Past Events at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
August 2010
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Monday, August 23rd History, Memory & Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
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Date Time Location Monday, August 23, 2010 9:00AM - 5:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre For International Studies
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September 2010
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Tuesday, September 7th Memory Studies and the Identity Problem: A Cross-Reading of European and Canadian Cultural Traditions
Date Time Location Tuesday, September 7, 2010 6:30PM - 8:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place Registration Full Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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In a time of global migrations after twentieth-century wars, how does cultural memory strengthen or undermine social and political cohesion?
The points of departure for this panel are two books: Memories and Representations of War: The Case of World War I and World War II, edited by Elena Lamberti and Vita Fortunati, (New York/Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009); and Memory and Migration–Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies, edited by Julia Creet and Andreas Kitzmann, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming Sept. 2010). Both collections of essays explore the complex cultural identity/ies of Canada and the European Union and the bonds between the two political entities through individual, institutional and artistic expressions of cultural memory.
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Thursday, September 9th Exploring Hungarian Studies: Study and Fellowship Opportunities
Date Time Location Thursday, September 9, 2010 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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The Hungarian Studies Program at CERES is hosting an event for graduate and undergraduate students interested in learning about our new course offerings, study abroad opportunities, and fellowship support in Hungarian Studies. New couses in film, language, history, and culture will be discussed at the meeting, and Hungarian food will be served too!
Please note: the event is open to STUDENTS only.
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Friday, September 10th A Peaceful Europe? Reinterpreting Twentieth-century European History
Date Time Location Friday, September 10, 2010 5:00PM - 7:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Tuesday, September 14th 'A Man of His Time' : Maurice Papon (1910-2007), Symbol of State Violence in Twentieth-Century France?
Date Time Location Tuesday, September 14, 2010 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Born in 1957, and a former student of the École polytechnique and the École nationale d’administration, Marc Olivier Baruch has served since 1981 as a civil servant in the French Ministries of Education and Culture and in the Prime Minister’s Office. His career shifted to the academic world in 1997 when he became a research fellow in the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Published the same year, his doctoral thesis about the French Civil Service during WWII (Servir l’État français. L’administration en France de 1940 à 1944) made him a key expert in the latest post-war trial of the French civil service, French Republic vs Maurice Papon.
In 2003, he was elected as directeur d’études in the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). His teachings and research deal with contemporary European politcal history, especially of the State and the Civil Service. As a specialist of the Vichy regime, he has also published a general story of the period (Le Régime de Vichy, Paris, La Découverte, 1996, translated into German Das Vichy-Regime : Frankreich 1940-1944, Reclam Verlag, 1999), and edited a collective study on the purges of French society after WWII (Une poignée de misérables : l’épuration de la société française après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Paris, Fayard, 2003).
He is currently working on a book dealing with the complex relationship between history, politics and law in contemporary France.
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Thursday, September 16th Great Games, Local Rules: US-Russia-China Competition in Central Asia
Date Time Location Thursday, September 16, 2010 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Alexander Cooley is an associate professor of international relations at Barnard College at Columbia University. His work examines the politics of sovereignty, hierarchy and international patron-client relations, with a regional focus on the states of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Professor Cooley is the author of three books. The first, Logics of Hierarchy:The Organization of Empires, States and Military Occupations (Cornell University Press 2005), examined the enduring legacies of Soviet rule in Central Asia in a comparative post-imperial perspective and was awarded the 2006 Marshall Shulman Prize by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (co-winner) for outstanding book on the international relations of the post-Communist states. In 2009 he published Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Relations, co-authored with Hendrik Spruyt, which examines the various ways in which states bargain to split and share their sovereign rights.
In addition to his academic work, Professor Cooley has contributed policy-related articles to the New York Times, Wall St. Journal, International Herald Tribune, Current History and Foreign Affairs magazine. Cooley earned both his M.A. (1995) and Ph.D. (1999) from Columbia University and has held fellowships with the Open Society Institute, German Marshall Fund and Smith Richardson Foundation.
