Borderlands

The Borderlands Region

Themes and Significance

Schedule

Seminar Series

Notes

Questions, Results, Implications

Contacts

Watson Institute, South Common Room
12:00pm-1:00pm – Lunch

Watson Institute, McKinney Conference Room (#353)
1:00pm-1:45pm – Lawrence Wolff, Boston College/New York University, “Religious Stereotypes of the Enlightenment in Habsburg Galicia”
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1:45pm-2:30pm – Mitchell A. Orenstein and Stephen Bloom, Maxwell School of Syracuse University, “Ethnic Demobilization in Postcommunist States,”
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Watson Institute, South Common Room
2:30pm-2:45pm – Coffee Break

Watson Institute, McKinney Conference Room (#353)
2:45pm-3:30pm – Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Northwestern University and Joshua Shanes, University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, “The First Ukrainian-Jewish Rapprochement: 1907 Parliamentary Elections in Galicia”
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3:30pm-4:15pm – Anatoliy Kruglashov, Chernivtsi University, "Diversity Withering Away: The Journey of Bukovinian Multiethnic Society throughout History"
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4:15pm-4:30pm – Omer Bartov, Brown University, Concluding Comments

Watson Institute, Joukowsky Forum
5:00pm-6:30pm – The Watson Institute’s Directors’ Lecture Series on Contemporary International Affairs

Introduction: Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Brown University 
Guest Speaker: Rogers Brubaker, UC Los Angeles, “Beyond Groupism: Reflections on Ethnicity without Groups”

7:00pm – Dinner: Location to be Determined

Watson Institute, McKinney Conference Room (#353)
8:30am-9:15am – Rogers Brubaker, UC Los Angeles, “Ethnic Categories at Work in a Transylvanian Town”
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9:15am-10:00am – Keith Brown, Brown University, “Wiping out the Bulgar race:
Hatred, Duty and Propaganda in the First Balkan War”
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Watson Institute, South Common Room
10:00am-10:15am – Coffee Break

Watson Institute, McKinney Conference Room (#353)
10:15am-11:00am – Keely Stauter-Halsted, Michigan State University, “Imagery and Stereotypes of Jews in the Pre-1914 Polish Prostitution Debate” (tentative title)
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11:00am-11:45am – Pamela Ballinger, Bowdoin College, "Repackaging Anthropogeographical Stereotypes:  Museums in the Istrian Borderland"
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11:45am-12:30pm – David Kertzer, Brown University, Concluding Comments

Watson Institute, South Common Room
12:30pm-2:00pm – Lunch and concluding discussion

2:00pm – Departures

Updated April 3, 2006