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January - February - March - April - May
January
Facing
Global Hot Spots Series
A Cold War in Miniature: The Polish-Soviet Intelligence
Contest for Ukraine, 1926-1939
Tim Snyder, Yale University, Eastern Europe Historian
January 23, 2006, 12:00 pm, 201
Moses Hall
Co-sponsored by the Institute of International Studies
and the Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian
Studies
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Facing Global Hot Spots Series
Current Transatlantic
Tensions and the Legacy of the Cold War
Mary Sarotte, Senior Visiting Fellow, The Mershon Center
This talk focuses on the tensions that arose between
the US and its European partners as they both tried to
meet the security challenges of the post-9/11 world.
It will consider alternative hypotheses about the rise
of these tensions and argue that, in order to understand
them, it is essential to understand the legacy of the
Cold War. The speaker, who holds a PhD in history from
Yale, recently received tenure in the Department of Politics,
Cambridge. She was serving as a White House Fellow on
September 11, 2001.
January 31, 2006, 12:00 noon, 201
Moses Hall
Co-sponsored by the Institute of International Studies
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February
Child
Physical Abuse and Cultural Beliefs within the Portuguese
Context
Ricardo Barroso,
Department of Education and Psychology, University of Trás-os-Montes
and Alto Douro, Portugal
February 2, 2006,
3-5 pm, 201
Moses Hall
Tea Time
Join us Monday, February 6th from 3-5:00 pm in 201
Moses Hall for a Spring Tea. Students, Faculty, Friends, and Staff are all
welcome.
Kledi: Managing Postcolonial Celebrity
Derek Duncan, University of Bristol
February 6, 2006, 6:00 pm,
370 Dwinelle Hall
Italian Studies Program
Questions: Contact isaa
The Development of
Scientific Research and the Implications on Traditional
Rural Portuguese Society
Maria Elvira Callapez, PhD, Universidade
Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
Post-Doc, Office of History of Science and Technology,
UC, Berkeley
Portuguese Studies Program
Dissertation Workshop
Honoring Friendship's Shadows:
Marital Love and Political Identity in Lucy Hutchinson's
Writings
Penelope Anderson, Graduate Student, English Department,
UC Berkeley
February 9, 2006, 4:00 pm, 201
Moses Hall
Center for British Studies
Noturno Indiano/Nocturne Indiene, or
How Alain Corneau Filmed Antonio Tabucchi's Night
Cristina Della Coletta, University
of Virginia
February 9, 2006, 5:00 pm, 160
Dwinelle Hall
Italian Studies Program
Questions: Contact isaa
Free Film Presentation
and Discussion
Two documentaries: Tradition: As Festas e tradições
dos Portugueses na Califórnia and Off the
Boat - Histórias de Imigração dos Portugueses
da Califórnia
Luís Proença, SJ,
Assist. Professor, School of Film and Television, Loyola
Marymount University
February 16, 2006, 3:00 – 5:00
pm, 201
Moses Hall
How the European
Union Shows that Democracy Doesn't Work (And Not Just
in Europe)
Craig Parsons
Consideration of the much-discussed "democratic deficit" in
the quasi-federal European Union.
February 17, 2006, 12 noon, 201
Moses Hall
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Facing Global Hot Spots
Series
Following the Mujahadin, Caspian Sea Oil,
and U.S. Foreign Policy
Steve Levine, Correspondent, The Wall Street
Journal, has reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan,
and Central Asia from 1988-2004 and is writing a book about
Caspian Sea oil for Random House scheduled to be published
next year. He will discuss his travels and observations
across the region.
Co-sponsored by the Institute of International Studies
February 21, 2006, 12 noon, 223
Moses Hall
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The Cultural Work
of the Dead: Cremation in late 19th- and Early 20th-Century
Britain
Tom Laqueur, Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor, Department
of History, UCB
February 21, 2006, 4 pm, 201
Moses Hall
Cosponsored by the British Studies Program and the History
Department
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'The dredge is coming
to our backyards!' - Mining, Memory and Peasant Resistance
in a Portuguese Hamlet"
Pedro Gabriel Silva, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes
e Alto Douro
February 23, 2006, 3-5 pm, 201
Moses Hall
Portuguese Studies Program Lecture
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Cultural Consumption
and Identity in 18th-Century Germany
Prof. Michael North, Professor of History, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University,
Greifswald
The lecture will discuss culture and consumption and the
issues of luxury and taste in Germany at the turn of 1800.
