1/16 MLK Day event (co-sponsored by the RC and STAND [Students Taking Action Now: Darfur]). "America in an Age of Genocide: From the Holocaust to Darfur"
EQ 126, 7-9 pm.

There will be showing of part of the film, "America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference," followed by a panel that will help all assembled reflect on the relationships between response (and non-response) during the Holocaust and response (and non-response) during the current genocide in Darfur, Sudan.

1/24 Reception at Shaman Drum Bookshop on Tuesday, January 24th at 4:00 pm for Johannes von Moltke to celebrate the release of his new book, No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema.
 
This is the first comprehensive account of Germany's most enduring film genre, the Heimatfilm, which has offered idyllic variations on the idea that "there is no place like home" since cinema's early days. Charting the development of this popular genre over the course of a century in a work informed by film studies, cultural history, and social theory, Johannes von Moltke focuses in particular on its heyday in the 1950s, a period that has been little studied. Questions of what it could possibly mean to call the German nation "home" after the catastrophes of World War II are anxiously present in these films, and von Moltke uses them as a lens through which to view contemporary discourses on German national identity.

Abstract

The European Union is a multi-faceted system of regional governance. It simultaneously exerts enormous power in commercial diplomacy, constitutes a major focal point for much of the developing world, engages in law-making by both majoritarian and non-majoritarian institutions within its regional boundaries, requires aspirant states to accept norms of economic liberalization and human rights, and establishes regulatory regimes which affect actors both beyond its own borders. It is therefore a diplomatic actor, a key referent for development, a law-maker, a stabilizer of fragile systems of national governance, and a regional and international regulator. Its supranational character differentiates it from other systems of regional governance--within and outside of Europe--while simultaneously differentiating it from national systems of governance as well.

Sponsored by the Center for European Studies and European Union Center. European Union Center at the University of Michigan is a European Commission-designated European Union Center of Excellence.

1/31 "Listening to Bizet's Carmen and her Legacy: Spanish Gypsy, Broadway
Legend, and Hip Hop Diva" 4:00-5:30 pm in 2239 Lane Hall
a talk by Naomi André (Women's Studies)

In celebration of its Tenth Anniversary, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, together with the Women's Studies Program, presents two this public lecture in its series:

Gender across the Disciplines: Exploring the ways gender scholarship changes disciplinary thinking
Naomi André is an Associate Professor of Women's Studies. Trained as a musicologist, her research focuses on nineteenth-century Italian opera, women in music, and race and ethnicity in opera. She teaches courses on western art music and world music with emphasis on the music of Africa. She is author of Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti and the Second Woman from Indiana Press, and has published essays on Verdi and Schoenberg, as well as contributing several articles for The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and The International Dictionary of Black Musicians.

This lecture will focus on the historical background and present context of anti-immigration politics and policies in the United States, including contemporary debates in Congress and crackdowns by state governments. Professor Reimers has written widely about the history of immigration in the United States, including the experiences of Latinos, Asians, Africans,and other non-European groups. He is the author of numerous books, including OTHER IMMIGRANTS: THE GLOBAL ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE (New York University Press, 2005) and UNWELCOME STRANGERS: AMERICAN IDENTITY AND THE TURN AGAINST IMMIGRATION (Columbia University Press, 1998).

For more information about this talk, or for additional information about the upcoming program of the Metropolitan History Workshop, please contact Matt Lassiter at mlassite@umich.edu. Details about the Metropolitan History Workshop can be found at http://wwwpersonal.umich.edu/~mlassite/metro/metroworkshop.html

2/7 Arte y Pureza Flamenco Troupe Ann Arbor Ark, 8 pm

The main mechanism of further political integration is not to be located in Brussels, but instead within the populations of Western Europe who have increasingly gained as a result of the EU tearing down trade barriers. Managers, professionals, educated people, people with higher incomes, and the young have increasingly found themselves in situations where they routinely interact with their counterparts from other countries. These are the people who have come to see themselves as Europeans and who have pushed forward the integration project. Yet, the future of the European project now turns on the degree to which other parts of the population become enmeshed in more routine social relations with their counterparts in other countries.
Professor Fligstein is completing a book on Europe with the tentative title “Limits to Europeanization,” documenting how European integration in the past 20 years has created a partial integration of European societies along political, economic, and social lines.