Past Events at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
September 2009
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Monday, September 14th The History of Soviet Karelia as a Reflection of General Tendencies in Soviet History of the 1920s-1950s. Seminar with Alexey Golubev followed by a screening of the film "Letters from Karelia" with Varpu Lindstrom.
Date Time Location Monday, September 14, 2009 4:00PM - 6:30PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Information on the film “Letters from Karelia” can be found at the web page: http://www.onf-nfb.gc.ca/eng/collection/film/?id=51083
Alexey Golubev is Associate Professor, Faculty of History, Petrozavodsk State University. He is the author of numerous academic publications and the Editor-in-Chief of “Oral History in Karelia.” He is a partner in the SSHRC funded research project Missing in Karelia that traces the
histories of the over two thousand Canadians who moved to Soviet Karelia during the Depression and who were victims of Stalin’s terror.Varpu Lindström, professor of History at York University, is a specialist in Finnish Canadian immigration history. Her publications include Defiant Sisters: A Social History of Finnish Immigrant Women in Canada and From Heroes to Enemies, Finns in Canada, 1937-1947. “Letters from Karelia” was her latest research project and is a National Film Board of Canada documentary She has served in several administrative roles at York University including: member of the Board of Governors, chair of the Department of History and master of Atkinson College, chair of the School of Women’s Studies, and most recently, director of the School of Social Work. In 2006, the president of York University bestowed upon her the honorary title of “University Professor.”
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Tuesday, September 15th The Birth of the Third Hungarian Republic and its International Environment
Date Time Location Tuesday, September 15, 2009 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Hungarian Studies Program
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The great turning points in history always have more than one cause. This is true for the changes of régime of 1989 in Eastern Europe as well. They were brought about by the concetanation and interplay of several internal and external factors. Fundamental among these was the realignment of international power relations. The Soviet-American rivalry, ongoing since the end of WW II, culminated in voctory for the United States. Of the ame, or at least similar, importance was the historic defeat of the centralizted planned economy, based on state and communal property, at the hands of capitalism, founded on private property and rules of market mechanisms. And finally, one cannot fail to mention those individual initiatives and internal social movements that, taking advantage of the available opportunities, or even creating them, contributed to the change of regime by subverting and/or reforming it from within. In my lecture I intend to analyze these above mantioned factors focusing on the transformation having taken place in Hungary.
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Tuesday, September 15th Canada's Relations with Portugal: A Talk by Anne-Marie Bourcier, Canada's Ambassador to Portugal
Date Time Location Tuesday, September 15, 2009 3:30PM - 5:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Anne-Marie Bourcier joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in September 2002 as Director General of the Africa Bureau. In 2007, she was named Ambassador of Canada to the Portuguese Republic. From 2005 to 2007, she was Ambassador of Canada to the Republic of Finland. From 1976 to 2002, she was an official of the Canadian International Development Agency, where she held a number of positions as senior analyst and director of programs in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Her last assignment with this Agency was as Director General for South America. She has worked abroad in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire and Morocco.
Ambassador Bourcier holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology from the University of Ottawa.
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Thursday, September 24th Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe
Date Time Location Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:00AM - 1:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Divided into three thematic parts–“Mapping the Nation: History, Politics, and Religion,” “Reflecting Identities: The Literary Paradigm,” and “Manifesting Culture: Language, Media, and the Arts”–and edited by Larissa M. L. Zaleska Onyshkevych and Maria Rewakowicz, the new book “Contemporary Ukraine on the Cultural Map of Europe” is a collection of 26 essays exploring various aspects of the relationship between Ukraine’s contemporary culture and the general European cultural paradigm.
The participants Maria G. Rewakowicz (co-editor; Shevchenko Scientific Society, USA), Maxim Tarwawsky (University of Toronto), and Marko Robert Stech (Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies) will present papers based on their respective essays and dealing with various aspects of contemporary Ukrainian literature.
