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NEW!!!
EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR CENTER FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES
UNDERGRAUDATE SUMMER RESEARCH FUNDING.CES
Please see the "Funding Sources" page.
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The Center for European Studies presents a
Workshop on the Future of European Capitalism
Friday, March 28, 2008
1.30 - 5.30 pm
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center
Description: This half-day workshop will examine the future of Continental European capitalism, in particular as developed in France, Germany, and Italy, and will consider the influence of these original core Member States on the European Union as a whole. What are the strengths and weaknesses of Continental (or “Rhine”) capitalism? How will it adapt to the challenges of the 21th century, such as the globalization of markets and economic competition based increasingly on the generation of new knowledge and technology? Has Continental capitalism shaped the institutions and policies of the EU and will it continue to do so? Or will the EU dismantle what is left of Continental capitalism?
Speakers:
- Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics, Harvard University
- Peter Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies, Harvard University
- Jonas Pontusson, Professor of Politics, Princeton University
Discussants:
- Pablo Beramendi, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Duke University
- Herbert Kitschelt, Professor of Political Science, Duke University
- David Soskice, Research Professor, Political Science, Duke University
1:30-3:00 - First Session - Presentations - Herbert Kitschelt, Chair
20-minute presentations on the workshop themes by each of the speakers. Each presentation will be followed by an open debate and a short break.
3:00-3:30
Coffee break
3:30-5:30 - Second Session - Roundtable Discussion - Francesca Bignami, Chair
The discussants will open a roundtable with the speakers, followed by debate among them and with the audience. Links to background papers by Professors Hall and Pontusson can be found below.
Hall Background#1 Hall Background#2 Pontusson Background
Parking coupons for the Medical Center parking garages on Erwin and Trent will be available to cover the cost of parking.
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Kosovo's Independence: The Politics, Legality, and Philosophy of Secession
Monday, March 24, 2008
12:15 – 1:15 PM - Room 3037 - Lunch served
Prof. Tibor Várady and Prof. Allen Buchanan
On February 17, 2008 the parliament of Kosovo unilaterally declared the province to be fully autonomous and independent from Serbia (background and a first legal analysis can be found here). Since then, a number of states in the region have argued that the secession violates international law and that any state recognizing such secession is also in violation of international law. On the other hand, the U.S. and many member states of the European Union have supported the declaration of independence. The Center for International & Comparative Law is pleased to welcome two leading scholars who will present their views on the Kosovar assertion of independence from their particular perspectives.
Tibor Várady, Professor of Law at Emory University since 1999, served on the faculty of the Novi Sad Law School in the former Yugoslavia and as director of its Center for International Studies for many years. He was Minister of Justice of Yugoslavia (in the government of Mr. Panic) from June 1992 to March 1993. Since July 1993 he has been professor at the Legal Studies Department of the Central European University in Budapest, and Chairman of the International Business Law Program. He is an internationally recognized scholar and expert on international trade, commercial transactions, and dispute settlement.
Allen Buchanan, James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy and Policy Studies at Duke University, has written extensively on the topic of state secession and the intersection of ethics, politics, and international law, including a 2003 book titled Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law. In 1996 Professor Buchanan has served as consultant to the European High Commissioner on National Minorities in the Hague on alternative modes of self-determination, short of full independence, for national minorities. He was commissioned by the Office of the Privy Council of the Canadian government to write a commentary on the Canadian Supreme Court Reference Ruling on the Possible Secession of Quebec, in 1997.
Lunch will be served.
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Jacques Revel
Thursday, March 27, 5.30 pm
240 John Hope Franklin Center
"Religions, History and Society: A debate around 1720"
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Friday, March 28, 11.00 am- 1.00 pm
Faculty Commons, Union Building, upper level
Jacques Revel, the distinguished cultural and social historian will come to Duke University March 27-29, 2008. The centerpiece of Professor Revel’s stay will be a major public and interdisciplinary lecture on the afternoon of March 27. He will also meet with graduate students interested in European history, literature and culture for a Round Table discussion and lunch on Friday March 28, 2008.
