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1. Cross Cultural Dialogue Between Any Two Cultures.
Code
R1
Participants will get a close look at
the overall comparative, cross cultural methodology used and
see how American students (taking a French class at MIT) and
French students (taking an English course at INT) collaboratively
and gradually construct an understanding of each other's cultures.
Participants will see how French and American students analyse
together material derived from their respective cultures,
such as personal questionnaires, national opinion polls, films,
press articles, literary and historical texts … and how they
exchange perspectives on notions such as authority, individualism,
success, work, family, government, etc.
Instructor: Sabine Levet, Brandeis
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3. Communication and miscommunication in a multicultural Europe
: the example of the film Code Inconnu. Code R3
Linguistic diversity is one of the European Union defining
features. It is one of the most striking evidence of Europe's
cultural diversity. But with the entry of 10 new members into
the European Union on May 1st, 2004, adding 9 languages to
the European Union's existing 11, the most urgent question
has been which language should be used by European officials,
politicians and people. The theme of communication and miscommunication
in a global and multicultural world will be treated through
the Michael Haneke's movie, Code inconnu.
Instructor: Martine Benjamin, French Department, Princeton
University |
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4. Italy's peoples on the Web. Code
R4.
A presentation of an interactive website constructed collectively
by students that provides annotated and subject-classified
access to websites relevant to whatever topic the instructor
chooses. The emphasis will be on European-wide issues and
cultural resources.
Professor Rudy Bell, Rutgers University |
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CHAIR : Professor
Jan Kubik
Associate
Professor of Political Science, Rutgers, the State University
of New Jersey and Recurring Visiting Professor of Sociology,
Central European University, Warsaw. He received his B.A.
and M.A. from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland
and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He taught previously
at the Jagiellonian University, Barnard/Columbia and the College
of Wooster. Currently serves as Director of the
Center of Comparative European Studies at Rutgers.
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Ethel Brooks
: Europe's Others
Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Rutgers University
Ethel Brooks (Ph.D., New YorkUniversity, 2000) is an assistant
professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology at RutgersUniversity.
She finishing up a book called The Empire’s New Clothes: Transnational
Organizing and Women’s Work in the Garment Industry (University
of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2005). Her research interests
include relations of gender, race, class, labor practices
and nation-state formations, critical political economy, globalization,
social movements, feminist theory, comparative sociology,
nationalism, urban geographies and post-colonialism, with
close attention to epistemology. Her future projects include
an examination of the gendered effects of the deportations,
remigrations and incarcerations of Muslim immigrants post-September
11 and a critical study of Romanies and discursive formations
of "gypsiness."
The talk will focus on shifting citizenship rules and moves
toward inclusion in European states and under the E.U., and
specifically the ways in which inclusiveness brings with it
both the redeployment of old and the creation of new exclusions.
Questions of class, gender, immigration, and ethnicity, as
well as spatial arrangements will be analysed. Particular
attention will be paid on the reconfiguration and dismantling
of welfare states, and on the status of minorities, such as
Romanies and Muslims. |
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József
Böröcz
: Globalisation and the EU's Geopolitics
Department
of Sociology, Rutgers University
József Böröcz is associate professor of sociology and director
of the Institute for Hungarian Studies at Rutgers University.
His current work focuses on the comparative-historical sociology
of social change, transformations of global structures, and
the European Union as an actor on the global scene. For more
information, including much of his recent work, please consult
http://borocz.net/ .
The European Union represents a new form of large public
authority on the global scene. Economically, it is an entity
already bigger than the United States (and growing); meanwhile,
politically, it is an organization very much in the process
of formation. The EU's enlargment of 2004 (to include 8 states
from east-central Europe plus two small islands in the Mediterranean)
has greatly increased the EU's internal diversity, and made
the EU's internal politics even more complicated. The talk will
provide a brief historical overview of the underlying logic
of the EU's development. |
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