The Europe Center is jointly housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Stanford Global Studies Division.
The lecture is preceded by a workshop at 10am in the same location. For additional information please access the DLCL site listing here.
Margaret Jacks Hall (Building 460)
Terrace Room (Room 429)
Ambassador Simons will seek to honor the broad scholarship of his friend Alexander Dallin by situating a discussion of emerging states within a vision of Eurasia as a world region equally shaped and driven by its own internal dynamic(s). Simons will argue that across the region shared experience and shared features are just as weighty as differences: civil societies are weak, markets are distorted or incomplete, politics features struggle among elites over resources and tends toward semi-authoritarian rule even where democratic forms take hold. Yet there is cause for hope. Simons focuses on states, but he sees states consolidating almost everywhere, so that as resurgent Russia presses on its neighbors, they can now press back. Stable development of strong state institutions within which new civil societies can take root and grow is possible and should be the top priority, but it will come only if the nationalism that gives content to these new states is civic and inclusionary rather than ethno-religious on the East Central European model. The U.S. can help or hinder its emergence everywhere in Eurasia, but if it wishes to help it must realize that in this part of the world the path to democracy leads through state development, and that it can best act as a City on the Hill if its policy centers on today's emerging new states, since they must be the incubators of tomorrow's new civil societies.
The Annual Alexander Dallin Lecture was founded in 1998 to honor Professor of History and Political Science Alexander Dallin, a founder of Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies at Stanford and CREEES director, 1985-89 and 1992-94. The Dallin Lecture is co-sponsored by the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
Department of Music
Stanford University
Braun Music Center
541 Lasuen Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-3076
Erick Arenas is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology at Stanford. His research focuses on the relationship between musical culture and ritual life in the capitals of Catholic Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Before coming to Stanford, Erick studied music history at the University of the Pacific and the University of Oregon. His master’s research dealt with the persistence of liturgical music traditions in nineteenth-century Paris and the music of Charles Gounod.
Erick’s doctoral dissertation, “Johann Michael Haydn and the Missa solemnis of Eighteenth-Century Vienna and Salzburg,” explores the style, tradition, and significance of the elaborate musical rendering of the Mass within the imperial-Viennese and archepiscopal-Salzburg contexts. He seeks to draw greater attention to the central place of sacred music in the Austrian musical legacy, a research area that has been dominated almost exclusively by concert and theatrical music scholarship. As a case study, he examines the achievements of J. M. Haydn (1737-1806), a figure once considered the preeminent composer of liturgical music within the milieu of Joseph Haydn and W. A. Mozart. By shedding light on the extent to which eighteenth-century musical life was still influenced by waning Baroque and Counter-Reformation values, Erick’s project offers one significant lens for a broader examination of the complex musical culture of the Age of Enlightenment.
In Summer 2009 Erick was awarded the FCE Advanced Graduate Student Travel Fellowship in order to study manuscript sources in Austrian music archives.
It is commonly believed that America and Europe are very different societies, and growing apart. A look at the data shows that the anecdotes are misleading and that the differences across the Atlantic have been overstated.
Peter Baldwin, Professor of History at UCLA, is author of several books on the comparative history of European and American state building, most recently, Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS.
Introduction by FSI Senior Fellow Josef Joffe.
Encina Ground Floor Conference Room
In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the “enemy of the human race”—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities—to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. But the significance of the natural right did not end with its legal application. Edelstein argues that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls “natural republicanism,” which assumed the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he argues that what we call the Terror was in fact only one facet of the republican theory that prevailed from Louis’s trial until the fall of Robespierre.
Jointly sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, and Department of History at Stanford University.
Margaret Jacks Hall
Building 460
Terrace Room
Södertörn University
Address: 141 89 HUDDINGE, SWEDEN
Anu Mai Kőll is Professor of Baltic History, Culture and Society and Director of the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies at Sődertőrn University in Stockholm, Sweden. She has written works on Swedish and Baltic agrarian history, economic history and the history of Soviet repression in the Baltic countries. Her recent research focuses on the impact of persecutions and local people’s participation in repression on civil society after World War II in the Baltic countries. Another field of interest is agrarian politics 1880-1939 in the Baltic Sea Area, where the analysis of family farming, agrarian cooperation and land reforms has been conducted in comparative perspective. She has also studied economic nationalism in the Baltics, with other Central and Eastern European economies. Her publications include Economic Nationalism and Industrial Growth. State and Industry in Estonia 1934-39, Studia Baltica Stockholmiensia SBS no 19, 1998 with J. Valge, The Baltic States under Occupation 1939-91, SBS 23, Stockholm 2003, Kommunismens ansikten, Repression övervakning och svenska reaktioner [The Faces of Communism] Eslöv:Symposion 2005
The 100th Conference of the Society for the Advancement of
Scandinavian Study (SASS) and the 22nd Conference of the
Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies (AABS): "Region, State, Nation, Community:
New Research in Scandinavian and Baltic
Studies" taking place April 22 – 24, 2010 in Seattle,
Washington.
AABS welcomes
papers, panels, and roundtable presentations for the first joint conference of
Scandinavian and Baltic Studies in the United States. The conference aims to
highlight and foster academic inquiry that draws comparisons between Scandinavia
(Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland) and the Baltic states (Estonia,
Latvia, and Lithuania). Papers that examine stateless peoples and those left
outside of the Scandinavian/Baltic approach, but sharing the same geographic
space, are equally welcome. Papers and panels devoted to individual states are
also welcome. Contributions are encouraged from disciplines including (but not
limited to): anthropology, architecture, communication, cultural studies,
demography, economics, education, environment, ethnic relations, film studies,
fine arts, gender studies, geography, history, international relations, law,
linguistics, literature, memory, political science, psychology, public health,
religion, sociology, tourism, and advancing Baltic and Scandinavian studies.
Presentations are not to exceed 20 minutes in length.
Proposals from
Ph.D. students will be considered for a Presidents’ Panel on Scandinavian and
Baltic Studies that recognizes the most accomplished and innovative work of new
scholars.
Paper and panel proposals must include an abstract (no
more than 250 words) and a one to two-page curriculum vitae. Send this
material embedded in the body of an e-mail (no attachments) to Aldis Purs at (aldisp@u.washington.edu) by December
11, 2009. Paper submissions can be mailed to:
22nd AABS Conference
Chair
University of Washington,
Box 353420
Seattle, WA
98195-3420
Conference Website: http://depts.washington.edu/aabs/
Date:
April 22-24, 2010
Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, 1113 Sixth Ave., Seattle,
Washington 98101
Registration information will be available on the
website. All presenters must be SASS or AABS members in good standing. If you
are in need of assistance in finding potential co-panelists from either
Scandinavian studies or Baltic Studies, please contact the conference organizer
(listed above) to help with such networking by November 1, 2009.
