FALL 2006

WINTER 2007

Fri, Sept 8, Noon
2022 Thayer Building

Thurs, Sept 14, 4 pm
Clements Library

Lecture. "Visualizing U.S. Cultural Hegemony in 20th Century Europe : A Big Problem." Victoria de Grazia, professor of history, Columbia University . Sponsored by the Institute for Historical Studies.

Fri, Sept 15, Noon
1014 Tisch Hall

Workshop. Does National History Really Matter Anymore? Perspectives on Modern Italy. Victoria de Grazia ( Columbia University ), Raymond Grew, Dario Gaggio, Roberta Perger (history). Sponsored by the Institute for Historical Studies.

Fri, Sept 15, Noon
1636 International Institute

Lecture. “Christian Truth in a Javanese Classic.” Bernard Arps, CES 2006-07 Netherlands Visiting Professor. Co-sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

Mon, Sept 18, 4 pm
116 Hutchins Hall

International Law Workshop. “Does the European Union Really Need a Constitution?" Walter van Gerven , former Advocate General of the European Court of Justice; professor of law, Katholieke University, Leuven; and visiting professor of law.

Thurs, Sept 21, 4 pm
1636 International Institute

Thurs, Sept 28, 4 pm
Commons Room
4th floor, MLB

Thurs, Sept 28–Sat, Sept 30
Michigan Union

International Conference. Practicing Pierre Bourdieu. George Steinmetz (sociology and German) and Loïc Wacquant (sociology, U-C Berkeley), conveners. The conference will focus on the work of the eminent and recently departed French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Participants include: Michael Burawoy (U-C Berkeley), Craig Calhoun (NYU), Phil Gorski (Yale), Lois McNay ( Oxford ), Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia ), Gisèle Sapiro (CNRS, France). Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the Department of Sociology, the International Institute, the Intersections Program, the OVPR, and Rackham Graduate School. For more information contact Kim Greenwell at <kgreenwe@umich.edu>.

Wed, Oct 18
8 pm
Michigan Room
Michigan League

DeVries-Vanderkooy Memorial Lecture celebrating 400 years of Rembrandt. Susan Kuretsky, professor of art, Vassar College . Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature.

Mon, Oct 23
4 pm

Lecture Lecture, “The English Case: Where does the Colour Line Run?” Bill Schwarz , reader, Queen Mary College . This lecture is part of the EUC funded “New Europe ” project on race, ethnicity, and immigration. Co-sponsored by the Department of History. Location:  TBA.

Wed, Oct 25
7:30 pm
Rackham Auditorium

Lecture. “Democratic Revolutions, International Conflict, and Global Citizenship." Aleksander Kwasniewski, president of Poland , 1995-2005. Co-sponsored by the University of Michigan 's Center for Russian and East European Studies, Copernicus Endowment, European Union Center, and the Office of the President. This lecture is part of the LSA theme year, The Theory and Practice of Citizenship: from the Local to the Global.

Wed, Nov 1
4 pm
Classical Studies
Library
2175 Angell Hall

Lecture. "Urban Geography of Contemporary Athens .” Thomas Maloutas, Onassis Senior Scholar and professor of geography and regional planning, University of Thessaly , Greece . Sponsored by the Modern Greek Program.

International Conference. Routes Into the Diaspora . This conference will focus on migration, ethnicity, and citizenship issues. It will include a panel, Diaspora and Its Discontents: the Place of Race and Gender in Debates on Immigration and Diaspora, organized by Miriam Ticktin (women's studies and anthropology). For more information: < www.lsa.umich.edu/humin >.

Co-sponsored by the Center for Comparative and International Studies, the Institute for the Humanities, the Korean Studies Program and the Global Fellowship Program which is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Conversations on Europe. " Putting the French Riots of 2005 into History: What Historical Context for the ‘ crise des banlieues' ?" Joshua Cole , associate professor of history.

International Conference. Watching Ourselves Watch Shakespeare. Barbara Hodgdon (English) and Valerie Traub (English and women's studies), conveners. Rackham Amphitheatre.

Lecture. “The Stranger and the External World: the Kosmos of Synagonism.” Nathalie Karagiannis ( University of Sussex ). Sponsored by the Modern Greek Program.

Lecture. Petr Kolar, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to the U.S. Sponsored by the International Policy Center at the Ford School of Public Policy. For more information: <www.ipc. umich.edu>.

CES-EUC End of Semester Luncheon.

Thurs, Jan 11
1636 International
Institute

Conversations on Europe. "TBD" .

Thurs, March 22
1636 International
Institute

Conversations on Europe. "Models of Church-State Condominium: The Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia." Sabrina P. Ramet, professor of political science, Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.

Tues, April 10-Thurs, April 12

Distinguished Lecturer on Europe. Joschka Fischer, Germany's minister of foreign affairs from 1998 to 2005 and a member of the German national parliament.