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Monday, September 28th DAAD Information Session
Date Time Location Monday, September 28, 2009 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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An information session on applying for graduate study and research fellowships through The German Academic Exchange Service
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October 2009
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Thursday, October 1st Graduate Programs Information Session
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Date Time Location Thursday, October 1, 2009 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Thursday, October 1st Rereading Friedrich Schlegel’s Theory of Romanticism: In the Wake of Hans Eichner
Date Time Location Thursday, October 1, 2009 2:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Hans Eichners Bedeutung für die Romantik-Forschung
Prof. Dr. Hermann Patsch (Munich)Round Table Discussion
with Alan Bewell (English), Claudia Brodksy (Princeton University), Paul Franks (Philosophy), Willi Goetschel (German and Philosophy), and Hermann Patsch.
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Monday, October 5th Canada's Engagement in the Western Balkans
Date Time Location Monday, October 5, 2009 10:00AM - 11:30AM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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John Morrison joined the Department of External Affairs in 1985 and served abroad as third secretary at the High Commission for Canada in Kuala Lumpur; second secretary (political affairs) in Beijing; program manager (political, economic and public affairs), at the Canadian Trade Office in Taipei; counsellor (economic) in Tokyo; and minister counsellor and deputy head of mission in Moscow.
At Headquarters, he has occupied a number of positions, notably director of the Eastern Europe and Balkans Division, and of the China and Mongolia Division. From 1999 to 2000, he was a foreign policy advisor in the Privy Council Office’s Foreign and Defence Policy Secretariat.
In 2008, he was named Ambassador to the Republic of Serbia, with concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Montenegro and to the Republic of Macedonia.
Ambassador Morrison is holds degrees from McGill (BA) and Cambridge Universities (MA).
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Monday, October 5th Turks, Jews and Germans: Blood-law, Land-law, and Citizenship Practices
Date Time Location Monday, October 5, 2009 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Tuesday, October 6th DAAD Information Session
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Date Time Location Tuesday, October 6, 2009 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers a wide range of fellowships and grants for students planning to study in Germany. This information session provides details about the application process and about opportunities for study in Germany.
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Tuesday, October 6th Development, Structural Reforms and Vulnerability in the Hungarian Economy
Date Time Location Tuesday, October 6, 2009 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Hungarian Studies Program
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Friday, October 9th The New Face of Eurasianism
Date Time Location Friday, October 9, 2009 5:30PM - 7:30PM External Event, Isabel Bader Theatre
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Lecture is open to the public.
Graham Fuller is a prolific writer and analyst of global affairs. Among his many publications are the books New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a Pivotal
State in the Muslim World (2007), The Future of Political Islam (2004), and the forthcoming A World Without Islam.
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Tuesday, October 13th The Political Participation of Migrants in European Societies
Date Time Location Tuesday, October 13, 2009 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Karen Schönwälder, Dr. phil. habil., is Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Previously she was head of the Programme on Intercultural Conflicts and Societal Integration at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) and Privatdozentin at the Free University Berlin. She obtained a Dr. phil from Marburg University in 1990 and completed her Habilitation in political science in 2001 at Gießen University. Past positions include a lectureship at the University of London and a semester as visiting professor at Haifa University, Israel.
Karen Schönwälder is a member of the editorial board of the journal Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik. Her research interests concern political and broader societal responses to migration processes and the establishment of new minorities as well as various aspects of immigrant integration.
This paper discusses key features of the political incorporation of immigrants into host society structures and institutions. It begins with theoretical considerations of the specifics of political, as distinct from e.g. economic or social, integration. A further section outlines trends in political participation arguing that a participation gap is likely to persist in the coming decades. Nevertheless, an increasing number of individuals
with a migration background are appearing on the parliamentary stages of major European immigration countries. The paper identifies nationally specific constellations that enabled such careers and that shape the development of immigrant political elites in Britain, France, the Netherlands and Germany. Although we can record slow progress, equal representation is unlikely to be achieved without determined intervention.