February 27, 2006, 4 pm, IES Seminar Room,
201
Moses Hall
March
America – Metaphor
of Change. Remarks on Anti-Americanism in Germany after
11/9 and 9/11
Barbara Fried, Visiting Scholar, Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley,
PhD candidate at the University of Hannover, Sociology Department
March 1, 2006 4 pm, 201 Moses
Comparing Affirmative Action Policies in the United
States and France: The Case of Higher Education
Daniel Sabbagh, Centre d’études et
de recherches internationales (CERI-Sciences Po)
March 1, 2006, 12.00 noon, 201 Moses
Cosponsor Institute of Governmental Studies
Writing the Nation
from Abroad
Helder Macedo, Ph D, King’s College, University
of Cambridge
March 2, 2006 , 3:00-5:00 pm, 5125 Dwinelle Hall
Switzerland Between
Two Worlds, USA and EU
Christian Blickenstorfer, Swiss Ambassador
March 3, 2006, 12:00 noon, European Studies Seminar
Room, 201 Moses Hall
Three
Finnish Literary Reactions to the Second World War:
Tove
Jansson's The Moomins and the Great Flood (1945),
Mika
Waltari's Sinuhe the Egyptian (1945), and
Väinö Linna's The
Unknown Soldier (1954)
Dr.
Anna Hollsten, University of Helsinki, Finland. The talk
is followed by a public reception.
March 6, 2006, 4 pm, 310 Hearst Mining Building
Finnish Studies Program
The Theological and the Political: Italy's
Political Religions Between Giovanni Gentile and
Carl Schmitt
Simon Levis Sullam, Columbia University's Italian Academy
March 6, 2006, 5:00 pm, 370 Dwinelle
Questions: Contact issa or 510-642-2704
Italian Studies
Co-sponsors
IES
Italian Studies Program
Portugal and Transatlantic Relations- The Role
of the Azores
Luis Andrade, Vice-Chancellor for International Affairs, University of the
Azores
Tuesday, March 7, 2006, 3:00-5:00 pm, 201 Moses Hall
PSP
European Jewry, British
Immigration Policy and the Americans, 1933-1948
Louise London, Visiting Scholar, Institute of Governmental
Studies
March 8, 2006, 12 noon, 119 Moses
Hall
Center for British Studies
Cosponsor Institute of Governmental Studies
Life-Cycle Assessment
of Buildings
Pedro Vieira, PhD Candidate, Engineering and Project
Management Program/Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering
March 9, 2006, 3:00-5:00 pm,
201 Moses Hall
The Poetry
of Pentti Saarikoski (1937-1983)
Dr. Anna
Hollsten, University of Helsinki, Finland
March
9, 2006,
12:30 pm, Scandinavian Studies Seminar Room, 6415 Dwinelle
Finnish Studies Program
Facing Common Challenges:
The Transatlantic Speaker Series on Germany, Europe, and the
United States
Discussion with Dr. Jan Ross, Staff Writer, Die
Zeit
Politics and Religion in Europe and the United States: A German Perspective
March 10, 2006, 12:00 Noon, 201 Moses Hall
Light lunch will be provided. There will be no charge for this event. Please
RSVP by March 6, 2006 to
Yana Feldman at
510-643-4558.
Dr.
Jan Ross is a rising star among Germany’s talented essayists on politics
and foreign policy. He has been a staff writer at Die Zeit since 1998. He covers
the more ideological aspects of politics and the political aspects of culture – especially
the politico-intellectual debates Germans are fond of (such as the “Historikerstreit”).
He has written two books: “Die neuen Staatsfeinde” on German domestic
policy and its roots and “Der Papst” on Pope John Paul II. Before
joining Die Zeit Dr. Ross was a staff writer for the Berliner Zeitung (1997-98)
and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (1991-1996). He studied Classics and Philosophy
in Hamburg and Tübingen.
