RSS FeedUpcoming EventsFelix A. Jiménez Botta | The Central American insurgencies and the Human Rights Culture War in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1979 –1990, March 19https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/236747-felix-a-jimnez-botta-the-central-american-insurgencie

Did the human rights movement shun social justice and ignore the rise of neoliberalism in the 1970s–1980s? Using the example of human rights advocacy towards Central America in West Germany, this talk will explore conflicting visions of human rights in the 1980s, and explain why a market-conforming human rights movement emerged victorious by the end of the decade. Left-wing activists mobilized human rights rhetoric to support the Salvadoran guerrilla movement and the Sandinista state because they promised liberation and social justice. Market-friendly human rights activists challenged the left. They privileged negative freedoms, attacked social justice, and vilified the redistributive state and armed liberation movements. Leftist solidarity with armed liberation movements and their perceived indifference towards its victims undermined their moral stance. Market-friendly activists won the human rights culture war of the 1980s by associating their foes with insurgent violence, state socialism, and insouciance towards state-perpetrated human rights abuses.

Felix A. Jiménez Botta is Associate Professor of History at Miyazaki International University, Japan, and earned his Ph.D. from Boston College. He is currently completing his first book manuscript, entitled Moral Choices and Market Forces: Latin America Solidarity and the Politics of Human Rights in West Germany, 1973–1990, under contract with Cambridge University Press. The manuscript examines the contradictory uses of human rights in the advocacy campaigns towards in Chile, Argentina, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. He is also currently editing a special issue entitled The Multiple Meanings of Human Rights in Germany with the Journal of Contemporary History, which will appear this year. His work has appeared in the Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Zeithistorische Forschungen, Contemporary European History, and Sports in Society.

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The City Without Jews: A Centenary Film Soirée, March 20https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/236942-the-city-without-jews-a-centenary-film-soiree

Based on the controversial and best-selling novel by Austrian-Jewish writer Hugo Bettauer, H.K. Breslauer’s 1924 film adaptation of The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden) was produced two years after the publication of the book, and, tragically, only a brief time before the satirical events depicted in the fictional story transformed into an all-too-horrific reality.

Set in the Austrian city of Utopia (a thinly-disguised stand-in for Vienna), the story follows the political and personal consequences of an antisemitic law passed by the National Assembly forcing all Jews to leave the country. At first, the decision is met with celebration, yet when the citizens of Utopia eventually come to terms with the loss of the Jewish population—and the resulting economic and cultural decline—the National Assembly must decide whether or not to invite the Jews back.

Though darkly comedic in tone, and stylistically influenced by German Expressionism, the film nonetheless contains ominous and eerily realistic sequences, such as the shots of freight trains transporting Jews out of the city. The stinging critique of Nazism in the film is part of the reason it no longer screened in public after 1933 (all complete prints were thought to be destroyed). Now, thanks to the discovery of a nitrate print in a Parisian flea market in 2015, as well as to the brilliant restoration efforts of the Filmarchiv Austria, this previously “lost” film can once again be appreciated in its unfortunately ever-relevant entirety.

The program will include a welcome by Austrian Consul Isabella Tomás, live original music composed and performed by world-renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin, and a conversation with Professor Emerita Cynthia Walk and UC Berkeley’s DAAD Visiting Associate Professor of History and German Philipp Lenhard.

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Film Screening: Kuxa Kanema: The Birth of Cinema, March 21https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/239964-film-screening-kuxa-kanema-the-birth-of-cinema

After five hundred years of Portuguese colonial rule, Mozambique was one of the last African countries to gain independence. President Samora Machel’s first cultural act was to establish the National Institute of Cinema, which produced weekly newsreels—Kuxa Kanema—for and about the people. Mobile cinema units reminiscent of Aleksandr Medvedkin’s cine-trains, traveled around the country to engage people with what it means to be free in an independent nation. When filmmaker Margarida Cardoso visited the institute, it was already in ruins, but she discovered newsreel footage in an abandoned building. Interviews with filmmakers who were involved with the institute—including Licínio Azevedo, Jose Cardoso, and Ruy Guerra—and sequences from the newsreels bear witness to the birth of Mozambique’s cinema in concert with the birth of the nation.

