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Dr. Ódor has been the Hungarian ambassador to Canada since 2014. Prior to assuming this position, he served as the Deputy State Secretary for European Affairs in the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as the head of the EU Department of the Hungarian National Assembly’s Office for Foreign Relations, among other positions. He has authored numerous articles and two books related to European integration, including his 2014 PhD dissertation at Corvinus University on the topic of the double majority system under the Lisbon Treaty.

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This event is open to the public
Organizer: Andreas Motsch

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This paper compares early republican Turkish and foreign memorialization and pilgrimage efforts on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
Using archival documents and pilgrim accounts, it details the development of foreign commemorative superiority on the peninsula, and the efforts of travelers of various origins to make the space ‘fit’ with preconceived notions of the 1915 Battle of Gallipoli. It will be argued that foreign preeminence in the perceived Turkish national space of the peninsula had a potent effect on Turkish travelers, eliciting intense shame and territoriality, reshaping Gallipoli’s narrative space, and transforming the 1915 battle from an illustrious Turkish (in truth, Ottoman) victory into an ongoing struggle for Turkish national sovereignty

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Location of the event: Alumni Hall 400 (121 St. Joseph Street, 4th floor), University of Toronto

NO REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

Andrey Kurkov has published 18 novels, 7 children’s books, and more than 30 film scripts. His most recent work is Ukraine Diaries: Dispatches from Kiev, which documents his experience living through the Euromaidan Revolution (also known as the Revolution of Dignity) from November 2013 through April 2014. The book has been translated into German, French, Italian, Estonian, English, Polish, Russian and Japanese. A member of PEN International, Kurkov commands the largest international audience of any author writing in the Russian language. He is also Ukraine’s best-selling author abroad.

Kurkov’s novels satirize life in post-Soviet Ukraine. His biting humour nonetheless reveals a tenderness for the characters he creates. Kurkov often uses surrealism to deal with political and social issues. A famous example is his novel Death of the Penguin (1996, English 2001). An independent thinker and fine essayist, Kurkov is an active participant in the civic life of Ukraine, using his excellent command of English, German, French, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian to represent Ukraine’s artists, reformers and human rights activists at international for a.
Among his recent media engagements in the West, see a BBC feature: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n30gl

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Germaine Tillion, a French ethnographer, conducted 36 months of fieldwork in the Aurès mountains of Algeria in the 1930s. Returning to France in 1940, she immediately joined the Resistance only to be betrayed and deported to Ravensbrück with her mother. Tillion survived and became one of the most outspoken early “witnesses” to the Holocaust; she later criticized the use of torture in Algeria. Tillion’s extraordinary commitment to combating injustice in the “dark” twentieth century is being recognized with her “Pantheonization” in Paris this coming May. How do we account for such a life? This talk is not only about Tillion but about a larger group of résistants: scholars. She was in fact part of a remarkable cohort of students in interwar France who, under the mentorship of Marcel Mauss, acquired the conceptual tools to render the so-called primitive Other “familiar.” Mauss understood before most the need not just to denounce the old racial science that underpinned Nazi ideology, but to show that another way of seeing the Other was possible. In their ethnographies, Mauss’ closest students consistently demonstrated how differences among human societies were the product of history rather than that of biology. Several of these students became resisters and precocious critics of colonialism. I will nevertheless conclude with a dramatic counter-example: Jacques Soustelle, a resister-ethnographer from this generation who later joined the OAS.

Alice L. Conklin is a professor of history at the Ohio State University. She is the author, most recently of In the Museum of Man: Race, Anthropology and Empire in France, 1850-1950. She is currently working on the first global anti-racism campaign conducted by UNESCO’s Social Sciences Department.

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Director Nikos Ventouras and Producer Lamprini Thoma will be in attendance.

Iota Films announces the second US screening tour of “Palikari – Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre”, a 90-minute documentary that deals with labor relations in early 20th-century America, as told through the story of Greek immigrant and trade union activist Louis Tikas.

Director Nikos Ventouras and producer Lamprini Thoma will be in North America touring with the film in March 2015 and offering insight into its filming, their motivation to make the documentary and additional insight into the history of the Ludlow Massacre and Tikas’ role and legacy.
Screening events are being planned at universities throughout the nation where immigrant studies, labor studies and US history is taught.
Acclaimed historian Howard Zinn called the “culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history”.

