Past Events at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
January 2009
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Monday, January 12th The Anthology as a Way to the Literary Ontology in Ukrainian Literature of the 20th Century
Date Time Location Monday, January 12, 2009 1:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Friday, January 16th Colonial Catastrophes: Earthquakes and Empire on the Eurasian Frontier
Date Time Location Friday, January 16, 2009 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Central Asia Lecture Series
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Catastrophes may open new spaces and issues for debate, and often bring to light matters usually left unspoken. This talk gives an overview of Soviet / Russian imperial history through several case studies of earthquakes in Central Asia — including 1887 in Almaty, 1948 in Ashgabat, and 1966 in Tashkent. Such calamities provide a window into the complicated and changing relationship of Moscow with its imperial periphery. Important aspects of this relationship are revealed in these immediate moments of crisis — and also in the slower and less dramatic ways a state (and population) chooses to rebuild once the crisis passes. The lecture focuses on three themes: architecture and the built environment, seismology and the mobilization of science, and the lasting problem of commemoration.
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Friday, January 23rd Blood and Soil: Scientific Martyrdom, Liberal Nationalism, and the Making of German Africa
Date Time Location Friday, January 23, 2009 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Tuesday, January 27th Secular, Traditional, and Fundamenatalist: The Intertwined Orientations of Post-Soviet Central Asian Muslims
Date Time Location Tuesday, January 27, 2009 1:00PM - 3:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Central Asia Lecture Series
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The terms by which scholars and government officials alike most often seek to characterize the religious orientations of Muslims in Central Asia are proving to be quite inadequate and misleading. Generally, these efforts to characterize Central Asian Islam aim at predicting the political behavior of Muslims — either fulfilling fears that “Fundamentalism” will lead to radicalization and instability, or providing reassurance that Soviet secularism or the “moderate” traditions of Central Asian Islam will prevail. This talk will explore the much more complicated picture of emerging motivations and orientations by which Central Asian Muslims appeal to Islam. This is a picture of intertwined strands of secularism and various ideas of Islam that developed during Soviet and pre-Soviet times as well as that have appeared in the region in the region in post-Soviet times. From an ethnographic perspective on how these concepts are interacting in communities of ordinary Muslims, the talk will derive conclusions on how policy-makers might better address the political challenges of changing Central Asian Islam.
John Schoeberlein (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1994) is Director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus under the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, which he was instrumental in founding in 1993. The program coordinates activities at Harvard related to the study of “Greater” Central Asia/Eurasia, extending from the Crimea and Caucasus to the Volga Basin, Mongolia, Western China, Afghanistan and the former Soviet Central Asian republics. His research focuses on identity, ethnicity, gender, nationality, religion, and community organization among the Islamic peoples of Central Eurasia and his current projects focus on Cultural Nationalist Ideology in Post-Soviet Central Asian Nation-Building, the Contested Islamic Terrain in Post-Soviet Central Asia, Islam in Secularizing Societies, and Central Asian Security.
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Thursday, January 29th Stalinist Elections as a Soviet Political Ritual: Kyiv, 1946-1953
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Date Time Location Thursday, January 29, 2009 3:00PM - 5:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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The outcome of elections under Stalin was never in doubt – but if so, why did the state insist on holding them? After all, Stalin did not care to convene party congresses for thirteen years. Yet, during the difficult period of postwar reconstruction federal, republican, and local elections were held one after another almost every year between 1946 and 1953, and each election was preceded by an elaborate electoral campaign. What were the authorities getting out of these events? What, if anything, did the voters get out of this? Using the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv as a case study, this paper seeks answers in a close reading of contemporary archival documents.
Serhy Yekelchyk (Ph.D. University of Alberta, 2000) teaches Russian and Ukrainian history at the University of Victoria, where he is also the chair of the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies. His recent books include Stalin’s Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination (University of Toronto Press, 2004) and Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation (Oxford University Press, 2007).
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Friday, January 30th Illusionary Liberation? German Politics and Sexuality in the Weimar era, 1918-1933
Date Time Location Friday, January 30, 2009 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Laurie Marhoefer is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto, where she
is teaching in the history department. She has a Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University (2008) and is currently preparing a book manuscript on the politics of so-called “immoral sexuality” in Germany during the Weimar era, 1918-1933.
