IICAS launched the European Studies Initiative in 2002 to build a focal point for
faculty, students, and members of the San Diego community who share an interest
in contemporary Europe. The central aim of the Initiative is the construction of
a European Studies program at UCSD.
The European Studies undergraduate minor is a brand new program at UCSD. For more information about the European Studies undergraduate minor, click here.
2007-08 European Studies Events
IICAS European Studies presents: German Film Series: Moving History
The Unknown Soldier / Der Unbekannte Soldat
with Introduction and Discussion by SDSU
Professor Lawrence Baron
Monday, May 5, 2008
6:00 - 8:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 104
University of California, San Diego
RSVP to iicastemp@ad.ucsd.edu
The German Film Series: Moving History is part of the Literatures of the World 4B: History and Memory in Germany course. The Unknown Soldier (dir. Michael Verhoeven) is a documentary film which exposes the involvement of "ordinary" German soldiers in the Nazi crimes against humanity.
Directions and parking information are available here.
For more information on the German Film Series: Moving History, click here.
Sponsored by IICAS European Studies, the Judaic Studies Program, and the Department of Literature. |
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Tax Protest in European Welfare States
with Professor Isaac Martin,
UC San Diego
Monday, May 12, 2008
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
University of California, San Diego |
Abstract:
Why do some societies protest taxes more than others? New data on rates of
tax protest in rich countries in the late 20th century reveal that patterns of tax protest
correspond closely to the institutional organization of capitalism. Tax protesters were
typically responding to efforts to liberalize the economy, and protest was most prevalent in "mixed market economies" where pressure to liberalize was most acute. Much of the tax protest
in European welfare states in the late 20th century can be characterized as a backlash against
neoliberal reforms to the welfare state and the economy.
Biography:
Isaac Martin is an assistant professor of sociology in the UCSD sociology
department. His book, The Permanent Tax Revolt (Stanford University Press), was a co-winner of
the 2007 President's Award from the Social Science History Association. His current projects
concern the comparative patterns of tax protest in capitalist democracies and the historical
origins of rich people's movements in the 20th century United States.
Directions and parking information are available here.
Sponsored by IICAS European Studies. |
IICAS European Studies presents: German Film Series: Moving History
Sonnenallee
with Introduction and Discussion by UCSD
Professor Patrick Patterson
Monday, May 19, 2008
6:00 - 8:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 104
University of California, San Diego
RSVP to iicastemp@ad.ucsd.edu
The German Film Series: Moving History is part of the Literatures of the World 4B: History and Memory in Germany course. Sonnenallee (dir. Leander Haußmann), represents Germany's Ostalgie (nostalgia for the East) in a comedy about teenagers in East Germany in the 1970s. This screening is a rare opportunity to see a film not available for wide US release.
Directions and parking information are available here.
For more information on the German Film Series: Moving History, click here.
Sponsored by IICAS European Studies, the Judaic Studies Program, and the Department of Literature. |
Dr. Andreas Pretzel , from the Technical University of Berlin:
"Homosexual Survivors of the Nazi Concentration Camps and their Post-war Struggles"
Thursday, October 4, 2007, 5:00- 6:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 104
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Dagmar Herzog, from City University of New York;
Atina Grossman, from The Cooper Union;
Andreas Pretzel, from the Technical University of Berlin:
"Eros and Jewish Fate in Modern Germany"
Friday, October 5, 2007, 12:00-1:30 PM
Social Sciences Building, Room 107
Co-sponsored by the UCSD Judaic Studies Program and European Studies at IICAS.
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Cinema Sud, The Art of Italian Cinema
www.cinemasud.com
October 12th - 25th, 2007
Hosted by the Museum of Photographic Arts: Directions
Professor Esra Ozyurek, from the University of California, San Diego:
"Turkish Christians and German Muslims: Cultural Racism, Fears of Religious Conversion, and National Security in the New Europe"
Thursday, January 31, 2008, 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 107
Professor Armin Owzar, from the University of Münster, Germany:
"Rivalry and Competition, Catholicism, Protestantism and Islam in German East Africa"
Thursday, February 7, 2008, 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Humanities and Social Sciences Building (HSS), Room 6008
"The Lives of Others / Das Leben der Anderen"
with introdution and discussion by UCSD Professor Emeritus Cynthia Walk
Monday, April 14, 2008, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 104
Professor Ian Hunter, from the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia:
"Instituting the Other: Poststructuralism as Academic Discipline"
Friday, April 18 , 2008, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Social Sciences Building (SSB), Room 101
Nina Zhiri, from the UCSD Department of Literature;
Kaare Strom, from the UCSD Department of Political Science;
Harun Kucuk, from the UCSD Department of History:
"What is Europe? A Roundtable Discussion"
Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 12:30 - 2:00 PM
ERC Admin Building, Room 115
Co-sponsored by European Studies at IICAS.
