Past Events

Past IIS Events

Paul Heer, National Intelligence Officer for East Asia, Office of the Director for National Intelligence
Strategic Implications of the Rise of China: A Washington Perspective
Wed - May, 1st, 2013. 223 Moses Hall

4-5:30 pm

In the view of many political analysts, China will be the most important foreign policy challenge for the US for several decades.  Paul Heer will evaluate China’s strategic ambitions and its perceptions of the international environment, and how they are reflected in Beijing’s regional and global strategies.  He will also discuss how the United States fits into Beijing’s equation and the resulting strategic challenge that China represents to the US.

Dr. Paul Heer was appointed to the National Intelligence Council as National Intelligence Officer for East Asia in May 2007, after serving since 1983 as an East Asia specialist in the Directorate of Intelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Dr. Heer began his career as a political foreign policy analyst on Southeast Asia before specializing on China as an analyst and analytic manager.  He has served on the staff of the President’s Daily Brief, and is a member of the CIA’s Senior Analytic Service and the Senior Intelligence Service.  Dr. Heer was the Visiting Intelligence Fellow on the Council of Foreign Relations during 1999-2000 and was elected a Life Member of the Council in 2001. 

He holds a B.A. degree from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa; an M.A. in History from the University of Iowa, and a PH.D in Diplomatic History from The George Washington University.  He also has completed the Program for Senior Executives in National and International Security at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the Executive Leader Program at Northwestern University.

Part of the Asian Security Challenges Seminar.

Christoph Hermes, Visiting Fellow from the EU Commission
Public Morals, Science and International Trade: Animal Welfare and the WTO
Wed - May, 1st, 2013. 223 Moses Hall

12-1:30 p.m.

Many citizens care about the humane treatment of animals. This has led the European Union, the United States and others to enact a variety of animal welfare laws. Examples range from the US Animal Welfare Act to the recent European ban on seal products. At the same time, the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) impose certain limits on trade restrictions. Is there a conflict between animal welfare laws and the WTO? Christoph Hermes is a lawyer at the European Commission in Brussels and has represented the European Union in numerous disputes in front of the WTO. He will present the relevant WTO rules and explore to what extent they leave countries regulatory space to enact animal welfare measures.

Sponsored by the Center for Institutions and Governance and the Institute of International Studies.

Rory Stewart, Member of the British Parliament from Penrith and the Border
After Iraq and Afghanistan: Can Intervention Work?
Thu - April, 11th, 2013. Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall

4-6 p.m.

Sanford S. Elberg Lecture

Rory Stewart is best known for his 32-day walk across Afghanistan chronicled in his book, The Places in Between.  The rights to a movie about his extraordinary career have been optioned by Brad Pitt, and Orlando Bloom has expressed an interest in playing the role of Stewart. 

Rory Stewart was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Malaysia. He served briefly as an officer in the British Army (the Black Watch), studied history and philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford and then joined the British Diplomatic Service. He worked in the British Embassy in Indonesia and then, in the wake of the Kosovo campaign, as the British Representative in Montenegro. In 2000 he took two years off and began walking from Turkey to Bangladesh. He covered 6000 miles on foot alone across Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal--a journey described in The Places in Between.

 

In 2003 at the age of 29, he became the coalition's Deputy Governor of Maysan and Dhi Qar, two provinces in the Marsh Arab region of Southern Iraq. Stewart wrote about these years in The Prince of the Marshes. Stewart writes for a range of publications, including the New York Times Magazine, the London Review of Books, the Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Financial Times and Granta.  In 2004, he was awarded the Order of the British Empire and became a Fellow of the Carr Centre at Harvard University. He is the founder of the Turquoise Mountain Foundation, which invests in the regeneration of the historic commercial centre of Kabul, providing basic services, saving historic buildings and constructing a new bazaar and galleries for traditional craft businesses. 

 

Since 2010 Rory Stewart has been the Conservative Member of Parliament for Penrith and the Border, and lives between Cumbria and London. 

Sponsored by the Institute of International Studies.  Co-sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies Anglo American Studies Program, the Center for South Asia Studies, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

Dr. George Perkovich
Moving to Zero Nuclear Weapons: Why Not Try?
Wed - April, 3rd, 2013. 223 Moses Hall

The goal of nuclear disarmament was enshrined in the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 1970 and continues to be an elusive policy objective of many nations around the world.  President Obama made it a centerpiece of his foreign policy by saying in May 2009 that America is committed "to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons... and will take concrete steps towards a world without nuclear weapons."  George Perkovich, Vice President for Studies and Director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace will address this issue as part of the IIS US Foreign Policy Series. 

