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Dr. Tatjana Thelen: "Transforming Kinship and State: Care as Boundary Object"

Friday, March 24, 2023 2:30pm
University Capitol Centre
Dr. Tatjana Thelen will give a guest lecture on campus entitled 'Transforming Kinship and State: Care as Boundary Object', co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and International Programs. Dr. Thelen is Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna and will serve during the 2023 academic year as Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair at Stanford.
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A Year of War: Commemorating the Anniversary of Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

Friday, February 24, 2023 5:15pm to 6:30pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)
The European Studies Group (ESG), an International Programs Affinity Group, will present a panel discussion entitled "A Year of War: Commemorating the Anniversary of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine" on Friday, Feb. 24, from 5:15 – 6:30 p.m., in the Iowa Theater, room 166 inside the Iowa Memorial Union (IMU).
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European Studies Group Lecture - Dr. Xavier Escandell

Friday, November 11, 2022 12:00pm to 1:30pm
University Capitol Centre
The European Studies Group will present a guest lecture by Dr. Xavier Escandell entitled "Ethnonational Diversity and Variation in Immigrant Deservingness Amidst Institutional Turmoil in Europe" on Friday, Nov. 11, from noon to 1:30 p.m., in 1117 University Capitol Centre. The event is free and open to the public.
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European Studies Group Lecture - Estrella de Diego

Wednesday, May 4, 2022 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Virtual
The European Studies Group will present a virtual guest lecture by Professor Estrella de Diego of the Universidad Complutense (UCM) from 2-3 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, via Zoom.  An art historian, curator, and member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and of the board of trustees of the Museo del Prado, Estrella de Diego will deliver a talk entitled "Negotiating Museum Narratives," discussing topics from her forthcoming book, The Prado Unnoticed. This event is free and open to the public. Estrella...
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European Studies Group Lecture - Esther Peeren

Monday, April 11, 2022 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Virtual
The European Studies Group will present a virtual guest lecture by Professor Esther Peeren of the University of Amsterdam in a talk entitled "Hinterlands at Sea in Ben Smith's Doggerland" from 1:00-2:00 p.m. on Monday, April 11.   This event is free and open to the public. While the rural-urban-riverine-maritime hinterlands of contemporary global capital are as contested as the hinterlands of the heydays of colonialism, instead of as spaces to be developed, they manifest as overdeveloped to...
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European Studies Group Lecture - Esther Peeren

Monday, April 4, 2022 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Virtual
The European Studies Group will present a virtual guest lecture by Professor Esther Peeren of the University of Amsterdam in a talk entitled "Suspicious Minds: Symptomatic Reading in Latour, Derrida, and Wynter" from 1:00-2:00 p.m. on Monday, April 4.   This event is free and open to the public. Against the background of the recent postcritical backlash against close and especially symptomatic reading in literary studies, Peeren will argue for the need to remain suspicious of what seems self...
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Authoritarian Tendencies Across the Globe

Thursday, December 9, 2021 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Virtual
As a follow-up to Professor Timothy Snyder’s Ida Beam lecture "History and Freedom: The Past, Present, and Future of Tyranny," International Programs, the Department of French and Italian, and the European Studies Group will host a roundtable of international experts for a discussion entitled "Authoritarian Tendencies Across the Globe," on Thursday, Dec. 9, at 2 p.m., via Zoom. With Associate Provost and Dean of International Programs Russ Ganim serving as moderator, panelists will discuss...
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Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer: Timothy Snyder

Wednesday, December 1, 2021 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Virtual
On Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, at 5 p.m., International Programs, the European Studies Group, and the Division of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures will host a lecture from Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Timothy Snyder, professor of history from Yale University, entitled "History and Freedom: The Past, Present, and Future of Tyranny." Free and open to the public. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at...