Past Events at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
September 2011
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Thursday, September 15th The Holocaust in Western Europe: History, Historiography, and Memory
Date Time Location Thursday, September 15, 2011 4:30PM - 7:00PM External Event, Department of History, Sidney Smith Hall, Room 2098 (100 St. George Street) Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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A symposium featuring Robert Jan van Pelt (Waterloo), Dan Michman (Yad Vashem), Michael Marrus (U of T), Doris Bergen (U of T), and Richard Menkis (University of British Columbia)
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Friday, September 16th Prof Gary Marks lecture
Date Time Location Friday, September 16, 2011 10:00AM - 12:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Gary Marks claims that the territorial structure of government results from a tension between scale and community. The benefits of scale arise from the nature of public goods, and include economic exchange, political power, and protection against external shocks. Communities are double-edged in that they are characterized by parochial altruism. Altruism and social solidarity facilitate government within communities, but parochial attachments constrain government among communities. Scale and community provide a setting for strategic choice. Both are in flux as patterns of human interaction change, and government itself shapes those patterns. Evidence is drawn from the five largest polities in the history of western Europe: the Roman empire, the Frankish empire, Napoleonic France, the Third Reich, and the European Union.
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Friday, September 16th Europe and its Empires: From Rome to the European Union
Date Time Location Friday, September 16, 2011 2:00PM - 4:00PM External Event, Department of Political Science, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St., Rm. 3130
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Tuesday, September 20th The Failure of Liberal Democracy in Eastern Europe and Everywhere Else
Date Time Location Tuesday, September 20, 2011 6:00PM - 9:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place
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Tuesday, September 27th Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust
Date Time Location Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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In January 1942, three Jewish photographers working for the Soviet press became the first liberators to photograph the Holocaust. Who were these photographers? What photographs did they take as journalists for the ‘other ally’? Why were Jewish photographers the ones documenting the war and the Holocaust in the first place? Together, we will study the biographies of these photographers and the stories of their images as we uncover the lost history of the first liberator photographers of World War II as told in author David Shneer’s new book Through Soviet Jewish Eyes.
David Shneer is Professor of History and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Called a “taboo-breaking scholar” by Tikkun magazine, Shneer’s work concentrates on modern Jewish society and culture. His books include Queer Jews, finalist for the Lambda Literary award, Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture, finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and New Jews: The End of the Jewish Diaspora, that has sparked discussion in publications like the Economist and the Jerusalem Post. His newest book, Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, & the Holocaust, which is the subject of this talk, looks at the lives and works of two dozen World War II military photographers to examine what kinds of photographs they took when they encountered evidence of Nazi genocide on the Eastern Front. He has written for the New York Times, Huffington Post, Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post as well as magazines dedicated to Jewish life and culture, including Forward, Pakntreger, Jewcy, and Nextbook.
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Friday, September 30th The Russian Expulsion of the Mountain Tribes from the Western Caucasus, 1859-1864
Date Time Location Friday, September 30, 2011 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Between 1859 and 1864, the Russian empire expelled more than half a million Circassian (Cherkess) tribespeople from the coasts of the Black Sea in the Western Caucasus. Many of the refugees fled to the Ottoman empire, which had negotiated a bilateral agreement with the Russian empire regarding the transfer and settlement of these people. At the time, the significance of this event for European history was commented upon by both Alexander Herzen and Karl Marx.
Was this event evidence of an early case of “ethnic cleansing”? Was it a demonstration of the irreconcilable tensions between Muslims and Christians, pastoralists and agriculturalists? Professor Holquist’s talk examines why the Russian government decided to pursue the “definitive conquest” of the Caucasus in these years, and why it viewed expulsion as the best means to achieve this end.
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October 2011
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Thursday, October 6th The EU, Germany, and Transatlantic Relations
Date Time Location Thursday, October 6, 2011 2:30PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Harald Leibrecht is the Coordinator for Transatlantic Cooperation in the field of Intersocietal Relations, Cultural and Information Policy. As an MP he has engaged with transatlantic cooperation for many years, particularly in the areas of intersocietal exchange and educational cooperation. Leibrecht has studied in Germany, France, the UK and the USA.