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Friday, January 30th Recent Research on Isma'ili Foundational Narratives and Shrine Networks in Badakhshan
Date Time Location Friday, January 30, 2009 2:00PM - 4:00PM Munk Centre For International Studies
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February 2009
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Tuesday, February 3rd THE ORATOR
Date Time Location Tuesday, February 3, 2009 4:00PM - 7:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Central Asia Program Film Screening
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The Orator (Voiz) (Uzbekistan, 1998, 83 min) — Writer and producer Yusup (Jusuf) S. Razykov (b. 1957) — tells a witty and poetic story of Iskander, a poor cart man, who can’t give up his three-woman harem and therefore happens to find himself at the centre of events that impact his marital life, family relations and his position in the society. The Orator takes place in the 1920s, at the dawn of Soviet power in Uzbekistan. The Orator is crucially concerned with gender, specifically the early-Soviet reform of Uzbek women’s rights and marriage policies. Razykov said in an interview: “My favorite costume is the veil. It’s much more interesting to peek under that shroud, which expresses nothing but conceals a great deal.” The Orator is a landmark not only, or even primarily, in the director’s own career, but in Uzbek film generally. The film made the international festival rounds to great acclaim.
Discussion will follow the film.
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Thursday, February 5th Security in Central Asia: Implications for the EU, Russia, and the US
Date Time Location Thursday, February 5, 2009 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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In 2007 the EU commenced a Strategy for Central Asia. Since then, relations with the Central Asian countries have been acknowledged as a priority for Brussels and an integral part of the Europe’s eastern policy. Kamoludin Abdullaev, a research fellow from the Tajik National University, will address major security issues facing Central Asia and Tajikistan in particular.
Abdullaev was born in Tajikistan and educated at Tajik State University. He has authored numerous books and professional articles on the modern history of Central Asia and national and Muslim movements in this region.
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Monday, February 9th Screening of "Fatherland" dir. Manfred Becker
Date Time Location Monday, February 9, 2009 5:00PM - 7:30PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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This event is a screening of the 2006 film “Fatherland” followed up a Q & A with the filmmaker.
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Wednesday, February 11th Canadian Urban Institute Internship Presentation
Date Time Location Wednesday, February 11, 2009 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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As part of CUI International Partnership, we offer a variety of international internships to young professionals. These internships provide them with the opportunity to work overseas, develop their professional and leadership skills, and contribute to sharing Canada’s knowledge with transitioning and developing countries. Internships are open to youth 30 years of age or under.
Internships are funded through CIDA’s International Youth Internship.The program is designed to provide entry-level professional work experience to recent graduates of university degree programs related to urban management, local government, planning and other associated fields. The program provides travel and living expenses for interns to work overseas for six months through a placement in a CUI international project office or within one of our overseas partner organizations. It provides a unique opportunity for young professionals to work as part of a team alongside seasoned international development professionals within the structure of a long-term CIDA-funded project. During the course of the internship, interns are provided with professional learning experiences and upon return to Canada, career development assistance to help them find long-term employment.
This event is also for students interested in the field of international development and/or those looking for professional opportunities overseas. The event would include a brief presentation on CUI’s work internationally and our internship program, a short talk from a current intern about their experiences, and a question and answer period.
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Friday, February 13th Business Interest Groups in the Enlarged EU: Formation of Industry and Employer Associations in the Post- Communist Europe
Date Time Location Friday, February 13, 2009 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Judging by their presence and influence in the national capitals and Brussels, business and employer associations appear to be the most organized and resourceful social actors in the new EU member states. Still, there are considerable cross-national differences to the extent business community is organized in the former communists societies. This talk explores causes of differential success in overcoming the problem of collective action faced by the organizing business community. Among other factors affecting business participation in employer and trade associations, administrative corruption emerges as the most unexpected and counterintuitive stimulus for organization.
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Friday, February 13th Ukraine's Cultural Landscape
Date Time Location Friday, February 13, 2009 5:00PM - 7:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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A discussion on the contemporary cultural life in Ukraine by a Ukrainian team of sculptors who came to Canada to compete in the ice sculpture contest at Quebec’s Winter Festival 2009. It is accompanied by screening of a documentary ” Volodymyr Ivasyuk: My Life is a Broken String” (2007) and animation and short feature films.
This event is in Ukrainian.
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Friday, February 13th Roundtable "Was The Bombing of Dresden A War Crime"
Date Time Location Friday, February 13, 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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The bombing of cities, from Guernica in 1937, through the Blitz in wartime London, and to Gaza City in 2008, remains among the most controversial ways to wage war. By far, the most hotly debated air raid over the last 100 years was the Feb 13/14 1945 destruction of Dresden by American and British (and therefore Canadian) air forces.
