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2016 CERES Graduate Student Conference Keynote Lecture

17:15-17:30 Opening Remarks, Conference Organizers and Dr. Randall Hansen, University of Toronto

17:30-18:00 Keynote Lecture: Europe’s Muslim Minorities: Successes and Failures of Integration, Dr. Christian Joppke, University of Bern

18:00-18:45 Question and Answer Period moderated by Dr. Randall Hansen

18:45-19:30 Reception

In the opening of his lecture Joppke will query with the main conference theme, which is the juxtaposition of “majorities” and “minorities.” Does the concept of “majority,” which seems to be required by its opposite of “minority,” make sense? This is a worthwhile inquiry, because populist (and no longer so “fringe”) parties across Europe claim to speak for putative majorities, and because even liberal academics have recently argued that, in the face of current migratory and demographic challenges, also majorities have “rights.” In the second part, Joppke turns to what is arguably Europe`s most critical minority, which is Muslims. The main paradox of Muslim integration in Europe is that an overall successful legal-institutional integration of Islam as religion has occurred in a context of persistent public hostility and populist mobilization. The two main integration deficits are socioeconomic (which is only partially due to discrimination) and cultural (Muslims espousing conservative views on sexual morals, gender, and religion that are far apart from the liberal-secular mainstream). Joppke will close with questioning the widespread view that terrorism is a result of failing or misguided policies of integrating Islam and Muslims.

​Christian Joppke holds a chair in sociology at the University of Bern (CH). He is also a Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program at Central European University, Budapest, and an Honorary Professor in the Department of Political Science and Government at Aarhus University (Denmark). He is a Member of the German Expert Council on Integration and Migration (SVR). He recently published Legal Integration of Islam (with John Torpey) (Harvard UP 2013), and The Secular State Under Siege: Religion and Politics in Europe and America (Cambridge: Polity 2015). His latest book, Is Multiculturalism Dead? Crisis and Persistence in the Constitutional State, will be published in 2016.

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Hannes Adomeit is at present Bosch Public Policy Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, D.C. He was Professor for Russian and European Studies at the Warsaw campus of the College of Europe until 2013. Prior to that, he served as Senior Research Associate and head of the research section on Russia and Eurasia at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin, as a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and in other teaching and research roles. He was a DAAD-AICGS fellow at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies in Washington in 2014. Adomeit is the author of Imperial Overstretch: Germany in Soviet Policy from Stalin to Gorbachev (1998; 2nd rev. ed. 2016). He studied at the Freie Universität Berlin and received his PhD “with distinction” from Columbia University.

Until Moscow’s annexation of the Crimea and its military intervention in eastern Ukraine, the relationship between Berlin and Moscow was officially labeled “strategic partnership”—a classification that originated in 1999. About a decade later, the “strategic” partnership was “supplemented” by a “partnership for modernization.” It can be shown, however, that a strategic relationship in the strict sense of the term never existed and that a modernization partnership was never constructed. Instead, both German-Russian relations and EU-Russian relations de facto have been characterized by competition and conflict. Chancellor Merkel has taken the lead in Europe to impose and stick to sanctions on Russia. But how sustainable is that approach – in Germany and in Europe? Will German and European-Russian relations turn to “business as usual”? Or are we witnessing the beginning of prolonged phase of alienation between Germany and Russia with serious consequences for the trans-Atlantic relationship?

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**This event will be held in French.**

Né le 2 décembre 1950 à Constantine en Algérie, Benjamin Stora est Professeur des universités. Il enseigne l’histoire du Maghreb contemporain (XIXe et XXe siècles), les guerres de décolonisations, et l’histoire de l’immigration maghrébine en Europe, à l’Université Paris 13 et à l’INALCO (Langues Orientales, Paris).

Docteur en sociologie (1978), et Docteur d’Etat en Histoire (1991), il a été le fondateur et le responsable scientifique de l’Institut Maghreb-Europe. Membre de l’Ecole Française d’Extrême-Orient (EFEO), il poursuit en 1995 et 1996 des recherches au Vietnam. Il vit alors à Hanoi, pour une étude portant sur Les imaginaires de guerres Algérie-Vietnam. Puis, il a été Professeur invité à l’université de New York (NYU, 1998), et chercheur trois années à Rabat, au Maroc (1998-2001) pour une recherche sur les nationalismes marocain et algérien (publié sous le titre : Maroc, Algérie, histoires parallèles, destins croisés, Ed Maison neuve et Larose, 2002). Il a été Professeur invité à l’université de Berlin, Freï universität, en 2011.

Il a publié une trentaine d’ouvrages, dont les plus connus sont une biographie de Messali Hadj (réédition Hachette Littérature-poche, 2004) ; La gangrène et l’oubli, la mémoire de la guerre d’Algérie (La Découverte, 1991) ; Appelés en guerre d’Algérie (Gallimard, 1997) ; Algérie, la guerre invisible, Ed Presses de Sciences Po (2000). Il a dirigé avec Mohammed Harbi l’ouvrage collectif, La guerre d’Algérie, aux éditions Robert Laffont (en poche, Hachette Littérature, 2006).

