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Monday, November 16, 1 2- 2 pm
Andrea Graziosi ( University of Naples), "Stalin’s Foreign and Domestic Policies: Dealing with the National Question in an Imperial Context, 1901-1926"
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7359
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
Using Stalin’s Works, the talk will explore the role played by the linkage between the national question, and national policies, and international relations in the evolution of Stalin’s foreign policy conceptions between 1901 and 1926. The analysis will proceed by temporal blocks linked to Stalin’s formative stages and activities. It will sketch the categories Stalin adopted, or personally elaborated, during each block, and follow their evolution in the following stages. The relevance of Stalin’s experience in dealing with the national question in the Tsarist and Soviet contexts in the formation of his “inter-national” ideas and strategies, as well as that of these ideas and strategies for Stalin “high” foreign policy, 1939-1953, will be discussed.
Monday, November 16, 1-3 pm
Andres Kasekamp (Professor of Baltic Politics,University of Tartu, Estonia), “The War of Monuments and the Politics of History in Estonia”
Large Conference Room, 2098, Sidney Smith Hall
Sponsored by Elmar Tampold Chair of Estonian Studies
The lecture will discuss identity, memory politics and contested histories in an ethnically divided society, using as its case study the removal of a Soviet war memorial in Tallinn which caused an international crisis between Russia and the European Union in 2007.
Monday, November 16, 3:30-5:30 pm
Ralph Lysyshyn (Ambassador to the Russian Federation with concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Armenia), “Canada-Russia Relations and Cooperation in the Arctic and the North”
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=8218
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and European Studies Program
Ralph Lysyshyn joined the Department of External Affairs in 1972 and served abroad in Moscow, Lagos, Washington and Brussels, where he was Minister Counsellor at the Canadian Mission to NATO from 1990 to 1994. In Ottawa, he was seconded to the Privy Council Office in 1978 and 1979. At Headquarters, Mr. Lysyshyn held a number of positions, including Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Division and, from 1994 to 1998, that of Director General, International Security and Arms Control Bureau. From 1998 to 2002 he served as the first President of the Forum of Federations. From 2002 to 2005, he was Canada’s Ambassador to Poland and Belarus
Monday, November 16, 6-8 pm
Gerhard Weinberg ( Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Pope Pius XII in World War II: The Pope and Systematic Slaughter of Civilians During the War”
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=8346
George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place 8-9 pm reception, South Lounge, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies.
Gerhard Weinberg is a German-born American diplomatic and military historian noted for his studies in the history of World War II. Weinberg currently is the William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received his MA (1949) and PhD (1951) in history from the University of Chicago. Weinberg's early masterpiece was the two-volume history of Hitler's diplomatic preparations for war: The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany (1970 and 1980; republished 1994). In 1994, he published a 1000-page one-volume history of the Second World War, A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Weinberg continued his studies of the World War II era after the publication of his general history by examining each of the major wartime leaders’ visions for a post-victory world. It was published in 2005 as Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II Leaders.
Tuesday, November 17, 12-2 pm
Gerhard Weinberg ( Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “The Treaty of Versailles: Another Look”
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=8328
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies. Light lunch will be provided.
Tuesday, November 17, 6 - 8 pm
Annual Ukrainian Famine Lecture
Andrea Graziosi (University of Naples, Italy), "The Holodomor and the Soviet Famines, 1931-33"
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7358
Combination Room, Trinity College (6 Hoskin Avenue)
Co-sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, the Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, Toronto Branch, the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, and the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine.
The lecture will discuss the relations between the pan-Soviet 1931–1933 famines, and special phenomena such as the Kazakhstan famine-cum-epidemics of 1931–1933 and the Ukrainian-Kuban Holodomor of late 1932 to early 1933. On the one hand, it will analyze their common causes and their common background; on the other, it will focus on the specific traits of these major tragedies, addressing their relations with Stalin's decisions and policies in Moscow as well as with local conditions. A discussion of the genocide issue, and of recent controversies, will be followed by some thoughts on the Holodomor's consequences for Ukraine.
