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September - October - November - December
September
September 17, 12 noon, 201 Moses Hall
"Anti-Immigration
Politics in Western Europe"
Michael Minkenberg
Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies (2007-2009),
New York University & Prof., Viadrina University, Frankfurt (Oder)
Part of the IES Deutsche Bank/Daimler-Chrysler Lecture Series
Brief Synopsis of Talk:
In his lecture, Prof. Minkenberg outlines the variety of "rejectionist
responses" to immigration in Europe as a whole and in a number
of countries in particular. The lecture attempts to broaden
the debate the radical right’s impact on immigration
politics by combining a discussion of organizational structures
of the radical right with their policy effects. Success of
the radical right is not measured primarily in electoral support
but more broadly in mobilization and policy effects. Based
on previous and more conceptual work on this issue, the lecture
starts out with the hypothesis that there is a link between
various organizational manifestations, i.e. that more right-wing
radical mobilization in the electoral arena tends to go along
with less mobilization in the ideologically more extreme movement
sector, and that policy effects result from the interplay of
these actors and the established political actors. The main
point will be that a country’s opportunity structures,
including institutional and cultural variables as well as the
structure of party competition, largely determine the organizational
manifestations and their policy effects.
September 18, 1 pm , 201 Moses
"What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing
the Threat"
Louise Richardson
Executive Dean, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
Richardson grew up immersed in the troubles of Northern Ireland, and her academic
research in "terrorism studies" has been fueled in part by proximity to her research
subjects and independence from governmental counter terrorism efforts. Richardson's
academic focus has been on international security with an emphasis on terrorist
movements. For several years, she taught Harvard's large undergraduate lecture
course, "Terrorist Movements in International Relations." For this, she won the
Levenson Prize, awarded by the undergraduate student body to the best teachers
at the University. This class, along with a number of graduate courses on terrorist
movements and European terrorism, were for many years the only ones offered on
the subject at Harvard.
Sponsors
IES and the Institute
of International Studies
September 26, 12 noon, 270 Stephens Hall
Brown Bag Talk
Is There
the Spirit
of European
Laws? Critical
Remarks on EU Constitution-making, Enlargement and Political
Culture."
Jiri Priban
Professor of Law, Cardiff Law School at Cardiff University
Sponsors
ISEEES, Center for the Study of Law and Society
at Boalt, and the Institute of European Studies.
For more details call ISEEES, (510) 642-3230
October
October 3, 4:00 pm, 201 Moses Hall
Still a Community of Values? Historical Reflections on
the Normative Basis of the West
Heinrich August Winkler
Professor of Modern History at the Berlin Humboldt
University.
Author of Der lange Weg nach Westen [The Long Route
West], for which he
won the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Literature.
Sponsors
IES and the Goethe Institut, SF
October 18, 3-5 pm, 201 Moses Hall
IES Fall Tea
Informal Get-Together for all friends, faculty, staff,
and students interested in European Studies. Tea, cookies,
and conversation.
October 23, 4 pm, Lipman Room, 8th
Floor, Barrows Hall
God and Gold: Britain, America and the Making of the
Modern World
Walter Russell Mead, a foreign policy
expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, will speak
about his new book, God and Gold: Britain, America
and the Making of the Modern World. Mead
argues that the key to the predominance of the United
States and England has been the individualistic ideology
of the prevailing Anglo-American religion. The
synergy of this ideology and capitalism propelled Britain
and the U.S. to global dominance, and as a result,
the two nations were able to create the liberal, democratic
system whose economic and social influence continues
to grow around the world. Mead goes on to discuss
the purpose of Anglo-American power in the post-9/11
world. A book signing will follow the lecture.
Sponsored by the Institute of International Studies
Co-sponsored by the IGS,
IES, and the Religion, Politics & Globalization
Program
October 29, 4-6 pm, Toll Room, Alumni
House
IES Fall Festival
Semiformal Gathering of Europeanists on campus with music, refreshments, food,
and information about IES' programs (grants, research, exchanges, conferences).
Open to all friends, faculty, staff, and students interested in European Studies.
October 30, 12:45 pm -1:45 pm,
201 Moses Hall
October 30, 2-3:00 pm, 201
Moses (for Students)
DAAD Informational Meetings For
Faculty & Staff and Students
Faculty, administrators, staff,
and advisors are invited to come and enjoy lunch while
learning about the DAAD's 2007-2008 scholarship programs.
We will be discussing short- and long-term grants for undergraduates,
graduates, post-docs, and faculty from all academic fields
for study or research in Germany, including many grants
for which a knowledge of the German language is not required.
A one hour session for students will follow (2:00-3:00
pm); please feel free to mention it to any students to
whom this may be of interest. We look forward to seeing
you there!
Please RSVP by October 26th to daadsf [@] daad.org
November
November
9 to 11, 2007
North
American Conference on British Studies
The Center for
British Studies is
please to be an active participant in the planning and
hosting of
the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), in
conjunction with the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
(PCCBS), to be held in San Francisco, California, from Friday, November 9
to Sunday, November 11, 2007. To register or for more information, please
go to the NACBS
website.
November 13, 3:30 pm, 201 Moses Hall
Go-East: European University Viadrina 2008/9
Speakers: Annika
Styczynski and Anna-Lena Schneider
One of the youngest and, at the same time, oldest,
German Universities participates in an academic exchange
with UC Berkeley through IES. Explore possibilities for study
& research abroad. We invite you to a virtual round tour
on Tuesday, November 13 at 3:30 pm in 201 Moses Hall. International,
interdisciplinary, excellent research possibilities and
cross-border (Poland) education are just some of the reasons
to study there.
November 16, 3:00 pm, 201 Moses Hall
How European is Europe?
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Professor, University of Illinois
December 6, 4:00 pm, 201 Moses Hall
From Vienna to the Paris System: International
Politics and the Entangled Histories of Human Rights, Forced
Deportations, and Civilizing Missions
Eric D. Weitz, Professor of History, University
of Minnesota
Synopsis: Minority protection, forced deportations,
and the "civilizing mission" emerged together in the last
third of the nineteenth century. They were all part
of a tectonic shift in political conceptions: from traditional
diplomacy to population politics, from mere territorial
adjustments to the handling of entire population groups
categorized by ethnicity, nationality, or race, or some
combination thereof, from the Vienna to the Paris system. Two
global areas, the borderlands region of Eastern Europe
(and stretching into Anatolia) and Africa, rarely considered
together, constituted the critical sites for the emergence
of the Paris system. Its
history shows that the origins of human rights standards
are not as pristine and pure as many recent studies suggest;
a major part of their history lies in a way of thinking
about populations—group protection and group rights—that
entailed the very same thought patterns that enabled and
promoted forced deportations.