It took more than a decade for Ventouras and Thoma to chart the story of the great 1913-1914 coalminers’ strike and Louis Tikas’s murder, as it survives in oral and family traditions, as well as in official history. They interviewed historians and artists, some of them direct descendants of the striking miners. Labor movement emblem Mother Jones and industrialist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. also make cameo appearances in this palimpsest of memory, struggle and deliverance.

Tikas’ murder and the Ludlow Massacre led to a United States Congressional Order for Inquiry in 1915, which eventually led to the adoption of labor protection laws, changing the history of the United States forever and how immigrant and other laborers were handled by their employers. Tikas’ story can but reverberate in our time, in view of what is happening with the rights of workers and immigrants around the world.

The documentary had its world premiere on March 16, 2014 as an Official Selection at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival to critical acclaim, since then it has screened globally— including in Cork, Ireland, at the Spirit of Mother Jones Film Festival and throughout the United States.

View a trailer of the film at: http://www.palikari.org

Donations are welcomed in support of the Hellenic Heritage Foundation Apollo Project.

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Keynote Panel for “Europe in Flux: Transnational Challenges for Europe in a Globalized World,” a conference presented by the graduate students of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.

ALEXANDRA V. ORLOVA
DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINOLOGY,
RYERSON UNIVERSITY

Dr. Alexandra Orlova is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology at Ryerson University. She received her Ph.D. in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in 2004. She also holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Osgoode Hall Law School. Alexandra joined the Department of Criminology as a full-time faculty member in 2005. She teaches courses on Canadian Criminal Justice, Criminal Law, International Perspectives, and Security Threats. Her main research interests focus on transnational organized crime, Russian organized crime, international terrorism and international crimes. She has published articles in the areas of international law as well as traditional and non-traditional security threats.

MATT GURNEY
NATIONAL POST

Matt Gurney is columnist and editor at the National Post, where he also serves as an editorial board member. Matt is a familiar face on televised political panels, having appeared on MTV Canada, CTS, CTV, and the CBC, and is heard frequently across the country on national and local radio programs. He joined Toronto’s CFRB NewsTalk 1010 as a regular contributor in 2011, where he frequently also serves as a guest host. His writings cover a wide range of subjects but typically involve geopolitics, military and defence matters, space exploration, laws related to self-defence and gun control, health care and end-of-life issues and politics at any level. Born in Toronto’s Leaside neighbourhood, Matt has a B.A. and M.A. in military history.

DOUG SAUNDERS
GLOBE AND MAIL

Doug Saunders is a Canadian-British author and journalist. He is the author of the books Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World (2011) and The Myth of the Muslim Tide (2012) and is the international-affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail. He served as the paper’s London-based European bureau chief for a decade, after having run the paper’s Los Angeles bureau, and has written extensively from East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East and North Africa. He writes a weekly column devoted to the larger themes and intellectual concepts behind international news, and has won the National Newspaper Award, Canada’s counterpart to the Pulitzer Prize, on five occasions.

DR. MARTIN DANGERFIELD
EUROPEAN INTEGRATION,
UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON

Martin Dangerfield is Professor of European Integration and Jean Monnet Chair in the European Integration of Central and East Europe at the University of Wolverhampton where he teaches mainly European Union studies. His current research projects include Visegrad states and EU sanctions policy towards Russia, EU Macro-regional strategies, and Macedonia’s EU aaccession process. Recent publications have focused on Visegrad Group cooperation, EU-Russia relations, the European Neighbourhood Policy/Eastern Partnership, subregional cooperation in Central and Eastern Europe and links to the European Union enlargement process. Earlier work focused on the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) aspects of the Czech transformation process and the external economic relations of post-socialist states.

