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Visions of Europe: Unity & Division

Europe takes many shapes in the modern imaginary, which have depended upon the ways in which those inside and outside of Europe have represented it in images of both cultural unity and division. How do these representational visions influence the ways in which Europe has developed and continues to evolve as a unique political and cultural space within a wider world? How do the many examples of competing theological, cultural, and political visions set the parameters for historical development in Europe today? This conference will attempt to envision Europe--both today and in the past--through the eyes of its citizens, neighbors, and citizens of the former colonies.

Program

Friday, March 1, 2013

10-10:15am Opening remarks
Georges van den Abbeele, Dean, School of Humanities

10:15-11:45am Political Identity in the 17th and 18th centuries

Luis Aviles, Spanish & Portuguese
The Ethics of Liberality in Cervantes's Narratives of Captivity

Jane O. Newman, Comparative Literature
Reich or Nation? Versions of European Statehood in the Treaty of Westphalia (1648)

Kevin Olson, Political Science
Chimeras of Political Identity: A Short Genealogy of "the People" in Revolutionary France

12-1pm Lunch

Axel Cruau, Consul General of France
Bruno Ryff, Consul General of Switzerland

1:15-2:45pm Art and Civilization

Consul General of Hungary Lazlo Kalman,
Hungary in the EU with American Aspects

Gail Hart, European Languages & Studies
Socializing the European Child: Hoffmann’s Struwwelpeter (1845)

Beryl Schlossman, Comparative Literature
Baudelaire: The Poet and the City

David Brodbeck, Music
Rethinking the "Billroth" Affair

3-4:30pm Modernist Visions

Rudi Veestraeten, Consul General of Belgium

Kai Evers, European Languages & Studies
Gassing Europe’s Capitals: Planning, Envisioning, and Rethinking Modern Warfare in European Discourses of the 1920s and 1930s

Herschel Farbman, European Languages & Studies
Tradition and the Multi-National Corporation: T.S. Eliot's Europe

Santiago Morales-Rivera , Spanish and Portuguese
Bullets or Ballots: Film Noir and Anarchism in Spain

4:45-6:30 Keynote address

Michal Sedlacek, Consul General of the Czech Republic, Introduction

Keynote Address: Russell Berman, German Studies, Stanford University
Figuring Out Europe: Nation, State, and the European Union in the German Public Sphere

7- 9pm Dinner

Stefan Biedermann, Deputy Consul General of Germany
A Vision of Europe



Saturday, March 2, 2013

8:30-9am Breakfast

9-10:30am Teaching Europe

Georges Van Den Abbeele, Dean, School of Humanities, and Pablo Ortiz, Music, UC Davis
Old Europe, New Europe: A New Teaching Paradigm

Carrie Noland, European Languages & Studies
Aimé Césaire: Europe,Africa, or the Caribbean?

David Pan, European Languages & Studies
Poetry and the Public Sphere: European Languages and Literatures

10:45am-12:15pm 20th Century Conflicts

Robert Moeller, History
How to Judge Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg

Eve Morisi, European Languages and Studies
European Visions in Albert Camus’s Writings on the Death Penalty

Zina Giannopoulou, Classics
Cast Adrift in José Saramago's The Stone Raft

12:30-2pm Lunch

2-3:30pm French Culture and Its Influence

Sarah Farmer, History
The French Countryside as an Object of Fantasy and Destination in postwar Europe

Mark Levine, History
Finding Foucault in Tunisia: An Archaeology of the Power and the State

James Steintrager, English
The End of French Cinema: Digitization, Europeanization, Globalization, and the Soi-Disant New Extremity

3:45-5:15pm Europe's Conflicts Today

Glenn Levine, European Languages & Studies
English and Some Other Languages:Plurilingualism and Language Education in Europe

Anke Biendarra, European Languages and Studies
Transnational Tales:Contemporary German-Language Literature from Eastern Europe

John Smith, European Languages & Studies
Logos, Dialogue, and the Plurality of Reason-Challenges to Ratzinger/Benedikt XVI's History of Europe

6:30-8:30pm Dinner (by invitation), University Art Gallery, 712 Arts Plaza

Finbar Hill, Consul General of Ireland
The EU, Aged 55 Maturing or Dying?

Organized by the Department of European Languages and Studies with sponsorship from the UCI Senate Council on Research, Computing, and Libraries, the UCI Humanities Center, and the Departments of Classics, Comparative Literature, English, History, and Spanish & Portuguese