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Between 2014 and 2016, the EU has been confronted with one of the greatest crises in its history, the European refugee crisis. Not only did the crisis challenge pillars of the European project such as the doctrine of free movement, it might have also influenced individuals’ assessments of immigration and European Integration, as well as the relationship between anti-immigrant sentiment and Euroscepticism. Using data from three waves of the European Social Survey (ESS) – the wave before the crisis in 2012, the wave at the beginning of the crisis in 2014 and the wave at the (perceived) height of the crisis in 2016 – I test the degree to which these conjectures hold. For one, my results indicate that there is a consistent and solid relationship between more critical attitudes toward immigration and increased Euroscepticism. Even more importantly and more relevant for my research question, however, I find that the crisis neither increased anti-immigration sentiments nor critical attitudes toward the EU nor did it reinforce the link between rejection of immigrants and rejection of the EU.

Daniel Stockemer is Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Ottawa. His research interests include electoral politics, social movements, political representation, and European Politics. Daniel has published two books, one edited volume, and more than eighty articles in peer-reviewed journals, in among others Electoral Studies, Party Politics and European Union Politics. He is editor of the ECPR Journal European Political Science (EPS).

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All Joint French History Seminar events are held in English unless otherwise noted.

Pierre de Coubertin’s revival of the ancient Olympics was part of his larger program to reform the French educational system in imitation of the English model, i.e., to include physical education and sport as part of the curriculum. His initiative fell on deaf ears and for many decades thereafter French schools—and French people generally—continued to regard participation in sport as foreign to their mission and to their train de vie. This reluctance was, however, at odds with a tradition that had lasted for several centuries. In the Middle Ages and up to about 1650 the French both regarded themselves and were regarded by others as being among the best athletes in Europe. They were credited with having devised the knightly tournament; they were avid jousters; playing tennis was their obsession; they seem to have invented golf and perfected pall mall. The earliest biographies of the great French knights, from Guillaume le Maréchal to Bayard, all insert a section relating their subjects’ youthful sports achievements (Du Guesclin is taken here as emblematic of French feudal chivalry). From Charlemagne to Louis XIII most of the kings were keen athletes, but during the 16th and early 17th centuries sport on the personal level began to be removed from the French agenda.

The focus of this talk will be to elucidate and understand the manifestations, disappearance, and reappearance of sport in France, from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, why it fell into disfavour in the 16th and 17th centuries, to be replaced by other forms, not simply of leisure activity but of purposeful pursuits. I will be drawing on a variety of sources: biographies, essays, rule books, polemical treatises, and purely “literary,” imaginative texts.

Prof. John McClelland

Professor Emeritus, Department of French, and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

1993-2003, Associated Professor, Faculty of Physical Education and Health (now Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education)

Visiting Professor, Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (Université de Tours, France; University of California at Santa Barbara; Université de Rennes II (France), chaire de littérature du XVIe siècle; Institut für Sportwissenschaften, Georg-August Universität, Göttingen (Germany).

Co-General Editor for the 6-volume Bloomsbury Cultural History of Sport (forthcoming 2016), with special responsibility for vols. 1, 2, and 3 (Antiquity, Middle Ages, Renaissance).

Author/co-editor of four books on French literature and sport, including Body and Mind: Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance (2007) and Sport and Culture in Early Modern Europe/Le sport dans la civilisation de l’Europe pré-moderne (2009).

Author of over 60 articles and book chapters on French literature, music, rhetoric, and sport, most recently (since 2014) ” Manuscrit et imprimé : survivances, interférences 1470-2007 : Les deux textes de Montaigne,” “Redefining the Limits: Sport in the Age of Galileo and the Scientific Revolution,” “Sport and Scientific Thinking in the Sixteenth Century: Ruling Out Playfulness,” “Early Modern Athletic Contests: Sport or not Sport,” and “Pantagruel et Gargantua, essais d’autofiction.”

