Papers from Europe and the United States in the Long Run

Friday, May 21

9:20 Opening remarks: Miles Kahler , Director, IICAS

9:30 Panel: Comparative Capitalisms
Co-Chairs: Peter Gourevitch and Ellen Comisso, UCSD
Jonah Levy, UC Berkeley
Dan Treisman, UCLA
J. Nicholas Ziegler, UC Berkeley

11:30 Lunch for Participants

1:15 Panel: Immigration, Integration and Social Cohesion Chair: William Chandler , UCSD
James Hollifield, Southern Methodist University "Tolerance or Intolerance? Immigration, race and the Median Voter in Europe"
Dietrich Thränhardt, University of Münster "Naturalization and Multiple Citizenship: Germany and the Netherlands Compared"
Xavier Escandell, UCSD "The Role of Civic Institutions in Explaining Anti-immigrant Sentiment in Southern Europe"
John Fox, UCSD "Hungarian Migration"
Discussant: Wayne Cornelius, UCSD

4:00 Keynote Speaker: Volker Berghahn

Europe in the ‘American Century,' 1900 – 2000

Fung Auditorium, Powell-Focht BioEngineering Hall (open to the public)

Seth Low Professor of History and Director of the Institute for the Study of Europe at Columbia University , Berghahn specializes in modern German history and European-American relations.

Saturday, May 22

8:45 Panel: Emotions, Culture, and Politics: The History of Transatlantic Relations|
Co-Chairs: Frank Biess and David Luft , UCSD
Frank Costigliola, University of Connecticut "Emotions, Identity, and Cultural Difference: Americans and British in Soviet-Occupied Poland , 1944-45"
Andreas Daum, University of Buffalo "Rethinking Transatlantic History"
Uta Poiger, University of Washington "Americanization and Popular Culture in 1960s East and West Germany"

10:30 Break

10:45 Panel: Literature/Film/Theatre Across the Atlantic
Co-Chairs: Stephanie Jed and Cynthia Walk, UCSD
Clarissa Clo, UNC-Chapel Hill
Fatima El-Tayeb, U. of Tennessee , Knoxville
Gerd Gemünden , Dartmouth "Introduction"
John Rouse , UCSD

12:30 Lunch for Participants

1:30 Panel: The “new” Europe , the “old” Europe , and the U.S.
Chair: Patrick Patterson, UCSD
Andrew Janos, UC Berkeley
Fatma Muge Gocek, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor
Gale Stokes, Rice University "Europe: The Necessary Partner"

3:15 Closing Discussion:  Europe and the United States in the Long Run

Co-sponsored by the Institute on Global Conflict & Cooperation (IGCC), the Delegation of the European Commission in Washington DC , and the UCSD Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, the Dean of Social Sciences, and the Office of Graduate Studies and Research.