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A conference presented by the graduate students of The Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
The conference opens on Thursday, March 12, with a keynote panel discussion featuring renowned international speakers, followed by a full day of papers presented on Friday, March 13, by graduate students from Canada and abroad. In honour of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the keynote panel will reflect on the role of this monumental event in shaping contemporary Europe. Please join us for the panel followed by an evening reception on Thursday March 12. For more information please go to: http://cgsc2015.splashthat.com

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Do social links and connections have consequences for collective behavior? A central aspect of mass mobilization is diffusion of human, material and knowledge resources; while recent studies address its potential effects on collective action by examining networks and their properties, the lack of empirical data limits their insights to the realm of modeling. This study argues that particular configurations of opposition and government network typologies do affect mobilization outcomes, and advances this type of this research by formally examining four cases of mass mobilization [Serbia (1996-7, 2000) and Ukraine (2000-1, 2004)], through the use and analysis of specifically collected primary data. The paper introduces a networks perspective, framing the study in terms of individuals and their organizations–as parts of competing networks through which resources and behavior are communicated. It identifies two main rival political networks with key roles during the election campaign: the democratizing opposition that seeks to inform, recruit and mobilize the public while lowering protest thresholds, and the regime’s coercive apparatus, which tries to contain it. The study’s pluralist methodology includes data collection through extensive field research comprised of locating and interviewing key participants (2007-2013), the application of a modified snow-balling sampling method, and complemented archival research. The resulting data is converted into matrices and networks, with the metrics revealing their topology, emergent properties and performance dynamics vis a vis competing hypotheses, and specific network configurations. The ensuing analysis, including computer simulations, consists of a double, formal and empirical comparison-across different network types, and, across actual cases. Findings suggest that the combined effects of initial network structure and the evolution of the protest once electoral contestation is under way, affect diffusion processes and mobilization outcomes.

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**This event will take place at Innis Town Hall at Innis College, 2 Sussex Avenue (corner Sussex Avenue and St. George Street).**

Stathis N. Kalyvas is Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he also directs the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence. He obtained his BA from the University of Athens (1986) and his PhD from the University of Chicago (1993), both in political science. He taught at Ohio State University (1993-94), New York University (1994-2000), and the University of Chicago (2000-03), before joining Yale in 2003. He has held visiting professorships and senior fellowships at the University of São Paulo, Lingnan University in Hong Kong, Northwestern University, Columbia University, the University of Witten/Herdecke, the Juan March Institute, the Max Planck Institute, and the European University Institute.

Prof. Kalyvas is the author of The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (Cornell University Press, 1996), the co-editor of Order, Conflict, and Violence (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and the author of over fifty scholarly articles in five languages. His current research focuses on global trends in political violence. Prof. Kalyvas has received several awards, including the Woodrow Wilson Award for best book on government, politics, or international affairs, the Luebbert Award for best book in comparative politics, the European Academy of Sociology Book Award, the Luebbert Award for the best article in comparative politics (three times), and the Greenstone Award for best book in politics and history. His research has been funded by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the United States Peace Institute, the Folke Bernadotte Academy, the Department for International Development, and the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in 2007. In 2008 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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**This event will be webcast live beginning at 10 a.m. Click the link at the bottom of this page to view the webcast.**

The 2015 Toronto Conference on Germany
Striking Balances: Russia, Energy Security, and National Budgets

Saturday, March 28, 2015

Chair: Randall Hansen, University of Toronto

10:00 – 10:15
Welcome – Randall Hansen, University of Toronto; Walter Stechel, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany to Toronto; Michael Meier, Friedrich Ebert Foundation

10:15 – 11:00
Keynote Address
Edelgard Bulmahn, Vice President of the German Bundestag

11:00 – 12:15
In the Black: Balanced Budgets at All Costs?
Panel and Q&A
• Peter Bofinger, University of Würzburg
• Ailish Campbell, Canadian Council of Chief Executives
• Kevin Page, University of Ottawa
Moderator: Doug Saunders, The Globe and Mail

12:15 – 13:15
Lunch

13:15 – 14:30
Energy Security: Common Interests – Different Priorities?
Panel and Q&A
• Linda Duncan, MP
• R. Andreas Kraemer, Ecologic Institute
• Katrina Marsh, Chamber of Commerce
Moderator: Randall Hansen, University of Toronto

14:30 – 15:00
Coffee break

15:00 – 16:30
The Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Negotiate or Isolate?
Panel and Q&A
• Edelgard Bulmahn, Vice President of the German Bundestag
• Chrystia Freeland, MP
• Robert Johnson, University of Toronto
• Taras Kuzio, University of Alberta
Moderator: Constanze Stelzenmüller, Brookings

