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2007-2008 Events

September
27 - Reading & Conversation: Womens Words without Borders; Acclaimed poets Adrienne Rich and Montserrat Abelló will read from their work and engage in a conversation on poetry, political commitment, and the affinities revealed through translation; co-sponsored by Institut Ramon Lllul, NYU's Creative Writing Program, and The Catalan Center at New York University; 7:00 p.m. at the Silver Center, Jurrow Hall, 100 Washington Square East, between Waverly and Washington Place; program

27-28 -  Symposium: Pere Portabella: A Catalan Master Filmmaker in New York (At Last), co-sponsored by The King Juan Carlos of Spain Center and The Catalan Center at New York University; King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, 1st Floor Screening Room; symposium program

28 - Gender in Transition workshop: Jasmina Lukic, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Gender Studies, Central European University, Budapest;  "Gender, War and Postwar Trauma: Women's Writing in the Balkans in the 1990's"; 4:00-6:00 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

October
1 - European History workshop: Brigid O'Keefe, Doctoral Candidate, NYU Department of History; "Lessons in Backwardness: Educating Roma in the early Soviet Union"; 12:15-1:45 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 8th floor conference room

11 - Colloquium: Katherine Verdery, Department of Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center; "The Propertied person in a socialist state: Romanian collectivization in the 1950s"; 4:55-6:00 p.m. at the Silver Center, 100 Washington Square East, Room 408; co-sponsored with the Anthropology Department at New York University

22 - Presentation: Stefaan De Rynck, Strategy and Communications, Commission of the European Union; "From the EU Constitution to the Reform Treaty: Changes and Consequences"; 12:30-2:00 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

26 - Gender in Transition workshop:  Emily Schuckman, Adjunct Instructor, Department of Modern Languages and Literature, Montclair State University; "Doubly Other": The Prositute as Lesbian: Representations of Prostitution in Contemporary Russian Literature and Film"; 4:00-6:00 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

November
5 - European History workshop: Ben Kafka, Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU Steinhardt; "Equal Parts Nature and Government: the History of 'Bureaucracy' in France, 1750-1850"; 12:15-1:45 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 8th floor conference room

8 - Film Screening and Discussion with the Director: Pau i el seu germà (Pau and His Brother), by Marc Recha; sponsored by the Catalan Center at NYU; 6:00-9:00 p.m. at 53 Washington Square South, 1st floor screening room

9 - Presentation: Katja Weber, Associate Professor and Co-Director of EU Center, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology; "Governing Europe's Neighbourhood: Partners or Periphery"; 12:30-2:00 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

16 – Gender in Transition workshop: Wanda Nowicka, Founder and Executive Director, Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning; "Poland, More Catholic than the Pope?: An update on recent changes in reproductive rights, the October 21 election, and the country's role in the EU"; 4:00-6:00 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

19 - Eurasian Connections workshop: Nikolai Ssorsin-Chaikov, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University and Ol'ga Sosnina, Kremlin Museum, Moscow; "The Making of a Post-Soviet Public: Exhibiting Gifts to Soviet Leaders at the Kremlin Museum, Moscow"; 5:00-7:00 p.m. at 25 Waverly Place, Room 706; for more event information, go to http://www.nyu.edu/projects/eurasia

27 - Poetry Reading and Discussion: Translating Jacint Verdaguer into Words and Music with Ronald Puppo and Antoni Pizà; sponsored by the Catalan Center at NYU; 6:30-8:30 p.m. at 53 Washington Square South, 1st floor screening room

December
3 - Roundtable: Martin Schain (NYU), Simon Reich (University of Pittsburgh), Michael Minkenberg (NYU/Viadrina University Frankfurt), Sylvia Maier (NYU); "Immigration, Integration, and Security: Transatlantic Perspectives"; 12:00-2:00 p.m. at NYU Deutsches Haus, 42 Washington Mews

6 - Dialogue on Art and Memory: Dark Rooms of Memory: Visions of Trauma in the Works of Francesc Torres with Francesc Torres and Arthur Danto; sponsored by the Catalan Center at NYU; 6:30-8:30 p.m. at 53 Washington Square South, 1st floor screening room

7 - Gender in Transition workshop: Voichita Nachescu, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Cener for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Rice University; "The Visible Woman: Interwar Romanian Women Writers, Modernity, and the Public/Private Divide"; 4:00-6:00 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

10 - European History workshop: George R. Trumbull IV, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Institute of French Studies, NYU; "Science Taken for Wonders: The Ethnography of Popular Religion and the Fashioning of Algerian Primitivism"; 12:15-1:45 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 8th floor conference room

January
18 - Gender in Transition workshop: Rasa Erentaite, NGO New Generation of Women's Initiatives (Vilnius) and Coordinator of Intergenerational Feminist Dialogue Group of the European Feminist Forum; Renata Blumberg, PhD student,  Department of Geography, University of Minnesota; Arnoldas Blumberg, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, CLA, University of Minnesota; "Feminism, Fun and Generations: Young Feminist Movements in Lithuania and the Region"; 4:00-6:00 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

