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January - February - March - April - May
January
January 28, 4 pm, 223 Moses
Climate Change: Efforts of California, the EU, and the Netherlands Christiaan
Mark Johan Kröner, Dutch Ambassador to the United States
February
February 5, 12:00 pm, 201 Moses Hall
The Constitution of Cosmopolitan Europe after
the War: The Rencontres Internationales of 1946
Natan Sznaider, Professor, Academic College
of Tel-Aviv, Israel
February 7, 3-5 pm, 221 Moses Hall
IES Spring Tea, open to faculty, staff, students, and friends! Join us
for tea, cookies, and conversation.
February 8-9, 2008
Friday, February
8, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
223 Moses Hall
Saturday, February 9, 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
The Morrison Library, Doe Library
Download PROGRAM here (.pdf).
Plus Special Lecture: Friday,
February 8, 7:30 pm
After the Hero: Goya in Context 1814-1824
University Art Museum
Well-established and younger specialists
in history, literature and the history of art will come together
for a two-day conference marking the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's
invasion of Portugal and Spain that set off events leading
to the end of their absolute monarchies and the break-up of
their American empires. The conference
will draw on new research and the experience of senior scholars
to rethink the significance of these developments for the cultural,
social, and political life of the Iberian world on both sides
of the Atlantic. Presented by the UC Berkeley Spanish Studies
Program and Portuguese Studies Program of the Institute of
European Studies.
February 8, 7:30 pm, Berkeley Art Museum
After the Hero: Goya in Context 1814-1824
Janis Tomlinson, University of Delaware
February 29, 12 noon, 201 Moses
Kosovo's
Bid for Independence: A New Crisis in the Balkans?
Dijana Pleština, Advisor to the Minister for Mine
Action
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of
the Republic of Croatia
Cosponsored by Institute of Slavic, East European, & Eurasian
Studies and Institute of International Studies
March
March 11, 12 pm, 201 Moses
Justice and Democracy in International Politics
Jurgen Neyer, Professor of Political Science, European
University Institute
March 12, 4 pm, 201 Moses
The Council of Europe and Human Rights: An Insiders
View
Professor Emmanuel J. Roucounas, Professor of International
Law, University of Athens
March 13, 12 noon, 3335 Dwinelle
Close Encounters: Jews, Germans, and Allies in Occupied
Germany
Atina Grossmann, Professor of History, Faculty
of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Cooper Union, New York
In 1933, at the beginning of the National Socialist regime,
Germany counted approximately 500,000 Jews. In 1946/47, strangely
and unexpectedly, over 250,000 Jews were gathered in occupied
Germany, most of them in the American zone. The lecture tells
the little-known, and counter-intuitive story of the “close
encounters” in Allied occupied Germany between these
Jewish survivors of the Nazis’ Final Solution who found
themselves on “cursed German soil” after the German
surrender, and the defeated Germans with whom they continually
interacted. The talk focuses on the social and gender history
of the highly diverse She’erit Hapletah, the
surviving remnant of European Jewry, survivors of the death
and labor camps, hiding, passing, partisan units, and – for
the largest cohort – harsh refuge in the Soviet Union,
who gathered in defeated Germany. It brings together stories
of Jews, Germans, and Allies that are generally addressed
separately and addresses research areas that are neglected
both in historiography and memory: the impact of the Soviet
experience on definitions and memories of being a “survivor,” and
the multiple encounters between Jews and Germans, as commonplace
as they were complicated, simultaneously loaded with symbolic
meaning and part of everyday life.
Cosponsored by Jewish Studies
March 14-15, 2008
Hannah Arendt’s most important contribution to political philosophy
and theory, her book The Human Condition, was published in 1958.
In its preface Arendt announced that she proposed to rethink politics
in the light of our most recent experiences. Fifty years on we need to
ask whether Arendt’s experiences are still ours and how her book
looks from our current perspective. What is alive and what is superannuated
in her examination of the state of politics? What can we still learn
from her seminal work?
Program:
Friday, March 14, 2-5pm, 223 Moses Hall
The Human Condition:A Roundtable Discussion
Participants:
Hanna Pitkin (UCB), Ruth Strathman (USF), Dana Villa
(Notre Dame), Andrew Norris (UCSB), Frederick Dolan
(CCA), Hans Sluga (UCB)
Saturday, March 15, 223 Moses Hall
10-11 am Andrew Norris, UC Santa Barbara: “On
Public Action”
11:15-12:15 Hans Sluga, UC Berkeley: “ ‘The
Danger that Politics May Vanish Entirely from the World’ ”
2-3 pm Dana Villa,
University of Notre Dame: “The
Autonomy of the Political Reconsidered”
3:15-4:15
pm Frederick Dolan, California College of Art: “Politics
and Science”
4:30-5:00 Concluding Discussion
April
April 1, 2008, 12 noon,
201 Moses Hall
The Principality of Monaco: A Sovereign Microstate
in Europe
Gilles Noghès, Ambassador of The Principality
of Monaco to the United States and Permanent Representative
to the United Nations
April 1, 2008, 4 pm, 201
Moses Hall
Historical Institutionalism and West European Politics
Ellen Immergut, Professor and Chair of Graduate Studies,
Social Science Faculty, Humboldt University, Berlin
April 4, 2008, 3 pm, 145 Dwinelle
Hall
Hoffentlich verschleiert (Hopefully Veiled)
Nursel Köse,
the blonde-at-heart Teutonic Sultana, shining like a
Bollywood star
Serpil Pak, the Oriental
Valkyrie, trans-sex-cultural multiple-personality word-acrobat
Live comedy performance (in German) followed by a discussion
on “ Humor as Strategy, ” moderated by Deniz
Göktürk (UC Berkeley)
Sponsored by German Department
, the Goethe-Institut San Francisco , the Institute
for European Studies, and the Multicultural
Germany Project
Free and open to the public!