Dans le domaine des images, Benjamin Stora a été le conseiller historique du film Indochine, Oscar du meilleur film étranger (1993), le commissaire des expositions La France en guerre d’Algérie (Musée des Invalides, 1992), puis à l’hôtel de Sully en 2004. Il est l’auteur du documentaire Les années algériennes (quatre fois une heure) diffusé en 1991 sur France 2. Puis, avec Jean-Michel Meurice, il a réalisé le documentaire Eté 62 en Algérie, l’indépendance aux deux visagesdiffusé le 7 juillet 2002 sur France 5. Il est le conseiller historique, en 2010, du film Le Premier homme, adaptation au cinéma du roman d’Albert Camus, par le cinéaste italien Gianni Amelio. Il est également le conseillé historique du film Les hommes libres du réalisateur Ismaël Ferroukhi (2010).

Benjamin Stora a été producteur et animateur à France culture. En 2006, Benjamin Stora publie Les Trois exils. Juifs d’Algérie, nommé pour le Prix Renaudot Essais. En 2007, il co-dirige avec Emile Temime un ouvrage sur l’histoire des immigrations en France, Immigrances, et publie un essai sur son parcours intellectuel, Les guerres sans fin. Un historien, la France et l’Algérie, Ed Stock, 2008. En 2009, son livre Le Mystère De Gaulle, son projet pour l’Algérie (Ed Robert Laffont) rencontre un grand écho dans la critique française et algérienne. Son ouvrage, Lettres et carnets de Français et d’Algériens a obtenu le grand Prix des lectrices de ELLE en 2011.

Benjamin Stora a reçu le grand prix du CMCA – Centre Méditerranéen de la Communication Audiovisuelle. 2013. Catégorie Mémoire, pour le documentaire avec Gabriel Le Bomin : Guerre d’Algérie, la déchirure – épisode 1 de Benjamin Stora et Gabriel Le Bomin
Il a reçu le prix de la LICRA en avril 2013, pour ses engagements antiracistes, et l’ensemble de ses travaux sur l’histoire du Maghreb contemporain.

Benjamin Stora est membre du Jury du Prix livre d’Histoire décerné par le Sénat. Ses ouvrages et articles sont traduits en plusieurs langues étrangères (anglais, arabe, espagnol, allemand, russe, vietnamien).

Par décret du Premier ministre en date du 1er aout 2014, Benjamin Stora a été nommé président du Conseil d’orientation de l’Établissement public du Palais de la Porte Dorée qui réunit le Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration et l’Aquarium de la Porte Dorée.

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Elena Maltseva is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Windsor. Elena holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto. Her research interests include the welfare state and the politics of welfare reforms; globalization, migration and labour policy; human trafficking; state-society relations and civil society development in post-Soviet states.

Aslan Amani (PhD, LSE, 2013; MSc, LSE, 2009, Hon. B.A., University of Toronto, 2008) received his PhD in political theory from the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Aslan’s PhD dissertation (Is Democratic Multiculturalism Really Possible?) examined the normative interplay of democratic theory with multiculturalism. He is currently completing a book manuscript on democratic multiculturalism. Aslan has taught political science and political theory at the University of Toronto Mississauga, McMaster University, Trent University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. In addition to his work in political theory, Aslan has written op-eds and news analysis on democratic transitions and Eurasian politics for publications such as the World Politics Review, Open Democracy, and The Guardian.

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You are cordially invited to an informal meeting with Yuri Butusov, the Ukrainian journalist and editor-in-chief of the censor.net.ua website and a leading expert on military affairs in Ukraine, who will discuss the state of the Ukrainian military and the war with Russia in the Donbas.

In Ukrainian, with translation as necessary.

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In the first half of the 18th century, the Bukharan Khanate experienced a crisis that included devastating invasions from the north and the south, a severe fiscal crisis, rebellion and revolution. Setting aside the long-held belief that the crisis was caused by isolation from early modern globalizing trends, this talk will advance a new theory, or set of theories, to explain what caused the crisis, why it unfolded when it did, and how globalizing forces impacted early modern Central Asia and contributed to the rise of the Khanate of Khoqand.

Scott Levi is associate professor of Central Asian history at The Ohio State University. He is the author of The Indian Diaspora and Central Asia and its Trade, 1550-1900 (Leiden, 2002), co-editor (with Ron Sela) of Islamic Central Asia: An Anthology of Sources (Bloomington, 2010), and has recently published Caravans: Indian Merchants on the Silk Road (Gurgaon, 2015). This talk will address conclusions drawn from his current research project, which aims to produce a book tentatively titled, Central Asia on the Frontier of Empires: The Rise and Fall of Khoqand, 1709–1876.

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For a LIVE webcast of this event, please follow the link below.

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 is comprised of expert panels that this year will examine: state collapse in the Middle East, refugee policy in Canada and Germany, and climate-change policy.

For the full program and registration, please click here.

Click here for the LIVE WEBCAST starting at 9 a.m. on 11 March.

