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Results For 2007

The Economics of Global Turbulence: The Advanced Capitalist Economies from Long Boom to Long Downturn, 1945-2005

A book discussion with author ROBERT BRENNER, Professor of History, UCLA, and discussant RICHARD WALKER, Professor of Geography, UC Berkeley.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Recovering Nazi-Looted Art

Lecture by Randol Schoenberg, Attorney
Thursday, January 18, 2007
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Mobility, Migration, and Minorities in Postcolonial France

A public lecture by Nacira Guénif-Souilamas, University of Paris
Friday, January 19, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union

A book discussion lecture with author GEOFFREY HOSKING, Professor of History, University of London, and discussant ARCH GETTY, Professor of History, UCLA.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Labor market outcomes of immigrants in Denmark: Using or losing human capital?

Lecture by Shahamak Rezaei, Roskilde University, Denmark
Monday, January 29, 2007
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Information Services During War: A Croatian Example

A public lecture by Kornelija Petr, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Sciences, University of Osijek, Croatia, and Fulbright Scholar, School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University
Thursday, February 01, 2007
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Graduate Student Colloquium in Armenian Studies

The Armenian Graduate Student Association of UCLA
Friday, February 02, 2007
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Revisionism in Soviet History in Retrospect

A public lecture by Sheila Fitzpatrick, Professor of History, University of Chicago.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, & Postsocialism on the Black Sea

A book discussion with author Kristen Ghodsee, Gender and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College. Discussant: Gail Kligman, Department of Sociology, UCLA and CEES Director
Thursday, February 15, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Men, Mines and Mosques: Gender, International Aid and Islamic Revivalism on the Edge of Europe

A public lecture by Kristen Ghodsee, Bowdoin College
Thursday, February 15, 2007
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Eleventh Annual Winter Workshop in Medieval and Early Modern Slavic Studies

Byzantine, Kievan, Comparative; Muscovite and Early Modern Studies
Friday, February 16, 2007
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Is Democracy Possible in the Balkans? On the Debates in and on Bosnia, Kosovo/a, and Serbia

A public lecture by SUSAN WOODWARD, Professor of Political Science, City University of New York
Thursday, February 22, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Teaching About World Religions in Public Schools

A Two-Day Symposium for Educators February 27-28, 2007 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
8:30 AM - 3:30 PM

Embodying the Birds-Eye View: Early Swedish Cinema and the Ecological Imagination

Lecture by Christopher Oscarsson, Brigham Young University
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

The Politics of Sexual Harassment: A Comparative Study of the United States, the European Union, and Germany

A book discussion with author Kathrin Zippel, Sociology, Northeastern University. Discussant: Abigail Saguy,Sociology, UCLA
Thursday, March 01, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

The role of foreign investments in Central and Eastern Europe: economic transformation and the possibility of catching up

A lecture by Ivan Berend, History, UCLA
Friday, March 02, 2007
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

A Cautionary Tale: Revisiting Ceausescu's Anti-Abortion Policies

A public lecture by Professor Gail Kligman, UCLA Sociology, CEES Director
Thursday, March 08, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Should scholars 'waste time' translating?

A panel discussion with Andrzej Tymowski, Co-organizer of the Social Science Translation Project and Director of International Programs at ACLS; Michael Heim, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA; and Bin Wong, Professor of History and Director of the UCLA Asia Institute
Monday, March 12, 2007
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Power Without Land? Jews and Warfare in Modern Europe

A public lecture by Derek Penslar, Jewish Studies, University of Toronto
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology

A book discussion with authors: Slavoj Zizek, University of Ljubljana, Kenneth Reinhard, UCLA, and Eric Santner, University of Chicago. Discussant: Christopher Wild, UCLA
Thursday, March 15, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Europe / Middle East Intersections

K-12 Teachers' One-Day Seminar
Saturday, March 17, 2007
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM

The Ebb and Flow of the Armenian Communities of the Indian Ocean

International Conference, March 17-18, 2007. UCLA International Conference Series on Historic Armenian Cities and Provinces. Sponsored by the Armenian Educational Foundation Chair in Modern Armenian History
Saturday, March 17, 2007
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM

Ebb and Flow of the Armenian Communities of the Indian Ocean

International Conference, March 17-18, 2007
Sunday, March 18, 2007
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation

A book discussion with author Alexei Yurchak, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, and discussant Akhil Gupta, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
Thursday, April 05, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Mephistos 25 Conference

A Graduate Student Conference in the History, Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy of Science, Technology, and Medicine -- April 6-8, 2007 at UCLA
Friday, April 06, 2007
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Muslim Mobilization in Post - 9/11 America

A public lecture by Mehdi Bozorgmehr, City University of New York - Graduate Center
Monday, April 09, 2007
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Trajectories of insertion of migrant entrepreneurs in the Netherlands

A public lecture by Robert Kloosterman, University of Amsterdam, Economic Geography
Thursday, April 12, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Multicultural Citizenship: Muslims in the West

A public lecture by Tariq Modood, University of Bristol
Monday, April 16, 2007
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Racism Disguised as Ethno-Pluralism: The French and the German New Right

A public lecture by Rainer Eisfeld, University of Osnabruck, Political Science
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

EU Expansion - three years later

The Impact of the European Union on Central Europe Challenges and Opportunities of the 2004 Accession Decision
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Changing Gender Policies in Turkey: the Challenge of Complying with EU Conditionality

a public lecture by Gül Marshall, Sociology, University of Louisville
Thursday, April 19, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Exploring Europe's Muslim Diaspora via Social Movement Theory

A public lecture by Tara Leweling (Major), Naval Postgraduate School
Monday, April 23, 2007
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Environmental Hotspots and Discourse in East Central Europe during the Cold War

Upcoming seminar in the Environmental Science Colloquium (UCLA IOE)
Monday, April 23, 2007
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Dealing with Difficult Pasts: Collective Memory and Politics in the Germanies, 1945-2005

Lecture by Jürgen Kocka, Freie Universität Berlin
Thursday, April 26, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Clash Within Civilization? Europe's Headscarf Debate in Philosophical Perspective

A public lecture by Peter O'Brien, Trinity University
Monday, April 30, 2007
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Kornei Chukovsky Diary, 1901-1969

A book discussion with translator MICHAEL HEIM, Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA. Discussants: DONALD FANGER, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, and VYACHESLAV IVANOV, Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Labor Casualization, Precarious Work and Social Movements in France

A public lecture by Beatrice Appay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France)
Thursday, May 03, 2007
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Who's Afraid of Middle Eastern and Muslim Diasporas?

A public lecture by Gabriel Sheffer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Monday, May 07, 2007
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Hyphenating Afghaniyat (Afghan-ness) in the Afghan Diaspora

A public lecture by Mir Hekmatullah Sadat, Claremont Graduate University
Monday, May 14, 2007
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Global Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

How is the world responding to this serious health crisis? Panelists will discuss responses and share experiences from Latin America, The Caribbean, Africa and Eastern Europe. Special keynote by Stephen Lewis, Former UN Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa.
Friday, May 18, 2007
9:30 AM - 4:00 PM

CEES Book Discussion Series 2007-08

Authors present their recent work
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CEES Faculty Lecture Series

UCLA Faculty discuss their latest research
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