Cyprus, Greek, Turkish Relations and
the United States
Dr. Theodoros Pangalos, MP, Member of Parliament,
Greece, Former Minister of Culture, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mr. Pangalos is an influential and highly-respected statesman, having served
his country as a member of parliament, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister
of Culture. His experiences in Greek international relations gives him deep
insight into one of the primary conflicts of our time, that between Greece
and Turkey concerning Cyprus. The talk will have wide-ranging appeal across
disciplinary divides, and provide a complex perspective to those involved in
political science, peace and conflict studies, and European studies.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006, 4:00 pm, Middle Eastern Studies Conference Room, 340
Stephens Hall
Sponsor
The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)
International and Area Studies
Cosponsor IES
Implementation of the European Water Framework Directive in France
Hervé Piégay, Directeur de Recherche
at the CNRS Lyon, affiliated with the University of Lyon.
He conducts research on environmental management and restoration
of rivers, principally in southeast France, and also in
analogue environments such as California, Tuscany, and
Corsica. He is well known for his work on the
evolution of landscapes and river corridors in southeast France since the 19
th century, drawing upon the early 19 th century cadastral surveys of Napolean,
archival records and accounts, and contemporary aerial photography, other remotely
sensed data, and field evidence. He has served as an expert for the implementation
of river basin plans in the Rhone-Mediterranean district, developed in response
to the French water law of 1992 and the EU Water Framework Directive. Dr.
Piégay received his PhD in Geography at Paris 4 Sorbonne.
March 14, 2006, 4:00 pm, 201 Moses Hall
French Studies Program
Cosponsors
Department of Landscape
Architecture and Environmental Planning
Workshop
Translation and the Re-Creation Process
Suzette Macedo, Ph.D., King's College, London
March 15, 2006, 10:00 am-1:00 pm, 5125 Dwinelle Hall
George Eliot's Long Argument
Amanda Anderson, Department of English, Johns Hopkins
University
Amanda Anderson specializes in Victorian literature and contemporary literary,
cultural, and political theory. Her work on the Victorian period has focused
on the relation between forms of modern thought and knowledge (across both
literature and the human sciences) and understandings of selfhood, social life,
and ethics.
She is the author of Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of
Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Cornell, 1993) and The Powers of
Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment (Princeton,
2001). She has also co-edited, with Joseph Valente, Disciplinarity at
the Fin de Siècle (Princeton, 2002). She is currently completing
a book entitled The Way We Argue Now, which analyzes a number of
influential theoretical debates over the past decade or so, with special
attention to the forms of argument that shape work in pragmatism, feminism,
cosmopolitanism, and proceduralism.
March 16, 2006, 4 pm, 201
Moses Hall
Cosponsored by the British Studies Program and the History Department
Mathematics, Science and Culture in Portugal at the Time of the Great
Discoveries
Nuno Crato, Ph D, Technical University of Lisbon and Portuguese Mathematical
Society
Portuguese maritime exploits of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were
only possibly with new navigation techniques, based on improved scientific
concepts and systematic measures. At the time, mathematics, cartography, astronomical
navigation, and nautical instruments were all part of Portuguese culture. In
this talk, I briefly review main Portuguese contributions to astronomical navigation,
cartography, and mathematics and show how scientific and technical advances
were fully integrated in the national poem, Os Lusíadas (1572).
