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The Model International Mobility Convention is the culmination of a two-year effort by an international commission to rewrite the rules for the movement of persons across borders, from visitors through to refugees. More information (including a brief summary of the Convention) can be found here.

Profs. Randall Hansen, Michael Doyle, and Kiran Banerjee, all of whom were active in the development process, will present the Convention and discuss its significance in the context of the ongoing global migration crisis. They will be joined by Prof. Fen Hampson, Prof. Audrey Macklin, and Dr. Craig Smith for further discussion.

Kiran Banerjee is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Studies, University of Saskatchewan, focusing in the areas of ethics and international politics. Banerjee’s research agenda addresses migration governance, with a focus on the normative dimensions of forced migration and membership as questions of global justice. His current work examines the role of non-state actors in shaping humanitarian responses toward forced displacement, as well as exploring the implications of the existing refugee regime as it plays out on the international level. Beyond this, his larger research interests include political theory, international ethics, the history of political thought, international relations theory, and migration studies, as well as legal theory. Accordingly, he has also written, published, and delivered lectures on EU citizenship and migration, the international refugee regime, as well as on liberalism, global justice, and the history of political thought.

Michael W. Doyle is the Director of the Columbia Global Policy Initiative and University Professor of Columbia University in the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia Law School and the Department of Political Science. His current research focuses on international law and international relations. His major publications include Ways of War and Peace (W.W. Norton); Empires (Cornell University Press); Making War and Building Peace (Princeton Press); Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict (Princeton Press); and The Question of Intervention: J.S. Mill and the Responsibility to Protect (Yale University Press, 2015). He served as Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning and Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan where his responsibilities included strategic planning (the “Millennium Development Goals”), outreach to the international corporate sector (the “Global Compact’) and relations with Washington. He also served as an individual member and the chair of the UN Democracy Fund from 2006 through 2013. He currently chairs the International Peace Institute.

Fen Osler Hampson is a distinguished fellow and director of CIGI’s Global Security & Politics program, overseeing the research direction of the program and related activities. He is director of the CIGI-led and sponsored World Refugee Council, which is chaired by Canada’s former foreign minister, Lloyd Axworthy. Previously, he served as director of Global Commission on Internet Governance, which was led by CIGI in cooperation of Chatham House in London. Most recently, he served as director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) and continues to serve as Chancellor’s Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Fen holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University where he also received his A.M. degree. He also holds an MSc. (Econ.) degree (with distinction) from the London School of Economics and a B.A. (Hon.) from the University of Toronto. A fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, he is the past recipient of various awards and honours, including a Research and Writing Award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace (a non-partisan, congressionally-funded think tank) in Washington, D.C. He has also taught at Georgetown University as a visiting professor.Fen is the author or co-author of 13 books and editor or co-editor of more than 28 other volumes. In addition, he has written more than 100 articles and book chapters on international affairs. His latest books are Look Who’s Watching: Surveillance, Treachery and Trust Online (2016) and Master of Persuasion: The Global Legacy of Brian Mulroney, which will be published in the spring 2018.

Randall Hansen is Interim Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Full Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He works on immigration and citizenship, demography and population policy, and the effects of war on civilians. His published works include Disobeying Hitler: German Resistance after Operation Valkyrie (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race and the Population Scare in 20th Century North America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014), Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany (Penguin, 2009), and Citizenship and Immigration in Post-War Britain (Oxford University Press, 2000). He has also co-edited Immigration and Public Opinion in Liberal Democracies (with David Leal and Gary P. Freeman) (New York: Routledge, 2012), Migration States and International Cooperation (with Jeannette Money and Jobst Koehler, Routledge, 2011), Towards a European Nationality (with P. Weil, Palgrave, 2001), Dual Nationality, Social Rights, and Federal Citizenship in the U.S. and Europe (with P. Weil, Berghahn, 2002), and Immigration and Asylum from 1900 to the Present. He appears regularly on TVO’s The Agenda and has written for and been quoted in the national and international press. He holds an Mphil and Dphil from the University of Oxford.

Audrey Macklin is Director of the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, and Chair in Human Rights at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. She teaches, researches and publishes in the fields of migration and citizenship law, business and human rights, and administrative law. In 2017, she was named a Trudeau Fellow by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation.

Craig Damian Smith is the Associate Director of the Global Migration Lab at the Munk School. He earned his PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on migration, displacement, European foreign policy, and refugee integration. His doctoral thesis “Malignant Europeanization: Schengen, Irregular Migration Governance, and Insecurity on Europe’s Peripheries” examines the effects of European migration governance on transit states. He has conducted several years of fieldwork throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Western Balkans, and Europe. His current SSHRC-funded research looks at the effects of social networks on refugee integration. In addition to his scholarly work, he has provided media commentary on migration and refugee issues to outlets including the BBC, CBC, and NBC.