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Esther Saltiel-Ragot | Categories and quotas: The selection of Jewish migrants from Greece by Zionist organisations in British Mandatory Palestine (1920-1939), March 27https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/243504-esther-saltiel-ragot-categories-and-quotas-the-select

In the early 1920’s, when the migrations of Greek Jews take a turn, Zionist organisations are multiplying themselves, especially in Salonika because of its large Jewish population. If Palestine is not their main destination, there is a growing interest for it throughout the period and more than 6 000 Greek Jews migrate to Palestine between the two world wars. They do so, despite the restrictive immigration quotas imposed by the British Mandatory administration in Palestine. Furthermore, they are not considered as a priority by the Jewish Agency.

This presentation outlines the administrative practices of the Jewish Agency towards a minority migration group that is not considered a priority, and those of the Palestinian Office in Salonika in organising migration despite the quotas. I will show how they interpreted the Jewish Agency’s categories and selected candidates for departure. The quantitative tools will also enlighten us on the social and professional profile of these candidates. We will also focus, in a gender perspective, on the specific practices toward the migrations of young single women.

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Šumit Ganguly & Marianne Riddervold | Comparing EU and India Perspectives on Russia’s War in Ukraine, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237009-umit-ganguly-marianne-riddervold-comparing-eu-and-ind

As Russia’s war in Ukraine nears the two year milestone, distinctive approaches between governments in the Global North and Global South have come into focus. On the one hand, the EU has voiced strong rebuke of the Russian invasion, embargoed trade and diplomatic relations in an effort to isolate Russia while extending military aid and EU membership to Ukraine. On the other hand, India has maintained a deafening silence on the Russian invasion of Ukraine largely because of its acute dependence on Russian weaponry and to a lesser degree, Russian petroleum. Some within India’s foreign policy establishment also believe that avoiding public criticism of Russia might prevent it from aligning too closely with the People’s Republic of China, India’s long-term adversary. Join us for a discussion with Professor Marianne Riddervold and Professor Sumit Ganguly to explore the geopolitical interests at stake in EU and India’s stances on Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Šumit Ganguly is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science and holds the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is the author, co-author editor or co-editor of over twenty books on contemporary South Asian politics. His most recent book with Manjeet Pardesi and William R. Thompson is, The Sino-Indian Rivalry: Implications for Global Order. (Cambridge University Press, 2023) Professor Ganguly is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Marianne Riddervold is Professor of Political Science at Innlandet University Norway, research professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and a senior fellow at the Institute of European Studies at UC Berkeley. She has published extensively on European integration, European foreign and security policy, EU crises, transatlantic relations and international relations in the global commons. Recent publications include special issues in International Relations and Politics and Governance (with Akasemi Newsome), and the Palgrave Handbook on EU crises (with Akasemi Newsome and Jarle Trondal).

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The Gender of Capital, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/237686-the-gender-of-capital

Why do women in different social classes accumulate less wealth than men? Why do marital separations impoverish women while they do not prevent men from maintaining or increasing their wealth? In this lecture, Céline Bessière will discuss her new co-authored book, The Gender of Capital, which reconsiders the effectiveness of legal reforms that legislate formal equality between men and women, while permitting inequality to persist in practice.

Registration is required. This event is in person and on Zoom. Space is limited. Register today

The Annual Stone Lecture is presented by the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at UC Berkeley, a research hub for campus and beyond enabling UC Berkeley’s world-leading scholars to deepen our understanding of the inequality in society and formulate new approaches to address the challenge of creating a more equitable society. The Center serves as the primary convening point at UC Berkeley for research, teaching and data development concerning the causes, nature, and consequences of wealth and income inequalities with a special emphasis on the concentration of wealth at the very top. Learn more

About the book: The Gender of Capital, by Céline Bessière and Sibylle Gollac

Drawing on research spanning twenty years, the authors analyze what they call family wealth arrangements. They break with the common understanding of the family as an emotional haven of peace in a brutal capitalist world. Spouses and partners, brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers do not play the same part in family strategies of social reproduction, nor do they reap the same profits from them. The family is an economic institution that plays a central role in the production, circulation, control and evaluation of wealth. The meaning of this economic institution is revealed, in particular, in moments of marital breakdown and inheritance.

From the single mothers of the French “Yellow Vest” movement to the divorce of Jeff and MacKenzie Bezos, from the legacy of family businesses to the estate of the Trump family, the mechanisms of control and distribution of capital vary according to social class, yet they always result in the dispossession of women. Capital is gendered. This book describes how class society is perpetuated through the masculine appropriation of capital.