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The 1618 trial of Leonora Galigaï, along with her husband’s memory, was accompanied by fantastical political defamation. This talk on damnatio memoriae and the blurred borders of the witch trials investigates performing arts archives alongside literary defamation and the destruction of monuments. Combining allegations of witchcraft, Judaism, and defamations of female political leadership, this talk offers analyses of a hybrid trial in baroque Paris disclosing performative uses of print deployed in the destruction of political legacies and influence.

VK Preston is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies and University College at the University of Toronto. She works at intersections of performance theory and history with a focus on seventeenth-century French and trans-Atlantic baroques. As an early-career research fellow with the History of the Emotions Project in Melbourne, Australia, VK’s work on intersections of performativity and witch studies grapples with historiography, authority, and judicial abuse as well as histories of dance, theatre, and defamation. She is a research affiliate of Early Modern Conversions Project and participant in a number of international research communities, including, most recently, as a fellow at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence.

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Sometimes outrageous, often funny and always insightful, poet/pedagogue Marusya Bociurkiw’s films and books create an alternative diaspora archive, built on hybridity, intersectionality and the desire to speak to that which has been unspoken.Her body of work – 10 films and 6 books unique to the fields of Slavic Studies and Slavic literature – rewrite the Ukrainian settler narrative and create new queer and intersectional feminist imaginaries that cross ethnic, transnational, and identitarian boundaries. Bociurkiw will show clips from her films and will share footage from her current project, “Post-Revolution.”

Marusya Bociurkiw is associate professor of media theory and co-director of The Studio for Media Activism and Critical Thought , which promotes research-creation and graduate study in the areas of media studies, critical theory, Aboriginal, feminist, and queer studies, and media activism. She holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of British Columbia, an M.A.in Social and Political Thought from York University, and a B.F.A from NSCAD University. Dr. Bociurkiw’s academic research is broadly concerned with the intersections of affect, nation and technology, and their gendered, queered and racialized ramifications. She is also a media artist, writer, blogger and scholar whose media works and books about the sexuality, ethnicity , food, and culture have been screened and read all over the world. Her films and videos are in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, The National Archives, and various universities and libraries. A longtime media activist, she founded Emma Productions, a feminist media collective in the 1980’s and is currently engaged in documenting that history. She is the writer/director of nine films and videos, including “Unspoken Territory”, a history of racial profiling in Canada, and “What’s the Ukrainian Word For Sex: A Sexual Journey through Eastern Europe.”

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The Founders of the University of Central Asia (UCA), His Highness the Aga Khan, and the Presidents of the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan established UCA at the Roof of the World, an area which spans the Pamir, Himalaya, Tien Shan, Karakorum, Kunlun and Hindu Kush mountain ranges, to address issues faced by mountain societies.

Dr. Kassim-Lakha will discuss how this innovative regional university with campuses in the mountains of the Founding States and the first anywhere to specialize in addressing educational needs of mountain societies, is responding to the myriad challenges that surfaced in the Central Asian region after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The talk will also highlight how UCA’s research institutes and programmes are catalyzing sustainable development of the mountain communities of the Founding States and Afghanistan.

Join us to discover how this visionary project is facilitating transformative change in Central Asia and creating new opportunities for its mountainous communities.

Chair: Dr. Edward Schatz, Associate Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs
Discussant: Dr. Glen Jones, Dean and Higher Education Professor, OISE

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Dr. Rowen will present key findings from her recently published book, Searching for Truth in the Transitional Justice Movement (Cambridge University Press, 2017), which examines the campaigns for a truth commission to redress human rights abuses committed in the course of the war during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, the decades-long armed conflict in Colombia, and US detention policies in the War on Terror. Drawing on twelve years of fieldwork, over 200 interviews, archival and survey research, Rowen’s book considers how transitional justice developed as an idea around which a loosely structured movement emerged and then became professionalized, eventually making truth commissions a standard response to mass violence. By exploring how this movement developed, as well as efforts to establish truth commissions in the Balkans, Colombia, and the US, this talk will address the different processes through which political actors translate new legal ideas such as transitional justice into political action. As will be argued, the malleability of legal ideas and policy interventions such as transitional justice and truth commissions, is both an asset and a liability for those striving to ensure accountability, improve survivor well-being, and prevent future violence.