Bringing together three renowned historians of the air war, the panel will explore the reasons and justification for the bombing of Dresden, whether the action constituted a war crime, and when if every civilians may become legitimate targets of war.
Above mentioned books will be offered for sale at the event.
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Monday, February 23rd Old Europe, New Poland, Changing Times: What Do These Mean for Canada?
Date Time Location Monday, February 23, 2009 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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David Preston joined the Department of External Affairs in 1972 and has served abroad in Jakarta, Accra, Canberra and as High Commissioner to Bangladesh. In Ottawa, he has been a desk officer for the Anglophone Africa and Southeast Asia divisions, Deputy Director for the Japan Relations and Personnel Assignments divisions and Director for the U.S. Transboundary Relations Division and the Economic Relations with
Developing Countries Division. He has most recently completed an assignment as Director General, Central, East and South Europe Bureau. David Preston becomes Ambassador to the Republic of Poland in November 2005.
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Wednesday, February 25th Implications of the Gaza War: The Future of the Peace Process In the Middle East
Date Time Location Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:00PM - 9:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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David Makovsky, the director of the Washington Institute’s project on the Middle East Peace Process, will discuss the future of the peace process on Wednesday February 25th from 7:30 till 9 pm. With numerous books written on the subject, including his upcoming book Myths, Illusions and Peace, as well as his membership in the Council for Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies allow him to speak with great knowledge about the future of Israel and Palestine. With the change in the political climate in the region due to a nuclear Iran, the war in the Gaza Strip and the recent elections in Israel Dr Makovsky will help explore what effect these will have on the peace process.
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Thursday, February 26th IES Seminar on migration
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Date Time Location Thursday, February 26, 2009 9:00AM - 12:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Thursday, February 26th Gender and Politics: Constructions and Experiences of Alcohol Addiction in Western Ukraine
Date Time Location Thursday, February 26, 2009 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Two models of the ‘authentic’ Ukrainian woman are imagined as forms of feminine reclamation in the post-Soviet era. Late twentieth-century nationalists have recreated the Berehynia as goddess of the hearth, protector of family and nation. An alternative, which Ukrainian ethnographer Oksana Kis (2005) dubs the hyper-feminine Barbie, and describes as “a pretty and expensive doll” and “a pleasant man’s toy,” is more globally-informed. The most successful Barbie is one who attracts a husband, enabling her to simultaneously act out the role of the Berehynia. Both models define the accepted ‘centre’ and unaccepted ‘margins’ of women’s citizenship in the nation-state.
Gendered ideologies are deeply implicated in constructions of and responses to alcohol addiction in western Ukraine. Problematic drinking among men is met with a sympathy that women do not enjoy. For men, addiction reveals their inherent inflexibility, an inability to adopt or adapt to a changing social, economic and political “system of priorities and values.” For women, addiction primarily signifies a conscious abandonment of the sacred duty to protect family and nation. A difference is recognized between acceptable social suffering, that which provides laudable evidence of bravery, strength and endurance (e.g., coping with a husband’s or son’s addiction), and the unacceptable social suffering of those who have “fallen,” who have not overcome their personal circumstances to embody ‘authentic’ Ukrainian femininity. Many research participants, including health care professionals, recognize little or no relationship between addiction and a “lack of self-realisation,” family problems including violence, and anxiety brought on by social and economic pressures. Rather, addiction is most often attributed to a lack of moral fortitude. Accordingly, women who become addicted to alcohol are seen to have consciously rejected the very essence of Ukrainian womanhood. As such, women are especially reluctant to “confess” and seek treatment. The presentation will examine the relationship between addiction, gender, stigma and nationalism. Focussing upon the everyday experiences of women and men who self-identify as alcoholics or recovering alcoholics, I will explore the multiple ways that women pursue healing, and simultaneously, a shift from a marginalized periphery to a moral centre.
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Friday, February 27th "On Saturday All of Russia Goes to the Bania": Bathing and Hygiene in Late Imperial Russia
Date Time Location Friday, February 27, 2009 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Countless descriptions of everyday life in late imperial Russia testify to the importance of cleaning oneself in the bania or bathhouse for men and women, urban elites and peasants, business owners and factory workers, socialists and nationalists, and just about anyone else who could take the heat. This talk explores the prevalence of the bania across a wide spectrum of late imperial culture and questions the degree to which the conditions in urban and rural baths were conducive to public health and personal hygiene.