February
6 - Eurasian Connections workshop: Paul Werth, Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; "Faith in Empire: Religious Conversion and International Debates on Imperial Russia's Caucasian Frontier"; 5:00-7:00 p.m. at 19 University Place, Great Room, 1st floor

8 - Presentation: Paul Hockenos, journalist and political analyst, author of Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkan Wars and Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe and most recently Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany; "Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic"; 3:00-5:00 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

14 - Max Weber Salon: Michael Minkenberg, Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies, NYU; "E Pluribus Unum in Australia? Notes from a Research Visit Down Under"; 3:30-4:45 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

21 - Max Weber Lecture Series: Michael Minkenberg, Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies, NYU; "New Capitals in New Nations: Comparative Perspectives"; 6:00-8:00 p.m. at 19 University Place in the Grand Room

28 - Max Weber Lecture Series: Kenneth Bowling, Co-Editor, The First Federal Congress Project, George Washington University; "'Bundesdorf or Bundesstadt?' States' Rights versus Federal Power in the Creation and Evolution of Washington, D.C."; 6:00-8:00 p.m. at 19 University Place in the Grand Room

29 - Gender in Transition workshop: Sonja Lokar, Coordinator of the CEE Network for Gender Issues and Chair of the Stability Pact Gender Task Force; "Gender Empowerment Strategies in the Balkans, Georgia, Armenia, and Western Russia"; 4:00-6:00 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

March
6-7 - Symposium: "A Mind for the Ages: Ramon Llull, Doctor Illuminatus," presented by The Catalan Center at New York University with the co-sponsorship of The King Juan Carlos of Spain Center, the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, and the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at NYU; King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 53 Washington Square South, 1st Floor Screening Room; symposium program

10 - European History workshop: Laura Lee Downs, Directrice d'études, EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales); "'Each and every one of you must become a chef.' Toward a social politics of working-class childhood on the extreme right in 1930s France"; 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

10 - Max Weber Salon: Riva Kastoryano, Research Director, CERI/SciencesPo, Paris; "Turkey and Europe"; 4:30-5:45 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

13 - Max Weber Lecture Series: Jürgen Neyer, Viadrina University; "Images of Power: The European Union and its Architecture"; 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Deutsches Haus, 42 Washington Mews

26 - Language Acquisition Assessment workshop: Lyle F. Bachman, Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESL at the University of California, Los Angeles;"Justifying the Use of Language Assessments"; 6:45-8:25 p.m. in the Cochran Room, 239 Greene Street, 2nd floor

31 - European History workshop: Kathleen Canning, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan; "Sexual Crisis, Citizenship and the State of Emergency in Germany, 1916-1920"; 12:15-1:45 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

31 - Mediterranean Studies symposium: Isabelle Rohr and Lidia Santarelli, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, NYU: "Mediterranean Fascisms and the Jews: A Discussion of Franco's Spain and Mussolini's Italy"; 7:15 p.m. at the King Juan Carlos Center, 53 Washington Square South, 1st floor screening room

April
3 - Max Weber Lecture Series: Christoph Asendorf, Viadrina University; "Berlin: Three Centuries as a Capital"; 6:00-8:00 p.m. at 19 University Place in the Grand Room

4 - Gender in Transition workshop: Marian Rubchak, Professor at Valparaiso University; "Collective Memory in Ukraine and Women's Identity"; 4:00-6:00 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

9 - Eurasian Connections workshop: Alexander Knysh, Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Michigan; " Islam and Empire in the Northern Caucasus; 5:00-7:00 p.m. at the Kevorkian Center, Ettinghausen library, 50 Wash. Square south at 255 Sullivan Street

17 - Max Weber Lecture Series: Jean Louis-Cohen, New York University; "Paris and the French State: Representation and Control"; 6:00-8:00 p.m. at 19 University Place in the Grand Room

18 - Gender in Transition workshop: Anna Wilkowska, Human Rights Lawyer; "Gender Equality Legislation in the CEE and CIS. Enforcement mechanisms and strategies: Do they really work?"; 4:00-6:00 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

May
2 - Max Weber Lecture Series: Klaus von Beyme, Universität Heidelberg; "Capital Building in Post-War Germany"; 4:00-6:00 p.m. at the Deutsches Haus, 42 Washington Mews

8 - Max Weber Lecture Series: Terry Kirk, American University of Rome; "Building Fascist Bodies: The Foro Mussolini in Rome, Metaphysics and Homoeroticism"; 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the Deutsches Haus, 42 Washington Mews

16 - Gender in Transition workshop: Selma Leydesdorff, Professor of Oral History and Culture, Department of Arts, Religion and Culture, Amsterdam; "When your Friends and Neighbors become Enemies. Listening to the Tales of Survivors of Srebrenica"; 4:00-6:00 p.m at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room

June
6 - Gender in Transition workshop: Magda Grabowska, A.B.D., Women's and Gender Studies Department, Rutgers University; "Catholicism and Religion in Polish Feminism"; 4:00-6:00 p.m. at 285 Mercer Street, 7th floor conference room