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Wednesday, October 14th Ethnic Cleansing, Crimes against Humanity and Genocide in the 20th Century
Date Time Location Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:00PM - 7:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Man’s inhumanity to man is not new. Homo homini lupus est. The 20th century has witnessed massacres, forced population transfers, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Lawyers have pondered how to deal with such violence. Is there a realistic hope of deterrence? The punishment of perpetrators of the Armenian genocide envisaged in article 230 of the Treaty of Sèvres never happened. The Nazis were tried for the Holocaust at Nuremberg and elsewhere. But genocide did not stop with Nuremberg, nor with the adoption of the Genocide Convention in 1948 nor with the Statute of the International Criminal Court in 1998. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the special tribunal for Cambodia, the hybrid tribunal for Sierra Leone — none of these organs has ended massacres. What is the role of the United Nations in preventing genocide and crimes against humanity? What can we expect of the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine? What are the rights of victims and their descendants? This lecture formulates some possible answers.
Alfred de Zayas, retired senior lawyer with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, former Chief of Petitions and Secretary of the UN Human Rights Committee. Visiting Professor of Law (McKay Brown Chair) at the University of British Columbia 2003, visiting professor of Law at DePaul University (Chicago), Visiting Professor of Law at the Geneva Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internationales. Professor of Law at the Geneva School of Diplomacy. Author (together with Justice Jakob Möller) of “The UN Human Rights Committee Caselaw 1977-2008” N.P.Engel Publishers, Kehl/Strasbourg 2009. Author of “Nemesis at Potsdam” (Routledge), “The Wehrmacht War Crimes Bureau” (University of Nebraska Press), “A Terrible Revenge” (Palgrave/Macmillan 2006). President of P.E.N. International Centre Suisse romand, Author of Rainer Maria Rilke, Larenopfer — with a Preface by Professor Ralph Freedman (Red Hen Press, Los Angeles 2008). http://www.alfreddezayas.com/books.shtml
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Thursday, October 15th Fieldwork at the Edge of Empire: The German pathologist Max Kuczynski and the nomads of the Kirghiz steppe, 1923-1925
Date Time Location Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:00PM - 1:30PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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CERES Faculty Speakers' Series
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Thursday, October 15th The Forgotten Titanic: The Sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff
Date Time Location Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:00PM - 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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When a Soviet submarine sunk the Wilhelm Gustloff, a passenger ship fleeing East Prussia, on January 30, 1945, 9000 people died. The majority of them were children. It was the single greatest maritime disaster in history – by contrast, 1,500 people died following the sinking of the Titanic. This gripping documentary tells the story of the Gustloff’s sinking and poses a question that will be debated by two distinguished professors of law: was it war, or a war crime?
The event will be attended by Marcus Kolga (film director) and Horst Woit, the Gustloff survivor featured in the film.
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Monday, October 19th Twenty Years After the Miracle: Poland's Return to Europe after 1989
Date Time Location Monday, October 19, 2009 7:30PM - 9:30PM External Event, Room 161, University College Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Adam Michnik was the key dissident thinker and the architect of pre-1989 democratic opposition in Poland, a major figure in the Solidarity movement, and he is now the editor-in- chief (since 1989) of the largest and most influential daily in Central Europe called “Gazeta Wyborcza”. He is co-founder of KOR (Committee for the Defense of Workers) 1976, detained many times during 1965-1980, a prominent „Solidarity” activist during the ’80ties, spent a total of six years in Polish prisons for activities opposing the communist regime, member of the Round Table Talks 1989, member of the first non-communist parliament 1989-1991, editor-in-chief of the first independent Polish newspaper – Gazeta Wyborcza. laureate of many prizes and titles: Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, The Erasmus Prize, The Francisco Cerecedo Journalist Prize as a first non-Spanish author, Grand Prince Giedymin Order; Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur; recipient of a doctorate honoris causa from The New School for Social Research in New York, from the University of Minnesota, University of Michigan, from Connecticut College; honorary senator of the University of Ljubljana, honorary professor of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy.