About the speaker:
Céline Bessière is a Professor of sociology at Paris Dauphine University (PSL University) and a senior member at the Institut Universitaire de France. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the Institute of French Studies at New York University. She studies the material, economic and legal dimensions of family, in particular through the analysis of inheritance and marital breakdown. Her new project is about gender and wealth accumulation in Europe. Her research is at the crossroads of several fields: economic sociology, sociology of law and justice, sociology of gender, class and family. Her most recent book, The Gender of Capital, was recently adapted into a graphic novel with Jeanne Puchol. Read more

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Dana T. Redford | Gen Z Activists and Entrepreneurs in Europe: Enabling Digital and Green Transition, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237659-dana-t-redford-gen-z-activists-and-entrepreneurs-in-e

Europe is witnessing a significant shift, shaped by the emergence of Gen Z as a driving feature of the European labor force. The ascent of activists and entrepreneurs heralds a potential revolution in businesses operating on the old continent. Understanding and integrating the unique values and approaches of Gen Z, including as a means of addressing the twin (digital and green) transition is critical. As generations that will bear the brunt of the challenges posed by climate change, Gen Z and Millennials are also the generations that are most actively involved in addressing environmental issues (Pew, 2021). In this lecture, we will consider how Europe is changing through demographic shifts, policy developments and environmental necessity.

Prof. Dana Redford is an internationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship, innovation and public policy. He has worked as an expert for the US government, the European Commission, the OECD, the UN and various European and African governments. His research on Gen Z in Europe has been supported by the Bertelsmann Stiftung.

He coordinated the largest policy experimentation project on entrepreneurship in schools in the EU, co-edited the Entrepreneurial University Handbook and co-developed the OECD-European Commission HEInnovate initiative. In Africa and the Middle East he has developed initiatives on high impact entrepreneurship, financial inclusion and business incubation and is currently a UNDP Private Sector Development Specialist and Master Trainer.

Previously he was Faculty Coordinator and Guest Lecturer at the Haas School of Business Center for Executive Education at UC-Berkeley, where he did his post-doctoral research at the Institute of European Studies where he is currently a Senior Fellow.

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Film Screening: From Colonial Statues to Carnival Masks: Amílcar Cabral and the Liberation of Guinea-Bissau, April 4https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/240293-film-screening-from-colonial-statues-to-carnival

These four films, all concerned with Guinea-Bissau’s and Cape Verde’s struggles for independence, are from different time frames and perspectives. The liberation leader and political thinker Amílcar Cabral is a thread through them all. Cacheu, another of Portuguese filmmaker Filipa César’s single-take performance films, analyzes four statues seen in photographs and film footage in different configurations over time, revealing the dark past of the Portuguese colonial presence in Africa. Madina Boé, made in support of Guinea-Bissau’s liberation struggle by Cuban filmmaker José Massip, includes portraits of guerillas—a hunter, canoe builder, and poet, as well as an anti-fascist Portuguese doctor. The first film of independent Guinea-Bissau, The Return of Amílcar Cabral uses Guinean songs and archival footage of Cabral, who was assassinated in 1973, to honor him on the occasion of the transfer of his remains from Conakry to Guinea-Bissau in 1976. Carnival in Bissau, by French filmmaker Sarah Maldoror (of Guadaloupean descent), is a joyous meditation on the importance of creativity to the African people and its role in strengthening Guinea-Bissau’s sense of national unity. Beautiful, ephemeral masks replace the colonial statues that opened the program.

We will play a selection of music featured in Ntone Edjabe’s new book La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror beginning at 7:00, when the doors open.

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Film Screening: Sambizanga, April 7https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/240556-film-screening-sambizanga

Sambizanga, one of the first feature films made by a woman in Africa, was cowritten by filmmaker Sarah Maldoror’s husband, Mário Pinto de Andrade, a leader in the Angolan resistance. “The film was seen to be so effective at mobilizing action that the Portuguese colonial authorities banned it from being screened in their then province of Angola. It was first seen publicly in Angola only after the country won its independence in 1974. Based on a novel by Luandino Vieira, a political prisoner of the Portuguese from 1961 to 1974, Sambizanga is a fictionalized chronicle of the arrest and fatal imprisonment of a man whose underground activities were an impenetrable secret to all around him. It was at a prison near the Luandan suburb of Sambizanga on February 4, 1961, that the first uprising of what was to become the Angolan resistance movement was staged. The film is set a few weeks before that uprising, during a time of increasingly desperate and repressive security measures by the colonial government” (Tom Mulcaire, Cabinet Magazine).