Dr. Perkovich's research focuses on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, with a focus on South Asia and Iran, and on the problem of justice in the international political economy.  He is the author of the award-winning book India's Nuclear Bomb (University of California Press, 2001). He is co-author of the Adelphi Paper, Abolishing Nuclear Weapons, published in September 2008 by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. This paper is the basis of the book, Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A Debate, which includes 17 critiques by 13 eminent international commentators.  Perkovich is also co-author of a major Carnegie report, Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security, a blueprint for rethinking the international nuclear nonproliferation regime. The report offers a fresh approach to deal with states and terrorists, nuclear weapons, and fissile materials to ensure global safety and security.
 
He served as a speechwriter and foreign policy adviser to Senator Joe Biden from 1989 to 1990.  From 1990 through 2001, Perkovich was director of the Secure World Program at the W. Alton Jones Foundation, a $400 million philanthropic institution located in Charlottesville, Virginia.  He completed a BA at the University of California, Santa Cruz, an MA at Harvard University and a PhD. at the University of Virginia. 
 
Ambassador Robert Blake
The U.S.-India Partnership in the Asian Century
Thu - March, 21st, 2013. 223 Moses Hall

4-5 p.m.

The world’s oldest democracy and the world’s largest democracy, the United States and India have built an enduring strategic partnership that promotes peace and stability.  By augmenting a whole-of-government effort with strong involvement and support from private sector and civil society, the U.S. and India have built new collaborative approaches to complex issues like defense cooperation, energy security, global prosperity, and health.  The United States’ recent “re-balance” to Asia, acknowledging that the history of the 21st century will largely be written on the continent, complements recent Indian initiatives to accelerate its “Look East” policy and expand its engagement in East Asia.   

So, what does the future hold for U.S.-India ties and how will our partnership affect Asia in the 21st century?  How can the United States and India partner to make the region and the world more secure and more prosperous?  To help answer these questions, the Institute of International Studies is proud to welcome Ambassador Robert O. Blake, Jr. to the Berkeley campus for a public lecture outlining the challenges for India and for the US-India relationship. 

Ambassador Blake is a career Foreign Service Officer who entered the Foreign Service in 1985.  He has served at the American Embassies in Tunisia, Algeria, Nigeria and Egypt.  Ambassador Blake served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Mission in New Delhi, India from 2003 – 2006 and then as Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives from 2006 to mid-2009.  He has held his current position as Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs from May 2009 to the present.  He holds a BA from Harvard and an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. 

Part of the Asian Security Challenges Seminar. Co-sponsored by the Center for South Asia Studies.

Dr. Kenneth Lieberthal
China Policy in the Second Obama Administration: Rebalancing the Rebalancing Strategy
Wed - March, 20th, 2013. 223 Moses Hall

4-5:30 p.m.

Recent reports of cyber-attacks against US business and government web sites capture one troubling aspect of the foreign policy challenge the US must address in its relations with China.  IIS is pleased to welcome Dr. Kenneth Lieberthal, a senior fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, to address this critical issue.

Dr. Lieberthal was a professor at the University of Michigan from 1983 to 2009 before joining Brookings.  He also served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asia on the National Security Council under President Clinton from August 1998 to October 2000.  Lieberthal holds an MA and Ph.D from Columbia University and a BA from Dartmouth College.

His latest book, Bending History: Barack Obama's Foreign Policy (co-authored with Martin Indyk and Michael O’Hanlon), was released in March 2012.  The book asks how well President Obama has carried out his duties as U.S. commander-in-chief, top diplomat, and grand strategist.  Some conservatives have argued that he is a naive apologist trying to quash "American exceptionalism" while many liberals see him as an antidote to George Bush's “unilateralist militarism”. Bending History argues that Obama is more of a foreign policy pragmatist whose approach is typified by thoroughness, teamwork, and flexibility.  Lieberthal will bring many of these perspectives to bear in his assessment of President Obama’s China policy and the challenges to US Foreign Policy over the next four years.

Part of the U.S. Foreign Policy Seminar.

Marco Leonardi, Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics
Is Italy Governable?
Tue - March, 5th, 2013. 223 Moses Hall

4-5:30 p.m.

The results of the Italian elections have shaken financial markets all over the world.  As one of the largest economies in Europe, the Italian political system's deadlock threatens the Eurozone and the European Union.  Marco Leonardi is a Labor Economist at the University of Milan and an adviser of the Partito Democratico in Italy.  He will present his insights on the results of the Italian election and his proposals for how to make Italy more governable. 

Sponsored by the Center for Institutions and Governance and the Institute of International Studies.  Co-sponsored by the Department of Italian Studies, the Department of Economics, and the EU Center of Excellence.