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Registration is not required for this event. Seating will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Reception at 3 p.m.
Panel discussion at 4 p.m.

Marcel Nadjary was a Greek Jewish member of the Sonderkommando, a squad of prisoners who worked in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Nadjary was one of the Sonderkommando men who wrote accounts of their experiences and buried them in the ashes. Many of these accounts, known as the “Scrolls of Auschwitz,” were never found or were so damaged by water and time they were practically illegible. Now a historian and an IT expert have restored 90% of the legibility of Nadjary’s text.

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Global Secular Stagnation: Keynes, Schumpeter, or Veblen?
What explains slow growth in the global economy? In this talk, Schwartz looks to Keynes, Schumpeter and Veblen to develop a framework for understanding the sources of slow growth, income inequality, and profit inequality in the information economy. Looking at changes in firm strategy and structure (Veblen) enables us to revise demand side (Keynes) and supply side (Schumpeter) arguments dealing with stagnation in the 1930s continuous flow production economy to fit the new circumstances of the information economy.

Bio: Herman Mark Schwartz is a professor in the Politics department of the University of Virginia and Fulbright Research Chair at Balsillie School for International Affairs, spring 2018. He is the author or co-editor of seven books on economic development, globalization, Denmark’s welfare state, employment policy, the politics of housing finance, the global financial crisis, and, most recently, the geo-politics of the subprime mortgage crisis in *Subprime Nation: American Power, Global Capital and the Housing Bubble*. He has also written over 60 articles and chapters.

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Hunger was a defining feature of the Second World War in the Soviet Union. While hunger was nothing new to many Soviet citizens, the war politicized hunger in new ways and generated distinct ways of conceiving of hunger’s effects. This talk will examine contemporaries’ reflections on the hungry body and the hungry mind in Leningrad and beyond, and will address the way hunger both underpinned and threatened to destabilize wartime myths of sacrifice and solidarity.

Rebecca Manley is an Associate Professor of History at Queen’s University. She is the author of To the Tashkent Station: Evacuation and Survival in the Soviet Union at War (Cornell University Press, 2009). She is currently working on a SSHRC funded book length provisionally entitled Tsar Hunger: Conceiving Hunger in Modern Russia. The project offers a fresh perspective on the place of hunger in modern Russian history by examining the way writers and revolutionaries, political economists and physiologists, government officials and philanthropists conceptualized and attempted to come to grips with hunger.

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The spectacular events of 2014 – the annexation of Crimea, start of the war in the Donets Basin, shooting of Malysian airliner MH17 over Eastern Ukraine, etc. – have changed German perceptions of the current Russian leadership fundamentally, as expressed in far going shifts in public discourse and opinion. Gradually, this change of position has also been noted in Ukraine. While there was in summer 2014 still an inapt Ukrainian “Mrs Ribbentropp” against Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor is today perceived, by most Ukrainian political observers, as one of the most pro-Ukrainian Western leaders. Nevertheless, an array of continuing formal and informal ties between Russia and Germany (economic, cultural, political etc.) continues to exert a largely unhealthy influence on German society and politics, as they often are used by the Kremlin to manipulate German decision and opinion making. These attempts are eased by deep-seated pathologies in post-war German foreign political thought including escapist pacifism, anti-Americanism, and mis-perceptions of the East European past and present as well as Germany’s role therein. The continuing significant German trade with Russia, and only slowly improving public knowledge about Ukraine are preventing an already disillusioned political class in Berlin to take a more resolute stance within the current Russian-Western confrontation.

ANDREAS UMLAND studied politics and Russian affairs in Leipzig, Berlin, Oxford, Stanford and Cambridge. He taught at the Urals State University, St. Antony’s College Oxford, Shevchenko University of Kyiv, Catholic University of Eichstaett and Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Since 2014, he is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in Kyiv. He is also general editor of the book series “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society” and consulting editor for the “Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society.”