Wednesday, November 18, 5-7 pm
Gerhard Weinberg ( Professor Emeritus of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “German Resistance to Hitler: New Issues”
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=8327
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies.
Thursday, November 19, 12-1:30 pm
CERES Faculty Speakers' Series
Kate Holland (University of Toronto), "Dostoevsky as Editor: Conflicting Visions of Russian Modernity in The Citizen"
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7637
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
This talk will explore Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1873 editorship of the conservative journal The Citizen, arguing that the journal provided a crucial arena for the staging of the multiple conceptions of Russian modernity which would shape his later novels “The Adolescent” and “The Brothers Karamazov”. It will examine how Dostoevsky’s involvement with The Citizen encouraged him to think about Russia’s social transformation as opening up the need for new ways of representing contemporary reality, new modes of literary and journalistic expression for the emerging historical moment.
Thursday, November 19, 3- 5 pm
Paul Hagenloh (Associate Professor of History, The Maxwell School of Syracuse University), " Stalin’s Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926-1941"
Registration:http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7669
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
November 20-21
International Conference: “AFTER THE WALL WAS OVER: PERFORMING THE NEW EUROPE” Event website: http://www.uc.utoronto.ca/content/view/811/2710/
Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79A St. George Street
Sponsored by Centre for Comparative Literature, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Science, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University College Drama Program
Friday, November 20, 5:30-7:30 pm
Ukraine's Electoral Battle: Will 2010 Presidential Election Change the Nation's Course?
Participants: Serhiy Kudelia (Petro Jacyk Post-Doctoral Fellow, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy), Lucan Way (University of Toronto), Marta Dyczok (University of Western Ontario). Chair: Peter Solomon (University of Toronto).
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7707
Room 208, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored bythe Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine.
Tuesday, November 24, 6-8 pm
Peter Collmer (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Zurich), “On the Brink of Modernity -
Power and the Organization of Knowledge in 18th Century Poland”
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=8248
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and Chair in Polish History
The modernity of a state relies not least on its ability to handle information and to centralize knowledge. This was one of the key problems of the early bureaucratization process in 18th century Poland. Lacking the unifying force of absolutistic leadership, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, with its variety of cultures, local traditions, and competing authorities, could hardly establish a common understanding of administrative realities. The lecture will start with a discussion of Saxon influences and then try to shed light on the 'Polish way' of bureaucratic modernization.
Thursday, November 26, 11 am-1pm
Oksana Zabuzhko, “Being a Writer in Contemporary Ukraine: The Choice Between Command and Freedom”
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7980
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies, and the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine.
Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine’s leading contemporary poet, writer and essayist, was born in 1960. She graduated from the department of philosophy of Kyiv Shevchenko University in1982, and obtained her PhD in philosophy of arts in 1987. She has worked as a Research Associate for the Institute of Philosophy of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, lectured in the US on Ukrainian culture (at Penn State University, 1992, Harvard University, and University of Pittsburgh, 1994), and worked as a columnist for some of the Ukraine's major journals. After the publication of her novel Field Work in Ukrainian Sex (1996), later named “the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence”, she has been living as a free-lance author. She is Vice-President of the Ukrainian PEN. Ms.Zabuzhko lives in Kyiv.
Thursday, November 26, 7-10 pm
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Ukrainian Cinema since Independence
True to tradition, the series will present a Canadian premier of the feature documentary The Fourth Wave, 2008, director Victoria Melnykova. The Kyiv-born Victoria Melnykova, is a graduate of the Ivan Karpenko-Kary University for Film, Theater, and Television. She is a recognized filmmaker in her own country and well-known to and liked by the Club’s audiences in the USA and Canada who saw her earlier films “Consonance” and “With Best Wishes, Enver”. Her new film discusses the massive emigration from Ukraine in the last decade. It is a masterfully done narrative. Come and see for yourself. You are bound to like it.
The screening will be followed by a panel discussion on the post-Soviet emigration to the West with Natalka Patsyurko (Concordia University) and Yuri Shevchuk (Director, Ukrainian Film Club). The event is free and open to the public. The films will be shown in its Ukrainian or Russian language version with English subtitles.