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Thursday, September 16th Reluctant Accomplice: A Wehrmacht Soldier's Letters from the Eastern Front, 1939-1942
Date Time Location Thursday, September 16, 2010 5:00PM - 7:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Konrad H. Jarausch has written or edited more than three dozen books on modern German or European history. Starting with Hitler’s seizure of power and the First World War, his research interests have moved via the social history of German students and professions to German unification in 1989/90, with historiography under the Communist GDR, the nature of the East German dictatorship, as well as the debate about historians and the Third Reich. More recently, he has been concerned with the problem of interpreting 20th-century German history in general, the learning processes after 1945, the issue of cultural democratization, the caesura of the 1970s and the transformation of the Humboldt University, 1985-2000. At the same time he has been involved in discussions about quantitative methods in history, problems of postmodernism, and questions of European memory culture. Currently he is beginning to work on a history of the ambivalent face of European modernity in the 20th century.
“The significance of this wartime correspondence lies in the ambivalent role of its author as reluctant accomplice in and clear-eyed witness of important aspects of the war in the East. Although too old to engage in actual fighting, Konrad Jarausch was close enough to the front to provide detailed descriptions of German occupation policy in Poland, graphic comments on the training of new recruits, and shocking accounts of the mass death of Russian POWs, somewhat neglected by the burgeoning Holocaust literature. At the same time, he had the leisure to record sustained reflections on the historical meaning of the war, the prospects of the fighting and the (im-)morality of the German cause that go beyond the usual concerns of soldiers, voiced in letters home. Especially, his conflicted attitude, hoping for and wanting to participate in a German victory while increasingly noticing and being repelled by Nazi brutality, sheds fresh light on the contradictory feelings of decent professionals who supported the war. Finally, his discovery of solidarity with Russian POWs also offers an inspiring example of the possibility of recovering a shared humanity amid catastrophe.”
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Friday, September 17th Is the Party Over? The Effects of the Economic Crisis on Immigration in the EU: The Case of Spain
Date Time Location Friday, September 17, 2010 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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The Spanish economic crisis has ended a decade of spectacular economic and demographic growth. Despite having been one of main drivers of economic growth in the years preceding the crash, immigrants have borne the brunt of the shock, as reflected in their disproportionate share in Spain’s rising unemployment rate. The aim of the presentation is to assess the consequences of the economic crisis on immigrants in Spain through an analysis of recent changes in Spanish immigration policy and shifts in public opinion toward immigration. Potential solutions to problems concerning the admission of economic immigrants and integration will also be discussed, as will be the Spanish state’s turn to Canada as a source of guidance in this regard.
Claudia Finotelli is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Universidad Complutense Madrid and Senior Researcher at the Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset. She has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Münster. Her research interests cover the area of migration control policies, irregular migration, asylum policy and economic integration of immigrants. Professor Finotelli is a member of the IMISCOE-network of excellence and has collaborated with the Institute for Migration and Intercultural Studies of Osnabrück, the Cespi Institute in Rome, the University of Trento and the Forum of Federations in Ottawa. Her publications include: “The North-South Myth Revised: A Comparison of the Italian and German Migration Regimes,” West European Politics, VOL. 32, No. 5 (2009); “The Importance of Being Southern: The Making of Policies of Immigration Control in Italy,” European Journal of Migration and Law, VOL. 11, No. 2 (2009); “Italia, España y el modelo migratorio mediterráneo en el siglo XXI”, ARI VOL. 58 (2007); “Looking for the European Soft Underbelly: Visa Policies and Amnesties for Irregular Migrants in Germany and in Italy” (with Giuseppe Sciortino), in Herausforderung Migration – Perspektiven der vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft, ed. S. Baringhorst, J. F. Hollifield and U. Hunger (Münster: LIT, 2006); “Regularisations for Illegal Migrants in Italy: Background, Processes, Results,” in Amnesty for Illegal Migrants? Transatlantic Discourse on Integration, ed. Friedrich Heckmann and Tanja Wunderlich (Bamberg: EFMS, 2005).