Ethan Pollock teaches Russian and Soviet history at Brown University, where he has been on faculty since 2006. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2000. His book, Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars (Princeton University Press, 2006; paperback 2008), examines Soviet politics, science, and ideology during the last years of Joseph Stalin’s life and the first years of the Cold War. His current research on the Russian bathhouse – or bania – explores questions of public and private space, sexuality, hygiene, and the body in the context of social and political upheaval and change. He has held post-doctoral fellowships in the history of recent science (George Washington University) and in Russian Studies (Columbia University) and taught at Syracuse University before moving to Brown.
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Friday, February 27th Theatre praxis and the dis/empowering of refugees in London
Date Time Location Friday, February 27, 2009 3:00PM - 5:00PM 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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Nira Yuval-Davis is a Professor and Graduate Course Director in Gender, Sexualities and Ethnic Studies at the University of East London. She is the past President (2002-2006) of the Research Committee 05 (on Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations) of the International Sociological Association, and is an elected member of the Academy of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. She has been a founder member of the international research network on women in militarized conflict zones and has served as an expert consultant to, among others, UNDP, Amnesty International and the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. Nira Yuval-Davis has published widely (19 written and edited books and more than a hundred refereed articles and chapters in books) on theoretical and empirical aspects of nationalism, racism, fundamentalism, citizenship and gender relations in Britain and Europe, Israel, and other settler societies. Her book Gender and Nation (Sage 1997) has been translated into seven languages. She is currently working on a monograph on Nationalism and Belonging (Sage, forthcoming) and is the Director of an ESRC funded research project on Identity, Performance, and Social Action: Community Theatre among Refugees.
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March 2009
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Monday, March 2nd Transborder Nationhood and the Politics of Belonging in Germany and Korea
Date Time Location Monday, March 2, 2009 2:00PM - 4:00PM 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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Rogers Brubaker has written widely on social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and ethnicity. His first book explored the idea of rationality in the work of Max Weber, while his essays on Pierre Bourdieu helped introduce Bourdieu to an English-speaking audience. His subsequent work analyzed European nationalism in historical and comparative perspective. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (1992) sought to explain the sharply differing ways in which citizenship has been defined vis-à-vis immigrants in France and Germany; Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (1996) compared contemporary East European nationalisms with those of the interwar period, both emerging after the breakup of multinational states into would-be nation-states. More recently, in a series of analytical essays, many of them collected in Ethnicity without Groups (2004), Brubaker has critically engaged prevailing analytical stances in the study of ethnicity and nationalism and sought to develop alternative analytical resources. His most recent book, Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town, co-authored with Margit Feischmidt, Jon Fox, and Liana Grancea, was published by Princeton University Press in 2006.
Brubaker has taught in the Department of Sociology at UCLA since 1991. Before coming to UCLA, he was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows of Harvard University (1988-1991). He has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (1994-99), a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation (1994-99), and a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1999-2000). He was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in 1995-96. Brubaker is a Senior Editor of Theory and Society and a member of the Editorial Board of numerous journals. He serves as a Recurring Visiting Professor in the Nationalism Studies Program of the Central European University in Budapest.
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Tuesday, March 3rd Is Ukraine a Failed State? Crisis, Confidence and Corruption
Date Time Location Tuesday, March 3, 2009 3:00PM - 5:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Having worked in the private and public sectors in Ukraine since 1991, Dan served for over ten years as a United Nations-sponsored senior governance adviser on rule of law, anti-corruption and public administration issues to two Ukrainian Prime Ministers, the Vice-Prime Ministers of Ukraine for Economic Affairs and for European Integration, the Cabinet Secretariat, and was twice chief of staff to the Minister of Justice of Ukraine, focusing on transparency, accountability and anti-corruption strategies in the Ukrainian justice system.
Following the “Orange Revolution” in December 2004, Dan was appointed a Member of the UNDP-sponsored Blue Ribbon Commission providing recommendations on a new wave of reforms to newly-elected President Victor Yushchenko and co-authored the proposals on judicial reform, governance and administrative reform. He was then was appointed by the President of Ukraine to the National Commission on the Strengthening of Democracy and the Rule of Law, established to direct Ukraine’s European integration process.
Dan has also advised the governments of Bulgaria and Lithuania with respect to the transformation of their respective systems of administrative justice.