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In November 1943, shortly after the liberation of the occupied Soviet territories by the Red Army, three mass graves with the bodies of 144 children were discovered in a former colony for disabled children in Zaporizhia region. The disabled children had been shot in two mass murder actions by a German SS special unit in October 1941 and in March 1943. In the course of the NKVD investigations of the case, seven former Soviet employees of the colony, among them four women, were put on trial and convicted for complicity with the Germans in the crime. The trial documentation in many ways presents a fascinating historical resource: First, it deals with an understudied context of Nazi-crimes in the Soviet Union in WWII: the murder of disabled people. Second, it shows competing logics and possibilities of action of the Soviet defendants. Third, it is one of the few examples that show how Soviet postwar justice dealt with female collaborators. And fourth, it reveals to a certain extent problems of the Soviet treatment of disabled persons in prewar times.

Tanja Penter is professor of Eastern European History at Heidelberg University, Germany. Her research interests include: comparison of dictatorships, Soviet war crimes trials, questions of transitional justice and compensation for Nazi crimes and memory policies in the Soviet Union and its successor states. Her books include: Kohle für Stalin und Hitler. Arbeiten und Leben im Donbass 1929 bis 1953 (Essen 2010). She is a member of the German-Russian and the German-Ukrainian Commission of Historians and of the scientific board of the German Historical Institute in Moscow.

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This paper concerns the politics and aesthetics of what is known in post-Soviet Ukraine as the avtentyka singing voice (автентичний голос), which translates literally as the “authentic” voice. My focus is on the problem that this avtentyka vocal timbre creates when it appears in the context of a popular reality TV singing competition called Holos Krainy, or “Voice of the Nation,” part of the global “Voice” franchise that has aired in Ukraine since 2011. Beyond the clashes of style and genre that occur when avtentyka singers who use village timbres sing modern pop hits, I attend to a more general politics of vocal timbre to examine how the avtentyka voice, which sits within a historical trajectory of resistance to state power, challenges the conventional wisdom about how the folkloric necessarily points backwards, toward an essentialized national past. Rather, I consider avtentyka and its iconic vocal timbre as a form of late Soviet expressive culture that also has the somewhat paradoxical potential to operate in today’s Ukrainian mediasphere as a forward-looking expressive form. Rooted in ethnographic research among avtentyka practitioners, I examine how the politicized timbres of avtentyka reject logics of success according to the standards of reality TV “democratainment” and remake failure in the competition as an act of refusal—of the limited musical forms that dominate Ukrainian media and as an assertion of the ungovernable wildness of Ukrainian rural expressivity.

Maria Sonevytsky is currently Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology at Bard College. Her first book, Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine, is forthcoming on Wesleyan University Press. In the fall of 2018, she will join the ethnomusicology faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Fifty years after the Prague Spring, can anything new be said about it? By systematically examining the experiences of ordinary Czechoslovak citizens, rather than political elites, we can uncover the innovative political ideas they articulated, from the nature and importance of human rights to a critique of systemic violence in more than just its physical forms. We can see, moreover, how these popular ideas anticipated those that prominent dissidents developed following the suppression of the Prague Spring, and how memories of 1968 shaped popular demands and forms of political engagement in the Czechoslovak revolution of 1989

Speaker: James Krapfl is a historian of modern European politics and culture, specializing geographically on east central Europe. Thematically he is interested in the cultural history of revolutionary phenomena, the experience of Communist rule in central and eastern Europe, and the transformation of Europe since 1989. These interests come together in his book Revolution with a Human Face: Politics, Culture, and Community in Czechoslovakia, 1989-1992 (Cornell University Press, 2013), which analyzes grassroots efforts to establish a democratic political culture in Czechoslovakia following the outbreak of revolution in 1989. Based on research in forty Czech and Slovak archives, mostly at the district level, the book explains how popular attempts to reconstitute political, social, and economic institutions “from below” met with the opposition of new elites, setting in motion the chain of events which led to the break-up of the federal state in 1992.