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Winfried Heinemann is a Colonel with the German Armed Forces Centre of Military History and Social Sciences in Potsdam, Germany. He is also a professor of modern history at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus (south of Berlin). He is currently working on a military history of the 20 July 1944 attempt on Hitler’s life and attempted overthrow of the Nazi regime by the German Army.

Resistance against Nazi rule is usually spoken of in terms of “Conscience in Revolt” (a book title from the 1950s). However, during the last decades, historians have asked for the political, diplomatic, social, economic etc. policies the “Other Germany” would have wanted to pursue. So far, though, no one has asked what their military plans were. How did they plan the coup d’état in Berlin? How did they want to end the fighting? What role did they foresee for a future German army? Or: what is their place in 20th century German military history?

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Andriy Lyubka, was born in 1987 in Riga, Latvia. He is the author of three books of poetry—Eight Months of Schizophrenia (2007), TERRORISM (2008), and Forty Bucks Plus Tip (2009)—and four books of prose—KILLER: A Collection of Stories (2012), Sleeping with Women (2014), Carbide (2015), A Room for Sorrow (2016) and Saudade (2017). His novel Carbide was shortlisted for the Angelus Central European Literature Award this year. He has also published several translations from Polish, Serbian and English into Ukrainian. He holds degrees in Ukrainian Philology from Uzhhorod University (2009) and in Balkan Studies from the University of Warsaw (2014). His works have been translated into Polish, Chinese, English, Portuguese, Russian, Czech, Serbian, Macedonian, Slovak, Lithuanian, Romanian, Turkish and German. He is a columnist for Radio Liberty, Den and Zbruch. Mr. Lyubka has been a curator for the literary festivals Kyivski Lavry and Meridian Czernowitz and has been writer-in-residence at cultural institutes in Poland, Latvia, Romania, Hungary, Sweden and Austria.

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At the end of the nineteenth century, large parts of Southeastern Europe began to see massive emigration to North America and other overseas destinations. At a time of intense nation-building, governments in the region could hardly ignore the fact that so many of their citizens were leaving. On the other hand, some of them discovered the usefulness of emigration for fostering nation-building. In my talk, I will discuss the emerging politics of diaspora, focussing on three case studies (Kingdom of Hungary, Greece, and interwar Yugoslavia). These efforts to project symbolic sovereignty across the Atlantic can elucidate new visions of the nation and its relation to territory, and heralded new forms of governmentality.

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Dr. Ulf Brunnbauer is director of the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies and chair of Southeast and East European History at the University of Regensburg.

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

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After some general observations on the functioning of the eighteenth-century post-office, I first interpret three mysterious postmarks. I then treat the problems Mme de Graffigny faced in dealing with the cost of letters and especially with the opening and resealing of her mail by the government and by private individuals. There are ten illustrations.

David Smith, emeritus professor of French at the University of Toronto, fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and honorary member of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, is a specialist on Helvétius, Mme de Graffigny and Voltaire. He first worked in the history of ideas, notably on the condemnation of Helvétius`s De l`esprit, then on editing the letters of Helvétius (5 volumes) and of Graffigny (15 volumes) as well as the Relation de Berthier for the Oxford edition of the Œuvres complètes of Voltaire. He has also produced several bibliographical articles on Voltaire and physical bibliographies of the works of both Helvétius and Graffigny. The latter was awarded a prize for the best bibliography of 2016 by the Syndicat du Livre Ancien et Moderne (SLAM).

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This talk will explore the political and cultural battles fought by Mykhailo Hrushevsky from his appointment to the chair of Ukrainian history in Lviv in 1894 to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. In these years he fought battles of varying degrees of intenstity against various establishments: the Austrian government in Vienna; the Polish authorities in Lviv; the Polish-dominated University of Lviv, and the Polish cultural and historical establishments in Galicia and beyond its borders. He also played a central role in transforming the Ukrainian cultural establishment in Galicia, sometimes in conflict with its leaders; sometimes in collaboration with them. Against this background of struggle, and the worsening state of Polish-Ukrainian relations in Galicia, Hrushevsky conceived and wrote volume 4, in the years between 1901 and 1907. It covers the period of Polish-Lithuanian rule of Ukraine, from the collapse of the principality of Galicia-Volhynia in 1340 to the 1569 Union of Lublin, when Ukraine was incorporated into the kingdom of Poland. Volume 4 was written when the young Hrushevsky was at the height of his powers as a historian and was unconstrained by the censorship which limited what he could write in the Soviet years. The talk will explore the connection between his political, social, and cultural activities after 1894 and his radical reconceptualization of the relationship between Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland in the years in which the Polish-Lithuanian union was formed. It will suggest that Volume 4 contains some of Hrushevsky’s finest writing on political history.