Dr. Kishore Mahbubani
Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World
Wed - February, 27th, 2013. 223 Moses Hall

4-5:30 p.m.

IIS is pleased to announce that the first speaker of the Asian Security Challenges series will be Professor Kishore Mahbubani, Dean and Professor of Public Policy at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.  Prof. Mahbubani is a noted academic and former Singaporean diplomat.  He served in multiple capitals as well as being Singapore's Permanent Rrepresentative to the United Nations, where he twice chaired the UN Security Council.  He has published extensively on Asian security and brings a particularly acute perspective from his long experience as a diplomat and scholar of Asian security and economic relations.  His most recent book discusses the implications of convergence between Asia and the West.

Part of the Asian Security Challenges Seminar.  Co-sponsored by the Institute of East Asian Studies.  

Ambassador Nabil Fahmy
Current Political Developments in Egypt: Implications for US Foreign Policy
Thu - January, 24th, 2013. Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall

4-5:30 p.m.

The continuing political turmoil in Egypt not only challenges Egypt's leadership but also creates a more dynamic environment for regional security and US foreign policy.  Former Egyptian Ambassador to the United States Nabil Fahmy will visit Berkeley on January 24 to speak about these political developments and how they affect the rest of the world.  Ambassador Fahmy is the founding Dean of the School of Public Affairs at the American University in Cairo. He has been Ambassador at Large at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry. He served as Ambassador of Egypt to the United States from 1999-2008. He also served as Egypt’s Ambassador to Japan from September 1997-September 1999 and before that as the Political Advisor to Egypt's Foreign Minister from 1992-97. Dr. Fahmy has held numerous posts in the Egyptian Government since 1974.  As a career diplomat, Fahmy played an active role in numerous efforts to bring peace to the Middle East, as well as in international and regional disarmament affairs.  Ambassador Fahmy received his bachelor of science degree in Physics/Mathematics and his master of arts in management, both from the American University in Cairo.  

Part of the U.S. Foreign Policy Seminar.  Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Dr. Olli Heinonen, Belfer Center, Harvard University
Nuclear Iran: Today and Tomorrow
Wed - November, 14th, 2012. 223 Moses Hall

4-5:30 p.m.

Iran’s nuclear program continues to pose a critical challenge in US foreign policy.  Dr. Olli Heinonen, who spent 27 years at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna before joining Harvard’s Belfer Center in 2010, will discuss Iran’s current and expected nuclear capabilities and the challenge of verification for the international community.

Heinonen spent his last five years at the IAEA as Deputy Director General and head of its Department of Safeguards. He led the Agency's efforts to identify and dismantle nuclear proliferation networks, including the one led by Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan, and he oversaw its efforts to monitor and contain Iran's nuclear program. Heinonen led teams of international investigators to examine nuclear programs of concern around the world. He inspected nuclear facilities in South Africa, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, Libya, and elsewhere, seeking to ensure that nuclear materials were not diverted for military purposes. He is considered one of the world's leadingexperts on Iran's nuclear program. He led the Agency's efforts in recent years to implement an analytical culture to guide and complement traditional verification activities.
 
A native of Finland, Heinonen studied radiochemistry and completed his Ph.D dissertation in nuclear material analysis at the University of Helsinki. Before joining the IAEA in 1983, he was a Senior Research Officer at the Technical Research Centre of Finland Reactor Laboratory, in charge of research and development related to nuclear waste solidification and disposal. He is co-author of several patents on radioactive waste solidification.  At the IAEA, from 1999 to 2002, he was Director of Operations A and from 2002-2005, he was the Director of Operations B in theDepartment of Safeguards.
 
Dr. Robert Jervis, Columbia University
Why Is It So Hard To Begin Peace Talks?
Fri - November, 9th, 2012. 223 Moses Hall

10-11 a.m.

Against the background of the end  of US military involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq, Professor Jervis returns to the Berkeley campus to discuss his latest research and thinking on why it is often so difficult to get negotiations started.  Jervis received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968. From 1968 to 1974 he was appointed an assistant (1968-1972) and associate (1972-1974) professor of government at Harvard University. From 1974 to 1980 he was a professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles.  Since 1980 he has taught at Columbia University in New York City.
 
Specializing in international politics in general and security policy, decision making, and theories of conflict and cooperation in particular, his most recent book Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War was published by Cornell University Press in April 2010. Among his earlier books are American Foreign Policy in a New Era (Routledge, 2005), System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life (Princeton 1997); The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution (Cornell 1989); Perception and Misperception in International Politics (Princeton 1976); and The Logic of Images in International Relations (Columbia 1989). Jervis also is a coeditor of the Security Studies Series published by Cornell University Press. He serves on the board of nine scholarly journals, and has authored over 100 publications.
 