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Dr. Krassen Stanchev is an associate professor at Sofia University; he is also CEO of KC 2 Ltd and Board Chairman, founder and former Executive Director of the Institute for Market Economics (IME) IME (www.ime.bg) – the first Bulgarian independent and free-market think thank (1993), former member and committee chairman of the Constitutional Assembly (1990-1991), one of the most quoted Bulgarian observers: best country analyst award for 1996 by Euromoney, as well as a laureate of Bulgaria Government Prize – 2002 (for contribution to democracy and civil society), Templeton – 2006 – as IME Director, and Georgi Vassilev’s Fund for Contribution to the Spirit of Liberty – 2006.

He was a principle drafter of a number of reforms from central planning to market economy and is one of the leaders of those reforms.

His expertise is in economics and regulatory policies significantly contributed to private sector growth in Bulgaria, New Europe and Former Soviet Union. Since 1990s he worked in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan and Tajikistan), Caucasus (Armenia and Georgia), and Russia and Egypt, leading teams and/or being a subcontractor of EU, USAID or the World Bank programs.

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Dr. Arhin will discuss a diaspora methodology which provides a more nuanced and in-depth method of analyzing human trafficking cases, and takes into account the intersections between traffickers, victims and diaspora communities within the human trafficking process. She analyzes data from 72 court files (2004-2014) handled as cases of trafficking of adults and children for labour exploitation by various courts. Dr. Arhin will present the results of this analysis with respect to the behavior of traffickers and the role of diaspora networks in the recruitment, transportation, and receipt of the victims. She also examines the relations between traffickers, victims, intermediaries, and collaborators, for both domestic and transnational cases.

Dr. Antonela Arhin is the Executive Officer at the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto where she teaches courses on human trafficking, diaspora, and transnationalism. She has two decades of experience in higher education, government, and NGOs, and most recently worked on a project promoting identification of labour trafficking cases involving Roma children in Serbia and Montenegro. Her co-edited book, Labour Migration, Human Trafficking and Multinational Corporations: The Commodification of Illicit Flows (Routledge, 2012) addresses human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation within the contexts of migration and the global economy.

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Denis Kozlov is an associate professor of Russian history at Dalhousie University. His research focuses on the cultural, intellectual, and social history of the Soviet Union, especially during the post-Stalin decades. On the basis of archival evidence, primarily thousands of letters from readers to literary periodicals, his recent book, The Readers of Novyi Mir: Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past (Harvard University Press, 2013) explored how the Soviet reading audiences of the 1950s and 1960s comprehended their life experiences in the framework of twentieth-century history. This work revealed mechanisms of intellectual change important for the evolution of Soviet society and culture. His current research examines the cultural history of emigration from the Soviet Union to the West.

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In 1973, a multinational took control of the Lip watch and mechanics firm in Besançon and planned to lay off half of the labor force. Workers responded by occupying the factory, starting up production, and selling watches to pay their salaries. The conflict resonated throughout France and continued in one form or another until 1981. Analysis of the Lip Affair can open up our understandings of challenges to the political, social, and economic order in the 1968 years in France.

Donald Reid is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He is the author of The Miners of Decazeville and Paris Sewers and Sewermen, both of which have recently appeared in French translation, as well as a book of essays on the memory of the Resistance in France. He has published extensively on the radical impetus in France of the 1968 years and is completing a book on the Lip Affair.

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Acclaimed author Christian Kracht will be joined by his translator, Daniel Bowles (Boston College), to read and discuss passages from his novel Imperium in the German (originally published 2012, in English translation 2015). The event will be in English with some German, followed by a Q&A period. Everyone is welcome. Please register below. Light lunch will be served.

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Drawing on long-term ethnographic research in Central Asia’s Isfara valley, this paper critically engages with questions of time and contingency in the study of international borders. It argues that while the emergence of biometric technologies and offshore policing have led to a critical exploration of the distributed spatiality of international borders in geography and anthropology, less attention has been given to what Little (2015) refers to as borders’ complex temporality: the “disorderly manner and the uneven tempo in which change takes place in the real world.” The paper asks how we might explore such uneven tempi ethnographically. Focusing on a particular moment of heightened tensions in the wake of disputed borderland road construction in the Isfara valley, it tracks a moment of border materialisation and its aftermath to argue for an account of borders attentive both to history and the contingencies of local political dynamics.

Madeleine Reeves teaches Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester and is a Visiting Fellow at the Aleksanteri Institute in Helsinki. She is the author of Border Work (Cornell 2014), which won the 2015 Rothschild Prize in nationalism and ethnic studies of the Association for the Study of Nationalities. With Johan Rasanayagam and Judith Beyer she has edited Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia: Performing Politics (Indiana 2014) and with Mateusz Laszczkowski she has edited a special issue of Social Analysis on ‘Affective States’ (Berghahn 2016). Her interests lie in the anthropology of politics, infrastructure and space.

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The UofT Hungarian Film Club in association with the Consulate General of Hungary in Toronto, is proud to bring a special presentation of Sunshine (1999, dir. István Szabó). The producer of the film, Robert Lantos, will join us for a Q&A session.

