March 16, 2017

The 2017 Taubman Lectures
Lecture 1 (Mon, March 13: Rabbinizing Heresy: Korah in the Midrash
Lecture 2 (Weds, March 15): The Afterlives of Baruch Spinoza and Shabbetai Zvi
Lecture 3 (Thurs, March 16): Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt and the Boundaries of Modern Heresy
Lecture 3 at 5:30, followed by reception.

David Biale is the Emanuel ...read more

March 16, 2017

This talk is based on a 10-year research endeavor looking at the political development of different European countries since 1945 under the aspect of Transitional Justice. West Germany often stands as an example of a successful transiton to democracy, but East Germany used the same Transitional Justice measures and (re)turned ...read more

March 14, 2017

The study of the Cold War has undergone fundamental transformation in recent years. While most of the scholarship on superpower confrontation has given way to wider notions of a global Cold War, comparatively little attention has been accorded to trans-continental interactions between smaller states, such as the relationship between Eastern ...read more

March 10, 2017

The Subir & Malini Chowdhury Center for Bangladesh Studies at UC Berkeley celebrate International Women's Day with talks by Monira Rahman, Executive Director, of the Acid Survivors Foundation (ASF), which provides support services to women, men and children who have been attacked with acid or petrol in Bangladesh ...read more

March 10, 2017

The methodological filiation between Goethe's morphological natural science and Lévi-Strauss's structural anthropology has been frequently observed, but not yet fully examined in its epistemological foundations. This talk addresses the core “epistemological attitude” that Lévi-Strauss says connects his work with Goethe's, and, proceeding from this, traces out salient parallels between the ...read more

March 6, 2017

Scientific instruments of the renaissance period well represent the concept of "materialised knowledge." They are carriers of ideas as well as very elegant and refined objects. The lecture will discuss astrolabes, globes, sundials and armillary spheres with a particular emphasis on the Flemish context: between c. 1525 and c. 1580 ...read more

March 6, 2017

Europe has arrived at a challenging juncture in its history, economics and politics. There is Brexit, growing right-wing, populist and anti-European movements in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, but also in core EU-countries such as the Netherlands, Germany, and France, as well as in the Nordic countries. Growth is still ...read more

March 4, 2017

Day-long conference initiating a new UC Multicampus Research Project on "The Middle Ages in the Wider World" aiming to foster research and pedagogical innovation connecting and comparing Eurasia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe from 500 to 1500 CE. ...read more

March 3, 2017

The latest book by journalist Paul Blustein to go behind the scenes at the highest levels of global economic policy making, Laid Low chronicles the crisis in the Euro Zone through the prism of the world's financial firefighter, the International Monetary Fund. As the book reveals, bailouts of crisis-stricken countries ...read more

March 3, 2017

41st Annual Berkeley-Stanford Conference
on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

1917-2017: 100 Years Since the Russian Revolution

Speakers:
George Breslauer, Professor of the Graduate School; Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Emeritus; Professor of Political Science Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Elena Danielson, Former Associate Director of the Hoover Institution and Director of the Hoover ...read more