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November 2009

Monday November 16, 2009
5:30 - 7:30 pm
Swedish Consulate, 520 Pike Street, Suite 2200

Swedish American Chamber of Commerce

Council of European Chambers of Commerce

For more information, contact the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce at info@saccseattle.org

The next event on the Council of European Chambers calendar is a Monday, November 16 network business card exchange being hosted by the Swedish American Chamber of Commerce (SACC). The event will take place Monday, November 16 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at the Swedish Consulate, 520 Pike Street, Suite 2200, in downtown Seattle.

Sweden currently holds the rotational Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The November 16 event coincides with a meeting of the national SACC Advisory Committee preparing for Swedish-American Entrepreneurial Days May 5 - 7, 2010, the first time this event will be held in Seattle.

Please RSVP to info@saccseattle.org. The cost is $20 per participant, to be paid in advance by sending a check payable to SACC-Seattle, and mailed to: SACC-Seattle, c/o Swedish Consulate, 520 Pike Street, Suite 2200 Seattle WA 98101. Payment can also be made at the door.

The Council of European Chambers of Commerce represents eight local European chambers of commerce and trade commissions, plus the EU Center of Excellence of Seattle. The CECC organizes events focusing on contemporary European themes for the local business and public communities.

Thursday November 19, 2009
7:00 pm
Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall

Konrad Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Center for West European Studies, the European Union Center of Excellence, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Department of Germanics, and Indiana University's Center for West European Studies

For more information, contact the Center for West European Studies - cwes@u.washington.edu - (206) 543-1675

This public forum will be followed by a reception and is a part of The Legacies of Unification academic conference. For more information about either the public forum or the conference please see http://jsis.washington.edu/cwes/wende/conference.shtml.

Konrad H. Jarausch has written or edited more than thirty books in modern German history. Starting with Hitler's seizure of power and the First World War, his research interests have moved to the social history of German students and professions German unification in 1989/90, with historiography under the Communist GDR, the nature of the East German dictatorship, as well as the debate about historians and the Third Reich. More recently, he has been concerned with the problem of interpreting 20th-century German history in general, the learning processes after 1945, the issue of cultural democratization, and the relationship between Honecker and Breshnew. At the same time he has been involved in discussions about quantitative methods in history, problems of postmodernism, and questions of European memory culture. Currently he is beginning to work on German responses to the challenge of globalization.
 

Wednesday November 18, 2009 to Friday November 20, 2009
Check listings
Seattle Art Museum

info@pffaseattle.org

The Polish Film Festival in America (PFFA) is the world's most extensive annual programming which promotes Polish cinema. Established in 1989, every year PFFA brings a diverse array of over 50 of the finest features, documentaries and shorts, as well as dozens of Polish filmmakers from around the globe.

The Festival's Opening Gala will be held on Friday, November 20, 2009 at SAM Downtown. Opening Night Reception will start at 6:00 pm. Opening Night Screening: GENERAL NIL directed by Ryszard Bugajski will begin at 8:00 pm.

Film Festival Schedule

Friday November 20, 2009
8:30 am - 4:15 pm
Walker Ames Room, Kane Hall

Center for West European Studies, the European Union Center of Excellence, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Department of Germanics, and Indiana University's Center for West European Studies

For more information, contact the Center for West European Studies - cwes@u.washington.edu - (206) 543-1675

The Autumn of 2009 will see the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the beginning of the transformation process that led to the formal act of German unification on October 3, 1990. The approach of these milestones provides an exceptional opportunity to take stock of how life, politics, and culture have evolved in unified Germany, and how the momentous events of 1989 continue to shape the ongoing process of European integration. This conference will feature leading US and European scholars discussing the impact and historical significance of the German Wende ("turning point').

For more information about this conference please see http://jsis.washington.edu/cwes/wende/conference.shtml.

December 2009

Thursday December 3, 2009
7:00-9:00 pm
Kane Hall, Room 110

Prof. Andrea Marks, Oregon State University

Presentation and screening by producer/director Prof. Andrea Marks, Oregon State University

A documentary project about the history of Polish posters and their
significance to the social, political and cultural life of Poland. Examining
the period from WWII through the fall of Communism, Freedom on the Fence
captures the paradox of how this unique art form flourished within a Communist
regime. The documentary contains interviews with older and younger generations
of poster artists, examples of past and current poster work, historic and
current film footage of where and how posters are viewed, and commentaries from
both American and Polish scholars and artists on the significance of the Polish
poster as a cultural icon.