Sunshine chronicles the complicated stories of love, loss, and triumph in three generations of the Sonnenschein / Sors family. Part fact, part fiction, the film highlights the struggles of Jewish-Hungarians during WWII, managing the family liquor business (modelled after Unicum), and the complex relationships between generations as they try to maintain their identity. It won best film at the 1999 Genie Awards and won a number of prizes at the European Film Awards.

Born in Budapest, raised in Uruguay, and immigrated to Canada, Robert Lantos is an award winning film producer. He is a member of the Order of Canada and winner of the Canadian Media Production Associations 10th annual Feature Film Producer’s Award. He produced over 40 feature films, including: In Praise of Older Women (1978), Eastern Promises (2007), Ararat (2002), and Remember (2015).

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This talk will cover the appropriate research methods for building an effective police system for the protection of public order and combating crime. It will address: the status, structure, and organization of the police investigations; equipment, technology, and principles of police research; scope, objectives, and structure of the labor research program, and the implementation of results in criminology, forensic sciences, and other areas of study.

Prof. Bozhidar Angelov Gekov, PhD, has more than 34 years experience as a police officer. He is the head of the Department of Police Management and Deputy Dean at the Police Academy of Bulgaria, the head and founder of the Centre for Police Research and the Centre for Crisis Studies. Prof. Gekov is professor of management in the security sector (police management) and holds a PhD in law and a master’s in economics and has authored more than 45 publications. He is a member of the Bulgarian Association of Criminology and editor of the journal National Security.

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In 1578, John Florio – the Anglo-Italian writer, teacher, translator, and lexicographer – wrote that English was ‘a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing’. Beyond their borders, early modern English-speakers had to be language-learners. This paper explores the study of vernacular languages in early modern England, taking in the texts used by learners, the teachers and authors at the heart of England’s booming extracurricular economy, and students’ experiences of language-learning at home and abroad. It argues for the importance of thinking multilingually about early modern English history, and makes the case for a historicised understanding of linguistic competences in the early modern period.

John Gallagher is a Research Fellow in History at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. He recently completed a doctorate at Cambridge and is currently reworking his dissertation for publication as a book, with the working title Learning Languages in Early Modern England. He works on topics including the history of language-learning and communication across linguistic boundaries; histories of education, travel, cultural encounter, and migration; histories of print and the book; and orality and literacy in the past. An article titled ‘The Italian London of John North: cultural contact and linguistic encounter in early modern England’ is forthcoming in Renaissance Quarterly.

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This talk analyzes one of the most controversial cultural projects of the early 20th century – the creation of the Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. The Museum, funded and organized by Ivan Tsvetaev, displayed plaster copies of the world’s most famous works of art. In this talk I will argue that Tsvetaev’s attitude to copies and his attempts to replace historical material authenticity with scientific authenticity of “mathematically” precise casts represented an important turn in the epistemology of humanities, an attempt to introduce the principles of mechanical objectivity in the history of art and archaeology.

Ekaterina Pravilova is a professor of history specializing in 19th century Imperial Russia. A native of St. Petersburg, Professor Pravilova received her Ph.D. from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1997. She was a research scholar at the Academy of Sciences from 1995 to 2004 and an assistant professor of history at the European University at St. Petersburg from 2002 to 2006. She joined the faculty at Princeton in the fall of 2006.

Prof. Pravilova’s first book, Zakonnost’ I prava lichnosti: administrativnaia iustitsiia v Rossii, vtoraia polovina 19 veka – Oktiabr’ 1917 (Legality and Individual Rights: Administrative Justice in Russia, second half of the 19th century – October 1917), (Obrazovanie-Kul’tura, St. Petersburg, 2000) analyzes the legal regimes of governance in the Russian Empire. In her second book, Finansy Imperii: dengi I vlast v politike Rossii na natsionalnykh orkainakh (Finances of Empire: Money and Power in Russia’s National Borderlands), (Novoe Izdatel’stvo, 2006) she analyzes budgetary and monetary relations between Russian imperial core and its borderland regions – Poland, Finland, Turkestan and Transcaucasia.

Pravilova’s third book, A Public Empire: Property and the Quest for the Common Good in Imperial Russia (Princeton University Press, 2014), analyzes Russian property regimes from the time of Catherine the Great through World War I and the revolutions of 1917. The book shows the emergence of the new practices of owning “public things” in imperial Russia and the attempts of Russian intellectuals to reconcile the security of property with the ideals of the common good.

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Theses abound with regard to the events that took place on Kyiv’s Maidan over the winter of 2013-14 and its many outcomes, including Ukraine’s ongoing conflict with Russia. This conference will bring together several experts on the region to discuss the impact of these events on local people’s everyday lives. Speakers will present in-depth analyses based on interviews with the internally displaced, studies of shifting priorities in media coverage, and emerging initiatives among several groups of activists, NGOs, and others committed to addressing civic
issues of increasing concern.