March 16, 2006, 12:00-2:00 pm, 201 Moses Hall
India's Global Policy: U.S. Attraction, Multidirectional
Initiatives and Internal Debates
Jean-Luc Racine, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of India and South
Asia, CNRS-EHESS, Paris; Director, International Programme for Advanced Studies,
Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris
March 16, 2006, 12.00 noon, SSEAS Library, 341 Dwinelle
French Studies Program
Cosponsor South Asian Studies
PAPS International Forum
Location and program to be announced
March 18 & 19, 2006
Philosophy Conference
Wittgenstein in 2006
Ludwig Wittgenstein remains one of the most cited philosophical thinkers in
the English-speaking world. The conference is meant to explore aspects of his
work of specific interest to the current philosophical debate. Participants
include:
Jose Medina, Vanderbilt
Meredith Williams, Johns Hopkins
David Stern, Iowa
Hans Sluga, UCB
Barry Stroud, UCB
March 18, 2006, 10:00 am - 5:30 pm, Geballe Room, Stephen’s Hall, UCB
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Philosophy Department
The Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the Fifteenth Century David
Abulafia, University of Cambridge
March 20, 2006, 5:00 pm, 370 Dwinelle
Department of Italian Studies
Department of History
Medieval Studies Program
Italian Studies Program in the Institute of European Studies
Questions? Contact issa@berkeley.edu
Four Case-Studies of High Technology
Entrepreneurial Organizations in Portugal
Ana Veloso, MA, Department of Psychology, University of Minho, Portugal
March 21, 2006, 12:00-2:00 pm, 201 Moses Hall
Dissertation Workshop
Manipulating Markets: The New Politics of Social
Services
Jane Gingrich, Graduate Student, Political Science
Department, UC Berkeley
March 21, 2006, 4:00 pm, European Studies Seminar
Room, 201 Moses Hall
Center for British Studies
IES Conference
The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906: Urban Reconstruction, Insurance,
and Implications for the Future
The Institute of European
Studies and the European Association for Banking and Financial History are
pleased to sponsor an International Panel presenting some new perspectives
on the San Francisco Earthquake and Its Implications
Wednesday, March 22, 2006, from 1 to 4 pm, 223 Moses
Dr. Christoph Strupp, German Historical Institute, Washington:
Dealing with Disaster: The San Franciso Earthquake of 1906
Barbara Eggenkämper, Head, Center for Corporate History, Allianz AG,
Munich: The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and its Effects on the
European Insurance Business
Gerhard Berz, Munich Reinsurance Company and Head of the Munich Re Geoscience
Group: Natural Disasters and Climate Change: Concerns and Possible
Countermeasures of the Insurance Industry
This panel brings together three German experts to provide a historical
and contemporary perspective on the 1906 earthquake. Dr. Strupp has conducted
original historical research earthquake and has produced an original study
of the management and recovery from the disaster. Although it is not generally
well known, European insurance and reinsurance companies were hard hit by
the San Francisco earthquake and, as Barbara Eggenkämper will show using
sources from Allianz and Munich Re archives, this led to important changes
in the organization of the industry and its policies. Finally, Gerhard Berz,
a leading figure in the international insurance business, who has been heralded
as the “master of disaster,” will discuss the role of the insurance
business in the present situation.
This event is open to the public.
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What a Tangled Web We Weave, When
First We Practice to Conceive-the Construction of Fiction
Helder Macedo, PhD, King’s College,
London
March 23, 2006, 3:00-5:00 pm, Durham Theater,
Dwinelle Hall
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Is France the Last Bastion of Protectionism?
Jean Francois Boittin, Minister Counselor for Economic and Commercial
Affairs at the French Embassy in Washington, DC
March 23, 2006, 12:00 pm, European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses
Hall
French Studies Program
April
Culture and Politics Colloquium Series
Walter Benjamin’s Paris
A film by Graham Parkes, Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Hawaii
April 3, 2006, 4:00 pm, 201 Moses Hall
Akseli Gallen-Kallela and the Foundation of Finnish Art
Art Historian Anu Vaalas
April 3, 2006, 4-5:30 pm, 310 Hearst Mining Building
Finnish Studies Program
Evolution and Revolution in More Recent Finnish Art and Design
Sirpa
Tuomainen, Finnish Language Lecturer, UC Berkeley
April 5, 2006, 4-5:30 pm, 310 Hearst
Mining Building
Finnish Studies Program
The Lady and the Rose – Conference on the Portuguese Writer
Natália Correia
April 6, 2006, 10:00 am-4:00 pm, 3335 Dwinelle
Hall
Paleography, Codicology, and Literary
History: Observations and Medieval English Examples
Ralph Hanna, Professor of Paleography, Oxford University
These two sessions, offered in the syllabus and scheduled class time of Medieval
Studies 200 (a graduate methods course offered biennially), have been
planned as focal events of a broad workshop on medieval English manuscripts,
available to all interested students and faculty.