Innis Townhall, Innis College, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Ave
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies the Petro Jacyk Program, Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies, and the Ukrainian Film Club, Columbia University.
Friday, November 27, 5-7pm
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Ukrainian Cinema since Independence
Canadian premiere Holodomor: Technology of Genocide
In commemoration of the Holodomor, the series will be screening the documentary Holodomor: Technology of Genocide. Produced by the National Television Company of Ukraine, the film is a detailed step- by-step factual account of how the mass famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine, the Holodomor, was conceived, executed, covered up; who its masterminds, perpetrators, and apologists were. Rich with historical documentary information and some riveting eye-witness accounts of the survivors, the film provides a Ukrainian interpretation of tragic events of 1932-33.
The screening will be followed by Q &A and discussion, mediated by Yuri Shevchuk, the Ukrainian Film Club's director. The event is free and open to the public. The films will be shown in its Ukrainian or Russian language version with English subtitles.
Room 208, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, the Petro Jacyk Program, Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies, and the Ukrainian Film Club, Columbia University.
Tuesday, December 1, 7 pm
Stefan Aust (Editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel, 1994-2008; author of the book & co-author of the screenplay The Baader Meinhof Complex. Host of the talk & public discussion: Russell Smith, author and journalist The Globe and Mail
Registration: office@toronto.goethe.org
Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Avenue, University of Toronto
Sponsored by the Goethe-Institut Toronto with the support of The Joint Initiative in German and European Studies
Thursday, December 3, 4-6 pm
Christopher Young (Chair, Department of German, University of Cambridge), "Ulrich von Liechtenstein - a Medieval Author and the Problems of German Literary History in the Nineteenth Century"
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7627
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, the Joint initiative in German and European Studies, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Centre for Medieval Studies .
Sunday 10 January 4:00 pm
“RECONSTRUCTING PROKOFIEV” Film Premiere and Discussion with Filmmaker Yosif Feyginberg.
INNIS COLLEGE TOWN HALL, 2 Sussex Avenue at St.George
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, the Cinema Studies Institute, the Faculty of Music, and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures.
Admission is free and open to the public.
CERES presents the first full screening of a major new documentary, exploring the complex mind and troubled career of composer Sergei Prokofiev. Its prizewinning Canadian director, Yosif Feyginberg, will introduce the film and lead a discussion after the screening.
The complete English version, entitled "Prokofiev: The Unfinished Diary", represented Canada successfully at a recent Moscow festival, and has already won several international awards for outstanding films on the arts. It includes footage not previously seen here from the recent Princeton University production of Prokofiev's 1925-27 ballet "Stal'noy Skok/Pas d'acier/Leap of Steel", as reconstructed by Canadian musicologist Prof. Simon Morrison, who also figures prominently in the new documentary.
Mr. Feyginberg will explain the lengthy research process on which the film was based, and shed new light on the technical, financial, and personal issues that were encountered during its production. He looks forward to fielding audience questions raised by this stimulating film. Time permitting, additional scenes from the ballet's revival may also be shown.
Monday, January 11, 6-8 pm
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern (Northwestern University), "Between Nationalism and Communism: Adventures of Ivan Kulyk in Canada and Ukraine"
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=8058
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place) Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine and the Centre for Jewish Studies
A harbinger of Ukrainian revivalism, Kulyk was a steadfast Bolshevik. Born in Uman, Ukraine, he worked in Pennsylvania coal mines, edited a Marxist newspaper in New York, organized literary groups in the post-revolutionary Ukraine, taught Ukrainian culture in Montreal, and enriched Ukrainian poetry with the rhythms of jazz and samba. Explore how a shtetl-born Jew made himself into a Ukrainian Bolshevik and how he failed reconcile his class and national minority values.