10am-10.15 Opening Remarks

10.15-12 pm

Panel 1: Information and Democracy: Media, Student Activism, and the Role of the Church

Moderator: Serhiy Kovalchuk (PhD, Education, U-Toronto)

Marta Dyczok (Political Science/History, Western University): Faces of Displacement

Diana Dukhanova (Slavic Dept, Brown Univ): Proxy War: The Ukrainian Orthodox Church Schism in Russian Mass Media

Emily Channell-Justice (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Graduate Center-CUNY): Direct Action: Ukrainian Student Activism Before and During Maidan

1:30-3:00pm

Panel 2: After the Revolution of Dignity: Mass Displacement, Disability Activism, and Solutions to Intimate Partner Violence

Moderator: Katarzyna Korycki (PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)

Sarah Phillips (Director of REEI and Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University Bloomington): Disability, Gender, and Citizenship in War-Torn Ukraine

Iryna Balabukha (Syracuse, College of Human Dynamics, currently based in Montreal): Intimate Partner Violence in Ukraine – Social, Legal, and Gendered Contexts

Jessica Zychowicz (Munk/CERES/Jacyk Program Postdoctoral Fellow): Why Art Now? Kyiv Artists’ Narratives of Identity, Gender, and Conflict

3.15-5 pm Film Screening: “This is Gay Propaganda: LGBT Rights and the War in Ukraine,” Directed by Marusya Bociurkiw.

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Registration is not required for this event.

This paper considers two connected phenomena: the erecting of stone crosses in expiation for a murder and violence in churches. It argues that these have a great deal to tell us about social relations in early modern France more generally.

Stuart Carroll is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of York. He has wide interests in the history of early modern Europe, the history of violence, and social history. He is currently working on a project entitled “The Origins of Civil Society,” drawing on sources in French, German, and Italian, as well as English.

His initial research work centred on the political culture during the French Wars of Religion, and on the interface between noble followings and popular religious mentalities, and he was twice winner of the Nancy Roelker prize for the best article published in English in early modern France (2000 & 2003). More recently, he published a major evaluation of the role of feud and vendetta in early modern France: Blood and Violence in Early Modern France (2006), which led him to re-think the role of violence in history in the edited collection, Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective (2007). His most recent book, Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe (2009), was awarded the J. Russell Major prize by the American Historical Association in 2011 for the best French history book of the year.

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Most of the analyses see the current political crisis as a result of the prolonged economic crisis which has resulted in a complete rearrangement of the party system. However, my argument is that the political crisis, either in a form of a crisis of representation and/or in the form of the government centered relation between state and society, preceded the economic one. In fact, this is the reason that the policies which prevailed as a response to the economic crisis were so unpopular and in effect further fueled the political crisis. This is not the case only in Greece, where this seminar will focus, but also in many other European countries.

Michalis Spourdalakis, has been teaching political sociology as Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, at the University of Athens, since 1991. Since April 2014 he is also the Dean of the School of Economics and Politics. He is director at the Laboratory of Political Communication and Media Information at the University of Athens, Greece. Before assuming his current position at the University of Athens, he was Assistant Professor at Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada; a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); and a Researcher at the National Center of Social Research, in Athens. He is currently director of the Canadian Studies Center at the University of Athens.

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The seminar will present and analyze the origin and the unique strategy of SYRIZA that elevated it from a small party of the left, to the epicenter of the Greek political and party system, and then to power. Many have argued that SYRIZA’s radicalism has been transformed into a type of new party of realism which has alienated it from its original orientation and identity. This will be the second part of the seminar where the content and the reasons for this alleged realism will be examined.

Michalis Spourdalakis, has been teaching political sociology as Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, at the University of Athens, since 1991. Since April 2014 he is also the Dean of the School of Economics and Politics. He is director at the Laboratory of Political Communication and Media Information at the University of Athens, Greece. Before assuming his current position at the University of Athens, he was Assistant Professor at Bishop’s University, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada; a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); and a Researcher at the National Center of Social Research, in Athens. He is currently director of the Canadian Studies Center at the University of Athens.

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The word civilization is a special one in the West. It was first coined in the 1750s to explain the civilization of manners that had occurred during the previous century. Today, this process is commonly attributed to the invention of civility, which it is argued progressively tamed violent instincts. This paper demonstrates that this cannot have been the case as violence soared as the new code of civility was being adopted. I go on to explain Europeans’ response to the wave of violence and expose the heart of darkness at the centre of European civilization.

Stuart Carroll is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of York. He has wide interests in the history of early modern Europe, the history of violence, and social history. He is currently working on a project entitled “The Origins of Civil Society,” drawing on sources in French, German, and Italian, as well as English.

His initial research work centred on the political culture during the French Wars of Religion, and on the interface between noble followings and popular religious mentalities, and he was twice winner of the Nancy Roelker prize for the best article published in English in early modern France (2000 & 2003). More recently, he published a major evaluation of the role of feud and vendetta in early modern France: Blood and Violence in Early Modern France (2006), which led him to re-think the role of violence in history in the edited collection, Cultures of Violence: Interpersonal Violence in Historical Perspective (2007). His most recent book, Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe (2009), was awarded the J. Russell Major prize by the American Historical Association in 2011 for the best French history book of the year.