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Wednesday, October 12th Mass Repression in Soviet Ukraine and its Dogmatic Interpretation in the Historiography
Date Time Location Wednesday, October 12, 2011 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Monday, October 17th The Paris Peace Conference and the Making of the Treaty of Trianon
Date Time Location Monday, October 17, 2011 5:30PM - 8:30PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs - 1 Devonshire Place + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Professor Margaret MacMillan became the fifth Warden of St Antony’s College in July 2007. Prior to taking on the Wardenship, Professor MacMillan was Provost of Trinity College and professor of History at the University of Toronto. She was educated at the University of Toronto (Honours BA in History) and at St Hilda’s College and St Antony’s College, Oxford University (BPhil in Politics and DPhil). From 1975 until 2002 she was a member of the History Department at Ryerson University in Toronto and she also served as Chair of the Department. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto and sits on the Awards Council of the Queen’s Anniversary Trust, the boards of the Mosaic Institute and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and the editorial boards of International History and First World War Studies. She also sits on the Advisory Board Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation and is a Trustee of the Rhodes Trust.
She has honorary degrees from the University of King’s College, the Royal Military College, and Ryerson University, Toronto. In 2006 Professor MacMillan was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada.
Professor MacMillan has a long-standing relationship with St Antony’s. She was a student at the College during the early 1970s, producing a doctoral thesis on the British in India. She returned as a Senior Associate Member in 1993 and was elected to an Honorary Fellowship in 2003.
Professor MacMillan’s publications include Women of the Raj as well as Peacemakers: the Paris Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to Make Peace. The latter was published in North America as Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World and won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, the Silver Medal for the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award and the Governor-General’s prize for non-fiction in 2003. It was a New York Times Editor’s Choice in 2002. She has subsequently written Canada’s House: Rideau Hall and the Invention of a Canadian Home, jointly with Marjorie Harris and Anne L. Desjardins; Nixon in China: The Week That Changed the World (entitled Nixon and Mao in the US) was nominated in January 2007 for a Gelber Prize, awarded annually to the best book on international affairs published in English. Her most recent book is The Uses and Abuses of History (Dangerous Games in the US). She comments frequently in the media on historical issues and current affairs.
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Tuesday, October 18th The Young Rebels, Voices of the Hungarian Revolution
Date Time Location Tuesday, October 18, 2011 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Hungarian Studies Program
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“We knew that whatever was going to happen, we were probably going to die.” Frank Hasenfratz.
Screening of the dramatic documentary, Young Rebels, followed by Q & A with those who took part in the Uprising as well as the filmmaker. Hungary’s Ambassador to Canada, Dr. Laszlo Pordany, will follow with summary comments. The film examines the individual stories of those who came to Canada following the Revolution of 1956. The more than 37,000 refugees who came to Canada following the crushing of the revolt were welcomed en masse. It was an act of compassion that changed them, and this country forever.
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Friday, October 21st Islamic Shariah Councils in England: A Challenge for Civil Law?
Date Time Location Friday, October 21, 2011 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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John Bowen is the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He studies problems of pluralism, law, and religion, and in particular contemporary efforts to rethink Islamic norms and law in Asia, Europe, and North America. His most recent book on “Asia is Islam, Law and Equality in Indonesia: An Anthropology of Public Reasoning” (Cambridge, 2003), and his “Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves” (Princeton, 2007) concerned current debates in France on Islam and laïcité. “Can Islam be French?” (Princeton, 2009) treats Muslim debates and institutions in France (and appeared in French in 2011), and will be followed by “A New Anthropology of Islam” from Cambridge and “Blaming Islam” from MIT Press, both in 2012. He also writes regularly for The Boston Review. His current two research projects concern sharia and civil law in England, and Islamic courts and property disputes in Indonesia.
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Monday, October 24th Russia Facing National Elections: Are there Challenges to the System that Putin Built?
Date Time Location Monday, October 24, 2011 1:00PM - 3:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Wednesday, October 26th Patriotism and the Empire: Ukraine views the socialist states of Eastern Europe
This event has been cancelled
Date Time Location Wednesday, October 26, 2011 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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This event was rescheduled to Friday, 28 October, 12 to 2. Please regiter for the new event.
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Thursday, October 27th German-American Language Mixing
Date Time Location Thursday, October 27, 2011 2:00PM - 4:00PM External Event, Department of German, 50 St. Joseph Street, Odette Hall 323
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Friday, October 28th Patriotism and the Empire: Ukraine views the socialist states of Eastern Europe
Date Time Location Friday, October 28, 2011 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs
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Zbigniew Wojnowski specializes in modern European socio-cultural history, with a focus on the USSR, Ukraine and Russia. He is particularly interested in the evolution of Soviet nationalities policy and the growth of Soviet patriotism in Ukraine during the post-war period. More broadly, his research deals with twentieth-century East European popular culture, memory and commemoration, and the history of East-Central European borderlands.
Note: this event was rescheduled. The original date was October 26.
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