The Claremont-UC Undergraduate Research Conference on the European Union will be held April 6-7, 2006 at Scripps College in Claremont, California.  All topics and statements must be submitted by March 6, 2006. Individual papers are due on March 20, 2006.  For additional information about the European Union Center, as well as its calendar of events, please visit the Center's website.  Please email John Harper, the conference coordinator or contact him at (909) 607-8263 with any questions.

Call for Papers: Jean Monnet Conference on "Europe's Democratic Challenges- EU Solutions?"

The University of Trento, along with its partner universities, the University of Pittsburgh, Bratislava and Carleton University, will host a n EU conference. The objective of the conference is to examine some of the most important questions facing European democracy.  Details for the conference and the seminar series may be found on their website. 

Andrei Lankov is a Lecturer at Australian National University and one of the foremost historians of North Korea. A graduate of Leningrad State University, he has written widely on North Korean political and social history, with a particular emphasis on the state's formative period. In particular, his two books--From Stalin to Kim Il Sung (2002) and 1956: The Challenge to Kim Il Sung and the Failure of Destalization (2005)--draw on Soviet-era archives to provide an unusually detailed and nuanced portrait of the origins of the North Korean regime. Recently he has written on the question of North Korean refugees, including the problems of their resettlement in the South and both Chinese and Russian policy toward the Korean peninsula. Dr. Lankov also has an interest in the social and cultural history of the Korean peninsula and the history of everyday life, and writes a regular and widely-read column on these issues for the Korea Times.  Sponsored by the IR/PS Edwin O. and Haru Reischauer Memorial Lecture Series and the Institute for International and Comparative Area Studies (IICAS).

U.S. Immigration Speaker Series Continues

On Wednesday, February 8, 2006, Dr. Joseph Carens will be giving a lecture as part of the U.S. Immigration Speaker Series sponsored by IICAS, CCIS, and the California Western School of Law.  The lecture, entitled "Live-In Domestics, Seasonal Workers, Foreign Students, and others Hard to Locate on the Map of Democracy," will start at 3:00 PM and will be held in the Meridian Room at Eleanor Roosevelt College, map building number 430.  This lecture is free and open to the public and refreshments will be served afterwards.  For directions to the Meridian Room, click here.

Joseph H. Carens is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University and taught at North Carolina State University, Lake Forest College, and Princeton University before coming to the University of Toronto in 1985. He is the author of Culture, Citizenship and Community (Oxford University Press, 2000) which won the 2002 C. B., Macpherson prize of the Canadian Political Science Association for the best book published in political theory in the previous two years. He has also written or edited three other books and over fifty journal articles or book chapters. He is currently writing a book on immigration, democracy and citizenship.

"Consequences of Contact"

The Workshop on Language Ideology and Change in Multilingual Communities series will continue with Dr. Bambi Schieffelin from New York University's Department of Anthropology and Dr. Miki Makihara of CUNY's Queens College and the Graduate Center.  Dr. Schieffelin will give a lecture entitled "Found in translating: Theories of mind across time and texts" concerning reported speech and thought in Papua New Guinea while Dr. Makihara will discuss "Language Ideology and Linguistic Registers on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)."  The colloquium will occur Wednesday, February 8, 2006 2:00 PM in the Social Sciences Building Room 103 (SSB 103 Ethnic Studies Conference Room).  A reception will follow at 3:30 in the Spiro Library of the Anthropology Department, SSB 269.  Open and free to the public.

"Japan's Economic Future in Historical Perspective"

Sponsored by the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, Dr. Hugh Patrick will be lecturing on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 from 4:00 - 5:30 PM at the Gardner Room at IR/PS.  For directions to IR/PS, please click here.