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Dr. Lyons’ research focuses on the origins of Algerian migration to France at the height of decolonization, i.e. during the War for Algerian Independence (1954-1962). Her book, The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole: Algerian Families and the French Welfare State (SUP, 2013), examines the history of Algerian family settlement and the development of government sponsored social welfare for Algerians and other immigrant communities in France. She has just begun a research project studying the Constantine Plan for Algeria (1958), and the development of social programs at the height of the Algerian war.  In particular, she is interested in examining the Service des centres sociaux, established by antrhopologist Germaine Tillion.

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Eleni Skourtou
Professor
Department of Primary Education
University of the Aegean

Dr. Eleni Skourtou teaches Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Education at the Department of Primary Education at the University of the Aegean, located in Rhodes/Greece. She is the director of the Language, Literature & Folks Culture Lab at the same department.

Eleni studied Education in Frankfurt / Germany (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität) and she holds a PhD from the same university in bilingual education.
Her main research interests are language education, second language learning, bilingualism and education of minority children, literacy / orality / multiliteracies, text & meaning making.

Her recent research projects involve Roma children education and refugee (children and adults) education.

Currently, Eleni is a Visiting Research Scholar at the City University of New York (CUNY) / Graduate Center.

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Johann Bernhard Müller, a foreigner in Russian service in the 1710s, produced a memoir of his time in the Russian Empire focused upon the populations of Siberia. For Müller, the association of Siberians and venereal disease was at the core of the empire’s weakness. For example, Muller suggested the Ostiaks’ difficulties were the result of their lack of hygiene, poor diet, and general immorality, as seen their “irregular Desires” that led to “nothing but Licentiousness and Confusion.” In the Russian Empire, immoral habits threatened the physical well-being of imperial subjects. The future of the empire depended upon improving not only health but also customs and lifestyles. By the end of the century, Russia had made considerable progress on the treatment of venereal diseases. Heinrich Friedrich von Storch’s Gemählde von St. Petersburg included a lengthy section on the city’s facilities including its hospitals. He noted with interest its special “venereal hospital, which has thirty beds for men and just the same number for women; and all that apply are gratuitously admitted, but not discharged till they are completely cured.” It was not a surprise that Russia attempted innovative solutions for one of its longest-lasting challenges. This talk will uncover the unique role the treatment of venereal disease played in eighteenth-century governing strategies.

Professor Romaniello received his B.A. in European History from Brown University in 1995; M.A. in Russian History from Ohio State University in 1998; and Ph.D from Ohio State in 2003 with candidacy fields in Russia and Eastern Europe, Medieval Europe, and Gender and Sexuality. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at George Mason University and its Center for History and New Media from 2005 to 2007. His first monograph was a study of relationship between the Russian Empire and its Muslim subjects in the early modern era. He is currently working on two new projects. One is a study of the economic competition between Russia and Britain over Eurasian trade networks with the Middle East and Asia. The other is a study of health and illness in the Russian Empire, examining state regulation of colonial bodies.

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Conflicts over turf are geo-coded by grievance, particularly in Europe’s tumultuous borderland pasts of German-Polish, Polish-Ukrainian, Polish-Jewish, Ukrainian-Russian, Hungarian-Romanian, and Hungarian-Jewish relations. In tales of flawed “great men” and their selves, historians too conveniently reify categories of nationality, rationality, or modernity to psychologize group behavior by language and religion, instead of delving into the eccentric worlds of individuals and social contexts for generating maps. This lecture re-grounds maps as intersubjective human artefacts, colored in by relational patterns of everyday frustration and status-conscious anxiety, petty jealousy and human pride.