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Conteur d’épopées et figure majeure du renouveau du conte en France

« Bruno de La Salle s’impose comme le chantre du récit oral. Conter, pour Bruno de La Salle, n’est pas affaire d’archéologie : il s’affiche clairement du côté des modernes, de ses frères les chroniqueurs, les humoristes, comme Raymond Devos, Guy Bedos ou Dario Fo qui s’engagent par la parole dans la société. » Télérama

Adolescent, Bruno de La Salle commence à écrire des poèmes et du théâtre et reçoit les encouragements de Luc Estang, Jean Cayrol et Jean Dasté. Il compose alors une série de rêves parlés qu’il interprète devant de petits groupes d’amis. A vingt ans, il entreprend son tour du monde : Moyen-Orient, Afrique, Australie, Inde...

De retour à Paris, il se produit avec ses rêves dans les cabarets de la Rive Gauche et fréquente les musiciens travaillant autour des frères Baschet, le Groupe des Lettristes. Il rencontre André Voisin et Marie-Louise Tenèze du musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires qui l’initient à leurs travaux respectifs sur le conte. Il suit des cours de sociologie à la faculté de Censier.

Mai 1968 et ses bouleversements le conduisent à repenser son action poétique à travers une forme contemporaine qui s’apparenterait à la littérature orale traditionnelle. Il lui reste à la définir et à l’expérimenter avec d’autres artistes.

Il commence en 1969, avec la narration musicalisée de deux versions transposées du Chaperon Rouge et de la Pêche de Vigne, en s’accompagnant d’un orgue de verre Baschet, au Théâtre de l’Epée de Bois, puis au Festival d’Avignon où il revient, depuis lors, presque chaque année.

Ces récits suscitent immédiatement chez les responsables culturels un mouvement d’intérêt pour cette forme d’expression que chacun pensait disparue. Il est très rapidement sollicité pour raconter dans toute la France et à l’étranger. Pendant quatre années, il va faire un premier apprentissage en se produisant dans des écoles, des bibliothèques, des MJC et des festivals.

Il remarque vite, cependant, que cette idée d’un art disparu le classe au rang des « antiquités », alors qu’il conçoit au contraire le conte comme un art de demain.

Tout en continuant à raconter, il s’attache, dès lors, à sensibiliser tous les gens qu’il rencontre à la modernité de cette expression, et les incite à participer à son développement. C’est dans cette intention qu’il va, jusqu’au milieu des années quatre-vingt, susciter des rencontres, des stages et des ateliers, et produire de nombreuses émissions radiophoniques en France et dans les pays francophones.

En 1972, pour l’ERA de Genève et à l’invitation de René Zosso, il organise un premier atelier de contes qui sera suivi de bien d’autres, en particulier à la bibliothèque expérimentale pour la jeunesse de La Joie par les Livres, au Petit Clamart, à l’abbaye de Royaumont avec l’aide de Nacer Khémir, au sein de l’association l’Age d’Or de France avec Evelyne Cevin, à Grenoble dans les bibliothèques de quartier.

En 1977, il suscite la première rencontre de nouveaux conteurs à Vannes avec une dizaine d’artistes, écrivains, chanteurs, chercheurs, bibliothécaires; puis en 1979, une seconde rencontre au Centre Georges Pompidou qui est relayée par France Culture, radio alors dirigée par Yves Jaigu.

Ces rencontres et ateliers lui donnent l’occasion d’accompagner les débuts des principaux conteurs d’aujourd’hui qui, comme il l’a fait avant eux, commencent, dans cette fin des années soixante-dix, à exercer ce nouveau métier sous des formes et dans des conditions extrêmement variées.

Craignant de voir le mouvement du « renouveau du conte » rangé dans la catégorie des arts mineurs, il fonde en 1981 à Chartres le CLiO, Centre de Littérature Orale, devenu par la suite le Conservatoire contemporain de Littérature Orale dont il est toujours le directeur. C’est là qu’il réalise ses premières grandes récitations collectives et musicales avec le compositeur Jean-Paul Auboux et le soutien de France Culture et du Festival d’Avignon. En 1981, L’Odyssée d’Homère, qu’il reprendra en solitaire en 1991 ; en 1982 et 1983, Le Récit de Shéhérazade ; en 1984 et 1985, Le Cycle du Roi Arthur.

Au cours de ces créations, il fait connaître une seconde génération de conteurs tels qu’Abbi Patrix, Yannick Jaulin, Michel Hindenoch, Pascal Fauliot, Jean-Lou Bally...

Il réalise en même temps, pour France Culture, de nombreuses émissions de radio, soit de création, soit d’information sur la littérature orale universelle ou sur le conte contemporain.

Il organise ou participe à la mise en place de festivals de conteur, comme ceux de Chevilly-Larue, des Oralies de Provence, des Arts du Récit à Montpellier et de Radio France.

La fréquentation des grands textes qu’il présente presque chaque année lui montre la nécessité de développer un style oral spécifique à la narration, au sein de laquelle la métrique, le rythme et le chant sont prépondérants. L’étude, l’adaptation, la réécriture ou la traduction de ces textes grecs, moyen-orientaux, celtes, médiévaux et plus récemment celle du Récit ancien du Déluge, genèse mésopotamienne, sont pour lui des occasions d’apprentissage sans cesse renouvelées.