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Tuesday, March 3rd Hasan-Arbakesh
Date Time Location Tuesday, March 3, 2009 4:00PM - 7:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Central Asia Program Film Screening
Description
Hasan-Arbakesh (Tajikistan, 1965) Director: Boris Kimyagarov
At first glance, Hasan-Arbakesh seems to tell an ordinary story about an arbakesh named Hasan, who has a cart and a horse and dreams of earning enough to marry his beloved. As in a traditional fairy-tale, Hasan is young and handsome, strong, determined and very much in love. The fairy-tale plot, however, is set against a very real historical background, which soon starts to interfere brutally with the romantic thrust of the story. The film was shot during the so-called ‘Thaw’ of the 1960s and contains a metaphorical protest against the establishment of Soviet regime in Tajikistan. Its main theme is the clash between the traditional Tajik culture, and the new ‘invading’ Soviet one. Unlike most of the ‘revolutionary’ films that were shot in the Soviet Asian republics and focused on the bloody fights between the ‘reactionary’ forces of traditional societies and the ‘righteous’ Soviet ‘liberators,’ Hasan-Arbakesh shows the process of peaceful sovietization, that nevertheless, ruthlessly reroutes the fates of its characters.
Discussion will follow the film.
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Thursday, March 5th UKRAINE: Trends and Perspectives
Date Time Location Thursday, March 5, 2009 2:30PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Daniel Caron, Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine since July 2008, will talk about Ukraine, its role in the region, its relations with NATO, the EU, Russia and Georgia and Canada-Ukraine bilateral relations; his presentation will be followed by a question period and discussion.
Ambassador Caron has occupied several senior positions with the Government of Canada over the last 27 years. Prior to his nomination as Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine, he was deputy head of mission and minister-counsellor at the Embassy of Canada in Mexico. He served at the Mission of Canada to the European Union in Brussels and as trade commissioner at the Consulate General of Canada in Boston. In Ottawa, he occupied positions in the Japan Division, the Northern Europe Division, he was part of the Canadian team that negotiated with France fishing rights around Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and completed an assignment as regional director with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
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Thursday, March 5th European Studies Career Roundtable
Date Time Location Thursday, March 5, 2009 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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An panel discussion on career paths, for senior undergraduate students and Masters’ students.
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Thursday, March 5th The Holodomor on Film
Date Time Location Thursday, March 5, 2009 7:00PM - 10:00PM External Event, Innis Townhall, Innis College, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Ave Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Ukrainian Cinema since Independence
Description
The series will present THE LIVING (2008), Serhiy Bukovsky’s new feature documentary on the Great Famine in Ukraine in 1932-33. The non-commercial free-of-charge screening of the film will be a de-facto Canadian premier of this critically acclaimed film by one of the most accomplished documentary filmmakers Ukraine has today.
Film synopsis:
They were children when everything was taken away from their parents. Children of farmers who lived on and tilled the world’s most fertile soil and who were thrown into the grip of hunger to die a slow agonizing death. Those who survived were destined to serve as an obedient army of slaves... Only now are these people beginning to talk about their experience. How their parents were whipped and driven towards a “bright future”. How every last possession was taken away. How whole villages were dying. And how they survived, despite it all... “I wish our generation had never been born,” says one of the witnesses.Ukraine failed to win its independence after the end of World War I, although it briefly had a chance. The results of that loss became clear at the end of 1920s, when Ukrainians found themselves face to face with the Bolshevist Empire.
The film interlaces the Holodomor tragedy with the global upheavals of the early 1930s: the collapse of economy in the USA, Hitler’s coming to power in Germany, Stalin’s war with the peasantry. This last group was defending private property, so they either had to acknowledge defeat, or die. But in 1933 peasants were left with no choice. The Ukrainian problem–any display of independent national policy–was meant to be solved at the same time.
The film also tells the story of Gareth Jones, a British journalist, whose investigative reporting was not heard in the West. Jones acts as a guide in this journey through history. Governments of numerous countries showed indifference to the suffering, even though they were informed about the situation in Ukraine. This is evident from numerous documents shown in the film. Stories of people who survived the Great Famine are interlaced with these documents and fragments of Gareth’s diaries, which he kept during his trip to Ukraine in March of 1933.
“What is your dream, baba Nastia?” Sergiy Bukovskiy asks one of the survivors. Her answer is short: “Death”. But these aging men and women, who survived hell on earth, are so real, so living and natural... They bring an agricultural society back to its feet and make it master of its own land. Only the living can rise again.
“The Living” is the best documentary film on the history of Ukraine I have ever seen. The filmmakers have achieved what no one before them was fully able to do-–to combine true historical facts and a genuinely emotional experience, and to present Ukrainian history in the context of world history. The result is not only a monument to those who perished [in the Holodomor] and a tribute to the survivors, but also a fervent, dignified missive to their descendants.”
