integration Among
Carribeans in Contemporary Britain and France
Rahsaan
Maxwell, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science,
UCB
12:00 pm, 201 Moses
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Are We Mongols? How the Finns Became Ethnic Europeans
(1872-1927)
Greggor Mattson, Ph.D Candidate, Dept. of Sociology, UCB
12:00 pm, 242 Dwinelle Hall
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Mini-Conference: Anthropological Research in Contemporary Portugal
Participants include Antonio Medeiros, "Dressing Disputation:
The Identity of Politics in Galicia and Portugal”
Paula Mota Santos, Fernando Pessoa University, Porto, Portugal, “Now
I see You, Now I don't: Identity and Shifting Visibilities of a Collective
Ethnic Other in the City of Porto, Portugal”
Deolinda Adao, University of California, Berkeley, “Redefining the
Center in Lisbon: Exploring Literature as Ethnography in African Diasporic
Communities”
Shawn Parkhurst, University of Louisville, Kentucky, “ Relating Regional
and National Identification: An Example from Northern Portugal”
1:00-5:00
pm, European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
November 20, 2006
To Be Announced
Tiago Castillo
3:00-5:00 pm, 201 Moses
Portuguese Studies Program
November 27, 2006
After 1848: The European Revolution
in Government Christopher
Clark, Professor of History, St. Catherine's College, University
of Cambridge
12:00 pm, 201 Moses
Department of History
November 28, 2006
Representing an Invisible
Society: Lefort, Gauchetand, Rosanvallon on the Relationship
between a Democratic Community and its Institutions
Wim
Weymans, Visiting Professor and Fulbright Scholar
12:00 pm, 201 Moses
French Studies Program
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Thursday Night Movies
Cyclomania (2001)
A film about cycling and a sensitive study about ambition, envy and friendship.
For more info: http://www.matilarohr.com/en/press/fc_venus.html
6:00 pm, B-4 Dwinelle Hall
Finnish Studies Program
CANCELLED
Brown Bag Lunch
Why America Needs Europe
Dr. Julian Lindley-French ( Senior Scholar, Center
for Applied Policy, University of Munich)
The impacts of Europe and especially
Germany’s changing role in international politics,
economic integration, and multinational business strategy.
12:00 pm, 201 Moses Hall
Monday, December 4, 2006
Pluto, Eris, Osiris and Planemos: Rethinking Planet
Identity
Gaspard Duchene (Associate Astronomer, Observatoire
de Grenoble)
This summer, the International Astronomical Union has agreed
on a new definition of what a planet is, leading to the abrupt
demotion of Pluto that was accompanied by heated debates in
the astronomical community and beyond. In fact, many astronomical
discoveries in recent years have deeply modified our understanding
of planets around the Sun and elsewhere in the Galaxy. I will
present some of the most striking findings in this rapidly
evolving field of astronomy to show that Nature keeps finding
ways of eluding simple definitions, even for something as "simple" as
a planet.
12:00 pm, 201 Moses Hall
French Studies Program
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Judith Lyon-Caen Lecture
Lyon-Caen's book La lecture et la vie. Les usages du roman
au temps de Balzacis rapidly being recognized as one of the most significant contributions to French
literary studies in recent years.
5:00 pm, 4229 Dwinelle Hall, French Dept. Library
Cultural Services of the Consulat Général
de France à San Francisco
French Studies Program
Wednesday, December 6 , 2006
Judith Lyon-Caen Seminar
Lyon-Caen's book La lecture et la vie. Les usages du
roman au temps de Balzac is rapidly being recognized as one of the most significant contributions to
French literary studies in recent years.
12:30 pm, 4226 Dwinelle Hall, French Dept. Conference Room
Cultural Services of the Consulat Général de France à San
Francisco
French Studies Program