Part of the U.S. Foreign Policy Seminar.

Francis Fukuyama, Stanford University
The Origins of Political Order: The Development of Meritocracy and Clientelism
Mon - November, 5th, 2012. 223 Moses Hall

4-6 p.m.

There are large differences among contemporary liberal democracies regarding the degree of Weberian bureaucracy they have developed over time, with some like Germany, Sweden, and Japan having relatively efficient and non-corrupt public administrations, while others like Greece and Italy remaining strongly clientelistic.  What accounts for this variation?  And how did certain countries like Britain and the United States clean up their public sectors and eliminate patronage in bureaucratic recruitment?  This presentation looks to the sequencing of the introduction of modern institutions as part of the answer to this question. 

Professor Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), resident in FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, effective July 2010.  He comes to Stanford from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and director of SAIS' International Development program.
  
Sponsored by the Department of History, the Institute of International Studies, and the Berkeley Seminar on Global History.
Erika Lee, University of Minnesota
Angel Island: Local, National and Transnational Immigration Histories
Mon - October, 29th, 2012. 3335 Dwinelle Hall

4-6 p.m.

Professor Erika Lee is the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History and Director of the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota.  She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley and is the author of two award-winning books: At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943 (2003) and Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America (2010).  At America's Gates won the 2003 Theodore Saloutos award for the best book in immigration studies, the 2003 History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, and was a Choice Academic Title.  Angel Island won the 2010 Caughey Prize in Western History for the best book in Western History, the 2010 Adult Non-Fiction Award in Asian Pacific American Literature from the American Librarians' Association, and the 2010 "Honorable Mention" for the History Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies.  It was also named to the "Best Book of 2010" list by the San Francisco Chronicle and a Choice Academic Title. 

Sponsored by the Department of History, the Institute of International Studies, and the Berkeley Seminar on Global History.
2012 Peder Sather Symposium
Nobel Laureates on Science, Technology, and Society
Thu - October, 25th, 2012. Berdahl Auditorium, 105 Stanley Hall

5:30-7 p.m.

Professor George Smoot, 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Professor Saul Perlmutter, 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics
In conversation with Harry Kreisler, Host of Conversations with History
 
Remarks by:
Nyamko Sabuni, Swedish Minister for Gender Equality and Deputy Minister for Education
George Breslauer, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UC Berkeley
Dr. Ole Petter Ottersen, Rector, University of Oslo
 
Sponsored by the Consulate General of Norway, the Consulate General of Sweden, the Institute of International Studies, the Peder Sather Center and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
Alan Stewart, Columbia University
Under the Hands of the Ambassador: Printing the News in London and Paris in the 1580s
Thu - October, 25th, 2012. 223 Moses Hall

5-7 p.m.

Stewart has written widely at the intersection of literary studies and intellectual history.  His publications include "Close Readers: Humanism and Sodomy in Early Modern England" (1997); "Hostage to Fortune: The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon 1561-1626" (with Lisa Jardine, 1998); "Philip Sidney: A Double Life" (2000); "The Cradle King: A Life of James VI and I" (2003); "Letterwriting in Renaissance England" (with Heather Wolfe, 2004) and "Shakespeare's Letters" (2008).  With Garrett Sullivan, he is co-general editor of a new three volume "Encyclopdia of English Renaissance Literature," published by Wiley-Blackwell in January 2012.   Most recently, he has edited volume I, "Early Writings 1584-1596," of the Oxford Francis Bacon for Oxford University Press (September 2012).   He has won awards from the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, and the Folger Shakespeare Library, and in 2011-2012 he was  a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow.   Since 2002, he has been the International Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters in London, for which he is producing an online edition of Bacon's correspondence. 

Sponsored by the Institute of International Studies Diplomacy and Culture Colloquium.  

Dr. Thomas Barfield, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University
Afghans Look at 2014
Tue - October, 9th, 2012. 223 Moses Hall

10-11 a.m.

 

Afghanistan's future looks ever more unpredictable as international forces move toward a planned drawdown in 2014.  Many security and foreign policy analysts in Afghanistan and abroad fear a return of civil war and international isolation.  Three questions now dominate international attention:  are the Taliban likely to retake power after international forces withdraw? will President Hamid Karzai's government and armed forces be able to retain power? and what role will Afghanistan's neighbors — esp. Pakistan, India and Iran — play in the country's future?   
 