Serhii Plokhii, the Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard UniversityThe film was funded by the International Charitable Fund “Ukraine 3000”
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Friday, March 6th Holocaust in Ukraine: screening and panel discussion
Date Time Location Friday, March 6, 2009 3:00PM - 6:00PM External Event, Innis Townhall, Innis College, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Ave Print this Event Bookmark this Event
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Ukrainian Cinema since Independence
Description
The series will present S. Bukovsky’s documentary SPELL YOUR NAME (2006). Produced by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education (http://college.usc.edu/vhi/), made possible by a generous grant from Victor Pinchuk, and in continued partnership with the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, Spell Your Name is a feature-length documentary about the Holocaust in Ukraine.
Bukovsky crafted the film using Ukrainian and Russian-language testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute archive and new footage shot on location in Ukraine. The film director takes the viewer on a journey of discovery as he and several Ukrainian students absorb the testimony of local people who escaped brutal execution and those who rescued friends and neighbours during the Holocaust. A collection of men and women share the details of their experiences, and we are afforded a glimpse of modern day Ukraine: the ethnic stereotypes that continue to exist and the manner in which Post-Soviet society is dealing with the question of how to memorialize the sites where tens of thousands of Jewish families and others were executed and thrown into mass graves.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Doris Bergen, Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Professor in Holocaust Studies, Frank Sysyn, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, and Yuri Shevchuk, the Ukrainian Film Club’s director.
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Monday, March 9th Kristallnacht as Experienced Then and as Seen Now/ Lecture by Gerhard Weinberg
Date Time Location Monday, March 9, 2009 4:30PM - 5:30PM 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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Gerhard L. Weinberg was born in 1928 in Hanover, Germany. He served in the US Army in 1946-47, took a history PhD at the University of Chicago, worked on Columbia University’s War Documentation Project, and established the program for microfilming the captured German documents. He taught at the Universities of Chicago, Kentucky, Michigan, and North Carolina, and has served on several US government advisory committees. Now retired, he is the author or editor of ten books including: World in the Balance: Behind the Scenes of World War II; Hitler’s Foreign Policy 1933-1939: The Road to World War II; A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II; Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders; and over 100 chapters, articles, guides to archives, and other publications.
Presented by the Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies and the Faculty of Arts and Science, with the support of the Canada Research Chair in Modern German History, Department of History, Centre for Jewish Studies and Joint Initiative in German & European Studies.
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Wednesday, March 11th Orientalism and Nationalism, Aryanism and Archaeology: Competing Discourses of Civilization in Germany and Iran
Date Time Location Wednesday, March 11, 2009 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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CERES Faculty Speakers' Series
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Wednesday, March 11th EU-Canada Relations
Date Time Location Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Thursday, March 12th Displaced people, Displaced Memory? Local Historical Identity in Ukrainian Galicia and Polish “Regained Lands”
Date Time Location Thursday, March 12, 2009 1:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Thursday, March 12th The Question of Guilt and the Turn toward the Future: Goldschmidt's "Guilt from the Standpoint of Judaism"
Date Time Location Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:00PM - 6:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Goldschmidt Memorial Lecture
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Thursday, March 12th On the Brink of Default? Ukraine, Europe, and the International Financial Crisis
Date Time Location Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:00PM - 8:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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2009 Wolodymyr Dylynsky Memorial Lecture in Ukrainian Studies
Description
The crisis currently gripping Ukraine’s banks has already permeated the broader economy, leading to cutbacks in production, rising unemployment, and a marked reduction in foreign trade. The political tensions arising from this crisis are evident in the dispute between Premier Tymoshenko and President Yushchenko over a way out of it. The European Union figures prominently in the current situation insofar as it is Ukraine’s single-most important trading partner, and its member states’ banks are the biggest investors into Ukraine’s ailing financial sector. Whether the EU and institutions like the IMF, EBRD and EIB can help Ukraine out of its current predicament will affect its long-term attitudes towards east and west. Right now, Ukraine’s leaders are looking carefully at how the core EU member states are dealing with Hungary, Latvia, and other new EU member states that have been badly afflicted by the same crisis.