Professor Revel is currently a directeur d’études at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and is
the Global Distinguished Professor of History at New York University. In the course of his career, he has been an influential
mediator of different historical practices on the French as well as the international stage. He was President of the EHESS from 1995 to 2004 and is a longstanding member of the editorial board of Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales. His many
publications include A Politics of Language: The French Revolution and Patois, with Michel de Certeau and Dominique Julia
(1975); Les universités européennes du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle, with Roger Chartier and Dominique Julia (1989); Histories:
French Constructions of the Past, with Lynn Hunt (1996); Jeux d’échelles (Scales in Play: An Experiment in Micro-Analysis)
(1998); the five-volume Histoire de la France series, co-edited with André Burguière (2000); and Political Uses of the Past:
The Recent Mediterranean Experience with Giovanni Levi (2002). In one of his more recent publications, Un parcours critique.
Douze essais d'histoire sociale (2006), Revel uses his work on European social practices during the Ancien Régime to offer a
personal reflection on how historical methodology evolves and changes as scholars from around the world exchange ideas and
practices.
Though Professor Revel’s early success was due in large measure to his work with the French Annales school, it was his ability to develop historical methodology being practiced in other parts of the world (particularly in Italy and Germany) that established him as one of the leading scholars in Europe.
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Between Republicanism and Cosmopolitanism: Hannah Arendt on Post-National Democracy in Europe
Professor Lars Rensmann, University of Michigan, Dept. of Political Science, and Moses Mendelssohn Center, University of Potsdam
Friday, March 28, 2008
12.00 - 2.00 pm
204 Breedlove Room, Perkins Library
Professor Rensmann's biography can be found at:
http://polisci.lsa.umich.edu/faculty/lrensmann.html
Cosponsored by the Program for the Study in Democracy, Institutions, and Political Economy, the Gerst Program in Political and Economic Studies and the Center for European Studies.
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The Future of EU-US Relations
Angelos Pangratis
Deputy Head of Delegation, Delegation of the European Commission, Washington, DC
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
12.15 - 1.15 PM
Room 3037, Duke University School of Law
Angelos Pangratis [Pagkratis] is the senior career official serving at the Delegation of the European Commission to the United States, in Washington, DC. He is the Deputy Head of Delegation, the Ambassador and Head of Delegation being John Bruton, ex-Prime Minister of Ireland.
Mr. Pangratis will speak on the economic and political issues at the cutting edge of the EU-US relationship. He will cover areas of converging interests as well as issues on which the EU and the US still remain divided.
Biographical Note:
Angelos Pangratis is the former Ambassador and Head of Delegation for the European Commission’s Delegation to Argentina (2003-05). He also served at senior functions in the Delegations of the European Commission in South Africa (1995-1997) and South Korea(1990-1994).
Highlights of Mr. Pangratis' career at the EU's headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, include being Head of Unit responsible for relations with China, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, South Korea and Mongolia (1998-2003); Head of Unit for Personnel and Budget of the Directorate General: External Relations and Trade Policy (1997-1998); Head of Investigation teams of the Anti-Dumping and Anti-Circumvention Division (1987–1990), to name but a few positions. Mr. Pangratis has represented the European Commission at numerous Multilateral Organizations (WTO, OECD, Club de Paris, UNCTAD, others).
Mr. Pangratis lectured at universities in the Czech Republic, France, Belgium, United Kingdom, Korea, South Africa, Argentina and the United States. He had articles and interviews on EU matters published in many countries.
Angelos Pangratis was born on the island of Corfu, Greece (1956), and is married with three children. Mr. Pangratis speaks Greek, French, English and Spanish. He has obtained a doctorate from the University of Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne (1983) in International Economics, Monetary Policies and Finance. This followed studies in Economics, European Studies and International Law at the Universities of St.-Etienne, Paris I and Paris II.
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Marketing Muslim Women 2008 International Conference
Duke Islamic Studies Center
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MARKETING MUSLIM WOMEN
an international conference
April 10 - 12, 2008
John Hope Franklin Center
Presenters and participants in this conference will explore images of Muslim women, such as the ubiquitous image of the veiled Muslim woman, that have gained international currency through circulation in the media. We will examine the cultural, political, and economic forces that manufacture such images for consumption and how women act as both producers and consumers of these images.
