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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

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

Introduction by: Rudi Veestraeten, Consul General of Belgium

Gail Hart, European Languages & Studies
Children [are starving] in Europe: Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter and the Civilized Child

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

David Brodbeck, Music
Rethinking the "Billroth" Affair

3-4:30pm Modernist Visions

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

5-6:30 Keynote address

Introduction by: Michal Sedlacek, Consul General of the Czech Republic

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, UCI, and Pablo Ortiz, Music, UC Davis
Old Europe, New Europe: A New Teaching Paradigm

Carrie Noland, European Languages & Studies
Why European Studies is not American Studies: The Case of Marcel Duchamp and
John Cage

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
Rural Utopias: The French Countryside as an Object of Fantasy and a Site of
Experimentation in 1970s 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
European Common Framework of Reference and the problems and politics of
second-language education in Europe today

Anke Biendarra, European Languages and Studies
Dissolving Nationality: Contemporary Russian-German Narratives

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, University Art Gallery, 712 Arts Plaza

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