The session will be chaired by Professor Piotr Wróbel, University of Toronto. Professor Frank Sysyn, University of Alberta, will serve as a discussant. The session will include a presentation of Mykhailo Hrushevsky, History of Ukraine-Rus’, Vol.4 Political Relations in the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries, translated by Andrij Kudla Wynnyckyj. Ed. Robert Frost, Yaroslav Fedoruk, and Frank E. Sysyn with the assistance of Myroslav Yurkevich (Edmonton-Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, 2017). The publication is a project of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta. Volume 4 was sponsored by the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko.

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In April 1793, two Indian travelers from Gujarat landed in Marseilles. The son of the nawab of Broach and his attendant, they were heading for England but were stranded in France for a couple of months, just as the Revolution was spiralling into Terror. What happened to them? How did they manage to establish their credentials with the French authorities and get along in this strange new environment? This talk will be about social credit and the price of hospitality.

Rahul Markovits is assistant professor at the Ecole normale supérieure in Paris. His work focuses on the circulation of people, products and texts on a transnational scale in the eighteenth-century.

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In the early 1930s, Soviet architects and engineers began work on a series of large-scale urban development projects in Moscow. Brought together in 1935 under the banner of the Moscow General Plan, these projects included the Moscow-Volga Canal, the Moscow Metro, and a building that, had it been completed, would have stood as the tallest state headquarters in the world: the Palace of Soviets. This talk explores the global networks and ideas that shaped the Palace of Soviets construction effort and were key more broadly to Moscow’s “socialist reconstruction” during the Stalin era.

Dr. Katherine Zubovich is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Ryerson University. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA from the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto.

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The situation of the European spiritual crisis after the Second World War set the special conditions for drawing Ukrainian occidental theory that was born in the circle of Ukrainian scholars united around the Ukrainian Free University and in the intellectual circles of the displaced persons camps of the 1940-50ies. While reflecting on the crisis of European identity Ukrainian intellectuals discusses Occidentalism as a decolonizing discourse to introduce a special mission of Ukraine to Western audience, to contextualize the idea of westernization of the 1920ies and to offer an alternative perspective of a universal European history.

Tamara Hundorova (Ph.D. in Philology) is a corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, professor and chair of the Department of Literature and Comparative Studies in the Shevchenko Institute of Literature (NAS of Ukraine), the Executive Director of the Institute of Criticism, professor and dean of the Ukrainian Free University (Munich), and an Associate of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. She has published extensively on Ukrainian literature, modernism, postmodernism, postcolonial criticism, kitsch, feminism and Chornobyl.

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In conversation with Zoltán Kovács, Spokesperson for the Government of Hungary.

Dr. Zoltán KOVÁCS is the spokesperson of the Government of Hungary. In the past, KOVÁCS has held numerous positions in government including, 2013-2014: Minister of State for Social Inclusion, 2010-2013: Minister of State for Government Communications and Public Relations and 2006-2010: elected member of the local City Council, communications director to the Debrecen City Council. Dr. KOVÁCS has an MA and a PhD in History from the Central European University in Budapest. He has also held a wide variety of international scholarships and teaching positions.

In this conversation with Professor Lucan Way, Dr. Kovacs will discuss what is ahead for Hungary and the European Union.

Moderator: Professor Lucan Ahmad Way, Dept. of Political Science, University of Toronto

Sponsors: Hungarian Studies Program, CERES, Consulate General of Hungary

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

Jane McLeod is associate professor of history at Brock University. She is the author of Licensing Loyalty: Printers, Patrons and the State in Early Modern France (University of Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011). Her interest in state-media relations continues in her current SSHRC-funded project, “Printers Confront the French Revolution: Profits, Principles and Perils.”

Her paper presents an argument about the nature of media control in the reigns of Louis XV and XVI and explores how this changed in 1789 with the advent of Freedom of the Press. Case studies of printers’ careers are used to explore the high levels of persecution experienced by printers from early in the Revolution.

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JARS BALAN, Interim Director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), University of Alberta, will deliver the 20th Toronto Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture, “Tell the Kremlin we are starving; we have no bread!” Rhea Clyman’s 1932 Odyssey through the “Famine Lands” of Ukraine.

