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Fall 2002



Thursday, November 21, 2002

Shiffman 219
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
The Center, in cooperation with the Program in European Cultural Studies, the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, and the Martin-Weiner-Lecture Fund presented:
The Annual Lecture in European Cultural Studies:

"The Works of E. M. Cioran"

by Richard M. Howard,
poet and translator, New York City.

Monday, November 4, 2002

Luria 1,2,3 (Harold Hassenfeld Conference Center)
5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Andrei S. Markovits
currently Visiting Professor of Social Studies at Harvard University and Professor of Politics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, discussed his book
OFFSIDE: SOCCER AND AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
published by Princeton University Press. Professor Markovits just completed a six-city lecture tour of Germany where he presented the German edition of his book called IM ABSEITS: FUSSBALL IN DER AMERIKANISCHEN SPORTKULTUR published by Hamburger Edition. Dutch and Chinese translations of the book are being completed. For more information: click here.

Tuesday, October 29, 2002

12:30 - 1:30 Luncheon with invited guests at the Faculty Club
2:00 - 5:00 public event in Levine Ross (Harold Hassenfeld Conference Center on campus)
A New Anti-Semitism?
The European Press and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Participants:
Martin Burcharth, US correspondent for Information (Danish newspaper)
Wolfgang Koydl , US correspondent for Süddeutsche Zeitung
Larry Lowenthal, The American Jewish Committee, Chapter Director, Boston
Martin Wagner, ARD Radio; born 1954 in Wuerzburg (Germany), Mr. Wagner has been at the Bayerischer Rundfunk (German Public Radio ARD-BR) since 1979. From 1989 - 1996, he was the ARD-Radiokorrespondent in Tel Aviv, and since 2001, he is the US-Correspondent for German Public Radio ARD-BR.

Monday, October 28, 2002

Olin Sang 207
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Rüdiger Löwe
TV journalist, editor and producer of political TV discussions will speak about
The German Elections:
The Significance for Germany and the Impact on German-American Relations
Refreshments were served.

Friday, October 25, 2002

In cooperation with the National Center for Jewish Film and the Wasserman Fund, the Center for German and European Studies presented the German director and film maker

Frank Beyer

He is the director of such famous and highly acclaimed films like "Naked Among Wolves" (1963), "Jacob the Liar" (1974), "The Hiding Place" (1977), and "The Break" (1989).

2:00 - 4:00 p.m. First Screening of "Naked Among Wolves" in the Wasserman Auditorium (Sachar building); Frank Beyer was available for questions and discussion.
4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Documentary about Frank Beyer's work and life - He attended the discussion and was available for questions and discussion.
8:00 - 10:00 p.m. Second screening of "Naked Among Wolves" in the Wasserman Auditorium (Sachar building). Frank Beyer was available for questions and discussion.

Wednesday, October 23, 2002

Shiffman 125
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

"Making Women Visible in German Language and Culture"

German feminist, Luise Pusch and Rita Jo Horsley, met with students and had a discussion about her work. It took place in the context of the seminar on Women in German Culture (GECS 150a, From Rapunzel to Riefenstahl). For more info on Luise Pusch and her work, please visit her website.

Thursday, October 3, 2002

Shiffman 124
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.

CGES Reception for the Kompaktseminar

CGES welcomed the members of the Kompaktseminar (professors and students from the University of Augsburg, Germany) who were here following the invitation of Professors Whitfield (AMST) and Burt (ENG) of Brandeis University. Everyone was cordially invited to attend.

Spring 2002


The Center for German and European Studies at Brandeis University, in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Foundation Washington, D.C., are proud to announce the publication of the papers given at the conference on International Green Politics last November. This publication was edited by Sabine von Mering and Sarah Halpern-Meekin.

INTERNATIONAL GREEN POLITICS:
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction (Sabine von Mering)
  1. European Greens in Government: Challenges to Green Politics
    • Post-Westphalian Party: The German Greens (Carl Lankowski)
    • European Green Party Policy -- The Austrian Green Party (Franz Floss)
    • Green Politics in France (George Ross)
    • The Evolution of Greens in Europe (Arnold Cassola)
  2. Green Politics in the United States
    • Running for President on the Green Party Ticket: Barriers to Third Party Entry (Theresa Amato and Ralph Nader)
    • Staying Green While Building the Green Party in the United States (Annie Goeke)
    • Corporations and the Environment: Strong Environmental Laws Remain Critical (Laura Goldin)
  3. Greens and Global Environmental Politics
    • Kyoto Protocol and Global Environmental Challenges (Grace Akumu)
    • The Two Sides of Globalization: Global Citizen's Movements Face Down Multinational Corporations to Protect Wilderness (Ari Hershowitz)
    • The Double Nexus of Security, Globalization, and Sustainable Development (Sascha Müller-Kraenner)
To obtain a free copy of this publication, please email your mailing address to: european@brandeis.edu.