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern teaches Early Modern, Modern, and East European Jewish history and culture, Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah, and Slavic-Jewish Literatures at Northwestern University where he also serves as the Director of the Crown Family Center of Jewish Studies. He published more than a hundred articles in history and comparative literature and authored three books, "Jews in the Russian Army, 1827-1917: Drafted into Modernity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), "The Anti-Imperial Choice: the Making of the Ukrainian Jew" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), and "Lenin's Jewish Question" (forthcoming with Yale University Press, Spring, 2010). At present he is working on a book "Shtetl as it Was, 1790-1830" reconstructing and contextualizing the material culture of an East European trading town.
Wednesday, January 13, 12-2 pm
Zsuzsa Csergő (Queen's University), "Mapping the Political Integration of Minorities in EU Accession States: Toward a Bottom Up Approach"
Registration:
Room 208, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Hungarian Studies Program and the Institute of European Studies, the European Union Centre of Excellence. Funding for this event was provided by the European Commission.
Zsuzsa Csergő (Ph.D. in Political Science, The George Washington University) is Associate Professor of Political Studies at Queen’s University in Canada, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in comparative politics, theories of nationalism, democratization, and Central and East European politics. Her book entitled Talk of the Nation: Language and Conflict in Romania and Slovakia was published by Cornell University Press in 2007. Her articles have appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Foreign Policy, East European Politics and Societies, Nations and Nationalism, as well as other journals and edited volumes. She has received a number of prestigious awards and fellowships, including the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and research grants from the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the American Council of Learned Societies/Social Sciences Research Council, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Csergő is a Vice President of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, member of the editorial team and book review editor for Nationalities Papers, and a member of the international research team “Ethnicity and Democratic Governance,” centered at Queen’s University. Her current research, funded by SSHRCC, focuses on the impact of EU accession and post-communist democratization on the political integration of minorities in Central and Eastern Europe.
Thursday, January 14, 12- 1:30 pm
CERES Faculty Speakers' Series
Matthew Light (University of Toronto), "Reforming the Police Force in the Republic of Georgia: Evaluating an anti-Corruption Drive"
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7636
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
The talk will present preliminary findings from an investigation into the causes, extent, and consequences of the reforms in the administration of the police launched by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, which have included mass dismissals, extensive restructuring of police services, and major capital investments in salaries and equipment. One question to be addressed will be the role of domestic and foreign policy considerations in adopting these reforms. Another will be the extent to which the reforms have improved public attitudes towards the police in Georgia.
Thursday, January 21, 5 pm
International Graduate Student Symposium “New Perspectives on Contemporary Ukraine: Politics, History and Culture”.
Welcoming remarks: 5 pm
Keynote: Frank Sysyn (Director of the Peter Jacyk Centre for Ukrainian Historical Research at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta): 5:30 pm
Conference website: http://www.utoronto.ca/jacyk/gss2010/index.html
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7553
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Member of Parliament for Etobicoke Center) and his family's charitable The Dopomoha Ukraini Foundation, Buduchnist Credit Union Foundation, and Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies.
January 22-23
International Graduate Student Symposium “New Perspectives on Contemporary Ukraine: Politics, History and Culture”
Conference website: http://www.utoronto.ca/jacyk/gss2010/index.html
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7553
Room 208, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine, Borys Wrzesnewskyj (Member of Parliament for Etobicoke Center) and his family's charitable The Dopomoha Ukraini Foundation, Buduchnist Credit Union Foundation, and Canadian Foundation for Ukrainian Studies.
Wednesday, January 27, 4-6 pm
David C. Engerman (Associate Professor of History at Brandeis University), “Book Talk: Knowing the Cold War Enemy”
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=8028
Room 323, Victoria College, 91 Charles Street West
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology.
As World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in his book "Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts", a network of scholars, soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise known as Soviet Studies to fill in this dangerous gap in American knowledge. This group brought together some of the nation's best minds from the left, right, and center, colorful and controversial individuals ranging from George Kennan to Margaret Mead to Zbigniew Brzezinski, not to mention historians Sheila Fitzpatrick and Richard Pipes. Together they created the knowledge that helped fight the Cold War and define Cold War thought. Soviet Studies became a vibrant intellectual enterprise, studying not just the Soviet threat, but Soviet society and culture at a time when many said that these were contradictions in terms, as well as Russian history and literature. And this broad network forever changed the relationship between the government and academe, connecting the Pentagon with the ivory tower in ways that still matter today.