We will play a selection of music featured in Ntone Edjabe’s new book La Discothèque de Sarah Maldoror beginning at 3:30, when the doors open.

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Matt Beech | Polarized Peoples - Examining the culture wars and how they can be transcended, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237660-matt-beech-polarized-peoples-examining-the-culture-wa
Dr Matt Beech, Reader in Politics at the University of Hull and IES Senior Fellow, returns to campus to discuss his project, Polarized Peoples: Examining the culture wars and how we can transcend them. Beech investigates the special problem of widening cultural distance within nations of the English-speaking world. Sharp ideological divergence, the diminution of toleration in the public sphere, and the catalysing effect of social media have perpetuated the pathology of ‘war at home’. Come and listen, question, and contribute to the conversation, and by so doing, model a way to transcend the culture war.
Dr Matt Beech is Reader in Politics and Director of the Centre for British Politics (@CBPhull) at the University of Hull (UK). He is author or editor of 11 books on the Labour Party and the Conservative Party. Dr Beech is Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies and Associate Member of the Centre de Recherches en Civilisation Britannique at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. He has held visiting appointments at Oxford, Berkeley and Flinders and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

 

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Hendrik Simon | A Century of Anarchy? War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order, April 8https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237674-hendrik-simon-a-century-of-anarchy-war-normativity-an

The nineteenth century has been understood as an age in which states could wage war against each other if they deemed it politically necessary. According to this narrative, it was not until the establishment of the League of Nations, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and the UN Charter that the “free right to go to war” (liberum ius ad bellum) was gradually outlawed. Better times dawned as this anarchy of waging war ended, resulting in radical transformations of international law and politics.

However, as a “free right to go to war” has never been empirically proven, this story of progress is puzzling. In his forthcoming book A Century of Anarchy?: War, Normativity, and the Birth of Modern International Order (Oxford University Press, 2024), Hendrik Simon challenges this narrative by outlining a genealogy of modern war justifications and drawing on scientific, political, and public discourses. He argues that liberum ius ad bellum is an invention created by realist legal scholars in Imperial Germany who argued against the mainstream of European liberalism and, paradoxically, that the now forgotten Sonderweg reading was universalized in international historiographies after the World Wars.

In his book presentation, Simon will not only deconstruct the myth of liberum ius ad bellum but also trace the political and theoretical roots of the modern prohibition of war to the long nineteenth century (1789-1918).

Dr. Hendrik Simon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) and Lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt. He was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced International Theory/University of Sussex (2017), at the University of Vienna (2018, 2016), at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Frankfurt (2015-16) and at the Cluster of Excellence “Normative Orders” (2011-12). Publications include The Justification of War and International Order. From Past to Present (Oxford University Press, 2021; co-edited with Lothar Brock); and “The Myth of Liberum Ius ad Bellum. Justifying War in 19th-Century International Legal Theory and Political Practice”, 29 European Journal of International Law (2018).

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Sarah Wolff | Secular Power Europe: insights on decentring international relations, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/223910-sarah-wolff-secular-power-europe-insights-on-decentri

Based on her award winning book (European Union Studies Association Best Book award 2023) Secular Power Europe and Islam and through an exploration of Europe’s secular identity, an identity that is seen erroneously as normative, Professor Wolff shows will explain how Islam confronts the EU’s existential anxieties about its security and its secular identity. Islam disrupts Eurocentric assumptions about democracy and revolution and human rights. She will document how EU’s diplomats are trying to address that issue and to conduct some ‘religious engagement’. She will also discuss the avenues provided by the decentring agenda, which involves provincialising Europe, engaging with the perspective of the others and reconstructing EU’s agency as a global actor.

Sarah Wolff is Professor in International Studies and Global Politics at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She holds until January 2024 a Professor position in European Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London where she also leads the Centre for European Research (2017-2023), led the NEXTEUK Jean Monnet Chair of Excellence (2020-2023) on the future of EU-UK relations. She was the Director of the QMUL MA in International Relations in Paris (2021-2023). Her research concentrates on EU-UK foreign and security cooperation, EU migration and asylum policies, EU-Middle East and North Africa, as well as EU’s policies on gender and religion abroad. She is on the Editorial Board of the journal Mediterranean Politics. Her book Michigan University Press on ‘Secular Power Europe and Islam: Identity and foreign policy’(summer 2021) was conducted thanks to a Fulbright-Schuman and a Leverhulme research grants. She is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe and on the steering committee of UACES and of ECPR SGEU.