Tuesday, May 7, 2002

Harold Hassenfeld Center
Luria 1,2,3
2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Crisis in European Democracy: The Rise of the Extreme Right

A Roundtable Discussion with Members of the Brandeis Faculty:
Jytte Klausen (Politics)
Paul Jankowski (History)
James Mandrell (Romance and Comparative Literature)
Antony Polonsky (Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
George Ross (Politics and Sociology, Director of CGES)

Monday, May 6, 2002

1:00 p.m
Golding 107

Democracy in the Age of the Euro
Nicolas Jabko
Institut d'Etudes Politiques Paris and Institute for International Affairs at Princeton University

Tuesday, April 30, 2002

2:00 p.m.
Usdan Conference Room C

Professor Angelika Bammer (Emory University)
"(In)compatible Memories? Holocaust and War in Hamburg Memorials"

Lecture with Slide Presentation.

Professor Bammer is Associate Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Program in Culture, History, and Theory at The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has since taught at Bryn Mawr College, Vanderbilt.

University, and Emory. She has published widely, for instance on concepts of the utopian (Partial Visions: Feminism and Utopianisnm in the 1970s, Routledge, 1991), and on the relationship between identity and place (Displacements: Cultural Identities in Question , Indiana Univ. Press, 1994). Her current work turns on issues of memory and memorialization in European modernity (Ways of Forgetting: History - Memory -Narrative) and post-1945 (Memory Work).

Co-Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program at Brandeis University.

Tuesday, April 23, 2002

3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Shiffman 122
The Center for German and European Studies and the Department of Romance and Comparative Literature were proud to present

José F. A. Olivier
Writer-in-Residence at M.I.T
Poetry Reading and Performance, with Discussion

José F. A. Oliver was born in Hausach, in the Black Forest region in Southwestern Germany, but is also of Andalusian heritage. José Olivier sets his poetry to his own music. He performed in Spanish and German, masterfully singing to his guitar, and the discussion with the students of GER 121 and SPAN 161 was in English.

Please see websites at MIT or Harpur College for more information.

Saturday, April 13, 2002

8:15 p.m.
Edie and Lew Wasserman Cinematheque,
Sachar International Center, Brandeis University
The CGES at Brandeis University is proud to sponsor

Jewishfilm.2002: From Kaifeng to Megiddo

in cooperation with the National Center for Jewish Film and the Goethe Institut Boston

GLOOMY SUNDAY

Germany, 1999, 114 minutes
German with English subtitles
Directed by Rolf Schubel

Lazlo, a Jewish restaurant owner, hires Andras as a piano player at his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires Andras to create his successful but ominous composition "Gloomy Sunday." Their erotic ménage-a-trois sprials out of control when a German businessman enters the scene. This highly charged dramatic romance, based on the novel by Nick Barkow (1999), dramatizes the story of a notorious "suicide hymn" written by Rezso Seress in the 1930s in Budapest.

Discussant: Sabine von Mering, CGES. Admission is free for Brandeis students and faculty with ID.

April 8, 2002

Shiffman 218

The Berlin Castle (Berliner Stadtschloß) and the Debate About Its Reconstruction
Wilhelm von Boddien, Chairman of the Förderverein Berliner Stadtschloß

will present a lecture with slides. The Förderverein tries to argue the case to rebuild the former Berlin Castle, the "Stadtschloß", on its original site in Berlin.
For more information, please klick here.
Light refreshments will be served.


The CGES in cooperation with the Department of Sociology, the Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences and the Martin Weiner Lecture Fund presented:
William Finnegan
author and journalist for The New Yorker
Student Movements in the Modern World
William Finnegan, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, is also author of Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country; A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique; Dateline Soweto: Travels with Black South African Reporters; and Crossing the Line: A Year in the Land of Apartheid, which was named one of the ten best non-fiction books of 1986 by The New York Times Book Review.

Friday, March 15, 2002

3:30 p.m.
Olin-Sang 207

The Sovereignty Principle in a Global Democracy: Thoughts on Transforming the System of Nation States
a talk by Professor Matthias Lutz-Bachmann,
Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Thursday, March 14, 2002

1:00-2:30 p.m.
International Lounge (Usdan Student Center)

Jochen Kersten,
Professor of Sociology, University of Konstanz, Germany
presented a lecture on:
Skinheads and Hooligans

Joachim Kersten is Professor of Sociology at the University of Applied Police Sciences in the Black Forest town Villingen. He also teaches at the University of Konstanz and Zurich University. Until April 2001 he taught Political Science at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He has also held positions at the University of Melbourne/Australia, Rikyo University Tokyo/Japan as Asahi Fellow, and the University of Limburg in Maastricht / The Netherlands. Among his most recently published books are Gut und (Ge)Schlecht (on gender, violence and culture) and Der Kick und die Ehre (on post-unification youth violence in Germany).

Tuesday, March 12 2002

7:00 p.m.
At The Wasserman Cinematheque, Sachar International Center
The Center for German and European Studies was proud to co-sponsor this event with the Goethe Institute Boston, under the leadership of The National Center for Jewish Film

Boston Premiere of Shadows of Memory
with the director Claudia von Alemann
Germany, 2000, 43 minutes, video
German with English subtitles

The filmmaker reunites with her mother in the small East German village of Seebach, the location from which their family fled after being expatriated. The dialogue between them reveals a disturbing but rarely heard point of view on Nazism: that of an average German citizen, a housewife and mother of six, who believed in Hitler.
(All tickets $6 Brandeis faculty and students free with ID )

Saturday, February 2, 2002

4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Slosberg Recital Hall

Annual Lecture in European Cultural Studies
GEORGE PERLE
Composer and Musicologist
Alban Berg's "New" Lyric Suite



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