Wednesday, February 24, 6-8 pm
Roundtable “Ukraine's Presidential Elections: Analysis of the Results”
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=8239
Sponsored: by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, and the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine.
Friday, February 26, 2-4 pm
Devin DeWeese (Indiana University), “Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Islam in Central Asia”
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7910
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
Monday, March 1, 12-2 pm
Michael Moser (Associate professor of linguistics at the Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Vienna), “At the Linguistic Front: The Stalinist War against the Ukrainian Language”
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=8144
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies and the Petro Jacyk Program for the Study of Ukraine.
Wednesday, March 3, 7-9 pm
Louis Begley, "Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters"
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=8395
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
LOUIS BEGLEY, b. Poland, October 6, 1933. Author of: Wartime Lies (1991), The Man Who Was Late (1993), As Max Saw It (1994), About Schmidt (1996), Mistler’s Exit (1998), Schmidt Delivered (2000), Das Gelobte Land (2001), Venedig unter vier Augen (with Anka Muhlstein, 2003), Shipwreck (2003), Matters of Honor (2007), Zwischen Fakten und Fiktionen (2008), The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka (2008), Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters (2009), short fiction, and numerous essays and articles. Retired partner, Debevoise & Plimpton. Education: AB (summa cum laude), Harvard, 1954; LL.B. (magna cum laude), Harvard, 1959. Prizes include: The Irish Times-Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize, National Book Award Finalist, National Book Critics’ Circle Finalist, PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, Prix Médicis Étranger, Jeanette-Schocken-Preis, Bremerhavener Bürgerpreis für Literatur, American Academy of Letters Award in Literature, Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung Literaturpreis. Past President PEN American Center. Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et Lettres. Ph. D. (h.c.), University of Heidelberg.
In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attaché in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The sentence was military degradation and life imprisonment on Devil’s Island, a hellhole off the coast of French Guiana. Five years later, the case was overturned, and eventually Dreyfus was completely exonerated. Meanwhile, the Dreyfus Affair tore France apart, pitting Dreyfusards—committed to restoring freedom and honor to an innocent man convicted of a crime committed by another—against nationalists, anti-Semites, and militarists who preferred having an innocent man rot to exposing the crimes committed by ministers of war and the army’s top brass in order to secure Dreyfus’s conviction.
Was the Dreyfus Affair merely another instance of the rise in France of a virulent form of anti-Semitism? In Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters, the acclaimed novelist draws upon his legal expertise to create a riveting account of the famously complex case, and to remind us of the interest each one of us has in the faithful execution of laws as the safeguard of our liberties and honor.
Thursday, March 4, 12-1:30 pm
CERES Faculty Speakers' Series
Dragana Obradovic (University of Toronto), TBA
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7635
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
Wednesday, March 10, 4 pm
Belinda Davis (Rutgers University), “Histories of 1968” followed by a film screening, 7-9 pm
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7891
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by Canada Research Chairs Foundation, Department of History, and CERES
Thursday, March 11, 4-6 pm
Jessica Allina-Pisano (University of Ottawa), “Stalinist Labor Regimes and the Meaning of Work: Non-participation and Cultural Survival in the Magyar Borderlands”
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=8384
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies.
March 19, 12- 2pm
Conference: Rethinking German Imperialism
Keynote: Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann, Oxford University
Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility, Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by JIGES/CERES, Canada Research Chairs Foundation, Department of History
March 20, 9am-5 pm
Conference: Rethinking German Imperialism
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=7949
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by JIGES/CERES, Canada Research Chairs Foundation, Department of History
Thursday, March 25, 2-4 pm
Central and Inner Asia Speaker Series
Saulesh Yessenova, TBA
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=8367
Room 108, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies
April 8-9
Conference: Spatial Practices: Medieval/Modern
Registration: http://webapp.mcis.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=8287
Room 208, North Building, Munk Centre for International Studies (1 Devonshire Place)
Sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and the Joint Initiative in German and European Studies
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