Spring 2008 Events

Queering Ethnicity: Race and Minority Activism in Contemporary Europe

Date: March 5, 2008
Time: 4:15 pm
Location: E105 AJB
Presenter: Fatima El-Tayeb
Co-sponsors: European Studies Group and German
Contact person: Lisa Heineman.

Fatima El-Tayeb is Assistant Professor for African American Culture and Film in the Department of Literature at UC San Diego. Originally from Germany, she was active in black, migrant, queer, and feminist organizing there and in the Netherlands. She is co-author of the movie Everything will be fine, and co-founder of the Black European Studies Project. Her first book, published in German in 2001, explored the relationship between race and national identity in early 20th century Germany. Her current one focuses on the racialization of migrants and minorities in contemporary Europe and the queering of ethnicity as a minoritarian counterstrategy. She has published numerous articles on race, sexuality, and resistance in Europe. Currently, she is a Mellon Fellow in Transnational Studies at UCLA.

Romancing the Silence of Immigration - 1960-1980

Date: March 7, 2008
Time: 12:00 -1:00 pm
Location: UCC 1124
Presenter:Michel Laronde (French and Italian)
Sponsor: European Studies Group

Changing Party Policy: An analysis of mainstream party reactions to extreme party issues in Europe

Date: March 14, 2008
Time: 12:30 -2:00 pm
Location: UCC 1124
Presenter: Zachary Greene (Political Science, Graduate student)
Sponsor: European Studies Group

Film screening series of work of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. Film schedule TBA.

Date: April 4-6 , 2008; April 11-12
Time: TBA
Location: TBA
Contact: Claudia Pummer (Film)
Sponsor: European Studies Group

Memory and Identity in Neolithic Iberia

Date: April 11 , 2008
Time: 12:30 -2:00 pm
Location: UCC 1124
Presenter: Katina Lillios (Anthropology, Iowa)
Sponsor: European Studies Group

The Forging of the Bubikopf Nation: Feminist Political Economy of Zenski list in Interwar Yugoslavia 1925-1944

Date: April 18 , 2008
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: UCC 1124
Presenter: Marina Vujnovic (Journalism and Mass Communication, Gradate student)
Sponsor: European Studies Group

Consuming Amsterdam: Migrants' and Tourists' Contributions to International Tourism in the Netherlands

Date: April 25 , 2008
Time: 12:30 -2:00 pm
Location: UCC 1124
Presenter: Gudrun Willett (PhD Anthropology, Iowa)
Sponsor: European Studies Group

Nationalism and Social Science Theory: Irish Linguistics and American Anthropology in the Free State

Date: April 29 , 2008
Time: 12:30 -2:00 pm
Location: UCC 1124
Presenter: Brigittine French (Grinnell, Anthropology)
Sponsor: European Studies Group

Coalition Agreements and the Costs of Multiparty Politics

Date: May 1 , 2008
Time: 12:15 - 1:30 pm
Location: 302 Schaeffer Hall
Presenter: Kaare Strøm (Political Science, University of California, San Diego)
Co-sponsors: European Studies Group and Political Science
Contact persons: Jae-Jae Spoon and Christian Jensen.