2006-07 European Studies Events
Nikolaus Wachsmann, from Birkbeck College, University of London:
"Nazi camps and prisons: towards a comparative history of confinement in the Third Reich"
Tuesday, November 7, 2006, 12:00- 2:00 PM
Galbraith Room, HSS, 4th floor
Patrick Patterson, from the University of California, San Diego:
"In Defense of Christian Europe? Religious Politics and the Future of Islam in Europe after 1989"
Thursday, April 26, 2007, 12:00-1:30 PM
Social Sciences Building, Room 104
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the IGCC
Ferruh Yilmaz, from the University of California, San Diego:
"Islamaphobia: How the right culturalized politics in Europe"
Tuesday, May 8, 2007, 12:30- 2:00 PM
Social Sciences Building, Room 104
Andy Markovits, from the University of Michigan:
"Sports Cultures on Two Continents: Metaphors for My Life”
Wednesday, May 16, 2007, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Faculty Club
Andy Markovits, from the University of Michigan:
"Understanding the Rise of Anti-Americanism in Europe"
Wednesday, May 16, 2007, 7:00 - 8:30 PM
Robinson Auditorium
Bill Chandler, from the University of California, San Diego:
“Interpreting the French Presidential Election of 2007”
Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 12:00 -1:30 PM
ERC Admin Building, IICAS Seminar Room 115
Hans Wendler, from the University of California, San Diego:
"Comparing 11/9 and 9/11 - A European Point of View"
Thursday, June 7, 2007, 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Social Sciences Building, Room 107
2005-06 European Studies Events
Simon Hix:
"State of the European Union "
Tuesday, August 16 , 2005, 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Social Sciences Building, SSB, Room 107
Joerg Himmelreich, from the German Marshall Fund, DC:
"Germany after the Election: A New German Foreign Policy? "
Monday, October 3, 2005, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
ERC Admin Building, IICAS Seminar Room 115
Christian Deubner:
"France and Europe"
Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 12:00 - 2:00 PM
ERC Admin Building, IICAS Seminar Room 115
Christian Deubner:
"France and Europe After the Referendum 'NON' "
Tuesday, November 1, 2005, 5:00 - 6:30 PM
Cognitive Sciences Building, CSB, Room 001
Lars Vissing, Ambassador, Royal Danish Embassy:
"Cultural Aspects of European Integration"
Monday, November 7, 2005, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
ERC Admin Building, IICAS Seminar Room 115
William Chandler & Tracy Strong, UCSD;
Eiko Thielemann, London School of Economics & Political Science;
Maurizio Albahari, Political Science, UC Irvine:
"The French Social Crisis"
Wednesday, November 16, 2005, 12:00 - 2:00 PM
ERC Admin Building, IICAS Seminar Room 115
2004-05 European Studies Events
Michael Herzfeld, from Harvard University
Monday, January 24, 2005, 3:00 PM
Social Sciences Building, SSB 105
William Drozdiak, President, America Council on Germany
Thursday, January 27, 2005, 4:30 - 6:30 PM
Social Sciences Building, SSB 107
Margaret Anderson, from the University of California, Berkeley
Monday, January 31, 2005, 3:00 - 5:30 PM
Deutz Conference Room, Institute of the Americas
Co-sponsored by IICAS and the Department of History
Akos Rona-Tas, from the University of California, San Diego:
"The Worm and the Caterpillar"
Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 12:00 PM
ERC Admin Building, IICAS Seminar Room 115
Stephen E. Flynn, from the Center for Foreign Relations:
"American the Vulnerable"
Monday, February 28, 2005, 4:30 - 6:00 PM
Weaver Center
Joan Pujolar, from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain:
"Moroccan and West-African Women in Catalan Language Courses in Catalonia: Issues of Identity and Power"
Friday, March 4, 2005, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Social Sciences Building, SSB 103
David Luft:
"The Austrian Tradition in German Culture: An Intellectual History"
Wednesday, March 9, 2005, 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Social Sciences Building, SSB, Room 107