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Friday, September 24th Revolutions, Elections, and Politics in Post-Soviet Georgia
Date Time Location Friday, September 24, 2010 10:00AM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Wednesday, September 29th Trade and Daily Life in the Manchurian City of Harbin from a Transcultural Perspective
Date Time Location Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Frank Grüner, Assistant Professor in East European History at the University of Heidelberg, leads an interdisciplinary Junior Research Group within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” (University of Heidelberg) on “Transgressing Spaces and Identities in Urban Arenas – the Case of Harbin (1898-1949).” His research focuses on Soviet and Russian history and culture. His publications include Patrioten und Kosmopoliten. Juden im Sowjetstaat 1941 bis 1953 (Cologne, Weimar, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2008); “Did Anti-Jewish Mass Violence Exist in the Soviet Union? – Anti-Semitism and Collective Violence in the USSR during the War and Post War Years. In: Journal of Genocide Research 11 (2009) 2-3, pp. 355-379; “Russia’s Battle Against the Foreign: The Anti-Cosmopolitanism Paradigm in Russian and Soviet Ideology”: European Review of History—Revue européenne d’histoire 17 (2010) 3, pp. 445-472.
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October 2010
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Friday, October 1st Nationalism, Myth, and Politics: Russians and Serbs in the Dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.
Date Time Location Friday, October 1, 2010 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Professor Vujacic’s fields of specialization include sociological theory, political and comparative-historical sociology, and social movements, with a special focus on communism and nationalism in the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. His articles on these themes and topics have appeared in Theory and Society, Post-Soviet Affairs, East-European Constitutional Review, The Harriman Review, Research in Political Sociology, The Encyclopedia of Nationalism, The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, East European Politics and Societies, and a number of edited volumes. He is currently completing a large comparative-historical study of Russian and Serbian nationalism and the disintegration of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and working on a new project on charismatic and plebiscitary leadership in late communism and post-communism.
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Friday, October 1st Killing Kirov
Date Time Location Friday, October 1, 2010 5:00PM - 7:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Monday, October 4th Book Launch: Paul Magocsi’s A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples
Date Time Location Monday, October 4, 2010 5:00PM - 8:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Chair
Professor Kenneth Mills
Department of History
University of TorontoRemarks
“National Histories as a Genre”
Professor Derek Penslar
Zacks Professor of Jewish History
University of Toronto“Religion and Churches”
Reverend Edward J. R. Jackman
Secretary General
Canadian Catholic Historical Association“The Crimean Factor”
Professor Victor Ostapchuk
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies
University of Toronto“The Polish Factor”
Professor Piotr Wróbel
Chair of Polish History
University of Toronto“Jews, Mennonites, and Germans”
Professor Doris Bergen
Wolfe Chair of Holocaust Studies,
University of Toronto“Independent Ukraine”
Professor Lucan Way
Department of Political Science
University of Toronto“Ukraine’s Diasporas”
Professor Lubomyr Luciuk
Department of Politics and Economics
Royal Military College of CanadaAfterword and Discussion
Professor Paul Robert Magocsi
Chair of Ukrainian Studies
University of TorontoSponsored by:
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
Chair of Polish History
Department of History
Wolfe Chair of Holocaust Studies
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Monday, October 4th Reception for Book Launch of History of Ukraine
Date Time Location Monday, October 4, 2010 7:00PM - 8:00PM Campbell Conference Facility Lounge, Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Wednesday, October 6th Canada-EU Relations on the Cusp of Free Trade
Date Time Location Wednesday, October 6, 2010 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Wednesday, October 6th Electoral Populism in Latin America and Eastern Europe
Date Time Location Wednesday, October 6, 2010 6:00PM - 8:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Participants will present an analysis of the rising trend of Electoral Populism in Latin America and Eastern Europe and its negative effects on the development and consolidation of democratic practices in both regions.
