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2015 Apr 24

Arts & Humanities Research Council: "Conference: Beyond the Western Front in WWI"

2:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Lower Level Conference Room
Sponsors: Arts and Humanities Research Council

2:00 – 3:30 p.m. "Ideas and Books: Informational and Literary Warfare"

Introduction: Charles S. Maier (Harvard University)
“Germany in the Ether: News and Propaganda around the World,”
Heidi J.S. Tworek (Harvard University)
“The Experimental Gas War on the Eastern Front in June 1915, as depicted in André Malraux’s Les Noyers de l’Altenburg,”
Nicole T.N...
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2015 Apr 16

CES: "A New Magic Mountain: German Prose, Hebrew Modernism and the Central European Sanatorium"

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Cabot Room
Read more on the Center for European Studies Website.
Description: The paper situates the Hebrew prose writing of David Vogel within the Central European and German literary context of its inception, with specific attention paid to his first novella, In the Sanatorium. The text, completed in 1926, describes the life and suicide of a tubercular Jewish man who is taking the cure in a southern...
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2015 Apr 16

CES: "Populism in Europe from the Right to the Left"

4:15pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Lower Level Conference Room
Read more on the Center for European Studies Website.
The past fifteen years have seen a resurgence of populist politics in Europe ranging from parties such as the Front national in France to the left-wing party Podemos in Spain. What is the significance of these movements at a moment of persistent economic malaise, intense popular frustration with unemployment and social inequality, anti-...
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2015 Apr 16

Colloquium for Intellectual History: "The Institution of Meaning: A Defense of Anthropological Holism"

1:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Lower Level Conference Room
Read more on the Center for European Studies Website.
This event will be a panel discussion with one of France’s most innovative philosophers Vincent Descombes about his most recent book The Institutions of Meaning (Harvard 2014). Descombes is also author of The Mind's Provisions (Princeton, 2001), Modern French Philosophy (Cambridge, 1980), and Proust: Philosophy of the Novel...
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2015 Apr 15

CES: "Saving 'The Occident': The Rhetoric of Germany's New Right"

2:15pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Lower Level Conference Room

See more on the Mindha De Gunzburg Center for European Studies website.

Political forces like the PEGIDA movement that initiated anti-Islam marches in major German cities, along with the relatively new populist right-wing AFD party, have committed themselves to saving the West from the growing Islamification in Europe. Germany’s new Right is trying to capitalize on fear by fueling Islamophobia among the population. They justify their...
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2015 Apr 15

CES: "From Corporatism to Collaboration. Organizing Economic Interests in Germany and France, 1926 - 1942"

12:15pm to 1:45pm

Location: 

Adolphus Busch Hall, Cabot Room

See more on the Minda De Gunzbeurg Center for European Studies Website

Since 1926 a group of influential French and German industrialists met to explore possibilities to organize business relations between the two countries in order to cope with the effects of the First World War. As a consequence private actors adopted tasks of public interest that also involved the questions of reparation payments, disarmament and establishing a...
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2015 Mar 26

Instituto Cervantes: Film Screening of Terry Gilliam's "Lost in La Mancha" (2002)

6:00pm to 9:00pm

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College of Communication. Room 101. Boston University 630 Commonwealth Ave., Boston

In recognition of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Part II of Don Quixote de la Mancha (1615-2015), the Observatorio de la Lengua Española y las Culturas Hispánicas en los Estados Unidos and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, in collaboration with the Voces Hispánicas/Hispanic Voices initiative of the Department of Romance Studies of Boston University, will present a series of classic, and lesser-known, film versions of Miguel de Cervantes’s masterpiece. Each screening will be followed by a panel discussion featuring...

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2015 Mar 23

Program in Negotiation: "The Christmas Truce and Flanders Peace Field Project" | Don Mullan

2:15pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Busch Hall, Cabot Room
This lecture by Irish journalist and author Don Mullan will present the Flanders Peace Project established to commemorate the spontaneous truce of Christmas 1914. Established at the site of the truce, in the Belgian city of Messines, this project has two goals: to celebrate peace in a place of unimaginable devastation and to engage young people in peace initiatives. Mullan will set the scene of the Christmas Truce and outline details of this multi-disciplined project, which 1984 Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu described as "a gift of the Island...
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2015 Mar 18

Boston College Lowell Humanities Series: "Scrambling for the bones of the patriot dead." Remembering the Irish Revolution, 1913-23 | Diarmaid Ferriter

7:00pm

Diarmaid Ferriter is one of Ireland’s leading historians. He is a Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin and was the visiting Burns Library Scholar at Boston College from 2008-9. His books include the bestsellers The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000, Judging Dev: A Reassessment of...

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2015 Apr 13

Harvard Mind/Brain/Behavior: "Group Love" | Mahzarin Banaji

5:00pm

Location: 

Yenching Auditorium, 2 Divinity Avenue room 118, Cambridge

MBB Distinguished Harvard Lecture by Mahzarin Banaji (Psychology/FAS): Group Love

From the moment of birth, every human is a member of many groups. By the opportunities and liberties offered or snatched away, group memberships shape lives ubiquitously and enduringly.  Group memberships create...

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