CEES Book Discussion Series 2006-07

Authors present their recent work

Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town

A book discussion with author ROGERS BRUBAKER, Professor of Sociology, UCLA, and discussant JOHN BOWEN, Professor of Anthropology, Washington University.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Kornei Chukovsky Diary, 1901-1969

A book discussion with translator MICHAEL HEIM, Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA. Discussants: DONALD FANGER, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, and VYACHESLAV IVANOV, Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last Soviet Generation

A book discussion with author Alexei Yurchak, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, and discussant Akhil Gupta, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
Thursday, April 05, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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The Neighbor: Three Inquiries in Political Theology

A book discussion with authors: Slavoj Zizek, University of Ljubljana, Kenneth Reinhard, UCLA, and Eric Santner, University of Chicago. Discussant: Christopher Wild, UCLA
Thursday, March 15, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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The Politics of Sexual Harassment: A Comparative Study of the United States, the European Union, and Germany

A book discussion with author Kathrin Zippel, Sociology, Northeastern University. Discussant: Abigail Saguy,Sociology, UCLA
Thursday, March 01, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, & Postsocialism on the Black Sea

A book discussion with author Kristen Ghodsee, Gender and Women's Studies, Bowdoin College. Discussant: Gail Kligman, Department of Sociology, UCLA and CEES Director
Thursday, February 15, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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Rulers and Victims: The Russians in the Soviet Union

A book discussion lecture with author GEOFFREY HOSKING, Professor of History, University of London, and discussant ARCH GETTY, Professor of History, UCLA.
Thursday, January 25, 2007
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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The Economics of Global Turbulence: The Advanced Capitalist Economies from Long Boom to Long Downturn, 1945-2005

A book discussion with author ROBERT BRENNER, Professor of History, UCLA, and discussant RICHARD WALKER, Professor of Geography, UC Berkeley.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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An Economic History of Twentieth-Century Europe: Economic Regimes from Laissez-Faire to Globalization

A CEES Book Discussion with author Ivan Berend, Department of History, UCLA and discussant Naomi Lamoreaux, Departments of Economics and History, UCLA
Thursday, November 30, 2006
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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