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2024 Robert Kirk Underhill Lecture in Anglo-American Studies : David Reynolds (Univ. of Cambridge) - Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the leaders who shaped him, April 9https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/236997-2024-robert-kirk-underhill-lecture-in-anglo-american-

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The annual Robert Kirk Underhill Lecture is sponsored by the Anglo-American Studies Program. It features a leading figure or figures from political or scholarly circles speaking on US and UK political, legal, or cultural affairs. This year’s speaker is David Reynold (University of Cambridge), who will present on “Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders who Shaped him.”

Winston Churchill is 150 years young. Born in 1874, he continues to arouse passions in our own day – lauded for his leadership against Nazism, castigated for his colonial worldview. He’s often portrayed as a solitary genius, standing alone, but this lecture will show how his path to greatness was shaped by his encounters with other leaders. Men whom he admired, such as David Lloyd George and Franklin Roosevelt; others who got in his way: notably Adolf Hitler; and some whom he misread, especially Josef Stalin. One woman was also indispensable: his wife Clementine. Marriage to Winston proved exhausting but it made her a leader in her own right.

David Reynolds is an award-winning historian and Emeritus Professor of International History at Cambridge University (Christ’s College). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005. Author of fourteen books, ranging across British, US and European history in the twentieth century, his most recent works include Island Stories: Britain and its history in the age of Brexit (2019) and Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the leaders who shaped him (2023)

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Joyce De Coninck | EU Transnational Cooperative Governance and the EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237675-joyce-de-coninck-eu-transnational-cooperative-governa

When a private corporation cooperates with States as well as international organizations and conduct stemming from this cooperation results in international human rights violations, who can be held legally responsible?

 

During this lecture, systemic deficiencies in the traditionally state- centric human rights regime will be discussed and we will challenge its inadequacies when dealing with contemporary forms of EU transnational cooperative governance. Transnational cooperative governance refers to modes of cooperation in which States, and different Non-State Actors work together in addressing transnational concerns that cannot be adequately regulated by any one of these actors alone.

 

Using border management cooperation between HawkEye 360, the EU, and its Member States as an illustration, it will be demonstratedthat in situations of cooperative governance – involving private corporations, the EU, and States – legal responsibility for unlawful human rights conduct under the contemporary human rights regime, cannot be apportioned effectively among the implicated parties. The diffusion of unlawful conduct between the implicated parties blurs the line between primary human rights violations and secondary rules on responsibility, making it hard to establish which entity committed a wrong capable of triggering an obligation of reparations for individual victims under international human rights law. For this reason, individual victims are ultimately left without an effective judicial remedy and ensuing reparations.

 

Dr. DeConinck’s will be assisted in her presentation by Prof. Violeta Moreno-Lax (Queen Mary University, London) and Prof. Liliane Tsourdi (the University of Maastricht, Netherlands)

 

Dr. Joyce De Coninck is an FWO post-doctoral researcher affiliated with Ghent University and an adjunct professor of EU law at NYU Law School. She is currently working on developing a model of relational human rights responsibility, to effectively apportion human rights responsibility stemming from hybrid forms of cooperation involving state actors and non-state actors such as international organizations and private entities.

 

Joyce De Coninck holds a Master of Laws from Ghent University (2013, Magna Cum Laude) and an LLM in International and European Law from the Institute for European Studies – Free University of Brussels (2015, Summa Cum Laude). She obtained her doctoral degree at Ghent University (2021) titled “Catch-22 in the Law of Responsibility of International Organizations – Systemic Deficiencies in the EU Responsibility Paradigm for Unlawful Human Rights Conduct in Integrated Border Management”. Joyce was subsequently selected as an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center of New York University (2021-2022), and a Scholar in Residence at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (2022 – 2024).

 

Prior thereto, Joyce was an academic assistant at UGent, an adjunct professor at Minnesota Law School, the University of Amsterdam, and Leiden University, and has provided ad hoc lectures at various institutions, including the College of Europe.

