February 26-28, 2009
Keynote Speakers:
Jean-Baptiste Main De Boissiere, Consul General of France to Chicago, "France and Europe: Perceptions and Relations with Obama's Administration of Change" and "Europe on the Move, Strengths, Challenges and its Influence in the World"
Professor William Berentsen, University of Connecticut, "Europe in the 21st Century: Challenges to Identities in a Changing World"
Professor Larisa Honey, Queens College, the City University of New York, "Russian Identities as a Response to Global Forces"
Professor George White, Frostburg State University, "Europe in the Pacific Century"
Schedule:
Thursday, February 26
12:00 p.m. - Presentation
Jean-Baptiste Main De Boissiere, Consul General of France to Chicago, "France and Europe: Perceptions and Relations with Obama's Administration of Change"
3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. - Welcome to the Convocation
Professor Rex Honey, Director of Crossing Borders
Professor Michel Laronde, Chair of European Studies
3:45 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Keynote Address
Professor William Berentsen, University of Connecticut, "Europe in the 21st Century: Challenges to Identities in a Changing World"
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. - Panel Discussion responding to Professor Berentsen
Elke Stockreiter, University of Iowa Department of History
Christian Jensen, University of Iowa Department of Political Science
Jennifer Sessions, University of Iowa Department of History
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Presentation
Presenter: Jean-Baptiste Main De Boissiere, Consul General of France to Chicago, "Europe on the Move, Strengths, Challenges and its Influence in the World"
Friday, February 27
9:00 am - 11:40 am - Presentations
Rebecca Leal, Department of French and Italian, "'Mon Père, l’Etranger': Representations of Algerian Immigrants in Contemporary France through the Eyes of their French Children"
Elizabeth Carroll, Department of French and Italian,“Pied-Noir Literature as Nationalistic Writing: French, Algerian or a Combination?”
Jason Verber, Department of History, “Ideal Colonizers? West German Myths about the Colonial Past” *Crossing Borders Fellow*
1:00 pm - 3:40 pm - Presentations
Chitra Akhoor, Department of Communication Studies, "Families in Diaspora: Afghan Hindus in Germany" *Crossing Borders Fellow)
Brian Miller, Department of History, "Gastarbeiter and Amancilar: Turkish Female Economic (Im)migrants in West Germany, 1961-64" *Crossing Borders Fellow*
Niyaz Yagablu, Junior Faculty Department Program Fellow, "Azerbaijan's Response to Global Challenges"
Sujatha Sosale, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, "A New Medium in Public Discourse: A Preliminary View of the Telegraph in British India"
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm - Presentation
Professor Larisa Honey of Queens College, the City University of New York, "Russian Identities as a Response to Global Forces"
6:30 pm - 7:15 pm - Presentation
Presenter: Professor George White, Frostburg State University, "Europe in the Pacific Century"
7:15 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Panel Discussion
Panel discussion by UI faculty and graduate students
Saturday, February 28
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - Presentations
Russell Valentino, Professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa, “Doubles, Bastards, and the Weight of European Identity: Three Portraits and a Poem”
Rozita Petrinska, Junior Faculty Development Fellow, "The Relationship of Macedonia to European Process and Identities."
Marijana Savric, Junior Faculty Development Fellow, "The Relationship of Bosnia-Herzegovina to European Process and Identities."
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Presentations by Crossing Borders Fellows