16:30 – 16:45
Closing Remarks – Randall Hansen, University of Toronto

**This event will also be streamed live via webcast.**

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

Les zones occupées de la Première Guerre mondiale peuvent être vues comme les laboratoires d’un front atypique, différent des fronts militaires et domestiques. Dans le cas de la France du Nord, ce laboratoire est aussi militaire: les régions occupées jouxtent les champs de bataille dont elles deviennent les arrières fronts. Mais s’y joue une confrontation entre militaires et civils, entre hommes et femmes, dans la diversité nationale, linguistique, religieuse, culturelle. Surtout, des rétorsions collectives exceptionnelles, travail forcé, déportations, camps de concentration y prennent place, mais ont été largement oubliées après la guerre. Pourquoi ce déni de mémoire? Comment un juriste comme Raphaël Lemkin se réapproprie-t-il ces occupations au moment où il invente le terme de génocide?

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NOTE: This event will take place at INNIS TOWN HALL, 2 Sussex Avenue, starting at 7:00 pm.

Please join the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Cinema Studies Institute for a screening of Bosnia Rising, produced by Academy Award winner Vanessa Redgrave. The film looks at the protests and worker demonstrations which erupted throughout Bosnia in February 2014, forced the resignation of four regional governments, and led to the formation of a novel form of citizens assembly. In the film economist Fred Harrison visits a group of workers in Tuzla who have occupied their closed factory, and engages in a discussion on how to achieve social justice after botched privatization.

The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with plenum organizer Damir Arsenijevic, economist Fred Harrison, filmmaker Carlo Nero, and producer Vanessa Redgrave.

Damir Arsenijevic is a Leverhulme Fellow at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, leading a project entitled ‘Love after Genocide’. An Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina and a psychoanalyst in training, he is the author of an edited volume on Bosnia’s protests and plenums entitled Unbribable Bosnia and Herzegovina—the Fight for the Commons.

Fred Harrison is a graduate of the Universities of Oxford and London, author of The Traumatised Society (2012) and Director of the Land Research Trust in London. He devoted ten years to trying to help the post-Soviet authorities to develop a people-centred model of the market economy, and is currently working with people in Scotland, Greece and Spain to develop an alternative to the current capitalist model.

Carlo Nero is a filmmaker, producer and writer, who was trained at the Centro Sperimentale Film Institute in Rome and New York University Film School. He has written, directed, and produced a number of award-winning films and documentaries, mostly dealing with the major economic, political, and environmental issues of our times, including the feature films “The Fever” (HBO Films) and “Uninvited” (Mediaset), as well as the documentaries “Roma Intorno a Roma” (Rome Around Rome), “Letter From New York to Sarajevo”, “Russia/Chechnya: Voices of Dissent”, “Wake Up World” (Unicef), and “The Killing Fields.”

Vanessa Redgrave is a Special Representative for the United Nations Childrens Fund. Since 1993 she worked in Sarajevo, Belgrade, Zagreb, in Slovenia, Macedonia and with UNICEF and the Mother Theresa Society. She is a long standing supporter of a number of Russian human rights societies, worked with UNRWA in the Gaza Strip and West Bank in 2004, and works for the rights of asylum seekers and refugees with UNHCR. She has financed and produced documentary films for over four decades, including “The Palestinians” (1977), “Can’t We Put Human Beings First” (1991), “Children’s Stories: Chechnya” (2000) and “Russia/Chechnya: Voices of Dissent” (2005).

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Moments of mass mobilization astound us. As a sea of protesters fills the streets, observers scramble to understand this extraordinary political act by ‘ordinary’ citizens. This study presents a paired comparison of two ‘moments’ of mass mobilization, in Ukraine and Argentina. The two cases are compared and analyzed on a cross-temporal and an inter-regional basis, thereby offering two critical cases in response to assumptions that the processes and patterns of mobilization, and democratization politics more broadly, are region specific. This study challenges political science’s focus on elites and structural factors in the study of political participation during democratization.

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The wine policies contained in the European Community’s Common Agricultural Policy had serious implications for French winegrowers in the first decade of their implementation. In the 1970s, in the midst of global economic turmoil and with financial government incentives to leave certain agricultural sectors, it would seem sensible for ailing wine producers to abandon their farms and either retire or seek new professions in urban centres. Yet in the south of France, many fought to keep their agricultural way of life, sometimes violently. Given the hardship and difficulty they faced at a time when their overproduction of wine coincided with a permanent shift away from table wine drinking culture, economics would have dictated that the French table wine industry shrink or even collapse. This presentation explores why this did not occur, and what implications European wine policies had on professional and regional identities in France.