Julian Nida-Ruemelin, former Minister of German culture:
"Cultural Identity and the Future of Europe"
Thursday, March 10, 2005, 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Faculty Club, UCSD
Peter Katzenstein, from Cornell University:
"Anti-Americanism in Europe"
Thursday, April 14, 2005, 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Social Sciences Building, SSB, Room 107
Nina Berman
Friday, April 15, 2005, 3:00 PM
De Certeau Room 3155, Literature Building
Richard Evans:
"The Holocaust on Trial: Truth and Politics in David Irving Trial"
Thursday, April 21, 2005, 3:00 PM
History Department, Galbraith Room
Ruth Kluger:
"Landscapes of Memory", a reading from the best-selling memoir, Still Alive
Tuesday, May 3, 2005, 4:00 PM
Mandeville Center Auditorium
Ruud Koopmans:
"Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe"
Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Eleanor Roosevelt College, IICAS Seminar Room 115
Carol Pfaff:
"Ideological and Political Framing of Bilingual Development: Reflections on Studies of Turkish/German in Berlin"
Friday, May 20, 2005, 12:30 - 2:30 PM
Social Sciences Building, SSB, Room 103
2003-04 European Studies Events
"Europe and the U.S. in the Long Run"
May 21-22, 2004, UCSD
Workshop Agenda (PDF)
Papers
European Union Enlargement and Transatlantic Relations: A Distinguished Speaker Series
- Theo Somer:
"Transatlantic Relations in Crisis"
Monday, February 2, 2004, 4:00 PM
Weaver Center
- Hans Joas:
"Max Weber, Charisma, and the Origins of Human Rights"
Friday, February 20, 2004, 1:00 PM
Social Sciences Building, SSB, Room 107
- Stephan Bierling:
"The End of the West: The US and Europe after the Cold War"
Friday, March 12, 2004, 12:00 - 2:00 PM
Social Sciences Building, SSB, Room 104
- Robert Hormats:
"Prospects for Repairing the Transatlantic Rift"
Thursday, April 8, 2004, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Weaver Center
- Volker Berghahn:
"Europe in the 'American Century', 1900 - 2000"
Monday, May 21, 2004, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
Fung Auditorium
2002-03 European Studies Events
"Eastern Enlargement of the European Union: Confronting New Unknowns"
May 22-24, 2003
UCSD
European Union Enlargement and Transatlantic Relations: A Distinguished Speaker Series
- William Chandler & Juan Diez-Medrano, from the University of California, San Diego;
Istvan Szent-Ivanyi, from the Commission for European Integration, Hungarian parliament:
"European Studies Initiative Public Policy Forum: Expanding Europe"
January 22, 2002
- Charles Kupchan, from Georgetown University:
"The End of the American Era: The United States and Europe in the 21st Century"
February 6, 2003
- Etienne Balibar, from the University of Paris X:
"The United States and the European Union: Power and Weakness"
March 10, 2003
- Hans Dieter Klingemann, from Free University, Berlin:
"Eastern Enlargement of the European Union and the Identity of Europe"
March 12, 2003
- Christopher Hill, from the London School of Economics and Political Science:
"The European Union and the United States after the Iraq War"
April 8, 2003
- Andrew Jacovides, former Cyprus Ambassador to the US; Ambassador to Germany, Permanent Representative to the United Nations:
"EU Enlargement, Cyprus, and the Greek-Turkish Cypriot Conflict"
April 10, 2003
- Christopher Hill, from the London School of Economics and Political Science:
"A Common Foreign Policy? European Foreign Policies After 9/11"
April 17, 2003
About European Studies Faculty Lunches
In 2004, a series of quarterly European Studies faculty lunches was initiated to provide
a forum for informal scholarly interaction and a venue for guest speakers on topics of
mutual interest. Topics and meeting times vary; lunch is provided. To join the European
Faculty Lunch series mailing list, please contact IICAS (
iicas-events@ucsd.edu). or subscribe to receive European Studies Email Alerts via the IICAS
subscription site.
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