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US Premiere Broadcast of War of the World


Prof. Niall Ferguson's documentary, War of the World, airs for the first time in a US market on PBS: it will air in episodes throughout the week. For listings and more information, please see »

Here's a YouTube clip of the first 10 minutes.





New German Directories are Here

The German Studies Program at CES has long provided a link between Germany and the Center. In supporting research, scholarly exchange and programming, it has deepened knowledge about Germany in the US and contributed to scholarship in Germany. The Program has just updated its directories of the visitors and researchers associated with the program.

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2008 Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize Winners Announced for Undergraduate Senior Theses

CES congratulates the following 2008 Hoopes Thesis Prize winners whose travel and research was supported by a fellowship from the Center:

  • Alexander Chase-Levenson, for A Gate for the Whole Continent: Quarantine, Illness, and the Imaginative Geography of British Travel to the East 1780-1850

  • Henry Cowles, for "Harmless, Beautiful, or Rare": The Origins of Wildlife Protection in Britain, 1860-1873

  • Darja Djordjevic, for Persecution and the Double Bind: An Ethnographic Study of Women Asylum Seekers and the Comité médical pour les exilés

  • Erika Helgen, for A Polish Pope in Puebla: Liberation Theology, Ecclesiology, and the Third General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate

  • Roumiana Ivanova, for Europe's Soft Power: Limits and Possibilities

  • Roland Lamb, for This, That, and the Other: Zhuangzi's Sotto Voce Ontology

  • Paul Linden-Retek, for Public Responsibility, Solidarity, and Citzenship: Václav Havel and Jürgen Habermas on Morality and Democratic Politics

  • Samuel Conrad Scott, for The Enlightenment of Bryan Edwards


For the full list of this year's Hoopes Prize Winners, Read More (PDF) »



CES Congratulates the Class of 2008

CES congratulates its 2008 graduating students, including graduate affiliates and undergraduate Krupp fellowship winners, summer interns, and research assistants.

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CES Announces its 2008 Grant Winners

CES continues its long tradition of promoting and funding student research on Europe. Nearly fifty undergraduates will pursue thesis research and internships in Europe this summer, while almost two dozen graduate students have been awarded support for their dissertations over the coming year.

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CES Podcasts
The series allows you to listen to and download talks from the Center. The podcast section includes featured speakers, authors presenting new books, and VOIX, an interview program of politics and culture.
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"Crossing Boundaries: International History in a Global Age"
This June, CES and the American Academy in Berlin are co-sponsoring "Crossing Boundaries: International History in a Global Age", a conference organized by former students of Charles S. Maier to celebrate his work.

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Undergraduate Research Assistant Opportunities

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CES Affiliate and Radcliffe Executive Dean chosen for Presidency of the University of St. Andrews
Photo of Louise Richardson Louise Richardson, executive dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and one of the world’s leading authorities on the study of terrorism and political violence, has been named principal and vice chancellor (known as president in American universities) of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Richardson will be the first woman to lead the Scottish university, a post she will assume January 1, 2009.

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New Affiliate Publication
Varieties of Capitalism in Spain Sebastian Royo's new book, "Varieties of Capitalism in Spain: Remaking the Spanish Economy for the New Century" will be released on May 13, 2008.

Is globalization forcing non-'Coordinated Market Economies,' such as Spain, to converge on an Anglo-American model? How do national institutional differences condition economic policies and performance? This book seeks to build on the hypotheses generated by the literature on VoC to analyze the challenges of developing and sustaining coordination while adjusting for economic change.

Book Award Announcement
Congratulations to CES Resident Faculty Associate Mary Lewis. Her book The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918-1940 has been named co-winner of the 2008 James Willard Hurst Prize, awarded by the Law and Society Association for the best work in sociolegal history published in 2007.
New Faculty Publication
Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model Congratulations to CES Resident Faculty Associate Laura Frader who has just published Breadwinners and Citizens: Gender in the Making of the French Social Model (Duke, 2008)
New Affiliate Publication
La République de Dieu Dr. Charles Cogan's new book, La République de Dieu (Paris: Editions Jacob-Duvernet) arrived in bookstores in France on 22 February 2008. The book is a collection of essays on the idea of God ("Comment peut-on croire?"); on evangelism and its influence on public policy ("La République de Dieu"); on Islamic fundamentalism ("L'Islam médiéval"); and followed by empirical chapters analyzing a number of conflicts between the Muslim and non-Muslim world:

     - Iran 1979: premier conflit majeur avec l'islam radical
     - L'Afghanistan: la lutte contre les Soviétiques et le mythe Ben Laden
     - Iraq 2003: l'insoutenable légèreté de la décision
     - Israel: la nouvelle Jamestown?




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