European Studies Consortium

The Institute for Global Studies and The European Studies Consortium would like to congratulate the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) awardees for Summer 2013 and the upcoming Academic Year 2014.

Western Europe Summer 2013
Madeline Reibe, Undergraduate, Intermediate Italian, Department of French and Italian
Kristen Stoeckler, PhD, Beginning Turkish, Theater
Amanda Taylor, PhD, Intermediate Italian, English
J. Adelia Chrysler, PhD, Beginning Yiddish, Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch
Rachel Schaff, PhD, Beginning Czech, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature

Western Europe Academic Year 2013-2014
John Stanoch, Undergraduate, Intermediate Russian, Linguistics & Russian
Timothy Bell, Undergraduate, Intermediate Italian, Physiology/French and Italian Studies
Jean Costello, Undergraduate, Intermediate Russian, Mathematics
Felicia Stevens, Undergraduate, Intermediate Dutch, Theater Arts & Dance
Paul Vig, PhD, Intermediate Dutch, Department of History
Andrew Hoyt, PhD, Intermediate Italian, Department of History
Margarita Kopelmahker, PhD, Advanced Russian, Theater Arts & Dance
Lucas Franco, PhD, Intermediate Norwegian, Political Science

Friday and Saturday, April 19-20, 2013
Nolte Center
Free and open to the public. Reservations available online until Wednesday, April 17 by clicking here.

Program schedule available for download by clicking the link below:
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"Burning the Sea: Clandestine Migrations in the Age of Globalization" is a symposium designed as an interdisciplinary conference that will bring together fifteen scholars from various national and international institutions, with a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Panelists will discuss contemporary clandestine human migratory flows across the Mediterranean Sea between southwestern Europe and North- and Sub-Saharan Africa, as they are represented in French, Francophone, and Spanish literature and cinema. Panels will also examine these migratory patterns, concentrating on how they are accounted throughout history, in mass media, and political discourse.

Convened by Hakim Abderrezak, Department of French and Italian, University of Minnesota

Participating Scholars:

Silvia Bermúdez, University of California-Santa Barbara
Sabrina Brancato, University of Bayreuth
Carla Calargé, Florida Atlantic University
Sylvie Durmelat, Georgetown University
Claudia Esposito, University of Massachusetts-Boston
Anouar Majid,University of New England
Brinda Mehta, Mills College
Valerie Orlando,University of Maryland-College Park
Gema Pérez-Sánchez, University of Miami
Liliana Suárez-Navaz, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Yale University

Plenary Address:
Dominic Thomas, UCLA

Panel Chairs:
Shaden Tageldin, Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota
Ofelia Ferran, Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota
Nabil Matar, Department of English, University of Minnesota
William Viestenz , Department of Spanish & Portuguese Studies, University of Minnesota

Sponsored by: University of Minnesota Imagine Fund Special Events Programs,
European Studies Consortium, Institute for Global Studies, College of Liberal Arts, Immigration History Research Center, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, Department of French and Italian, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies, Department of History, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Department of English, Department of Anthropology.

Hakim Abderrezak is an Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research deals primarily with Maghrebi literature and cinema, and Mediterranean Studies.

His most recent publications include an article on the topic of clandestine migration in francophone Moroccan "illiterature," an interview with Algerian writer Boualem Sansal, and a book chapter on the film Il était une fois dans l'oued (Once Upon a Time in the Oued). His work has appeared in various journals, such as Sites: Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Critical Interventions, and The Journal of North African Studies.

He co-edited a special issue of Expressions Maghrébines on Plurilingualism in the Maghreb (Winter 2012). His forthcoming book is entitled Ex-Centric Migrations: Europe and the Maghreb in Mediterranean Cinema, Literature, and Music (Indiana University Press 2014).

Tuesday, April 23
7:00 PM
St. Anthony Main Theatre
Cost: $10.00-$12.00
For tickets click here.

Mama Illegal is a documentary by award-winning ÖRF journalist Ed Moschitz chronicles seven years in the lives of three women.

Aurica, Raia and Natasa leave their Moldovan village--and the broken roads, the dilapidated schools and the countless abandoned houses--to work in Austria or Italy as cleaners or child care workers. Here they live a life in the underground without valid documents, without health care, and separated from their children and families for years. They send the little that remains of their hard-earned Western money home to their families.

But their desire for a brighter future and a better life comes at a high price: After all these years, their return is not what they planned. Their children are grown and their husbands estranged. The social gulf that they sought to overcome threatens to tear apart the families once and for all. Having never really arrived and been accepted in the West, they find that they have become alienated from their homeland.

The Center for Austrian Studies' BMWF Research Fellow Matthias Falter will lead a discussion after the film.