 

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The Meaning of Brexit and the Future of the United Kingdom, April 10https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/243412-the-meaning-of-brexit-and-the-future-of-the-united

The Brits are well known for their strange antics but many people around the world found Brexit truly surreal. Cambridge history professor David Reynolds will try to explain why the British found it so hard to live inside the European Union and why they found it equally hard to leave – making fools of five prime ministers along the way. He will offer colorful portraits of figures such as Boris Johnston and David Cameron. And he will reflect on another problematic union – the “United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland” – examining its roots in centuries of English empire-building and asking whether the UK can really hang together in an era of mounting nationalism.  

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Film Screening: Vitalina Varela, April 14https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/240565-film-screening-vitalina-varela

Vitalina Varela travels to Lisbon from Cape Verde, only to find out that her husband, from whom she has been separated for decades, was buried three days prior. Based on her own story, Varela’s emotionally potent performance delves into the grief that both drives her and haunts her. In what might be Pedro Costa’s most visually stunning work, the “society of Black Cape Verdean immigrants whom Costa films is presented as a world apart . . . enshrouded in an endless night at the margins of Portuguese society. Pushed into homelessness, forced into a cycle of crime and incarceration, relegated to substandard housing, the residents of Cova de Moura inhabit a perpetual realm of furtive darkness that offers them the cover in which to survive outside the gaze of hostile authority and the menacing chill of official indifference. . . . These immigrants [which include longtime collaborator Ventura] endure an apathy of inner colonialism, in which the hostility that they face and the exclusion in which they live has seeped into their bones and turned their energies self-consuming and self-exhausting” (Richard Brody, New Yorker). Winner of the Golden Leopard at Locarno, along with the Best Actress prize for Varela.

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Kate van Orden | Mapping Music and Migration: Questions of Scale, April 16https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237678-kate-van-orden-mapping-music-and-migration-questions-

Musicology’s embrace of what is being called global music history is proving extremely useful as a place from which to contest Eurocentric histories of music and develop new working methods equipped to address the meaningfulness of music in places where cultures, languages, and people were in constant contact. In this talk, 1.) I begin by outlining the analytic categories employed in migration studies and underscoring their usefulness to music historians. 2.) I go on to ask some larger questions designed to incite discussions concerning matters of scale. What is the relationship between micro and macro history in musicological research? How can musicology best operate at the scale of seas and oceans? 3.) I wrap up by setting musicological research in perspective by comparing it to hard forms of world history designed to discover global unities created by economic, colonial, and—eventually—industrial processes. Case studies drawn from recent scholarship are threaded throughout.

Kate van Orden is Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music at Harvard University. She specializes in the cultural history of early modern France, Italy, and the Mediterranean, popular music (mostly 16th-c, but also in the 1960s), and cultural mobility. Her latest project is Seachanges: Music in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds, 1550-1800 (I Tatti Research Series 2), an edited volume. Her prize-winning publications include Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in 16th-c. Europe (Oxford, 2015), Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France (Chicago, 2005), and articles in Seachanges, Renaissance Quarterly, and Early Music History. In 2016, she received a French Medaille d’Honneur. van Orden currently serves as President of the International Musicological Society (2022-2027), editor-in-chief of Oxford Bibliographies of Music, and co-edits the series Musics in Motion (Michigan). She also performs on baroque and classical bassoon, with over 60 recordings on Sony, Virgin Classics, and Harmonia Mundi.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

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Film Screening: Mueda, Memory and Massacre, April 17https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/240567-film-screening-mueda-memory-and-massacre

After independence was declared, Ruy Guerra returned to Mozambique from Brazil—where he had been a key figure in the Cinema Novo movement—and helped establish the National Film Institute. His depiction of a reenactment of the 1960 Mueda massacre, which triggered the war of independence, was the first feature-length film of Mozambican cinema. Hundreds of people were killed when Portuguese troops fired on peaceful demonstrators protesting the arrest of two exiles. Locals, including survivors who also offer testimony, participate in this regularly staged political theater, playing both the victims and the oppressors.

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Film Screening: Resonance Spiral, April 21https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/240574-film-screening-resonance-spiral

Centrifugal movement was an expression once used to describe the tactical and situated beginnings of an anticolonial armed struggle. In a flow of gestures and recurrences, a building is collectively imagined and constructed in the traditional community of the militant filmmaker Sana na N’Hada. Intertwining the local dreams and cine-kins’ visions, Resonance Spiral traverses moments at the newly manufactured community space in Malafo. Old plans for a videoteque are revisited and materialize a mediateca. The women from the Satna Fai association listen to forgotten voices and rest from millennia of abuse. An informal sewing workshop, an experimental garden, a bibliotera, and a preschool take up space. Adolescents voice a circle and sound self-built instruments. At the well a discussion is staged about mud medicine. Cine-kins undermine their agencies and distrust neo-liberal slogans. Hope-hearted, seeking to flip verticalities into horizon lines, the collective slides through what lies ahead. Onshore. Abotcha. Na tchon. Humus, humans, humbled, humiliated by humanity.