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Tuesday, October 20th Hamburg in the Napoleonic Period: The Difficult Application of the Continental Blockade in a Major Trading Center
Date Time Location Tuesday, October 20, 2009 10:00AM - 12:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Tuesday, October 20th Film Screening: "Daughter in Law"(1972, Turkmenistan)
Date Time Location Tuesday, October 20, 2009 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Central Asia Program Film Screening
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The film is based on a true story witnessed by the director of the film. At the very railway junction where he spent his childhood there lived two people – an old shepherd and his daughter in law. The shepherd’s son died at the front. The young wife, however, never accepted his death and kept waiting for her husband’s return. The film “Daughter in Law” portrays the usual lifestyle of Turkmen shepherds with much insight and sympathy for the deeper meaning of traditional values. The wealth of detail and the laconic, iconographic, imagery prompted certain critics to call this film an “encyclopedia of Turkmen life.” The cast of the movie is also noteworthy, especially the performance of the young actress Maya-Guizel Aymedova, who later became one of the best-known actresses of Turkmenistan. The film received the USSR State prize and was awarded numerous prizes at international film festivals, including Locarno, Tbilisi, Sorrento, Venice, etc. Hodzhakuli Narliev, Turkmenistan, 1972, Russian, Russian/Subtitles: English, 75 min, fiction film
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Thursday, October 22nd The Revolutions of 1989: Twenty Years Later
Date Time Location Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Michael H. Bernhard is the inaugural holder of the Ehrlich Chair in Political Science at the University of Florida. His work centers on questions of democratization and development both globally and in the context of Europe. Among the issues that have figured prominently in his research agenda are the role of civil society in democratization, institutional choice in new democracies, the political economy of democratic survival, and the legacy of extreme forms of dictatorship.
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Tuesday, October 27th When Two Become One -- Twenty Years After the German Re-Unification
Date Time Location Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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A Reading and Discussion with Writer Ingo Schulze. Moderated by Wolfram Eilenberger
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Thursday, October 29th International Relations on Soviet Screens During Khrushchev's ‘Thaw’
Date Time Location Thursday, October 29, 2009 4:00PM - 7:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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The presentation will deal with cinematic reflections of the changes which were taking place in Soviet foreign policy during the time of Nikita Khrushchev’s post-Stalin reforms. It will also examine the new policies in the field of film export and import, brought about by the Soviet establishment’s efforts to find alternatives to the Stalinist vision of the outer world. The talk will be illustrated with relevant fragments from fiction and documentary films.
Sergei Kapterev holds a Doctorate in Cinema Studies from New YorkUniversity. His interests include film propaganda, war cinema and the Cinema of the Cold War, Soviet-American contacts in the sphere of cinema, the genre of expeditionary film, and representations of the FarEast in Soviet and Russian film culture. His recent publications include Post-Stalinist Cinema and the Russian Intelligentsia, 1953-1960 (Saarbruecken: VDM Dr. Mueller, 2008). He is a member of the Toronto-based Chemodan Films group (http://www.chemodanfilms.com/whois/).
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Friday, October 30th Immigrants and Publics: Public attitudes towards immigration in Europe and North America
Date Time Location Friday, October 30, 2009 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
1 Devonshire Place+ Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Saturday, October 31st Symposium “Mykola Lysenko: Reinventing Ukrainian Classical Music”
Date Time Location Saturday, October 31, 2009 1:00PM - 5:00PM External Event, Room 330
Edward Johnson Building, Faculty of Music+ Register for this Event Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Olga Andriewsky (Trent University), “In Search of Mykola Lysenko: A Historian’s Exploration”
Taras Filenko (City Music Center, Duquesne University), “Mykola Lysenko: Founder of Ethnomusicology”
Dagmara Turchyn (independent scholar, Toronto), “Ukrainian and European Contexts in Lysenko’s Art Songs”
Rada Stankovych (Kyiv Conservatory, Ukraine), “Lysenko’s Operas”
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