The Price of a Life: Toward a History of the Valuation of Human Life, ca. 1600-ca.1800

Lecture | November 23 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Speaker/Performer: Edward Gray, Professor of History, Florida State University

Sponsors: European Studies, Institute of, British Studies, Center of

This paper is a very early foray into a moral and legal history of the monetization of human life from roughly the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. What I hope to do with the paper is gain a little clarity about what exactly the pricing of a person, in this case a C Efree¹ person, meant to 17th and 18th century jurists and moral philosophers. To that end, the paper focuses...   More >

Ergonomics of the Physical and Cognitive Human Interface: A Few Examples Developed in Portugal

Lecture | November 24 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Speaker/Performer: Denis Alves Coelho, Assistant Professor, Department of Electromechanical Engineering, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal

Sponsors: European Studies, Institute of, Portuguese Studies Program

Conflicts and the Networked Threats: Networked Opportunities for State Actors

Panel Discussion | November 24 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Panelist/Discussants: Alexandra Prokopenko, Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley, and Senior Political Correspondent for Russian, ITAR-TASS News Agency; Gregory Asmolov, Graduate student at the Global Communication program, The Elliott School for International Affairs, George Washington University and a fellow of Israeli Asper Institute for New Media diplomacy (IDC Herzliya)

Sponsor: European Studies, Institute of

The new informational environment changes the nature of conflict, creates challenges for all state actors, and raises a few major questions: How can state actors adjust to the networked reality in the situation of conflict. Can state actors use and cooperate with social networks and social media platforms within warfare? What are the goals of these strategies and the patterns of...   More >

The Swedish Presidency of the European Union: Goals and Accomplishments

Lecture | December 1 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Alumni House, Toll Room

Speaker/Performer: Ambassador Carl-Magnus Hyltenius, Consulate General of Sweden

Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Brussels in the Belgian Labyrinth: Problem or Asset?

Lecture | December 2 | 5-7 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall

Speaker/Performer: Jeffrey Tyssens, Prof. of History at the Free University of Brussels, VUB, and this year's Pieter Paul Rubens Chair at UC Berkeley's Dutch Studies Program

Sponsor: European Studies, Institute of

Belgium is widely reputed for its unique and complex federal state
structure. Brussels mirrors that complexity in its highly particular
institutional frame. Once a predominantly Dutch speaking city, it has
become a mostly French speaking town. With both communities laying claims on it, it had to become, after long and difficult political
confrontations, a genuinely shared...   More >