The Visiting Scholars Brown-Bag Lunch Seminar, organized by Arthur Goldhammer, is intended to be an open public forum in which visiting scholars in residence at CES can present their work in an informal setting. The group is highly interdisciplinary, and topics vary according to the interests of each year's visitors. Speakers are encouraged to present their work in a form accessible to scholars working in fields other than their own. Papers may be circulated in advance, although this is not required. After each presentation, there is ample time for critique and discussion. Participants are encouraged to bring lunch.
"The Visiting Scholars seminar is an intellectual feast for anyone interested in European scholarship in history and the social sciences. The discussions range freely across disciplinary as well as national boundaries, and participants come away with a lively appreciation of work being done by colleagues in many specialties. The exchange of ideas that takes place here has already borne fruit in the work of past participants and will no doubt continue to do so in the future."
- Arthur Goldhammer, Lunch Seminar Chair
- Arthur Goldhammer, Lunch Seminar Chair
Visiting Scholars Lunch Seminar
Chaired by Arthur Goldhammer
Upcoming Events
May 14, 2008
Jean-Philippe Viriot Durandal, CES Visiting Scholar
"Aging and 'Grey Power', Political and Policy Issues: From Myth to Reality"
"Aging and 'Grey Power', Political and Policy Issues: From Myth to Reality"
The weekly Visiting Scholars Brown Bag Lunch Seminar will reconvene at the beginning of the 2008 Spring semester.
Past Events
Events Listed in Reverse Chronological Order
May 7, 2008
Maartje Janse, CES Visiting Scholar
"A Different Kind of Abolitionism: The Complicated Relationship of Nineteenth-century European Antislavery Movements to British Abolitionism"
"A Different Kind of Abolitionism: The Complicated Relationship of Nineteenth-century European Antislavery Movements to British Abolitionism"
April 30, 2008
Malgorata Runiewicz, CES Visiting Scholar
"State and Perspectives of Knowledge Economy in the US and EU Regions"
"State and Perspectives of Knowledge Economy in the US and EU Regions"
April 23, 2008
Maarten Van Ginderachter, CES Visiting Scholar
"Nationhood From Below: A Transnational Approach to Identity Construction in Napoleonic Soldiers' Letters from Belgium"
"Nationhood From Below: A Transnational Approach to Identity Construction in Napoleonic Soldiers' Letters from Belgium"
April 16, 2008
Katja Guenther, CES Visiting Scholar
"Localizing EU Gender Policy: Responses to Gender Mainstreaming Among Feminist Movements in Eastern Germany"
"Localizing EU Gender Policy: Responses to Gender Mainstreaming Among Feminist Movements in Eastern Germany"
April 2, 2008
Eleni Varikas, CES Visiting Scholar
"Emancipation or Modernization ? The Rhetoric of Modernity in the Gender and Race Politics of the Headscarf in Europe"
"Emancipation or Modernization ? The Rhetoric of Modernity in the Gender and Race Politics of the Headscarf in Europe"
March 19, 2008
Michaela Salamun, CES Visiting Scholar
"Transformation of Administrative Laws in the Context of European Integration"
"Transformation of Administrative Laws in the Context of European Integration"
March 12, 2008
Gilles Le Garrec, CES Visiting Scholar
"Moral Sentiments, Democracy and Redistributive Politics: Between Nature and Culture"
"Moral Sentiments, Democracy and Redistributive Politics: Between Nature and Culture"
March 5, 2008
Claudia Leeb, CES Visiting Scholar
"Toward a Theoretical Outline of the Subject: Adorno, Lacan and Feminist Political Thought"
"Toward a Theoretical Outline of the Subject: Adorno, Lacan and Feminist Political Thought"
February 27, 2008
Thilo Bodenstein, CES Visiting Scholar
"Globalization and Transatlantic Policy Convergence: The EU and US in Comparative Perspective"
"Globalization and Transatlantic Policy Convergence: The EU and US in Comparative Perspective"
February 20, 2008
Peter Vermeersch, CES Visiting Scholar
"'Closer to the People': Democracy and Nationalist Mobilization in Contemporary Poland"
"'Closer to the People': Democracy and Nationalist Mobilization in Contemporary Poland"
February 13, 2008
Benedicte Berner, CES Visiting Scholar
"Media in Putin's Russia"
"Media in Putin's Russia"
Febuary 6, 2008
Kathrin Zippel, CES Visiting Scholar
"Globalizing Science: Academic Mobility and Gender Relations"
"Globalizing Science: Academic Mobility and Gender Relations"
December 12, 2007
Alexander Geppert, CES Visiting Scholar
"Cosmic Visions: Outer Space, Extraterrestrial Life, and the European Imagination, 1923-1975"
"Cosmic Visions: Outer Space, Extraterrestrial Life, and the European Imagination, 1923-1975"
December 5, 2007
Jon Erik Dølvik, CES Visiting Scholar
"Labour Migration Across the Baltic Sea After EU Enlargement: Trends and Implications"
"Labour Migration Across the Baltic Sea After EU Enlargement: Trends and Implications"
November 28, 2007
Renee Haferkamp, CES Visiting Scholar
"France in Europe"
"France in Europe"
November 14, 2007
Dariusz Jemielniak, CES Visiting Scholar
"It's Time: Timing in the High-Tech Workplace"
"It's Time: Timing in the High-Tech Workplace"
November 7, 2007
Wolfgang Gick, CES Visiting Scholar
"Expertise: An Extended View"
"Expertise: An Extended View"
October 31, 2007
Martin Spiewak, CES Visiting Scholar
"Higher Education in Germany: A Journalist's Perspective"
"Higher Education in Germany: A Journalist's Perspective"
October 24, 2007
Daniela Caruso, CES Visiting Scholar
"The Role of Private Law in European Integration"
"The Role of Private Law in European Integration"
October 17, 2007
Tobias Brinkmann, CES Visiting Scholar
"Immigrants – Aliens – Refugees and Displaced Persons: Reassessing the Jewish Mass Migration from Eastern Europe to the West 1860-1950"
"Immigrants – Aliens – Refugees and Displaced Persons: Reassessing the Jewish Mass Migration from Eastern Europe to the West 1860-1950"
October 10, 2007
Ute Planert, CES Visiting Scholar
"Perfect Humans? Eugenics in International Comparison"
"Perfect Humans? Eugenics in International Comparison"
October 3, 2007
Barbara Haskel, CES Visiting Scholar
"When Can a Weak Process Generate Strong Results? Entrepreneurial Alliances in the Bologna Process to Create a European Higher Education Area"
"When Can a Weak Process Generate Strong Results? Entrepreneurial Alliances in the Bologna Process to Create a European Higher Education Area"
September 26, 2007
Klaus West, CES Visiting Scholar
"Politics of Innovation in France and Germany - The Case of Health"
"Politics of Innovation in France and Germany - The Case of Health"
September 19, 2007
Matthias Tischer, CES Visiting Scholar
"On Political and Artistic Discourse: The Idea of Freedom (of Art)"
"On Political and Artistic Discourse: The Idea of Freedom (of Art)"
Lunch Seminar Archives