The presentations will answer the questions: What is populism, neo-populism or electoral populism?, How does it affect representation, participation and accountability in developing democracies? What are the effects of electoral populism on the institutionalisation of democratic institutions, norms and general “rules of the game”?
Each brief presentation will review specific country/region cases in comparative perspective, these include: Belarus, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine and Central Asia, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
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Thursday, October 7th Memory and Cultural Identities in European Literatures
Date Time Location Thursday, October 7, 2010 6:30PM - 8:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, 'Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Friday, October 8th – Sunday, October 10th A Cultural Approach to Human Security
Date Time Location Friday, October 8, 2010 8:30AM - 4:30PM External Event, Croft Chapter House, University College, 15 King's College Circle Saturday, October 9, 2010 9:30AM - 5:00PM External Event, Croft Chapter House, University College, 15 King's College Circle Sunday, October 10, 2010 9:30AM - 5:30PM External Event, Croft Chapter House, University College, 15 King's College Circle
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Friday, October 8th Prospects for Higher Education in Ukraine’s 2010 Post-Orange Revolution Realities
Date Time Location Friday, October 8, 2010 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Serhiy Kvit is the President of the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”. He is also professor at Kyiv-Mohyla School of Journalism and President of Media Reform Centre and is a member of National Commission for the Development of Freedom of Speech. His research focuses on Mass Communications, Journalism Education and Philosophical Hermeneutics, and his latest last book, “Mass Communication” (2008) shows contemporary Ukrainian Media through new achievements of Media Theories and Research.
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Monday, October 18th Flawed Peace: Trianon and Its Consequences
Date Time Location Monday, October 18, 2010 5:30PM - 8:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Professor Borhi is a Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Associate Professor at ELTE University in Budapest. His books include: Hungarian-American relations, 1945-1989 (Budapest, 2009; in Hungarian); Hungary in the Cold War 1945-1956 (Budapest, New York 2004).
Tickets are required and can be purchased at the door for $20 each. No advanced purchase available. Admissions for students are free. Proceeds from ticket sales will go towards student language study in Hungary.
Reception to follow.
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Tuesday, October 19th DAAD Information Session
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Date Time Location Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:00PM - 5:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Tuesday, October 19th Book launch: Lucan Way, Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War
Date Time Location Tuesday, October 19, 2010 5:30PM - 7:30PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Competitive authoritarian regimes – in which autocrats submit to meaningful multiparty elections but engage in serious democratic abuse – proliferated in the post-Cold War era. Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was weaker and countries rarely democratized. In these cases, regime outcomes hinged on the character of state and ruling party organizations. Where incumbents possessed developed and cohesive coercive party structures, they could thwart opposition challenges, and competitive authoritarian regimes survived; where incumbents lacked such organizational tools, regimes were unstable but rarely democratized.
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Wednesday, October 20th Why There Is (Almost) No Christian Democracy in Post-Communist Europe
Date Time Location Wednesday, October 20, 2010 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Anna Grzymala-Busse is Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Michigan. Her two books, Redeeming the Communist Past and Rebuilding Leviathan, focus on the democratic transformations of the communist party-state in East Central Europe. She is currently embarking on a research project on the impact of religion on politics in democratic Europe.
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Thursday, October 21st Screening of Leipzig im Herbst
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Date Time Location Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:30PM - 7:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Thursday, October 21st Inconsistency, Uncertainty, and Insecurity: Probing the Political Consequences of European Statebuilding in Bosnia, Kosovo/a, and Macedonia
Date Time Location Thursday, October 21, 2010 5:30PM - 8:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Susan L. Woodward is professor of political science at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has also taught at Yale University, Williams College, and Northwestern University. A specialist on the Balkans, her current research focuses on transitions from war to peace, international security and state failure, and post-war state-building. She is a member of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration, 2010-2014. Her many writings include Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War (Brookings Press, 1995), and Socialist Unemployment: The Political Economy of Yugoslavia, 1945-1990 (Princeton University Press, 1995).