Boston University Professor Thomas Barfield, author of the recent book Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History and a leading American analyst of Afghanistan, will address this critical issue in a seminar at the UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies.
 
Diego Pirillo, Italian Studies Department, UC Berkeley & Kinch Hoekstra, Political Science and Law, UC Berkeley
Tasso at the French Embassy: Epic, Diplomacy and the Law of Nations
Tue - September, 25th, 2012. 4104 Dwinelle Hall, Comparative Literature Conference Room

12-2 p.m.

Diego Pirillo is the author of Filosofia ed eresia nell'Inghilterra del tardo Cinquecento. Bruno, Sidney e i dissidenti religiosi italiani (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2010).  He is currently working on a new monograph on the clandestine circulation of books between Italy and the British Isles.

Kinch Hoekstra has written on ancient, renaissance, and early modern political thought. He has published a number of studies on aspects of the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, including legal obligation, democracy, tyranny, mixed government, natural law, and the rationality of justice.
 
Pirillo and Hoekstra will discuss Diego's work on Anglo/French/Italian diplomatic theory in the late sixteenth century. 
 
Part of the IIS Diplomacy & Culture Faculty-led Colloquium.
Panel
Location/Translation: Art and Engagement from the Local to the Global
Wed - September, 19th, 2012. UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2621 Durant Avenue, Museum Theater

5:30 p.m.

Free and open to the public
 
Time Zones is a yearlong series of events sponsored by the Arts Research Center exploring time-based and socially engaged art practices in an international context.
 
Location/Translation: Art and Engagement from the Local to the Global is scheduled to coincide with the opening of the exhibition Six Lines of Flight: Shifting Geographies in Contemporary Art at SFMOMA. A panel of curators, artists, and scholars will discuss how regional circumstances get articulated within international art contexts--and how "global" conversations can redefine what we think of as "local" production.
 
Participants will include:
 
Catherine Cole, Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, UC Berkeley
Joseph del Pesco, Kadist San Francisco
Apsara DiQuinzio, SFMOMA
Mihnea Mircan, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp
Sanjit Sethi, Center for Art and Public Life, California College of the Arts
 
Acting ARC Director Julia Bryan-Wilson (History of Art) will moderate.
 
This event will also serve to welcome to the Berkeley campus Apsara DiQuinzio, who in October begins her new position as Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Phyllis C. Wattis MATRIX Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
 
The Time Zones series has been made possible by a generous grant from the Institute of International Studies; Location/Translation is co-presented with the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, with additional support from the Romanian Cultural Institute and the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Dr. John J. Hamre
Pivoting to Asia: What Does It Really Mean?
Wed - September, 19th, 2012. 223 Moses Hall

4-5:30 p.m.

John Hamre became CSIS President and CEO in 2000. Before joining CSIS, he served as the Deputy Secretary of Defense. From 1993-1997, he was the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller). In 2007 Secretary Gates appointed him to serve as chairman of the Defense Policy Board.

Prior to the Department of Defense, Dr. Hamre worked for ten years on the Senate Armed Services Committee. He also served for six years in the Congressional Budget Office.
 
Dr. Hamre received his Ph.D. from the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. He earned a B.A. from Augustana College, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
 
Workshop
Circulating Humor: Nonsense Politics
Fri - September, 14th, 2012. 223 Moses Hall

4-7 p.m.

Infotainment rules. Year-end television ratings in 2011 confirmed that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report had drawn more viewers than Fox News, the most watched news channel in the US. What does this tell us about the state of democracy and participation? In this year of another “electoral theater,” it appears timely to analyze politics as comedy and comedy as politics. Humor constitutes a stage for performances that forge and disrupt rituals of community. German comedian Martin Sonneborn, former editor of the magazine Titanic and founder of the party Die Partei, proposes an absurd program such as the re-erection of the Berlin wall; Turkish German stand-up comedian Serdar Somuncu impersonates Hitler; University of California students emulate the rhetoric of efficient privatization; activist tricksters assume corporate personas and ruling voices. All these comics intervene by mobilizing strategic role-play, mimicking practices they set out to deconstruct by exposing their absurdity, and inviting the audience to join in their tactics of denudation. At this workshop, such examples will be discussed and analyzed collaboratively with participants. We will work toward a theoretical framework for the analysis of comic interventions as complex social, discursive and aesthetic acts.  For full workshop information, click here.  
 
Discussant: Priscilla Layne (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
 
Part of the IIS Cultural Forms in Global Circulation Faculty-led Colloquium.
 
Co-Sponsored by the UC Berkeley German Department, the Multicultural Germany Project, the Institute of International Studies, the Contemporary European Performance Working Group at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Goethe-Institut San Francisco.

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