[artinfo] WHAT'S ON AT CEU, March 4 - March 17, 2002 (fwd)
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Subject: WHAT'S ON AT CEU, March 4 - March 17, 2002
WHAT'S ON AT CEU
March 4 - March 17, 2002
(Issue 12, 2001/2002)
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There is no admission charge for events listed in "What's On," unless
otherwise noted. You are welcome to attend any of these events even if
you do not receive an individual invitation.
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While CEU will continue to distribute "What's On at CEU" by e-mail
every two weeks, the latest changes and events can be found in the News
and Events section of the CEU website at <http://www.ceu.hu>.
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MONDAY, MARCH 4, 6:00 p.m.
Location: CEU Nador u. 9. Bldg, Popper Room
A public lecture presented by CEU`s Jewish Studies Project:
Michael Brenner (University of Munich)
"Epilog or Revival? Jewish Life in Germany Today"
Michael Brenner is Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the
University of Munich. His publications include "The Renaissance of
Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany" (1996) and "After the Holocaust:
Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Post-War Germany" (1997). He is co-author and
co-editor of the four-volume "German-Jewish History in Modern Times"
(1997-98) and co-editor of various other books. He serves as chairman of
the Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo Baeck Instituts in
Deutschland and is a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the
Jewish Museum in Berlin.
For more information, please contact Szabolcs Pogonyi at Pogonyi@ceu.hu
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MONDAY, MARCH 4, 7:30 p.m.
Location: Nador u. 9. Bldg, Gellner Room
A public lecture presented by the Department of Gender Studies:
Leonard Lawlor (University of Memphis)
"The Beginnings of Thought: The Fundamental Experience in Derrida and
Deleuze"
Reception to follow
For more information, please contact Henriett Griecs at Griecsk@ceu.hu
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 6:30 p.m.
Location: CEU Nador u. 9. Bldg, Gellner Room
A public lecture presented by the Department of Gender Studies:
Leo Lucassen (History Department of Amsterdam University)
"From Gypsies to Roma: Stigmatisation, Labelling and Ethno-politics in
Europe (1400-2000)"
Reception to follow
For more information, please contact Henriett Griecs at Griecsk@ceu.hu
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 5:30 p.m.
Location: CEU Nador u. 9. Bldg, Faculty Tower, Room 609
A public lecture presented by the Department of Environmental Sciences
and Policy:
Gabor Szarvas (Director, ERM Hungary)
"Local Agendas and Environmental Programmes: Successes and Failures in
the UK and Hungary"
For more information, please contact Krisztina Szabados at
Szabados@ceu.hu
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 5:30 p.m.
Location: CEU Nador u. 9. Bldg, Faculty Tower, Room 409
A public lecture in the series "Renaissance, Revival and Enlightenment:
Concepts in Historical Perspective" presented by the Department of
Medieval Studies and the Department of History:
Giles Constable (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
"The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century"
Giles Constable is Professor at the School of Historical Studies,
Princeton, a renowned scholar of the culture and spirituality of
medieval Europe. His books include "Attitudes toward Self-inflicted
Suffering in the Middle Ages" (1982), "Monks, Hermits and Crusaders in
Medieval Europe" (1988), "People and Power in Byzantium: An Introduction
to Modern Byzantine Studies" (together with Alexander Kazhdan, 1991),
"The Reformation of the Twelfth Century" (1996), and "Cluny from the
Tenth to the Twelfth Centuries: Further Studies" (2000).
For more information, please contact Marcell Sebok at Sebokm@ceu.hu
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 6:30 p.m.
Location: CEU Nador u. 9. Bldg, Auditorium
A film presented by the Central European Film Society within the
framework of the film series "Reflections of Historical and Social
Changes in Central and Eastern European Film":
"Time Stands Still" (Peter Gothar)
With the participation of Professor Gyorgy Baron, film aesthetician.
For more information, please contact Judit Radics at Radicsj@ceu.hu
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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 5:30 p.m.
Location: CEU Nador u. 9. Bldg, Gellner Room
A public lecture presented by the Department of Gender Studies:
Juliane Jacobi (University of Potsdam)
"The Feminization of School Teaching: A Comparative European
Perspective (1820-1990)"
Reception to follow
For more information, please contact Henriett Griecs at Griecsk@ceu.hu
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FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 10:00 a.m.