April 6 and April 13, 2006, 12:00-2 pm for both
sessions, 315 Wheeler Hall
Center for British Studies
Co-sponsor Medieval Studies, Department of English, and the Florence Green
Bixby Chair in English
IES + IIS Conference
The weakening – perhaps what will become the unraveling of the Atlantic
Alliance – can be traced back through 9/11 to the fall of the Berlin
Wall in November 1989. Before 2008 gets too close it is timely to take a fresh
look at the core issues in transatlantic relations and take seriously the notion
that collapse is a possible outcome, in order to build a case for a renewed
partnership relevant to tomorrow’s world, rather than a nostalgic view
of last century’s.
The conference will engage the key issues of current debate in historical
perspective: Does a set of common values still link Americans and Europeans?
How have the United States and the EU defined democratic values and liberal
democratic institutions since 1945? How do trade policies influence the Euro-American
relationship? To what extent has the post-9/11 war on terrorism had an impact
on relations? What are the prospects of a common approach on climate policy,
privacy regulation, intellectual property, and weapons of mass destruction?
April 6-7, 2006, 223 Moses Hall, UC Berkeley, Thurs
9-5:30, Fri 9:30-12:00
Download the Conference Program here (.pdf).
This event is free and open to the public.
Culture and Politics Colloquium Series
Carl Schmitt: New Concepts of the Political
An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Gopal Balakrishnan, David Bates, and Hans
Sluga, all of
UC Berkeley
April 7, 2006, 4:00 pm, 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Cosponsor Rhetoric
History, Truth and Memory: Reflections
on the Irving / Lipstadt Libel Trial and Coercion and Consent
in Nazi Germany
Richard Evans, Professor of Modern History, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Synopsis: The first lecture will deal with the libel trial of Deborah Lipstadt
brought by David Irving. Evans was a key witness in the successful case for
Lipstadt. The second lecture will challenge the arguments of Robert Gellately
and other historians who stress the degree of public consent to the misdeeds
of the “Third Reich”
April 10, 2006, 1st lecture at Noon and 2nd Lecture 4:00 pm, 370 Dwinelle
Hall
Cosponsor History
The Forest Finns
Tuula Espeland, University of Copenhagen
April 10, 2006, 4-5:30 pm, 310 Hearst Mining Building
Finnish Studies Program
Coercion and Consent in Nazi Germany
Richard Evans, Professor of Modern History, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
April 10, 2006, 4:00 pm, 370 Dwinelle Hall
25 into 1? Studying the
EUropean Public Sphere and its Political Functions
Christoph Bärenreuter , Doctoral Student,
Dept. of Political Sciences, University of Vienna; Researcher at Institute for
European Integration Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences; Visiting Scholar,
Institute of European Studies
April 12, 2006, 12 noon, 201 Moses Hall
To start, I want to present a brief overview on the theoretical and empirical
research on the possibility of a EUropean public sphere (EPS) in the mass
media. The starting point for my own thoughts will be, that a EPS is most
likely to develop through a Europeanization of national public spheres. Most
research in recent years has focused on this model. Second, I will suggest
that what current definitions of a EPS do not sufficiently provide is an
account of how different functions of the public sphere can be achieved in
the multinational setting of the EU. I will then go on and discuss three
political functions of the public sphere – identity construction, ascription/denial
of legitimacy, enabling responsiveness – and address the question, “How
one can empirically study whether or not these functions are actually fulfilled
in media discourses?”. The answers to this latter question will finally
lead me to introduce the concept of chains of equivalences (developed by
Laclau/Mouffe 1985) as a concept that does not only enable us to theoretically
grasp how the discussed functions can be achieved in a multi-lingual and
multi-national public sphere, but which can also be operationalized to empirically
analyze debates in mass media.
