Schedule 2007-2008 Program BORDERLANDS
In cooperation with the Hertie School of Governance Berlin and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung.
Time for all sessions in 2007-2008: 18.00-20.00 (Reception at 17.30)
Upcoming sessions
May 26, 2008 - The Rise of China and India: Understanding the New ‘New World Order’
Session: The rise in wealth of China and India in recent years has transfixed the world and heralded a new age in international politics. For the first time in 500 years, Europe will no longer define the center of world power and competition, as it appears that the globe’s center of gravity is returning to Asia. This panels seeks to examine what this transformation means—for the people of Asia and for the rest of the world. Hearing from distinguished voices from China, India, and Europe, we will discuss: What is the outlook for continued economic growth in China and India? What are the obstacles – political, economic, social, environmental – to each country realizing its vision of success? How is this new wealth being translated into political and military power? Will China and India cooperate or compete with each other? What does the simultaneous emergence of these giants mean for the rest of the world? These are some of the great questions of the 21st century and this panel offers a tour of this new horizon.
Chair: Siddharth Mohandas, Fellow in National Security at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research interests include state-building, military intervention, and Asian security issues. He has worked at the RAND Corporation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Prior to graduate school, he served as an associate editor of Foreign Affairs and interned as a speechwriter at the United Nations for Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He has written for various publications including Newsweek and the Christian Science Monitor. Mr. Mohandas holds an M.Phil. from Cambridge University and an A.B. summa cum laude from Harvard University.
Prof. Yu Bin, Senior Fellow at the Shanghai Institute of American Studies; analyst on Russian-China relations for the Pacific Forum (CSIS) in Honolulu, Hawaii; Professor of Political Science and Director of East Asian Studies at Wittenberg University, Ohio, USA; and president of the Association of Chinese Political Studies (1992-94). Yu earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University (1991) and his M.A. from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (1982). He is the author and co-author of several books including the most recent: The Government of China (2006); Power of the Moment: America and the World After 9-11 (2002); and Mao’s Generals Remember Korea (2001). He has published more than 60 articles in journals, including World Politics, Strategic Review, Asian Survey, International Politics Quarterly (Beijing), The China and Eurasian Forum Quarterly, International Journal of Korean Studies, Harvard International Review, Comparative Connections, etc.
Sujit Dutta, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, a think tank on strategic studies and international affairs. His interests focus on China's foreign policy and diplomacy, state and politics in 20th century China, Asian security issues, and India-China Relations. His current project is on 'The Rise of China and Its Impact on Asian Security.' He heads the Institute's East Asia and South Asia Programmes, and is the Executive Editor of the IDSA's journal Strategic Analysis. Dutta has been a member of the India-China Eminent Persons' Group set up by the two governments for track two dialogue on bilateral issues, and also a member of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Working Group on Confidence Building Measures. He has been a member and also closely interacted with research institutions in the US, Europe, and Asia. He has written extensively and is the author of India and the World (2005) and China and Nonproliferation: Pragmatism and Adaptation (2005), among others.
Martin Klingst, Washington Bureau Chief for Die Zeit. He has worked for the North German Television and Broadcasting Corporation (NDR), and taught German law at the University of Hamburg. He covered many Constitutional and Supreme Courts (US, Israel, South Africa), and he covered the Balkan Wars from Zagreb, Sarajevo, Pristina and Skopje. Klingst spent the fall semester of 2006 at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University as a Bucerius Fellow.
Location: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785
June 16, 2008 - The Third World Strikes Back/How Postcolonial Societies Changed the World During the Cold War Era
Session: The sense of a “clash of civilization” between the West and the non-West has been re-awakened in the post-9/11 era. With fear of the spread of the political contagion of terrorism, anxiety about failing states in Africa, and distress about the spread of epidemiological contagion and epidemics, newspapers and magazines in Europe and America seem to have re-adopted Kipling's old view, “East is East and West is West.” Our speakers will look back to a previous era when the relationship between the West and the non-West was being made. They will comment on what the historical experience of the construction of the “Third World” tells us about the challenges of our contemporary experience of the East/West and the North/South global divides.