April 4-5, 2008, 223 Moses Hall
“The greatest buildings in history have always reflected
the zeitgeist. And right now, the zeitgeist is sport. Sport
is the global currency.” This observation by the
renowned architect of sports stadiums, Rod Sheard, captures
both the universal appeal of sport as well as its global
centrality in the marketplace of economics and cultural
production. Viewed through the prism of various categories--pleasure,
passion, nationalism, regionalism, religion, gender, economics
and celebrity--there are few human activities beyond sport
that have the capacity to arouse so much interest and participation
by so many of the world’s people, irrespective of
race, religion and creed. Like religion itself, sport is
the only other activity that simultaneously unites people
together in common purpose while dividing them along parochial
lines.
Modern sport is an invention of nineteenth-century Europe.
Britain, in particular, invented the rules and regulations
of organized team sports that came to have global appeal:
Association Football (soccer), rugby and cricket. These
pastimes soon spread throughout the world, assisted in
their growth and development by the founding of athletic
clubs, which, while promoting sports of universal appeal,
were formed upon the basis of local political, class and
cultural conditions. France created the modern Olympic
movement, the first games of the modern era being held
in 1896. The ideals expressed and goals envisioned by Baron
de Coubertin emerged out of the matrix of French political
culture but resonated far and wide because of the universalist
dimensions and humanitarian impulses characteristic of
that constellation of ideas. For Britain, by contrast,
its games were integral to imperial culture and the spread
of the “British idea.” Countries as different
as India and Australia became linked, via cricket, to the
metropolitan center of the British Empire. In other parts
of Europe, which similarly participate in “world
sports,” far more self-contained sporting events
capture local passions and play important roles in national
identity formations. How, for example, do Spanish bull-fighting
or the Scottish Highland Games, neither of which make any
pretense to universalism or universal appeal, reside alongside
those sports which are of international standing? What
role do such sporting events fill in such societies and
how do local sports that typify national cultures differ
from the roles filled, by say, the Spanish and Scottish
national football teams, respectively?
This one-day symposium sponsored by UC Berkeley’s
Institute of European Studies seeks to investigate the
peculiarities of European sports culture and their impact
on society in the past and today. Through the category
of identity formation at the local, national and global
levels, this symposium will address the ways various sports
have been instrumental in creating, promoting and sustaining
particularistic identities, especially in an era characterized
by the homogenizing forces of globalization.
Download the program here (.pdf).
Friday, April 4, 2008
5:30 Opening Remarks
John Efron
Saturday, April 5, 2008
9-10:30 Sport and the National Question
I
John Efron,
Chair
Kerwin Klein, A Vertical World: The Eastern Alps
and the Making of Modern Alpinism
John Hoberman, Sportive
Nationalism and the German Intellectuals
11-12:30 Sport and the National Question
II
Yuri Slezkine, Chair
Christopher Thompson, Cycling in
Search of France: The Tour de France and French Identities
Robert Edelman, Nationalism and Multiculturality: Spartak
in the Golden Age of Soviet Soccer, 1944-1952
1:30-3:00 Sport and the Global Question
I
James Vernon, Chair
Richard Holt, Cricket and the English
Christopher Young, Going Global? The GDR and Olympic Dreams
3:30-5:00 Sport and the Global Question
II
Martha Saavedra, Chair
Andrei Markovits, The Beckham
and Nowitzki Effects in Europe and America: The Global and
Local Dimensions of Hegemonic Sports Cultures
Ivan Cohen, Mad Dogs and Englishmen: The Threat of ‘Carlos Kickaball’ to
English Football
5:15-6:15 Film
The Final Kick (Germany, 1995), directed by
Andi Rogenhagen
April 7, 2008, 12:00 noon, 223 Moses Hall
Israel
and Germany: Six Decades of Unique Partnership
David Akov, Israeli Consul General
Rolf Schuette, German Consul General
Jewish Studies Program
April 8, 2008, 4:00 pm, 201 Moses Hall
European
Identity: Between Politics and Fiction
José Ovejro, Novelist
April 9, 2008, 12:00 noon, 201 Moses Hall
Population
Statistics and the Construction of Military Power in Europe
Dr. Heinrich Hartmann, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Center for
French Studies, Free University, Berlin
Light lunch will be provided.