This conference has three broad goals:
1. To provide a forum for exploring how gender is constructed and contested in Islamic tradition and how certain images circulate both within and beyond Muslim cultures;
2. To bring Islamic Studies scholars into conversation with those in other disciplines whose work may not focus on Islam or the Muslim world but who share interests in gender, culture, and power;
3. To appeal to faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and community members and to provide opportunities for different levels and styles of engagement with these issues.
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Tayyibah Taylor,“Azizah: Vogue for the Muslima”, April 10, 2008, 5:00 - 6:30 (Global Center, UNC-CH)
Nawal El Saadawi,“Muslim Women in the Market”, April 11, 2008, 12:00 - 1:00 (John Hope Franklin Center)
Shirin Ebadi, April 11, 2008, 5:30 - 7:00 (White Auditorium, Duke University)
Minoo Moallem, April 12, 2008, 12:15 - 2:00 (John Hope Franklin Center)
WORKSHOP TOPICS:
“Sexuality”~ Ara Wilson
“Fashion” ~ Banu Gökarikse
“Colonialism” ~ Rebecca Stein
“Representations” ~ Farzaneh Milani
CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS AND PAPERS (subject to change):
- Fashion
- Carla Jones, “Aestheticizing Cultivation: The Gendered Work of Islamic Consumption in Urban Indonesia”
- Siham Furaih, “Souk Wajif (Harim Market)”
- Majorie Kelly, “Shopping Images, Purchases, and Fashion in Kuwait”
- Zaki Nur’aeni, “Muslim Womenhood: A Tie of Religiosity and Brands’ Commodity”
- Junko Toriyama, “The Impact of Global Consumerism on the ‘Authentic’ Female Muslim Body in Contemporary Cairo”
- Nabiha Jerad, “Marketing Hijab”
- Literature
- Roksana Bahramitash, “Women of the Market Instead of Marketing Women: Turning Mosques into Schools Instead of Reading Lolita in Tehran”
- Marilyn Booth, “The Muslim Woman as Publisher Celebrity: Girls of Riyadh Go to New York”
- Juliane Hammer, “A Market for Our Voices: Personal Narratives of American Muslim Women”
- Brinda Mehta, “Negotiating Arab Identity and Gender Ideologies in the Parisian Housing Projects: Faiza G?’s Kiffe Kiffe Demain”
- Renata Pepicelli “The Emergence of ‘Halal’ Literature in Europe: Leila Aboulela and her Novels”
- Media
- Anne Meneley “How to Hijab like Rayyan Hamoudi: Muslim Fashion and Its Followers in Little Mosque on the Prairie”
- Noor al-Qasimi, “Shampoo: Editing, Advertising, and the Codes of Modesty in Saudi Arabian Television”
- Faegheh Shirazi, Pornography and Images of Muslim Women
- Shelina Kassam, “Marketing an Imagined Muslim Woman: Muslim Girl Magazine & the Politics of Representation”
- Knowledge Production
- Margot Badran, “The Secular and Religious in Muslim Women’s Lives and Knowledge Production”
- Azza Basarudin, “(Re)defining Faith, (Re) packaging Muslim?: Living Islam in the 21st Century (The Cases of Sisters in Islam in Malaysia)
- Nancy Gallagher, “The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and the Marketing of Muslim Women”
- Sondra Hale, “Marketing ‘Female Circumcision’: Commodities, Colonial Discourse, and Muslim Women’s Bodies”
- Rula Qawas, “Women’s Studies Centers in Middle East: Marketing Scholarship”
Conference Cosponsors:
Duke University Cosponsors: Women's Studies; Center for European Studies; Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies; Cultural Anthropology; Kenan Institute for Ethics; Asian & African Languages & Literature; Department of English; International Comparative Studies; African & African American Studies; Human Rights Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Cosponsors: Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations; FedEx Global Education Center; Department of Geography; African Studies Center
Robertson Scholars Program; Trent Foundation
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