Chair: Dr. Kris Manjapra, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at UCLA. A student of modern intellectual history from a transnational perspective, his fundamental interest is in how genealogies of thought develop within global arenas, and within entangled histories. Manjapra's areas of particular interest are in South Asian and German thought of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is working on the book, Cosmopolitan Encounter between Indian Revolutionaries and German Radicals, 1905-1939 (forthcoming).
Prof. Dr. Andreas Eckert, Chair of African History at Humboldt University in Berlin. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the UK, managing editor of the Journal of African History (published by CUP) and chairman of the Association for Modern Social History. He is the author of Kolonialismus (2006) and is currently working on Deutscher Kolonialismus
Prof. Sunil Khilnani, Starr Foundation Professor and Director of the South Asia Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the editorial boards of Critique Internationale, Economy and Society, and Political Quarterly and Prospect. Professor Khilnani was the recipient of the 2005 Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award by the Indian government. He is the author of The Idea of India (2003). He holds a Ph.D. in social and political sciences from Cambridge University.
Prof. Dr. Dirk van Laak, Professor of History at the Justus-Liebig University in Giessen. His research interests include German, international and globalization history of the 19th and 20th centuries, colonialism and imperialism, infrastructure, planning, and technocracy, and the history of historical thought. He is the author of Über alles in der Welt: Deutscher Imperialismus im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (2005).
Location: Meeting Room 10.22 (Second floor), Hertie School of Governance/European School for Management and Technology (esmt). Entrance: Schlossplatz 1, 10178
June 23, 2008 - The Global Discourse on Gender and Sexuality: Where Are We Now?
Session: Today, political activism and theoretical discussions about gender and sexuality are taking place in non-Western contexts with great force. These developments are also receiving international attention, and may be helping to move forward the global discourse on individual freedoms and liberties. Is the discourse on gender and sexuality in other cultures interfering with or expanding European visions of equitable gender relations and emancipated sexuality identity? Is “Third World feminism” or transnational feminism teaching us something new about sexual relations in society?
Chair: Dr. Kris Manjapra, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at UCLA. A student of modern intellectual history from a transnational perspective, his fundamental interest is in how genealogies of thought develop within global arenas, and within entangled histories. Manjapra's areas of particular interest are in South Asian and German thought of the 19th and 20th centuries. He is working on the book, Cosmopolitan Encounter between Indian Revolutionaries and German Radicals, 1905-1939 (forthcoming).
Pramada Menon, Co-Founder and Director Programs of Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA). She has worked in the development sector in India for over two decades as a women’s rights activist. Her work has focused on issues of sexuality and sexual rights, livelihoods, gender and development, violence against women and organizational development.
Prof. Afsaneh Najmabadi, Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University. Dr. Najmabadi’s research and teaching interests center on socio-cultural transformations of gender and sexuality, with particular attention to how these transformations are inter-articulated with conceptualizations of modernity and secularism. Recent publications include Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (2005), and Women of the East: Documents from and about the second Women of the East Congress (1932); co-edited with Gholamreza Salami, in Persian, 2005.
Prof. Ann Pellegrini, Associate Professor of Performance Studies and Religious Studies at New York University, where she is also the incoming director of NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Her research interests include trauma studies; queer theory; and religion, sex, and the law. Her recent books include: Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (co-author) and Secularisms (co-editor).
Prof. Shu-mei Shih, Scholar of comparative literature with expertise and interest in Chinese, Sinophone, Asian American, and world literature. Her research focus also includes transnational feminism, comparative minority discourse, modernism, (post)humanism, and (post)colonialism. She is the author of The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 (2001) and Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific (2007), and Co-editor of Minor Transnationalism (2005). She teaches at UCLA, and co-directs the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in the Humanities there.
Location: Meeting Room 10.22 (Second floor), Hertie School of Governance/European School for Management and Technology (esmt). Entrance: Schlossplatz 1, 10178
June 30, 2008 - Jazz in the Kulturnation
Chair and commentator: Dr. Matthias Tischer, Researcher in musicology. He has written on nineteenth- and twentieth-century music, popular music, musical education, aesthetics, and the relationship between music and politics. His current main fields of research are music in the former GDR, music under the circumstances of the Cold War, and oral history. In 2006 he was awarded a Feodor Lynen fellowship and was at CES for one year from August of 2006.