Sponsored by: Center for Austrian Studies, European Studies Consortium, Institute for Global Studies, Immigration History Research Center, MSP International Film Festival

Thursday, April 11
4:00 p.m.
Room 710 Social Sciences

Dr. Berthold Molden, visiting professor at the University of New Orleans will give a special lecture on the intellectual history of global anti-colonialism.

Resistance against foreign rule is as old as human society. Within modern history, anti-colonial struggle against European domination overseas has been ubiquitous and one of the central axes of global history. In the course of decolonization, "counter histories" of marginalized groups have challenged the western canon of national and transnational master narratives. If history is relevant for politics, then anti-colonial politics of history have shaped the 20th century.

Sponsored by: Center for Austrian Studies, European Studies Consortium, Institute for Global Studies.

For more information click here.

Burning the Sea: Clandestine Migration in the Age of Globalization
Symposium
Friday and Saturday, April 19-20, 2013
Nolte Center
Rooms 140 &125
Friday, April 19, 9:00-5:00
Saturday, April 20, 10:00-2:30
Free and open to the public. Reservations required, to reserve please click here.

Accounts of North- and Sub-Saharan African clandestine migrations to Europe are broadcast widely in print and electronic media. Concurrently, fictional accounts on the matter published in French, Spanish, and Italian have grown considerably. Though they have received extensive media coverage, the desperate crossings have garnered little academic attention.

"Burning the Sea: Clandestine Migrations in the Age of Globalization" is a symposium designed as an interdisciplinary conference that will bring together fifteen scholars from various national and international institutions, with a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Panelists will discuss contemporary clandestine human migratory flows across the Mediterranean Sea between southwestern Europe and North- and Sub-Saharan Africa, as they are represented in French, Francophone, and Spanish literature and cinema. Panels will also examine these migratory patterns, concentrating on how they are accounted throughout history, in mass media, and political discourse.

Sponsored by: University of Minnesota Imagine Fund Special Events Programs,
European Studies Consortium, Institute for Global Studies, Immigration History Research Center, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, Department of French and Italian, Institute for Advanced Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Department of History, Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

Painting: Burning the Sea (2013) Jordan Kammer

Representing Genocide: Media, Law and Scholarship
April 5 & 6, 2013
Place TBD

The symposium will address journalistic, judicial and social scientific depictions of atrocities with a focus on cases of the Holocaust, Darfur, and Rwanda. It seeks to explore the intersections between these different discursive fields and case studies to shed light on the increasing tension between the local and global representations and memories of mass murder.

A lecture by Heikki Patomäki
Friday, March 29, 2013
1:00 p.m.
Room 614 Social Sciences
Refreshments served

The historical development and functioning of global financial system,
the 2008-2009 crisis, and the European debt crisis that started in 2010 have been tightly intertwined. The Euro crisis is, in essence, a second phase of the epic recession that began in 2008. Moreover, the ideological underpinnings or inherent contradictions of the European Monetary Union (EMU) are not specific to the EMU only. Similar ambiguities and imbalances characterize also the dynamics of global political economy as a whole.

In his lecture, Professor Patomäki argues first that the Euro crisis requires
reforms in the systems of global governance; and second that this
conclusion should be generalized from a non-Eurocentric perspective,
presupposing also a new global imaginary of ethics and politics.

Screening and discussion with director John Swanson, professor, department of History, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Tuesday, March 12
7:00 PM
Room 710 Social Sciences Building

The Center for Austrian Studies will host producer, writer and director John Swanson, whose film About a Village: Children of the High Woods, examines the meaning of home.

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Department of History, University of Minnesota Announce a Call for Applicants for the Bernard and Fern Badzin Graduate Fellowship in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

The Fellowship is for the 2013-2014 academic year.

The Badzin Fellowship will pay a living stipend of $18,000, and the cost of tuition, mandatory fees and health insurance.

Eligibility: An applicant must be a current student in a Ph.D. program in the College of Liberal Arts, currently enrolled in the first, second, third, or fourth year of study, and have a doctoral dissertation project in Holocaust and genocide studies. The fellowship will be awarded on the basis of the quality and scholarly potential of the dissertation project, the applicant's quality of performance in the graduate program, and the applicant's general scholarly promise.

Required application materials:
1) A letter of application (maximum 4 pages single-spaced) describing the applicant's intellectual interests and dissertation research and the research and/or writing which the applicant expects to do during the fellowship year
2) A current curriculum vitae for the applicant
3) An unofficial transcript of all graduate work done at the University of Minnesota
4) TWO confidential letters of recommendation from U of MN faculty, discussing the quality of the applicant's graduate work and dissertation project and the applicant's progress toward completing the degree, sent directly to the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (chgs.umn.edu).

All application materials must be received by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies electronically chgs.umn.edu, no later than 3:00 pm on Friday, March 15, 2013.

The awardee will be announced no later than Friday, April 26, 2013.