Playing Nordic: Hella Wuolijoki's 'The Women of Niskavuori' on the Third Reich
Stage
Hana Worthen, University of Helsinki
April 12, 2006, 4-5:30 pm, 310 Hearst Mining Building
Finnish Studies Program
POSTPONED
Beyond the Page – Conference
Regarding the Adaptation of Fiction to Theatre and Film
April 13, 2006, 3335 Dwinelle Hall
Portuguese Studies Program
The End of a Myth? Albert Speer
and the So-Called Armaments Miracle
Dr. Jonas Scherner, Dept. of Economics, University of Mannheim and Visiting
Fellow, Economic Growth Center, Yale University
The lecture questions Speer’s self-proclaimed responsibility for having
produced an “Armaments miracle” after becoming Hitler’s
Munitions Minister in 1942, arguing that Speer has been overrated and questioning
whether there was an “Armaments miracle.”
April 12, 2006, 4 pm, IES Seminar Room, 201
Moses Hall
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Free Finnish FridaysSwedish-Language Films from Finland
Officially a bilingual country, Finland belonged to the Swedish Empire for
some five centuries and retains its bilingual status today; the Finnish Studies
Program is offering a free series of four Swedish-language Finnish films
on Fridays this April. The last is this year's Finland entry for the Academy
Awards. All films in Swedish and Finnish with English subtitles.
7 April (Friday) 5:30, B-4 Dwinelle
“Populär musik från Vitula” “Populäärimusiikkia
Vittulanjänkältä” (2004) [Popular Music from
Vitula] by Reza Bagher
14 April (Friday) 6:00, B-4 Dwinelle“Kahlekuningas” (2002)
[Handcuff King] by Arto Koskinen
21 April (Friday) 6:00, B-4 Dwinelle
“Näkymätön Elina” “Elina:
som om jag inte fanns” (2002) [Elina: As if I Wasn’t
There] by Klaus Härö
Klaus Härö received a standing
ovation when his film Elina was screened at the
Berlin Film Festival. Set in the. extreme north of Sweden
in the 1950s, it tells the story of a strong-willed Finnish-speaking
girl who stands up to her domineering teacher's attempts
to acculturate her.
28 April (Friday) 6:00, B-4 Dwinelle
“Aideista Parhain” (200?)
[Mother of Mine]
Klaus Härö’s heart-wrenching Mother of Mine recounts
a momentous event in Finnish history. During World War II, eighty thousand
children were sent to neighbouring Sweden and Denmark for their protection.
Sumptuously photographed, Mother of Mine is a powerful, moving work
from one of Finland’s most intriguing and assured young filmmakers.
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Making Fun: The Novel in Practice
Jami Bartlett, Graduate Student in English Department, UC Berkeley
The selection to be discussed comes from the student’s chapter, “‘I
will if you will’: or, Meredith and Ends,” the first part of
a larger project about the propositional content of novel form.
April 18, 2006, 4:00 pm, European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
Center for British Studies
Cosponsor English Department
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France in the Pacific, Past and Present
Jacques Binoche, Professir of History at Université de la Polynésie
Française ,Tahiti
Jacques Binoche is the author of several articles about the French Colonization
and recently published L’Amérique et les Américains
d’aujourd’hui, 2005.
April 18, 2006, 12:00 noon, 201 Moses Hall, European Studies Seminar Room
French Studies Program
Co-sponsor History Department
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Educating the Next Generation of Portuguese
Entrepreneurs
Dana T. Redford, PhD Candidate, Enterpreneurship/Empreendedorism, Business
Management-GGEDE, ISCTE Business School, Lisbon, Portugal
April 20, 2006, 3:00-5:00 pm, 201 Moses
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Conference
Reinventing Britain? Constitutional Reform in Britain under New Labour
Andrew McDonald, UK Dept. for Constitutional Affairs and Visiting Scholar,
IGS
Since 1997 Britain has undergone radical constitutional reform. Scotland
now has its own parliament and Wales has a national assembly. Britons
now have a bill of rights. A new supreme court is to be established.
How have these and other reforms come about and what do they add up to? These
questions will be addressed by a panel of academics…
April 24, 2006, 9 am-5pm, 223 Moses Hall
Center for British Studies
Institute Of Governmental Studies
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Portuguese Youth Day at Cal
Program
will be presented by University of California. Admissions office staff in
addition to the staff and volunteers of the Portuguese Studies Program
Noon-time rally in celebration of the “Flower Revolution” of
April 25, 1974 will be held at Sproul Plaza
April 25, 2006, 9:30 am-3:30pm, 370 Dwinelle Hall
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The EU Water Framework Directive: A Revolution in Water Management?