Maria Chen is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She holds a PhD in International History from the LSE, funded in part by the Government of Alberta, the LSE, and the Mackenzie King Trusts. She completed her B.A. in History and Political Science at the University of Alberta, and her M.Phil. in Politics from the University of Cambridge. Maria’s research interests lie in post-1945 Europe, European culture and identity, and food and wine history.

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Ukraine has had a turbulent year. It has experienced yet another massive popular movement – Maidan II, which has led to a new opening with a chance to cleance the system and introduce real reforms. That has been followed by Russian annexation of Crimea and its aggression in Donbas; Ukraine has become a country in war. The protracted economic recession, Yanukovich’s legacy and the war expenditures have brought the country to the edge of a default. The tasks at hand are formidable: withstand an aggression, reinvigorate economy and introduce reforms.

The last year has proved wrong the simplistic picture of Ukraine as divided in West and East. It has turned out to be much more diversified. In the so-called “East” we saw Northeast, Donbas, Southwest, Crimea, – all of them different from each other. The Southwest of Ukraine emerged without V. Yanukovich and his Party of regions – its most frequent electoral choice previously. Geostrategically it has found itself locked between Russian occupied Crimea and pro-Russian breakway region of Transnistria. Economically the region had to cope with the consequences of Crimean annexation, war situation, lack of investment, slowdown in number of visitors and other factors. Culturally the fight was now in full scale for the “soul” of the region: is it, indeed, a part of the “Russian world” or “Novorossiya” (as Mr.Putin would imply) or is it rather a specific, but yet loyal and integral part of the Ukrainian nation-state? Can it be a former considering its predominantly Russophone character?

The city of Odesa – regional hub of trade, industry, culture, education, politics – had to define itself in these extraordinary circumstances. Some fights are verbal and others are physical (like the events of May 2, 2014 have shown). These struggles of Ukraine, its Southwest and city of Odesa are, of course, far from being over.

Volodymyr Dubovyk has graduated from the history department of the Odessa State University in 1992. He has received his Ph.D. (Candidate of Sciences) in political science/international relations from the same university in 1996 and has remained with OSU (now ONU – Odessa National University) in various positions up to the present day. V. Dubovyk has been an Associate Professor and Assistant Chairperson at the Department of International Relations since 1996 and, also, a Director of the Center for International Studies since 1999. Among his teaching and research interests are U.S. foreign policy, U.S.- Ukraine relations, theory of international relations, Black Sea regional security, international conflict studies, foreign policy of Ukraine. He has had his fellowships at the Kennan Institute, W. Wilson International Center for Scholars in 1997 (RSEP), at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), University of Maryland in 2002 (CI program) and again at the Kennan Institute in 2006/07 (Fulbright). Volodymyr has been a visiting scholar/faculty at the University of Washington in January-June, 2013. Over years V. Dubovyk has been a member of the ISA, ECPR SGIR, CEE ISA and various other professional associations. He participates in PONARS Eurasia (New Approaches to Research and Security in Eurasia), project based in George Washington University since 2003.

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This seminar will be take place in the Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room, Department of History, Sidney Smith Hall Room 2098, 100 St. George Street, University of Toronto

Eckart Conze holds the chair for Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Marburg (Germany). He received his Ph.D. at the University of Erlangen in 1993, taught at the University of Tübingen, and was a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Bologna (2006), Cambridge (2007/08) and Toronto (2000/01). His research covers German and International History (19th and 20th centuries), the history of the Federal Republic, and the history of elites and the aristocracy. Between 2005 and 2010 he was Chair of the Independent Historians Commission of the German Foreign Office.

His books include Von deutschem Adel. Die Grafen von Bernstorff im 20. Jahrhundert (2000), Die Suche nach Sicherheit. Eine Geschichte der Bundesrepublik von 1949 bis zur Gegenwart (2009), Das Amt und die Vergangen¬heit. Deutsche Diplomaten im Dritten Reich und in der Bundesrepublik, with Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes, Moshe Zimmermann (2010), and Das Auswärtige Amt. Vom Kaiserreich bis zur Gegenwart (2013).

Professor Conze is currently working on the Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty of 1919.