William Bares, Jazz pianist and ethnomusicologist specializing in African American music and popular musics of the African diaspora. He is currently working on a PhD at Harvard University under the direction of Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music. Bares has spent the past several years in Europe researching the intersection of jazz and national identity in Switzerland, Italy, Norway and Germany, and in 2006-7 used a CES-sponsored Krupp Foundation Fellowship to survey the ways Berlin is being positioned as a German jazz "center." His PhD dissertation entitled "Eternal Triangle: American Jazz in European Postmodern" focuses on the complex relationships between European, American, and African American identities in the evolving transatlantic jazz markeplace. He also performs frequently in New York and Europe, and has shared the stage with many of Berlin's most accomplished musicians: Torsten Goods, Johan Leijonhufvud, Andrea Marcelli, Till Bronner and John Schroeder, to name a few. He also fronts his own band, "Billy the Kid and the Outlaws," whose latest album, "Essences," is due for release in the fall of 2008.
Dr. Wolfram Knauer, Musicologist and the director of the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt, Europe's largest public jazz archive. He is author and editor of several books on jazz and on the board of editors for the scholarly journal Jazz Perspectives. He serves on the board of advisers for the Goethe Institute and serves as the Louis Armstrong Professor of Jazz Studies at Columbia University, New York, for the spring semester 2008 , where he teaches a course about "Jazz in Europe/European Jazz".
Prof. Penny von Eschen, Professor of history and American culture at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War (Harvard Press, 2004) and Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (Cornell Press, 1997). She is co-editor, along with Manisha Sinha of Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History (Columbia Press, 2007); and co-editor with Jan Radway, Kevin Gaines and Barry Shank of American Studies: A New Anthology (Blackwell Press, 2008) She is currently working on a transnational study of memory and the cold war.
Detroit Gary Wiggins, Saxophonist in Berlin
Location: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785
July 7, 2008 - The Teutonic Shift: Explaining Germany´s New Foreign Policy
Chair: Dr. Christiane Lemke,
Prof. Beverly Crawford, Associate Director and Associate Research Political Scientist at the Center for German and European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a Senior Lecturer for Political Economy of Industrial Societies. Crawford is the author of A Teutonic Shift: Explaining Germany's new Foreign Policy (forthcoming). She is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the American Political Science Association, and the International Studies Association.
Prof. Dr. Georg Nolte, Professor for German and Comparative Public Law, Public International Law and European Law, Humboldt University Berlin, Faculty of Law. Since January 2007, Member of the International Law Commission (ILC) of the United Nations. Before coming to Berlin, he was Chair for German and Comparative Public Law at the Institute for International Law of the University of Munich and was Professor and Dean for German and Comparative Public Law and Public International Law at the University of Göttingen. Prof. Nolte has been a substitute member for Germany on the Venice Commission (European Commission for Democracy through Law) since 2000. Prof. Nolte is a Member of the Governing Board of the German Society for Peace Research and Member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Military Law and the Laws of War. His publications include United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law (2003), edited with Michael Byers, and European Military Law Systems (2004). Nolte did his first degree in law at the Free University Berlin, and his Ph.D. and Habilitation at the University of Heidelberg. He begins to teach in the Law School of Humboldt University in the spring.
Commentators:
Dr. Michael Zürn, Dean of the Hertie School of Governance Berlin as well as the Director of the Research Unit "Transnational Conflicts and International Institutions" at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB). In 1994, he was appointed the Professor for International and Transnational Relations at the University of Bremen. Until 2004, Zürn was Chairman of the Collaborative Research Center "Transformation of the State", funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Recent major publications include: "Democratic Governance Beyond the Nation State", European Journal of International Relations (2000), "European Law and International Regimes: The Features of Law Beyond the Nation," State European Law Journal (1999), and Governing beyond the Nation State (1998).
Location: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785