Admission free, reception to follow

The event will be accompanied by an exhibition of Polish posters from
local collections. Freedom of Expression exhibition containing about 50 posters will
be on display at the UW Allen Library North from November 30, 2009 through
January 15, 2010.

Thursday December 10, 2009
7:00-9:00 pm
Walker Ames Room (Kane 225)

Daniel Chirot

Sponsored by the Ellison Center

reecas@uw.edu

Daniel Chirot is Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professor of International Studies and Sociology. He has authored three books on social change as well of Modern Tyrants. His most recent book, co-authored with Clark McCauley, is Why Not Kill Them All? The Logic and Prevention of Mass Political Murder (Princeton University Press 2006). He is the editor and co-editor of four books: The Crisis of Leninism and the Decline of the Left, Essential Outsiders, Ethnopolitical Warfare, and The Causes of Backwardness in Eastern Europe. He was founding editor of the journal East European Politics and Societies. His research has been helped by the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Mellon Foundations, by the Social Science Research Council, and by the Institute for Human Studies in Vienna. He has consulted for the American Government, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Ford Foundation, and CARE. In 2004/05 was a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace working on conflicts in Africa. He has a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.

January 2010

Friday January 15, 2010
TBD
TBD

Michael Hechter, Professor, School of Government, Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University

Center for West European Studies Politics and Society Colloquium Series

For more information, contact the Center for West European Studies - cwes@u.washington.edu - (206) 543-1675

Michael Hechter (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Professor in the School of Government, Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University.  He has taught at the Universities of Washington, Arizona and Oxford. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences and the Russell Sage Foundation, and was a visiting professor at the Universities of Bergen and Llubljana. Hechter is the author of numerous books, including Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, 1536-1966 (1975; 1999); Principles of Group Solidarity (1987); and Containing Nationalism (2000). He is editor/co-editor of The Microfoundations of Macrosociology (1983); Social Institutions: Their Emergence, Maintenance and Effects (1990); The Origin of Values (1993); Social Norms (2001, 2005); and Theories of Social Order (2003). His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, Demography, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Rationality and Society, Sociological Theory, European Sociological Review, and many other journals. His writings have been translated into Italian, Japanese, Hungarian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Spanish, and Georgian.

Thursday January 28, 2010
7:00 pm
Kane Hall 210

Introduced by Eric Ames, Department of Germanics, University of Washington

The See Movies at Kane (SMAK) International Film Series is sponsored by the Outreach Centers of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.

For more information, contact smak2010@u.washington.edu

A young German boy pulls off an elaborate scheme to keep his mother in good health in this comedy drama from director Wolfgang Becker. Suffering a heart attack and falling into a coma after seeing her son arrested during a protest, Alex's (Daniel Brühl) socialist mother, Christiane (Katrin Sass), remains comatose through the fall of the Berlin wall and the German Democratic Republic. Knowing that the slightest shock could prove fatal, Alex strives to keep the fall of the GDR a secret for as long as possible. Keeping their apartment firmly rooted in the past, Alex's scheme works for a while, but it's not long before his mother is feeling better and ready to get up and around again. German with English subtitles. (Germany, 2003, 121 minutes)

This screening is free and open to the public with no registration required. For more information, visit http://jsis.washington.edu/smak/.

February 2010

Friday February 5, 2010
TBD
TBD

Gerdien Jonker, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research

Center for West European Studies Politics & Society Colloquium

For more information, contact the Center for West European Studies - cwes@u.washington.edu - (206) 543-1675

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Thursday February 18, 2010
7:00 pm
Kane Hall 210

Introduced by Ray Jonas, Professor, Department of History, University of Washington

The See Movies at Kane (SMAK) International Film Series is sponsored by the Outreach Centers of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.

For more information, contact smak2010@u.washington.edu

This movie classic was commissioned by the Algerian government and originally banned in France this movie shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The Algerians are seeking independence. The two clash. The torture used by the French is contrasted with the Algerian's use of bombs in soda shops. This is a look at war as a nasty thing that harms and sullies everyone who participates in it. French with English subtitles. (Italy, Algeria, 1966, 121 minutes)

This screening is free and open to the public with no registration required. For more information, visit http://jsis.washington.edu/smak/.