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Friday, October 22nd Between Heroizing and Defamation. Women in the Armed Ukrainian Underground, 1942-1954
Date Time Location Friday, October 22, 2010 12:00PM - 1:30PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Beginning from the creation of sovereign Ukrainian state, the story of the armed underground within the period of 1930s-1950s in the West-Ukrainian territories has become a major political issue. The public debates on the role of the national resistance movement in modern Ukraine’s history ties in closely with the country’s heavily mythologized and politicized collective cultural memory. The paper focuses on Ukraine’s contemporary, and highly conflictive, memory landscape, paying attention to both the representatives of the Ukrainian underground movement and the politicization and mythicization of the movement’s history. Female destinies usually play a marginal role in both public commemorative culture and historical research, except as an illustration of female heroism and Ukrainian martyrdom. The representations of women’s lives are thus often frozen into predetermined patterns. In this context, women appear generally as icons and their lives as allegories of heroism rather than individual, multi-faceted experiences. To understand precisely those individual life stories and writing the collective biography of the female activists of the Ukrainian underground, it is necessary to analyze the reasons why women joined the ranks of armed resistance. In addition to their participation in a vast range of auxiliary functions (cooking, sowing, the preparation of provisions, care for the wounded, communications and others), Olena examines women’s role on the propaganda front and also armed activities—the one area that has absorbed the brunt of scholarly attention. Women did participate as soldiers, scouts, and members of the security apparatus of the UPA, without necessarily having clear job specifications.
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Friday, October 22nd – Saturday, October 23rd Neither Strange nor Familiar: Contemporary Approaches to Hybridity
Date Time Location Friday, October 22, 2010 3:00PM - 5:00PM External Event, Sidney Smith Hall Saturday, October 23, 2010 8:00AM - 6:00PM External Event, Sidney Smith Hall Registration Full Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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This conference will provide an interdisciplinary venue where historians, anthropologists, ethicists of science and technology, political scientists, literary geographers, sociologists, and many others, can exchange their diverse understandings of and approaches to hybridity. The conference will stimulate epistemological and methodological discussions, while identifying the future directions in this evolving field. We welcome proposals for papers from scholars working across a range of fields (including literature, history, politics, cultural studies, etc.). The keynote speaker, Professor Stephan Palmié of the University of Chicago, one of the foremost experts in the field, will open the conference with a discussion on the uses and abuses of the notion of hybridity.
Location:
Friday, 22 October, Key Note Address (3 to 5 PM) Sidney Smith Hall Room 2102
Saturday, 23 October, Panels, Round Table, and Reception (8 AM to 8 PM) Sidney Smith Hall Rooms 2096-2098, 2120
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Monday, October 25th Contemporary Ukraine: Dreams and Realities
Date Time Location Monday, October 25, 2010 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Following its declaration of independence in 1991, Ukraine set forth on its development as a distinct sovereign state with democratic ideals. This project has been set back dramatically after the recent election of Viktor Yanukovych as president of Ukraine. He and his government have consolidated power rapidly and ruthlessly, moving the country towards semi-authoritarianism. At the same time they have shifted the country’s orientation strongly back toward the orbit of Russia. Dr. Shcherbak examines these dramatic new developments.
Dr. Yuri Scherbak is an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine and a First Vice-President of the National Academy on Environmental Sciences of Ukraine. He began his political career in 1987 after Chornobyl catastrophe when he became leader of Ukrainian Greens. Dr. Scherbak initiated and led the first parliamentary investigation of the Chornobyl accident and the nuclear catastrophes in Semipalatinsk and in the Urals. He founded and became the leader of the Ukrainian Green Movement (organization which united more than 200 Ukrainian NGOs) in 1988 (it became the Green Party in 1990). Dr. Scherbak later was Ukraine’s Ambassador to Israel, the United States, Mexico, and Canada (March 2000 till May 2003). In 2004-2006 Dr. Scherbak worked as Adviser to the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine).An eyewitness to the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear disaster, Dr. Yuri Scherbak wrote the sensational expose documentary novel Chornobyl. The novel was published in English in 1989. Dr. Scherbak also wrote extensively on the Stalinist man-made famine in Ukraine in 1932-33. In 1998 Harvard University Press published Dr. Scherbak’s book “The Strategic Role of Ukraine”.