Where explanations fail, maps offer forensic clues: the obsessive passion for maps in matters of life and death, friendship and war, across borders and oceans from the 1870s to the 1950s. Looking at the mobile worlds of five “transnational Germans” who were also multilingual, Anglophile, and national-scientific geographers—Albrecht Penck (1858-1945) of Germany, Eugeniusz Romer (1871-1954) of Poland, Stepan Rudnyts’kyi (1877-1937) of Ukraine, Isaiah Bowman (1878-1950) of North America, Count Pál Teleki (1879-1941) of Hungary, he recreates the relationships of a generation of aspiring bourgeois experts. By retelling their lives and deaths, he looks at the history of borderland conflict and digs into the personal lives of men whose prejudices helped to shape the emergence of geography and cartography as modern sciences out of pre-1914 Ostmitteleuropa.

The lecture finally illustrates the ways in which today’s clickbait and functional grids depicted budding graphic projects on surreal and subjective terms. As maps are shipped around ever more dangerously as weapons, Seegel argues that they continue to define tensions of empire that are common to émigré trusteeships for mediating territorial conflict, as well as positions of privilege for a global technical intelligentsia’s multigenerational advancement.

Steven Seegel is professor of Russian and European history at the University of Northern Colorado. He is the author of Mapping Europe’s Borderlands: Russian Cartography in the Age of Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2012), and Ukraine under Western Eyes: The Bohdan and Neonila Krawciw Ucrainica Map Collection (Harvard University Press, 2013). He has been a contributor to the fourth and fifth volumes of Chicago’s international history of cartography series, and has translated over 300 entries from Russian and Polish for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, in multiple volumes, published jointly by Indiana University Press. He is also a former director at Harvard of the Ukrainian Research Institute’s summer exchange program. His most recent book, Map Men: Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe, is published by University of Chicago Press in April 2018.

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Guillaume Lachenal is associate Professor in history of science at the Université Paris Diderot. He is working on the history and anthropology of biomedicine in Africa. He has recently published The Lomidine Files. The untold story of a medical disaster (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017) and Le médecin qui voulut être roi. Sur les traces d’une utopie coloniale (Seuil, 2017).

During World War II, a French colonial doctor named Doctor David received full and exclusive authority on the entire region of the Upper-Nyong, in the forests of East-Cameroon. His aim was to conduit a real-life “experiment” to transform and reinvent native society through a radical form of social medicine. My lecture will retrace the story of this strange biopolitical experiment, weaved with the biography of its main actor, Dr David, who became known as King David on the polynesian island of Wallis, before he became « Emperor » of East Cameroon. This utopian/dystopian attempt at social reform left many traces in Cameroon and in Wallis – songs and memories, ruined buildings and abandonned plantations. Bridging Africa and the Pacific, the imperial past and the neoliberal present, this history can be read as a fable – on utopia and megalomania in colonial governance, on power and powerlessness, on medical hubris, and on the writing of history among remains of Empires and development.

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Please join us to celebrate the exhibit of Durdy Bayramov’s photography from 1960s-1980s Turkmenistan, which is in the cloisters at the Munk School (1 Devonshire Place) through April 11:

4 p.m.: lecture on Turkmen culture and society
5 p.m.: light refreshments (including traditional Turkmen pilaw)

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An annual event, this conference examines the state of the union in Germany—Europe’s most consequential country—as well as the relationship between Germany and Canada.

The conference features expert panels that this year will examine the role of Canada and Germany in the United Nations, the future of NATO, and the risks posed to democracy and media by hacking, foreign influence, and fake news.

Date: April 14, 2018

Chair: Randall Hansen, University of Toronto

09:00 – 09:15
Welcome
Randall Hansen, Munk School of Global Affairs
Peter Fahrenholtz, Consul General of Germany in Toronto
Michael Meier, Friedrich Ebert Foundation

09:15 – 10:00
The Future of Multilateralism in the Age of Trump and Putin
Keynote Address
Metin Hakverdi, Member of German Bundestag

10:00 – 11:30
Panel 1
Quo Vadis UN? Peacekeeping, Nuclear Disarmament, and Arms Trade

Stephen Saideman, Carleton University
Peggy Mason, Rideau Institute
Volker Lehmann, Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Moderator: Andreas Ross, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

11:30 – 11:45
Coffee break

11:45 – 13:15
Panel 2
NATO 70 Years after the Marshall Plan

Metin Hakverdi, Member of German Bundestag
Barbara J. Falk, Canadian Forces College
Ronja Kempin, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Moderator: Michael Bröning, Friedrich Ebert Foundation

13:15 – 14:00
Lunch break

14:00 – 15:30
Panel 3
Hacking, Foreign Meddling, and Fake News:
Are Democracy and Media at Risk?