Location: CEU Nador u. 9. Bldg, Gellner Room
A public lecture in the Academic Pro-Rector's Lecture Series:
Lajos Bokros (Former Finance Minister of Hungary, Director at the World
Bank)
"The Visegrad Countries: Diverging Paths to Relative Prosperity"
For more information, please contact Vladimir Pavic at Pavic@ceu.hu
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FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2:00 p.m.
Location: CEU Nador u. 9. Bldg, Gellner Room
A public lecture presented by the Department of Philosophy:
Reviel Netz (Stanford University)
"From Problems to Equations: How did Mathematics Make the Conceptual
Leap?"
Reviel Netz was born in Tel Aviv and studied there for his first two
degrees. He had completed his PhD at the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge
University, and is now Assistant Professor at the Department of
Classics, Stanford University. His publications in the history of Greek
mathematics include "The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A
Study in Cognitive History" (1999) and "The Works of Archimedes
Translated into English, Volume 1" (forthcoming).
For more information, please contact Kriszta Biber at biberk@ceu.hu
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FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2:00 p.m.
Location: CEU Nador u. 9. Bldg, Faculty Tower, Room 808
A public lecture in the Budapest Economic Seminar Series presented by
the Department of Economics:
Maurizio Iacopetta (New York University)
"Dissemination of Technology in Market and Planned Economies"
For the updated BESS schedule for the 2001/2002 academic year, visit
http://www.ceu.hu/econ/economic/seminars.html.
For more information, please contact Attila Ratfai at ratfaia@ceu.hu
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FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 4:30 p.m.
Location: CEU Nador u. 11. Bldg, Gellner Room
A public lecture presented by the Open Society Institute, the CEU
Humanities Center and the CEU Department of Political Science:
Stephen Coleman (London School of Economics)
"E-democracy: What It Is and What It Is Not"
The lecture will be followed by a roundtable discussion with the
participation of Kristof Nyiri (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Zoltan
Sik (Prime Minister's Office), Miklos Sukosd (CEU Department of
Political Science), and Kristof Varga (Budapest Mayor's Office).
Moderator: Darius Cuplinskas (OSI)
Reception to follow
Stephen Coleman is the Director of Studies at The Hansard Society for
Parliamentary Government and he also teaches on the MSc Programme in
Media and Communication at the London School of Economics. He is also
director of the Hansard e-democracy programme, the main work of which is
to examine practical ways of connecting citizens to the democratic
process. Stephen Coleman has been working as adviser to the Government's
UK Online project, particularly the Citizenspace area, which is designed
to give a voice to the public in policy-making.
For more information, please contact Viktor Bohm at Bohmv@ceu.hu
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FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 5:00 p.m.
Location: Nador u. 11. Bldg, 6th Floor Conference Room
A public lecture sponsored by the International Policy Fellowships
program
of the Center for Policy Studies and the Open Society Institute as part
of the
11th International Policy Fellows Seminar:
George Shakarishvili (International Policy Fellow)
"Enhancing the Role of Local Governments in Povery Alleviation"
For the complete seminar agenda, please visit www.osi.hu/ipf/news.html
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FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 7:30 p.m.
Location: CEU Nador u. 9. Bldg, Auditorium
International Women's Day programs organized by the Human Rights
Students' Initiative:
"Choir Performance by Tavasz Women's Choir: Hungarian Folk Songs"
For more information, please contact HRSI at hrsi@ceu.hu or visit
www.hrsi.ceu.hu
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SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2:00 p.m
Location: CEU Nador u. 9, Popper Room
Public Panel Discussion organized by Blue Bird - Agenda for Civil
Society in South-East Europe (International Research Project coordinated
by the Center for Policy Studies):
"Is Culture the Problem of the Balkans?"
