Fall 2009 Events
First Annual European Studies Conference
"Memories and Visions: Europe 20 Years after the Fall"
Date: Thursday, December 3
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Location: 100 Phillips Hall (Auditorium)
Film screening: "Das Leben der Anderen (2006)"
(subtitles: The lives of Others, 2007)
Follow-up discussion: Astrid Oesmann, Department of German
Date: Friday, December 4
Time: 8:30 am - 5:30 pm
Location: 315 Phillips Hall
Registration and breakfast: free of charge
Conference Schedule
8:30-9:00 Breakfast, conversation
9:00-9:15 Brief introduction:
Kristine Fitch, Associate Dean, International Programs
Michel Laronde, Director, European Studies Group
9:15-10:15 Keynote address:
Konrad Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, University of North Carolina
"Germany 1989: A New Kind of Revolution?"
10:30-12:00 Morning Panel:
" Legacies: In the Aftermath of the Fall"
Elizabeth Heineman, Department of History, University of Iowa
"Who’s Sexually Repressed? East and West Germans after Reunification"
Kimberly Elman-Zarecor, Department of Architecture, Iowa State University
"Socialist Neighborhoods after Socialism: Addressing the Architectural Legacy of Communism in the Czech Republic"
Dénes Gazsi, Arabic/Department of French and Italian, University of Iowa
"Cracks in the Iron Curtain, Pan-European Picnic, Crumbling Communism – Hungary’s Role in the Fall of the Berlin Wall"
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Afternoon Panel:
"Enduring Identities: Two Case studies"
Lorin Ditzler, Program in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Iowa
"Economics of Urban Identity in Post-Communist Europe: Bucharest"
Jonathan Larson, Department of Anthropology, University of Iowa
"Behind the Velvet Curtain: Crisis, Criticism, and Scripted Instability in Twentieth-Century Slovakia"
Jason Verber, Department of History, University of Iowa
“Divided and Conquered: The German Question, the Berlin Wall, and German Relations with Postcolonial Africa"
3:30-5:30 Film Screening:
Exclusive Preview!
"The Power of the Powerless"
Panel discussants:
Astrid Oesmann; Department of German, Jonathan Larson; Department of Anthropology
Past Fall 2009 Events
Eating the Tropics: Lafcadio Hearn's Martinique
Date: Monday, October 5
Time: 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: 315 Phillips
Presenter: Valérie Loichot, Department of French and Italian, Emory University
Invited: Caribbean Diaspora and Atlantic Studies Program, co-sponsors: African Studies Program, Department of French and Italian, European Studies Group and International Programs
How Greek Religion shaped Greek Culture
Ida Beam Lecture, Classics Colloquium
Date: Monday, October 5
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Location: 1505 Seamans Center
Presenter: Jon Mikalson, Department of Classics, University of Virginia
Invited: Department of Classics, Department of Religious Studies, European Studies Group and Eta Sigma Phi
A public lecture based on his book: Europe through Arab Eyes (Title TBA)
Date: Thursday, October 22
Time: 6:00-7:30 p.m.
Location: 2520D UCC
Presenter: Nabil Matar, Department of English, University of Minnesota
Invited: Middle East and Muslim World Studies, co-sponsor: Department of French and Italian, European Studies Group