A critical assessment from an NGO perspective
Klaus Lanz, International Water Affairs, Hamburg,
Germany, is an independent scientist and consultant (since 1992) at International
Water Affairs, Hamburg, Germany, an independent research and policy institute
specialising in interdisciplinary water research. An organic and environmental
chemist by training, Dr Klaus was advisor for Greenpeace and other NGOs throughout
the development of the EU Water Framework Directive (1993-2001), and leader of
Greenpeace Germany's Water Campaign 1988-92. He completed post-doctorates
at University of Minnesota and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and
Technology.
April 25, 2006, 4-6:00 pm, 201 Moses
The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) (2000) represents a bold change in river
management, emphasizing catchment-scale approaches and requiring member states
to make substantial progress towards improving water quality and aquatic ecology
in their rivers by 2015. For students of river management and restoration
in North America, the WFD is a compelling topic because European states are
implementing ideas long proposed for American rivers, but not adopted due to
institutional/political barriers.
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The Finnish Information Society and Information Technology
Antti Hautamäki, Director/Researcher NOW; Researcher, UCB;
SITRA, Helsinki, Finland
April 26, 2006, 4:00 - 5:30 pm, 310 Hearst
Mining Building
Finnish Studies Program
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Sex, Gender and Empire: How Did Britain
Read Asian Sexualities?
Philippa Levine, Professor of History, University of Southern California
April 27, 2006, 4:00 pm, European Studies Seminar Room, 201 Moses Hall
Center for British Studies
Cosponsor
Center for Southeast Asia Studies
May
Research Seminar on Politics and Institutional Change in Europe
Power Shifting in Welfare Corporatism: Politics and
Liberalization in the German Welfare State
Prof. Anke Hassel, Professor, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
May 1, 2006, 4 to 6 pm, 201 Moses Hall
Finnish Architecture: An Overview
Eric Kotila , M.Arch., Designer, UC Berkeley
May 3 , 2006, 4:00 - 5:30 pm, 310 Hearst
Mining Building
Synopsis: A brief overview of the development of Finnish
architecture in the context of national identity, including types borrowed
from Sweden (the Gothic church, fortifications, the manor house); historic
wooden towns like Old Rauma and Kaskinen; the Empire style; turn-of-the-century Kansallisromanttinen
tyyli (National
Romanticism); the Saarinens in Finland and America; Aalto and his synthesis
of functionalism, classicism, and sensualism; modernism and more contemporary
developments including Juha Leiviskä,
Reimo and Raili Pietilä, and the younger generation
of Finnish architects.
Finnish Studies Program
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Will the Euro Last?
Uwe Böwer, University of Munich
Synopsis:
Economic and monetary union in Europe has been an ambitious economic
and political experiment. Prior to the creation of the euro, it
has been argued that European Union was not an optimum currency
area. Will it become optimal as economic dynamics of the common
curreny unfold? Given that the euro area's growth performance has
been limited since the launch of EMU, economists and policy-makers
are discussing whether the euro is to last. The talk takes up these
questions and presents empirical evidence that gives rise to cautious
optimism.
May 8, 2006, 4 pm, 201 Moses Hall
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Rivers in Spain: Opportunities for Ecological Restoration
Marta Tanaga Gonzalez, Technical University of
Madrid
May 18, 2006, 4:00
pm - 5:30 pm, 315A Wurster Hall, UC Berkeley
Sponsors:
Department of
Landscape Architecture/Environmental Planning
Institute of European Studies
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The Human Development Model of Social
and Political Change: Theory and Evidence
Prof. Christian Welzel, International University Bremen (IUB), is professor of
political science at the International University Bremen (IUB) and co-director
of the World Values Surveys. Christian Welzel’s research interests are
embedded in an interdisciplinary human development framework that looks at the
relations between socioeconomic transformations, cultural changes of citizen
beliefs, and the restructuring of democratic institutions in a comparative perspective.
Before he entered his position at IUB, he was a research fellow at the Social
Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and a visiting fellow at the Institute for
Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
May 24, 2006, 12 noon, 201 Moses Hall
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