Il publie, de 1985 à 1990, une série d’albums, « Les Contes de toujours », pour laquelle il réécrit à partir de versions orales collectées, les contes traditionnels français les plus célèbres. Puis, en 1996, une autobiographie contée : Le Conteur amoureux qui rassemble une partie de ces contes, accompagnés de réflexions sur son métier.

Ses deux dernières créations, La Chanson des Pierres en 2004 et Méga Nada en 2009, sont des épopées contemporaines qui témoignent avec force de sa conception de la narration musicalisée et d’un parcours riche de 40 ans d’expériences.

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A survey of recent publishing in the field of early modern French history reveals an overall retreat from gender as a “category of historical analysis”. In this talk, Clare Crowston asks when women’s and gender history ended and, more importantly, what impact the current lack of attention has on our understanding of fundamental questions in the field. In what ways did scholarship in women’s and gender history rewrite pre-existing narratives and what has happened to fields we thought were transformed by these challenges? Why is it embarrassing to be a “women’s historian” in 2016?

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The last decade has seen a dramatic intensification of both political and popular homophobia across the post-Soviet region. Politically, Russia has been a key driver of this dynamic as it positions itself as the putative global guardian of morality by mobilizing anti-LGBT rhetoric to devastating effect both at home and abroad. Internationally, Moscow has aggressively pursued promotion of “traditional values” in fora such as the UN Human Rights Council, while within Russia so-called “traditional values” have been put into practice, most notoriously in the form of a federal prohibition on “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” that has confirmed homophobia as a central element of a Kremlin-sponsored neo-Slavophile national identity and ideology. Conservative elites in other post-Soviet countries have been quick to take up the Russian-led drive for traditional values. Recognizing that the presentation of homosexuality as an alien threat to the nation’s moral and physical wellbeing is a powerful political tool for populist statecraft and nation-building, “anti-homopropaganda” legislation has been considered by lawmakers in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ukraine, Armenia and Lithuania and in all cases has been accompanied by a marked increase in anti-gay protests and violence by religious and nationalist groups.
This talk examines why Russia has so fiercely resisted the notion that “LGBT rights are human rights” (Clinton 2010) at a time when globally there are unprecedented levels of support for protecting LGBT people’s human rights, and why the rhetoric of “traditional values” has resonated so strongly across the post-Soviet region. Drawing on the cases of Kyrgyzstan and Russia, this talk argues that the promotion of a patriarchal, pronatalist and gender essentialist “traditional values” agenda by local political and societal actors makes the post-Soviet rejection of LGBT human rights both inevitable and entirely logical. For conservative elites, rather than representing a benchmark for modernity and progress and a “litmus test for democracy” (Kon 2009), recognition of LGBT rights is a clear and dangerous sign of social degradation and moral crisis that imperils civilization and the existence of humankind. To quote Vladimir Putin (2013), it is therefore both “natural and right” to defend traditional values, and thereby ensure that “every minority’s right to be different” does not jeopardise the rights of the majority. This logic is at the heart of the post-Soviet fear of queer that, as this talk will explore, has deeply concerning implications not only for LGBT people trapped on the front line of an ongoing international “queer war” (Altman & Symons 2016), but also for our understandings of the state, citizenship, human rights and security more widely.

Cai Wilkinson is Associate Head of School (International), Course Director for the Bachelor of International Studies and a Senior Lecturer in International Relations. She joined Deakin in February 2012 from the University of Birmingham, UK, where she was a Lecturer in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies and taught International Relations and Russian language.

Cai’s research focuses on societal security in the post-Soviet space, with a particular focus on LGBTQ rights in Kyrgyzstan and Russia. She recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Human Rights on resistance to LGBT rights, and has previously published in Security Dialogue, Central Asian Survey and Europe-Asia Studies, as well as contributing chapters to a number of books on securitization, international politics in Central Asia and the use of interpretive ethnographic methods in Critical Security Studies.

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Professor Pap is a constitutional scholar and human rights expert working on the legal and political conceptualization of race, ethnicity and ethno-national identity, as well as on models for operationalizing membership in these communities. In his lecture he will use case studies from both Israel and the Diaspora to provide an overview of how these categories and political constructs can encapsulate the multifaceted and multilayered questions of how being Jewish is and is being defined, and whether the definition concerns membership in a racial, ethnic, national, religious, or cultural community.

András L. Pap is SASRO-Marie S. Curie Fellow at the Institute of Sociology at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava; and Research Chair and Head of Department at the Institute for the Study of Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest; and Professor of Constitutional Law at the Law Enforcement Faculty of the National Public Service University in Budapest, as well as Recurrent Visiting (Adjunct) Professor at Central European University’s Nationalism Studies Program in Budapest.

