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2009 Colin Miller Lecture
by Ken Jowitt
4/7/09

Our Annual Colin Miller Memorial Lecture in Slavic Studies took place on April 7, 2009. Our speaker was Kenneth Jowitt, Pres and Maurine Hotchkis Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Jowitt examines the current Russian regime and tries to characterize it using a more apt comparative historical model of reference than the overused democracy-autocracy polemic. The Annual Colin Miller Memorial Lecture honors the memory of a journalist and radio and TV producer who was devoted to the Center for Slavic and East European Studies (as ISEEES was called before the year 2000). The endowment funds an annual lecture given by a respected scholar in the field of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

EU Asylum and Immigration Policy: 'Fortress Europe'?
by Jorg Monar

9/24/09

Jorg Monar, Professor at the College of Europe, spoke on "EU Asylum and Immigration Policy: 'Fortress Europe'?" at the EU Center of Excellence, UC Berkeley, on September 24, 2009. The talk was co-sponsored by the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, EU Center of Excellence, and by the Institute of European Studies. This talk is also available on I-Tunes.

Education Without Borders: Multiculturalism, Integration, and Diversity in European Higher Education
by Odile Quintin

10/12/09

Odile Quintin, Director-General for Education, Training, Culture, and Youth for the European Commission, spoke about "Education Without Borders: Multiculturalism, Integration, and Diversity in European Higher Education." Five out of the six objectives of the Bologna Declaration of 1999 have been inspired by the Erasmus program (started in 1988) and related Commission initiatives: comparability and compatibility of degrees (Diploma Supplement), a credit system (ECTS), European cooperation in quality assurance, promoting mobility, and strengthening the European dimension in higher education. The Bologna process is succeeding in creating a more diversified higher education landscape, with HEI defining their specific profiles and missions.

The Euro After the Crisis: The Case of Hungary
by Barry Eichengreen
10/15/09

Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, UC Berkeley, spoke on how the economic crisis has affected countries not yet in the Euro zone, their problems, and their renewed aspirations to join. Hungary was the main case study in the talk.

Russia/Nato Relations: Competition, Partnership, and the Role of Diplomacy
by Jeremy Kinsman

11/9/09

Jeremy Kinsman, Diplomat, former Canada's ambassador in Moscow, spoke on the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the NATO-Russia Relationship in the 1990s, in the present, and in the future. Ambassador Kinsman retired from the Canadian Foreign Service in 2006. Over his 40 years of service, he was Chairman of Policy Planning and later Political Director before being named Canada’s Ambassador in Moscow in 1992. He was subsequently Ambassador in Rome (1996-2000), High Commissioner in London (2000-2002), and Ambassador to the EU in Brussels (2002-2006). Today Ambassador Kinsman is a Contributing Writer for Policy Options magazine, a regular commentator for CBC News and several print publications.

Who Really Opened the Wall by John Connelly

11/9/09

John Connelly, professor of history and Interim Director of ISEEES gave a talk on the break of the Berlin Wall at the opening of the Icons of Border Installation Exhibit (podcast and webcast are available).