April 11-12, 2008
A program presented by University of California Admissions
Office staff in addition to the staff and volunteers of the
Portuguese Studies Program regarding scholarships, admissions,
student life at Cal Berkeley, and cultural/educational activities
of interest to the Portuguese-American community.
Co-presented by PSP, the Luso-American Education Foundation,
and UC Berkeley.
Schedule and detailed information here (.pdf).
Visiting Writer Ruy Duarte de Carvalho will give several
presentations of his work for the campus and the general
public as well as more targeted seminars for graduate students.
Introduction to His Work |
Noon | April 10, 2008 | 5125 Dwinelle Professors Candace
Slater & Ana Maria Martinho
Lecture & Readings | 4:00
pm | April 29, 2008 | 5125 Dwinelle
Ruy Duarte de Carvalho was born in Santarém, Portugal,
in 1941. He grew up in the south of Angola, where he accompanied
his father – adventurer and elephant hunter – on
trips through the Namibian desert. He later studied cinematography
in London and anthropology at the École des Hautes Études
(Sciences Sociales) in Paris. Having returned to Angola,
he worked as a sheep farmer and studied traditional oral
poetry in various African languages. He also devoted himself
to studying, photographing and filming the desert peoples
of his country and their traditions. At present he is a professor
at the University of Luanda. He is also active as an anthropologist,
prose writer, filmmaker, photographer, researcher and painter,
but is best known as a poet. He is considered not only to
be Angola’s most prestigious poet but also one of the
most important poets of the Portuguese language area, on
a par with, for example, the Brazilian Ferreira Gullar or
the Portuguese Nuno Júdice – both old acquaintances
of Poetry.
Sponsored by the Portuguese Studies Program and cosponsored
by the Spanish and Portuguese Department and the Instituto
Camões.
April 14, 12 noon, 201 Moses Hall
Finlandia Foundation San Francisco Bay Area Chapter presents
FINLANDIA FOUNDATION LECTURERS OF THE YEAR
On the Saarinen Design Legacy in Finland and the United States
Susan Saarinen is the daughter of architect Eero Saarinen
and the granddaughter of architect Eliel Saarinen. Ms. Saarinen is a landscape
architect located in Denver, Colorado.
Mark Coir is the Director of Archives at the Cranbrook Educational
Community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Light lunch will be provided.
In a dual Powerpoint presentation, Ms. Saarinen will
present a personal view of the Saarinen family in Hvitträsk, Finland, and Cranbrook, Michigan.
Mr. Coir's presentation will focus on the professional
life of father/son architects Eliel and Eero Saarinen.
The Eero Saarinen International exhibit of Eero Saarinen's
life and work, entitled "Shaping the Future," will
open in Cranbrook in March 2008 and will tour the United States during 2008-2010
(exibit sites include Cranbrook, Washington, DC, Minneapolis, New York, and
Yale University).
April 15, 2008, 12:00 noon, 201 Moses
Hall
The EU and the UN: Effective Multilateralism?
Benjamin Kienzie, Consultant to the UN on
EU Matters, Department of Political Science, Universitat
Autonoma de Barcelona
Light lunch will be provided.
April 17, 2008, 4:00 pm, 201 Moses Hall
The Rise and Fall of the Swedish Welfare State
Tobias Berglund, Department of History, Uppsala University,
Sweden
April 18, 2008, 4:00 pm, 201 Moses Hall
Hannah Arendt: The Autonomy of the Political Reconsidered
Dana Villa, Packey J. Dee Professor of Political Theory,
University of Notre Dame
April 23, 2008, 12:00 noon, 201 Moses Hall
Expensive
Living under the Euro with a Focus on Greece
Theodore Pelagidis, Professor of Economics, University of
Piraeus
Light lunch will be provided.
April 25-26, 2008
Global Organization, Management, and Science Policy
University of California, Berkeley
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was
rewarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for the final proof
of Global Warming and the assessment of its far-reaching
consequences for humans and earth. This achievement emerged
from a new form of science organization and related policies.
To observe the climate system, the cooperation of hundreds
of scientists all over the world is necessary.
This German-American conference addresses the needs and
challenges of managing climate research at three different
levels: (1) the organization of climate observation,
measurement campaigns, and simulation studies of the climate
system, (2) the management of interdisciplinary
consensus and uncertainty, and (3) policy implications.
Our round-table discussion will be an experiment that explores
what research practitioners, scholars of science studies,
and management experts from the USA and Europe can learn
from each other.
For more information, see the attached Program (.pdf).
Thursday, April 24, 2008, 223 Moses Hall, 5:00 pm-6:30 pm
William Collins, Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center, UC
Berkeley
Friday, April 24, 2008, 9 am-5:30 pm 223 Moses Hall
Saturday, April 25, 2008, 9 am-12:30 pm 201 Moses Hall
May
May
8, 2008, noon, 223 Moses Hall
The Last Christians of Iraq, A Lecture & Slideshow
Fr. Pierre de Charentenay,
S.J., Editor of Études,
scholar, and former Director of the Catholic Office of Information
and Initiative for Europe.
Cosponsors: Jesuit School
of Theology, GTU; Religion, Politics & Globalization
Program
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