UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies http://www.international.ucla.edu/euro Educating Global Citizens en-us Wolfgang Nehring Nehring, UCLA professor of Germanic languages, is quoted today in a Chicago Tribune article about Herta Mueller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature. http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=112465 2008-09 CEES Graduate Student Funding Award Recipients Dissertation/Pre-Dissertation Fellowships and Language Study Grants. http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=111535 Shush! Growing Up Jewish under Stalin: A Memoir A book talk with author EMIL DRAITSER, CUNY Hunter College, Russian Division, and discussant DAVID MYERS, UCLA, History http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=108897 Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration A book talk with author TODD PRESNER, UCLA, Germanic Languages, and discussant PAUL LERNER, USC, History http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=108896 Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany A book talk with author RUTH MANDEL, University College London, Anthropology, and discussant SUSAN OSSMAN, UC Riverside, Anthropology http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=108882 For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia A book talk with author ROBERT CREWS, Stanford University, History, and discussant ADRIENNE EDGAR, UC Santa Barbara, History http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=108881 Mass Privatization and the Postcommunist Mortality Crisis A public lecture by LARRY KING, Cambridge University, Sociology http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=108880 The Last Soviet Dreamer: Conversations with Leonid Potemkin A public lecture by JOCHEN HELLBECK, Rutgers University, History http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=108879 Shifting Standards in European Human Rights Rulings In his contribution to an EU-backed project to study the impact of the European Court of Human Rights on selected countries, visiting professor Haldun Gulalp of Turkey's Yildiz Technical University observes the court preferring some models of church- and mosque-state relations to others. In "freedom of religion" cases, France and Turkey fare better than Greece and Bulgaria. http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=108856 Professor Rogers Brubaker Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences CEES congratulates Professor Brubaker on his election to the American academy of Arts and Sciences! http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=107796 Professor Marina Goldovskaya Receives Scolarship and Preservation Award CEES congratulates Professor Goldovskaya for receiving the 2008 Scolarship and Preservation Award from the International Documentary Association! http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=107559 Historian Looks Back on Fall of Communism 20 Years Ago Visiting professor Jurgen Kocka, a modern social historian at the Free University of Berlin, gave a lecture that kicks off more than a year of talks, conferences and film screenings organized by the Center for European and Eurasian Studies. An international conference about 1989's events and a film series are set for November. http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=105903 The EU Cohesion Program A public lecture by MICHAEL STORPER, UCLA, Urban Planning http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=105824 Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic A book talk with author ROMAN KOROPECKYJ, UCLA, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and discussant BETH HOLMGREN, Duke University, Slavic and Eurasian Studies http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=105819 The Collapse of Communism in Europe 1989 - Causes and Consequences A public lecture by JURGEN KOCKA, Free University Berlin; Visiting Professor, UCLA, History http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=105792