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Since its foundation Lviv has been situated on a border of different cultures and languages. Throughout its existence, the city belonged to different states. The dominant national structure changed in accordance to it. In addition to Polish, Ukrainian, German and Jewish population, there existed an Armenian minority and the Czechs, Russians, Belarusians and Tatars were represented in small numbers in Lviv during the interwar period. My research demonstrates how ethnic situation influenced on formation of Ukrainian language. The texts by young writers of the “Twelve” literary group, which functioned in Lviv during the inter-war period, were chosen for analysis. The study showed that a full-structured multifunctional Ukrainian language was utilized in the social and cultural space of the inter-war Lviv. Its vocabulary included words to denote the concepts and realities in different spheres of public life, urban space, household activities and forms of etiquette communication. The Ukrainian authentic vocabulary and significant borrowings from the languages in the same territory comprised the basis for Lviv koine.
Moreover, my research describes the subculture of batyars and their language. The batyars were the name of the lower-class inhabitants of Lviv (the “elite of Lviv’s streets”). A typical batyar in common imagination was usually financially challenged, but also an honest and generous urban citizen with a great sense of humor. The batyars spoke their special language which was called Balak or Batyar Slang. The active use of “balak” was observed till 30th of 20th century, it was even fashionable to use “balak” during this time on the pages of humorous papers, in films and in broadcastings.

My research also discusses school and sport slangs in Lviv during the interwar period. Despite the big share of borrowings from other languages, the Ukrainian vocabulary formed the main part of school and sport slangs. Pupils and students tried to avoid using Polish. As Yurij Shevelev wrote, at this time in Lviv the Ukrainian language was not only the language of communication but also the language of struggle.

Dr. Liudmyla Pidkuimukha is an Assistant Professor at the Ukrainian Language Department, Faculty of Humanities, the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (Kyiv, Ukraine). Liudmyla has completed her PhD thesis, entitled Lexical Characteristics of Western Region Variety of Standard Ukrainian Language (Based on Lviv Writers’ Texts 1-st Half of XXth Century), which is focused on language situation in Lviv during the interwar period and is rooted in both social sciences and humanities. The interwar Lviv is the central focus of this research because Liudmyla finds it very interesting to compare ethnic situation with language situation during this period, to study state and status of the Ukrainian Language at that time Lviv. Liudmyla is particularly interested in the literary production of theinterwar period and in the modern Ukrainian prose. Besides linguistics, Dr. Pidkuimukha is interested in cultural, historical and urban studies.

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Violent protests against the police have occurred in several West European cities over the last couple of years, with adolescent boys and young men predominantly from ethnic minorities dominating the rioting crowds. Many studies have tried to look into the causes of dissatisfaction among minority adolescents, but few have taken a comparative perspective which can exploit the variations in social conditions and policing systems within Europe.

The German-French project POLIS contributes to this research by comparing adolescents’ experiences of and attitudes towards the police in two German and two French cities, combining standardized data with qualitative participant observations. This presentation focusses on the practice of discretionary identity checks (stop and search) of adolescents. Excessive controls and “ethnic profiling” in particular are a prime example of discriminatory and unfair police strategies which are believed to be major source of grievances among young people. Using data from a very large school survey (N = ca. 20.000) in the four cities, it can be shown that French police in fact discriminates heavily against adolescents of Maghreb origins and living in disadvantaged neighborhoods, whereas German police manages to avoid discrimination. These findings are backed by qualitative observations and have important consequences for police legitimacy among adolescents in both countries.

Dietrich Oberwittler is a research group leader in the Department of Criminology, Max Planck Institute of Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg (Germany), and an extracurricular professor of sociology at the University of Freiburg. From 2004 to 2006, he was a Marie Curie Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge/UK. His research interests are in the fields of juvenile delinquency, violence research, policing, and communities and crime. Recent Publications include “Breaking Rules: The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People’s Urban Crime” (Oxford University Press, with P.-O. Wikström, Kyle Treiber and Beth Hardie).

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Join us for a panel discussion of the literary legacies of Bohdan Khmelnytsky. This event marks the publication of a new edited volume, Stories of Khmelnytsky: Competing Literary Legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack Uprising. Contributing authors Frank Sysyn, Taras Koznarsky, Adam Teller, and Amelia Glaser will speak about Khmelnytsky’s charismatic and contentious legacy in Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, and Russian collective memory. In the middle of the seventeenth century, Bohdan Khmelnytsky was the legendary Cossack general who organized a rebellion that liberated the Eastern Ukraine from Polish rule. Consequently, he has been memorialized in the Ukraine as a God-given nation builder, cut in the model of George Washington. But in this campaign, the massacre of thousands of Jews perceived as Polish intermediaries was the collateral damage, and in order to secure the tentative independence, Khmelnytsky signed a treaty with Moscow, ultimately ceding the territory to the Russian tsar. So, was he a liberator or a villain? This volume examines drastically different narratives, from Ukrainian, Jewish, Russian, and Polish literature, that have sought to animate, deify, and vilify the seventeenth-century Cossack. Khmelnytsky’s legacy, either as nation builder or as antagonist, has inhibited inter-ethnic and political rapprochement at key moments throughout history and, as we see in recent conflicts, continues to affect Ukrainian, Jewish, Polish, and Russian national identity.