Joan Crockatt, former Member of Canadian Parliament
Tim Harper, Toronto Star
Annegret Bendiek, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Moderator: Kai Arzheimer, Munk School of Global Affairs

15:30 – 15:45
Closing remarks
Randall Hansen, University of Toronto

This event is co-sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation; the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; the Munk School for Global Affairs; the Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in Toronto; and the German Academic Exchange Service.

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Munk Annual Lecture in European Affairs

Denial, a British movie directed by Mick Jackson from a screenplay by David Hare, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2016. Starring Timothy Spall, Rachel Weisz and Tom Wilkinson, it tells the story of a celebrated libel action brought before the High Court in London by writer David Irving over accusations of Holocaust denial levelled against him by American academic Deborah Lipstadt. In this lecture, Richard Evans (the principal expert witness in the trial, played in the movie by John Sessions), reflects on the screen adaptation and the trial, and their relationship to one another.
Richard J. Evans is a historian of modern Germany and Europe.
Among his many books is a three-volume history of Nazi Germany, The Coming of the Third Reich, The Third Reich in Power, and The Third Reich at War, published by Penguin books (2003–2008), and translated into sixteen languages. His most recent book is The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914 (volume 7 in The Penguin History of Europe). He has written extensively on historiography, with books including In Defence of History (1997) and Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History (2014). His collected essays have been published in The Third Reich in History and Memory (2015).
He has held chairs at the University of East Anglia, Birkbeck (University of London) and Cambridge, where he was Professor of Modern History from 1998 to 2008 and Regius Professor of History from 2008 to 2014. From January to May 2018, he is Douglas Southall Freeman Visiting Professor of History at the University of Richmond, Virginia. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.
Professor Evans has served as Chair of the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, and (from 2010 to 2017) President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He has been Provost of Gresham College in the City of London since 2014. He has been a member of the Spoliation Advisory Panel at the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport since its inception, advising the British Government on claims for the return of artworks looted in the Nazi era.
He has been awarded the British Academy Leverhulme Prize and Medal for services to German history, the Civic Medal for Arts and Sciences of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, the Medlicott Medal of the Historical Association for outstanding services to history, and the William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine. He holds honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford and London.
In 2012 he was knighted for services to scholarship.
Professor Evans is a frequent broadcaster on radio and television and a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines, including the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement.
He was portrayed by the actor John Sessions in the Hollywood film Denial (2016) , which depicts the David Irving Holocaust denial libel case (2000), in which Professor Evans served as the principal expert witness.
This event is co-sponsored by
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs
Joint Initiative in German and European Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs
Department of History, Faculty of Arts And Science
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Arts and Science
Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto
German Academic Exchange Service

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Interdisciplinary research is discussed more often than it is practiced. Research is becoming increasingly specialized and fragmented across the vast array of disciplines and subfields, and scholars studying similar phenomena rarely speak with one another. This workshop aims to break down such barriers among scholars, bringing together graduate students from various disciplines who work on the dynamics of micro-level political violence in Ukraine, other areas of Eastern Europe, and East Asia. In addition to sharing their research in progress, participants will have the opportunity to compare approaches to studying micro-level political violence, as well as learn from a collection of case studies. What can Ukrainian studies learn from scholars who examine political violence in different contexts? What can others learn from Ukrainian studies? What are the benefits and pitfalls of interdisciplinary engagement, and how can we engage in it constructively moving forward? This gathering, in a working group setting, will provide a rare opportunity for discussion of the benefits, challenges, pitfalls, and avenues for future collaborative research.