-Filipa César
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Film Screening: Walking Archives: Thoughts on Mangroves, Schools, Round Houses, and Weaving, April 24https://events.berkeley.edu/live/events/240575-film-screening-walking-archives-thoughts-on

Many of Filipa César’s films begin as research projects done in collaboration with others; they often include people’s memories, which collaborator Sónia Vaz Borges has called “walking archives.” Mangrove School draws on Borges’s research into the Guinea-Bissau militants’ effort to decolonize minds by creating schools during the liberation war. The poetic film is concerned with both the mangrove’s unique alluvial ecosystem and the re-creation of a school amidst the watery trees, where teachers expose the current generation to their time in the schools. In Round, Square, a conversation over tea ponders the value of traditional versus contemporary house designs. According to César, Quantum Creole, which grew out of the Looming Creole program, is “an experimental documentary film collectively researching creolization and addressing its historical, ontological and cultural forces.” It opens with a Guinea-Bissau song about what children want to know and proposes, “youth, don’t believe in the white’s lies” and “in the weaves lies our value.” The film itself is a tapestry of imaging techniques, songs, fables, and performances, including subversive takes on the origins of Guinea-Bissau’s traditional pano di pinti fabric, links between computer programming and weaving, and contemporary globalization projects as a form of recolonization.

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Jan Willem Duyvendak | The Return of the Native: Navigating between nostalgic nativism and hopeful liberalism, April 25https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/236387-jan-willem-duyvendak-the-return-of-the-native-navigat

Duyvendak will present his co-authored new book The Return of the Native (Oxford University Press, 2023) that explores the extraordinary rise of nativism in liberal settings, paying particular attention to nativist narratives that intertwine islamophobia, racism, populism and nostalgia. He will discuss the rise of nativism in France, the US and the Netherlands, focusing on striking similarities and small differences.

About the authors

Jan Willem Duyvendak is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Since 2018, he is also director of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NIAS-KNAW). In 2021, he was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and in 2022 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Co-authored with Josip Kesic, who is a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES), University of Amsterdam, where he currently finishes his doctoral research European Peripheries: continuities, commonalities and conflicts in cultural stereotyping of Spain and the South-Slavic region. He also works as a researcher and lecturer at the Inholland University of Applied Sciences. Besides political nativism, his interests include culturalnationalism and imagology.

In collaboration with Timothy Stacey, who is Researcher and Lecturer at the Urban Future Studio, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, Canada.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

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Nicole Eaton | German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad, April 26https://events.berkeley.edu/ies/event/237683-nicole-eaton-german-blood-slavic-soil-how-nazi-knigsb

In the wake of the Second World War, the German city Königsberg, once the easternmost territory of the Third Reich, became the Russian city Kaliningrad, the westernmost region of the Soviet Union. Königsberg/Kaliningrad is the only city to have been ruled by both Hitler and Stalin as their own—in both wartime occupation and as integral territory of the two regimes. During the war, this single city became an epicenter in the apocalyptic battle between Nazism and Stalinism.

Eaton’s book German Blood, Slavic Soil: How Nazi Königsberg Became Soviet Kaliningrad reveals how Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, twentieth-century Europe’s two most violent revolutionary regimes, transformed a single city and the people who lived there. Drawing on archival documents, diaries, letters, and memoirs from both sides, this talk presents an intimate look into the Nazi-Soviet encounter during World War II and shows how this outpost city, far from the centers of power in Moscow and Berlin, became a closed-off space where Nazis and Stalinists each staged radical experiments in societal transformation and were forced to reimagine their utopias in dialogue with the encounter between the victims and proponents of the two regimes.

Nicole Eaton received her PhD at UC Berkeley is now Associate Professor of History at Boston College. She teaches courses on the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, modern Europe, authoritarianism, and mass violence. Her research interests include nationalism, communism, fascism, ethnic cleansing, borderlands, urban history, the Second World War, environmental history and the history of medicine in East-Central Europe and Eurasia. German Blood, Slavic Soil is her first book.

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days before the event.

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