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America and Europe Not So Different After All
A Forbes.com editorial highlights The Narcissism of Minor Differences, a new book by UCLA professor of history Peter Baldwin that illustrates how social, environmental, health care and other differences between the United States and the nations of Western Europe are much smaller than is commonly assumed. read full article »
Wolfgang Nehring
Nehring, UCLA professor of Germanic languages, is quoted today in a Chicago Tribune article about Herta Mueller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature. read full article »
2008-09 CEES Graduate Student Funding Award Recipients
Dissertation/Pre-Dissertation Fellowships and Language Study Grants. read full article »
Shush! Growing Up Jewish under Stalin: A Memoir
A book talk with author EMIL DRAITSER, CUNY Hunter College, Russian Division, and discussant DAVID MYERS, UCLA, History read full article »
Muscular Judaism: The Jewish Body and the Politics of Regeneration
A book talk with author TODD PRESNER, UCLA, Germanic Languages, and discussant PAUL LERNER, USC, History read full article »
Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany
A book talk with author RUTH MANDEL, University College London, Anthropology, and discussant SUSAN OSSMAN, UC Riverside, Anthropology read full article »
Shifting Standards in European Human Rights Rulings
In his contribution to an EU-backed project to study the impact of the European Court of Human Rights on selected countries, visiting professor Haldun Gulalp of Turkey's Yildiz Technical University observes the court preferring some models of church- and mosque-state relations to others. In "freedom of religion" cases, France and Turkey fare better than Greece and Bulgaria. read full article »
For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia
A book talk with author ROBERT CREWS, Stanford University, History, and discussant ADRIENNE EDGAR, UC Santa Barbara, History read full article »
Mass Privatization and the Postcommunist Mortality Crisis
A public lecture by LARRY KING, Cambridge University, Sociology read full article »
The Last Soviet Dreamer: Conversations with Leonid Potemkin
A public lecture by JOCHEN HELLBECK, Rutgers University, History read full article »
Professor Rogers Brubaker Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
CEES congratulates Professor Brubaker on his election to the American academy of Arts and Sciences! read full article »
Professor Marina Goldovskaya Receives Scolarship and Preservation Award
CEES congratulates Professor Goldovskaya for receiving the 2008 Scolarship and Preservation Award from the International Documentary Association! read full article »
Historian Looks Back on Fall of Communism 20 Years Ago
Visiting professor Jurgen Kocka, a modern social historian at the Free University of Berlin, gave a lecture that kicks off more than a year of talks, conferences and film screenings organized by the Center for European and Eurasian Studies. An international conference about 1989's events and a film series are set for November. read full article »
Adam Mickiewicz: The Life of a Romantic
A book talk with author ROMAN KOROPECKYJ, UCLA, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and discussant BETH HOLMGREN, Duke University, Slavic and Eurasian Studies read full article »
The Collapse of Communism in Europe 1989 - Causes and Consequences
A public lecture by JURGEN KOCKA, Free University Berlin; Visiting Professor, UCLA, History read full article »
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