Session I
10:00am-12:30pm

Moderator: Daniel Fedorowycz, Jacyk Program, CERES

Seeing is Believing: Public Display and the Threat of Micro-sized Groups in Indonesia
Jessica Soedigo, University of Toronto

Crimean Tatar Non-Violent National Movement in the Age of Collapse
Mariia Shynkarenko, The New School University

Dynamics of politicide in Central Java and Yogyakarta during the 1965-66 Indonesian Anti-communist campaign
Mark Winward, University of Toronto

Secrets and Silences in the Archives. Narratives of Violence in Holodomor, the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33
Karolina Koziura, The New School University

Remembering Violence: Survivor Interpretations of the 1932-33 Famine (Holodomor) in Ukraine
John Vsetecka, Michigan State University

Session II
1:30pm-4:00pm

Moderator: Daniel Fedorowycz, Jacyk Program, CERES

Occupation as an Enabler of Local Conflict: Belarusian-Polish Relations in Belarus, 1941-1944
Aleksandra Pomiecko, University of Toronto

‘Repatriation’: The Resettlement, Exchange and Expulsion of the Polish Civilian Population from the Soviet Drohobycz Region of Ukraine to Poland, 1944 – 1946
Michal Mlynarz, University of Toronto

Fifty Shades of Blue: The Polinische Polizei and the Holocaust in the Subcarpathian Region of District Krakow
Tomasz Frydel, University of Toronto

Crimes of Retreat: The Final Days of Occupation in Rostov-on-Don (22 January-7 February 1943)
Maris Rowe-McCulloch, University of Toronto

The Political Economy of Famine: the Ukrainian Famine of 1933
Natalya Naumenko, Northwestern University

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In the course of the Wolodymyr Dylynsky Memorial Lecture, Professor Shore will present her new book, the Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution.

“This is a civilization that needs metaphysics,” Adam Michnik told Václav Havel in 2003. A decade later, on 21 November 2013, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych unexpectedly reversed the course of his own stated foreign policy and declined to sign an association agreement with the European Union. Around 8 p.m. that day a thirty-two year-old Afghan-Ukrainian journalist, Mustafa Nayem, posted a note on his Facebook page: “Come on, let’s get serious. Who is ready to go out to the Maidan”—Kiev’s central square—“by midnight tonight? ‘Likes’ don’t count.” No one then knew that “likes don’t count”—a sentence that would have made no sense before Facebook—would bring about the return to metaphysics to Eastern Europe. While the world watched (or did not watch) the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Kiev during the winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution as an existential transformation: the blurring of night and day, the loss of a sense of time, the sudden disappearance of fear, the imperative to make choices.

The book will be available for purchase at the event.

Marci Shore teaches European cultural and intellectual history. She received her M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1996 and her PhD from Stanford University in 2001. Before joining Yale’s history department, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University‘s Harriman Institute; an assistant professor of history and Jewish studies at Indiana University; and Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Yale. She is the author of The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe (Crown, 2013), Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation’s Life and Death in Marxism, 1918-1968 (Yale University Press, 2006) and the translator of Michal Glowinski‘s Holocaust memoir The Black Seasons (Northwestern University Press, 2005).

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Why did Britain vote to leave the European Union? What did this vote tell us about British politics and society, as well as the nature of contemporary Euroscepticism? And where next for the relationship between Britain and the European Union? Drawing on findings from his book, Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union (Cambridge University Press), Professor Matthew Goodwin will explore the cause and consequence of this historic moment in British politics. He will draw on multiple sources of data and established theories to explain what motivated the decision to exit the European Union and reflect on where that leaves Britain today.

Matthew J. Goodwin is an academic, writer and speaker known mainly for his work on British and European politics, volatility, populism, Brexit and elections. He is Professor of Politics at Rutherford College, University of Kent, and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. He’s the author of five books, numerous peer-reviewed studies, research reports and briefings. He lives in London and tweets @GoodwinMJ