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Friday, March 13th Fridays in Andijan: Localized Islam and the Erosion of Centralized Autocracy
Date Time Location Friday, March 13, 2009 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Eric McGlinchey (Ph.D., Princeton University, 2003) is Assistant Professor of Politics and Government at George Mason University. His areas of research include comparative politics, Central Asian regime change, political Islam, and the effects of Information Communication Technology on state and society. He has written articles on regime change and on political Islam for Democratization, Current History, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Freedom House’s Countries at the Crossroads, Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, and the Journal of Central Asian Studies. He is currently revising a manuscript on Patronage and Authoritarian Rule in Central Asia and is a co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation supported study, “The Effect of the Internet on Society: Incorporating Central Asia into the Global Perspective.” In addition to his academic affiliation, Professor McGlinchey is a member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Program on New Approaches to Russian Security and is an advisor to the Eurasia Program at the National Bureau of Asian Research.
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Wednesday, March 18th The Russo-Ukrainian gas conflict: origins and consequences for Ukraine's stability, Ukraine-Russia relations and Ukraine-EU-Russia relations
Date Time Location Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Thursday, March 19th – Friday, March 20th DAAD Conference
Date Time Location Thursday, March 19, 2009 9:00AM - 9:00PM The Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, 'Munk Centre For International Studies - 1 Devonshire Place Friday, March 20, 2009 9:00AM - 6:00PM 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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Twenty Years After: Dealing with the Heritage of Communism
An international conference at the Munk Centre for International StudiesMarch 19-20, 2009
Program:
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 20099:00 am:
Welcome address and introduction
Thomas Großbölting (Visiting DAAD Professor. Department of History, University of Toronto, and IGES Magdeburg)9:15 am
I: Lustration and Decommunization: A View from InsidePoland and its Contested Past –
Lukasz Kaminski (IPN Warsaw, Vice-Director of The Public Education Office)Deutschlands Umgang mit der DDR-Vergangenheit (How Germany Deals with the Past of the former GDR)
Marianne Birthler (Federal Commissioner of the Stasi Files, Berlin)Lustration in the Western Balkans: A Regional Overview
Nenad Sebek (Director of the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe, Thessaloniki)Discussant:
Jennifer Jenkins (Department of History, University of Toronto)1:30 pm
II: “Lessons from the Past”? Public Debates, Scientific Research, and their Effects on the Young Democracies and the European UnionThe Forgotten Velvet Revolution? Handling the Past in the Czech Republic
Tůma Oldřich (Institute for Contemporary History, Prague)Toward a New Antitotalitarian Consensus: Remembering the Dictatorial Past and Transition to Democracy in Germany after 1945 and 1989
Thomas Schaarschmidt (Zentrum Zeithistorische Forschungen Potsdam)Aufarbeitung”and “Geschichtspolitik” – The Contested GDR Past
Thomas Großbölting (Visiting DAAD Professor. Department of History, University of Toronto, and IGES Magdeburg)“The Need for International Condemnation of Crimes of Totalitarian Communist Regimes” – The Resolution 1481/2006 of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly and its Consequences
Göran Lindblad (Member of the Swedish Riksdag and The Council of Europe)Discussant:
Doris Bergen (History Department, University of Toronto)*
Introduction of A. James McAdams by Randall Hansen (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
Transitional Justice: The Issue that Won’t Go Away
James McAdams (William M. Scholl Professor of International Affairs, and Director, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame)Discussant:
Randall HansenFRIDAY, MARCH 20, 2009
9:15 am
III: Discourses and Practices in Post-Communist SocietiesLustration and its Effects in the Czech Republic
Pavel Žáček (Director of the Office for the Documentation and the Investigation of the Crimes of Communism Police of the Czech Republic, Prague)Ambiguous Recollections: An Anthropological Perspective on Memory Work in East Germany
Anselma Gallinat (Newcastle University)Options and Limits – Transitional Justice in Different East European Societies
Lavinia Stan (Department of Political Science, St Francis Xavier University)Discussant:
Gary Bruce (Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo)1:30 pm
IV: Establishing Democracies: Historical and Actual ComparisonsDealing with the Past in Spite of the Present: Transitional Justice in Chile
Claudio Fuentes (Director ICSO, Universidad Diego Portales)Memory Politics in Transition and Post-Transition: Experiences from Latin America
Cath Collins (School of Political Science, Universidad Diego Portales)The Truth and Reconciliation Process: The Experience of South Africa
Charles Villa-Vicencio (Former Director of Research, South Africa Truth and Reconcilation Commission)Discussant:
Judith Teichman (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)4:30 pm
Closing Session: New Ways and Perspectives to Face a Dictatorial Heritage: An Open DebateChair:
Randall Hansen (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto)
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Thursday, March 19th Historical Memory on WWII and UPA in Ukrainian Rock and Hip-Hop Music
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Date Time Location Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Friday, March 20th The Stickiness of National Perspectives on a European Immigration Policy
Date Time Location Friday, March 20, 2009 2:00PM - 4:00PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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The contents of the recent European Pact on Immigration and Asylum reconfirm the thesis that the EU’s member states are ceding their decision-making prerogatives on immigration-related matters but slowly, compromising only as much interdependence sovereignty as is necessary. As a result, the central questions persist: Is a comprehensive European immigration policy desirable and, if so, is it politically feasible?