Jars Balan will discuss the life of journalist Rhea Clyman, one of the only journalists to witness and write about the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33 known as the Holodomor. Born in Toronto to a poor immigrant Jewish family, Clyman encountered adversity early in life, losing part of one leg in a streetcar accident. In September 1932, Clyman, then 28 years old, made a journey by car through the agricultural heartland of the Soviet Union just as the Holodomor was beginning to exact its terrible toll. Her road trip took her from Moscow through Eastern Ukraine all the way to Tbilisi, Georgia, where she was arrested and given twenty-four hours to leave the country, accused of spreading false news about the Soviet Union. Her expulsion, the first by Soviet authorities of a Western journalist in eleven years, was reported in scores of newspapers around the world. Clyman’s vivid eyewitness accounts of the “Famine-Lands” were published in the London Daily Express before appearing in twenty-one feature articles in the Toronto Telegram in 1933. Balan will discuss the passion, courage, and perseverance that Clyman exhibited both in her reporting and in life.

Balan has been involved with CIUS for almost four decades and has an extensive list of scholarly publications. Since 2000 he has overseen the administration of the Ukrainian Canadian Studies Program, and in 2007 he was appointed coordinator of Kule Ukrainian Canadian Studies Centre (CIUS). He is working on a book about Rhea Clyman.

THE TORONTO ANNUAL FAMINE LECTURE began in 1998 at the initiative of the Famine-Genocide Commemorative Committee of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Toronto Branch. Past lecturers have included James Mace, Norman Naimark (Stanford University), Alexander Motyl (Rutgers University), Anne Applebaum (Washington Post), Timothy Snyder (Yale University), and Serhii Plokhy (Harvard University).

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On October 1st, the government of the Spanish region of Catalonia held a referendum on independence in open defiance of a constitutional court ban. The ensuing police crackdown transformed the long simmering political stand-off from an internal affair to a news item worthy of international headlines. This talk is for anyone interested in the background to the issue, current developments, and future prospects and implications.

Karlo Basta is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland. As part of a broader research project on identity conflict in multinational states, he has followed the rise of Catalan secessionist movement since 2009.

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Based on hundreds of oral histories of Ukrainian Jews, the lecture discusses how Soviet Jews survived Famine, and how they made sense of their experiences.

Anna Shternshis holds the position of Al and Malka Green Associate Professor of Yiddish studies and the director of the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. She received her doctoral degree (D.Phil) in Modern Languages and Literatures from Oxford University in 2001. Shternshis is the author of Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923 – 1939 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006) and When Sonia Met Boris: An Oral History of Jewish Life under Stalin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). She is the author of over 20 articles on the Soviet Jews during World War II, Russian Jewish culture and post-Soviet Jewish diaspora. Together with David Shneer, Shternshis co-edits East European Jewish Affairs, the leading journal in the field of East European Jewish Studies.

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**Lecture in English followed by discussion in French and English.

The May 7 French election has been portrayed in the North American Press as an overwhelming victory against the rise of populism. But a victory of what, exactly? That is an important question at this juncture in the history of the Fifth Republic. Emmanuel Macron’s rise was made possible by the collapse of all the major parties and the failure of social movements and unions to change much of anything in French economic and political life. Yet, despite Emmanuel Macron’s election populism will not disappear if France cannot stop Islamic terrorism. What are the chances of new parties and new movements forming? Is it finally time for a Sixth Republic- and if so, what might it look like?

Marc Lilla, political scientist, historian of ideas, Journalist, is Professor of Humanities at Columbia University. He has written widely on French Politics and continental philosophy, notably in the New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Le Monde and Le Débat. His numerous publications include The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (2017); The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction (2016); The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals and Politics (2001); and French Thought: Political Philosophy (1994).

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

During the Second World War, France established a rationing system that attempted to provide a minimum amount of food to each of its citizens. It is generally accepted that rationing failed French civilians and worsened the food crisis. If free consumers could not always find enough food, what then of those that Vichy interned in its camps? This talk examines the ways in which Vichy’s rationing laws limited the ways in which camps could procure food and feed the individuals that they interned. It also looks at how food, once purchased made its way to internees and evaluates how much internees likely received. Faced with constant food shortages and hunger, internees, international aid organizations, and occasionally camp administrators tried as best they could to find additional food.

Laurie Drake is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation examines the hunger crisis in Vichy’s internment camps and the ways in which the government, camp administrators, internees, and international aid organizations tried to find solutions.