Chair: Ivan Krastev - Research Coordinator Blue Bird, Chairman Center
for Liberal Strategies, Sofia
Measuring Human Capital - Georgy Ganev - Program Director, Center for
Liberal Strategies, Sofia, Bulgaria
Testing Cultural Legacies and the Civilization Border between Central
Europe and the Balkans: Was Huntington Right? Alina Mungiu-Pippidi -
President, Romanian Academic Society, Bucharest, Romania
The Dark Intimacy: Maps, Identities, Acts of Identification - Alexander
Kiossev - Academic Director, Center for Advanced Study, Sofia, Bulgaria
The Role of Culture in the Integration Discourse of Forced Migrants in
Southeastern
Europe - Natalija Vrecer - Institute for Ethnic Studies and Foundation
Gea 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Discussants:
Ihsan Dagi - 2001-2002 International Policy Fellow, Turkey
Daniel Smilov - 2001-2002 International Policy Fellow, Bulgaria
Dusan Pavlovic - 2002-2003 International Policy Fellow, Yugoslavia
For further information please contact Andrea Krizsan at
Krizsana@ceu.hu
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1T01UESDAY, MARCH 12, 5:30 p.m.
Location: CEU Auditorium
A public debate organized by the Human Rights Students' Initiative:
"Public Debate on Adoption of Anti-Discrimination Laws"
Participants: Dimitrina Petrova (European Roma Rights Center), Dr.
Zoltan Tallodi (Hungarian Ministry of Justice), Savelina Roussinova (CEU
MA Candidate in Human Rights)
For more information, please contact HRSI at hrsi@ceu.hu or check
www.hrsi.ceu.hu
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 6:00 p.m.
Location: CEU Nador u. 9, Popper Room
A public classical piano concert sponsored by the International Policy
Fellowships program of the Center for Policy Studies and the Open
Society Institute as part of the 11th International Policy Fellows
Seminar:
Zhanna Vasilenko (Budapest Opera Ballet Concertmaster)
"An Evening of Brahms and Rachmaninov"
Zhanna Vasilenko was born in the small town of Iman in the Far East of
Russia not far from the Chinese border. She received her diploma as a
classical pianist in 1987 from the Academy of Music in Novosibirsk and
began to work in the Opera and Ballet Theater of Novosibirsk, one of the
leading ballet houses in the Soviet Union at the time along with the
Bolshoi in Moscow and the Kirov in Leningrad. Ms. Vasilenko was offered
a contract with the Budapest Opera following a performance at a music
festival in 1992. Although the repertoire of the Budapest Opera allows
her fewer opportunities to play solo performances than she had in
Russia, she has been featured in solo concerts at the Budapest Opera
playing works including Shostakovich's 2nd Piano Concerto, Schubert's
Fantasia in C Major, and Bach's 5th Brandenburg Concerto.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 5:30 p.m.
Location: CEU Nador u. 9, Gellner Room
A public lecture sponsored by the International Policy Fellowships
program of the Center for Policy Studies and the Open Society Institute
as part of the 11th International Policy Fellows Seminar:
Georgi Ranchev (International Policy Fellow)
"Free Trade Zone in Southeast Europe?"
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THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 6:30 p.m.
Location: CEU, Nador u. 11 Bldg, Hanak Room (201)
Movie nights organized by the Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgendered People
Initiative:
"Wittgenstein" (Derek Jarman)
A highly stylized comic biography of eccentric German philosopher
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Karl Johnson), this film features the thinker
struggling with the absurdities of his life, including a bright green
martian and an out-of-place rhinoceros, while also tackling serious
subjects such as society's feared reaction to his own homosexuality.
For more information, please contact Yevgeniy Stotyka at
C01STY01@student.ceu.hu
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THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 6:30 p.m.
Location: CEU Nador u. 9. Bldg, Gellner Room
A public lecture sponsored by the International Policy Fellowships
program of the Center for Policy Studies and the Open Society Institute
as part of the 11th International Policy Fellows Seminar:
Milic Milovanovic (International Policy Fellow)
"Privatization and Corruption in Serbia"
Reception to follow
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FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 5:30 p.m.
Location: CEU Nador u. 9. Bldg, Gellner Room
A public lecture sponsored by the International Policy Fellowships
program of the Center for Policy Studies and the Open Society Institute
as part of the 11th International Policy Fellows Seminar:
Arturas Tereskinas (International Policy Fellow)
"Minority Groups in Lithuanian Mass Media"
Reception to follow
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