Author’s Bio
Anthony M. Messina specializes on the politics of ethnicity, race, and immigration in Western Europe. He is the author of Race and Party Competition in Britain (1989) and The Logics and Politics of Post-World War II Migration to Western Europe (2007) and has either edited or co-edited Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the Advanced Industrial Democracies (1992), West European Immigration and Immigrant Policy in the New Century (2002), The Migration Reader (2006), and The Year of the Euro: The Social and Political Import of Europe’s Common Currency (2006). His articles have appeared in the numerous scholarly journals and anthologies. In July 2009 he assumes the position of John R. Reitemeyer Professor of Comparative Politics at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
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Monday, March 23rd Das Land hinter den Buchstaben / Beyond the Language of the Land
Date Time Location Monday, March 23, 2009 6:30PM - 8:30PM Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Description
Born in Ankara in 1961 and living in Germany since 1970, Zafer Senocak is a writer and intellectual whose publications have garnered several German-language literary awards and made him a leading contributor to German discussions of multiculturalism and cultural identity. He will read from a selection of literary and essayistic pieces in German and English and discuss the current state of (multi-)cultural life in Germany today.
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Tuesday, March 24th You Are Not An Orphan
Date Time Location Tuesday, March 24, 2009 4:00PM - 7:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Central Asia Program Film Screening
Description
You Are Not An Orphan (Uzbekistan, 1963)
Directed by Shukhrat AbbasovThe film is the story of an Uzbek family who gave shelter to 14 children evacuated to Uzbekistan during World War II while the family’s own son was drafted to the front. Children of different nationalities and ages learn to live together in one house – a veritable metaphor for the multi-national country itself. The Makamov family shelters a Russian, an Uzbek, a Jew and Lithuanian a Tatar, a Kazakh, etc. Every child gets into the family by accident but eventually stays on by the decision and the good will of the foster parents who realize that their house is a safe haven for the kids during the complicated times, certainly preferable to the orphanage. The film combines staple patriotic and internationalist ideas of the time with the affirmation of the national mentality of the Uzbek people. The film’s director, Shukhrat Abbasov, received the ‘Hamza,’ a State award of Uzbek SSR. The film was also awarded best screenplay prize at the first All-Union film festival in Leningrad, 1964.
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Friday, March 27th Bosnia's Genocide Case: Moral Claims and the Politics of Statebuilding in a Divided Society
Date Time Location Friday, March 27, 2009 12:00PM - 2:00PM Seminar Room 108N, Munk Centre For International Studies
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Tuesday, March 31st Roundtable: Migration Challenges in 21st Century Europe
Date Time Location Tuesday, March 31, 2009 10:00AM - 12:00PM 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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The aim of this public forum is to bring together leading scholars whose work focuses on immigration policy from a variety of perspectives in different European countries (including the post-Soviet region) to explore the challenges for migration policies in 21^st century Europe. Thus, this public forum provides an opportunity for a diverse range of faculty and graduate students, who often work in isolation, to meet and discuss issues of common interest and across national borders. It thus helps break down the tendency within the study of immigration policy to focus on individual national case studies. The inclusion of the post-Soviet region is intended to help integrate discussion of this important zone of international migration with the more established scholarly literature on immigration in North America and Western Europe.
Among the key issues/questions to be discussed are the following:
* national and regional particularities in the policing and
governance of immigrant communities;
* effects of differing national immigrant enforcement strategies,
especially with respect to situation of “the undocumented”
* changes in immigrant enforcement strategies, border control, and
policing of different communities in the post-9/11 period
* policing of immigrant youth groups and gangs on the micro- (or
local) level
* the ambiguities of national policies and legislation, and their
enforcement or non-enforcement by local officials and police,
including the phenomena of corruption and malfeasance in the
enforcement of immigration controls
* strategies by which members of immigrant groups negotiate their
legal status and enforcement controls
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