As a writer, Yuri Scherbak is a well-known novelist who has authored 20 books of prose, plays, poetry, and essays and more than 200 publications and interviews on medical, ecological, political and historical issue. He is a member of Ukraine’s Writer’s Union and Cinematographers’ Union, and was on the executive board of the Writers’ Union from 1987 to 1989. He was been awarded medals and prizes in literature, medicine, and for his work as a Ukrainian statesman.
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Tuesday, October 26th A Hungarian Navigates a Dangerous Century: From "the Great Escape" to "Enemies of the People." A Conversation with Kati Marton.
Date Time Location Tuesday, October 26, 2010 5:00PM - 7:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place + Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Kati Marton, an award-winning former NPR and ABC News correspondent, is the author of Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our History, a New York Times bestseller, as well as Wallenberg, The Polk Conspiracy, A Death in Jerusalem, and a novel, An American Woman. Mother of a son and a daughter, she lives in New York with her husband, Richard Holbrooke.
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Wednesday, October 27th Useful Idiots? Western Scholars and Russia
Date Time Location Wednesday, October 27, 2010 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Piotr Dutkiewicz is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of European and Russian Studies. He is also a Permanent Fellow of the Centre for Civilizational Studies, Russian Academy of Science. He was educated at Warsaw University (LLM) and the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow (Ph.D.).
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Thursday, October 28th Screening of the documentary Bauhaus – Modell und Mythos (Bauhaus – Modell and Mythos, 1998/2009, 103 min., with subtitles), Dir. Dr. Kerstin Stutterheim
Date Time Location Thursday, October 28, 2010 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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The Bauhaus School was probably the most influential art school to emerge in Europe and remains well known around the world as the central nucleus of modern architecture and design. But ‘bauhaus’ was more than just cubic building or steel tube chairs. The models introduced then are still with us today. The school’s faculty included renowned artists Wassily Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, and the architects Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe.
This documentary retraces the school beginnings following World War I, its revolutionary impact, and tells the true story of its closing and the political complicity among some members during Nazi-Germany, as recounted by Bauhaus alumni, men and women who once attended the school.
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Friday, October 29th Political Trials in the Post-communist World and Beyond: A Conversation with Robert Amsterdam
Date Time Location Friday, October 29, 2010 10:00AM - 12:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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A partner in the Toronto based firm Amsterdam and Peroff, a law firm that uses political advocacy as part of its overall legal strategies, Robert Amsterdam served as international defense counsel in the Khodorkovsky case in Moscow. In addition to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, his clients have included Venezulean banker and political prisoner Eligio Cedeno, the leader of the democratic opposition in Singapore, Dr. Chee Soon Juan, and the former Minister of Abuja, Nigeria. He has also been also involved in a major constitutional case in the Czech Republic.
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Friday, October 29th The Euro and Its Rivals: Policing the Boundaries of Debt
Date Time Location Friday, October 29, 2010 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Gustav Peebles received his PhD from the University of Chicago, and is currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Social Sciences, Bachelor’s Program, at The New School for General Studies. His research deals with exchange theory; monetary history, theory, and policy; ethnography of the state and the emergent state; history, theory and practice of socialism; economic theory; economic traditionalism; utopian visions; production of space; black markets; debt; social theory; European Union/Scandinavia. His publications have appeared in Public Culture, European Journal of Anthropology, Revista de Antropologia Social, and elsewhere.
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