Speaker: Peter Kraus, Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism, University of Helsinki

Note: Q & A removed (inaudible)

 

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Sir Stephen Wall, former adviser to Tony Blair on the European Union

 

 A Stranger in Europe: Britain and the EU from Thatcher to Blair: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Speaker: Paddy Woodworth, Author and Journalist
Sponsor: CES Special Event

 

 The Basque Country: Magic in the Landscape, Blood on the Streets: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Speaker: Dusan Sidjanski, Founder of the Department of Political Science at the University of Geneva; professor emeritus at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences and at the European Institute in Geneva
Sponsor: CES Special Event

 

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Speaker: Michel Korinman, Professor of Geopolitics, University of Paris-Sorbonne
Sponsor: CES Special Event co-sponsored by the Working Group on the Mediterranean Rim

 

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Speaker: Philippe Aghion, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics
Sponsor: Crisis and Reform in European Higher Education Study Group

 

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View the video for this event at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/31/Alex_Salmond_Creating_the_Celtic_Lion_Economy

First Minister Alex Salmond outlines his ambitions for a Celtic Lion economy to emerge in Scotland as he addresses Harvard University’s Center for European Studies and Harvard Business School.

Mr. Salmond sets out his vision to transform Scotland’s recent economic performance and replicate the success of Ireland’s Celtic Tiger. Highlighting the success of Europe’s smaller countries - which have dramatically outperformed their larger neighbors - Mr. Salmond’s message was delivered on the eve of a business tax cut that will see Scotland become even more competitive. His speech at Harvard opened a week of travels by Mr. Salmond and his ministers across the United States and Canada that will underscore that Scotland is open for business and flourishing, and that an independent Scotland could well be the next European economic miracle.

Chair: Brigitta Wagner

Wolfgang Kohlhaase

Prof. Stefan Soldovieri

Prof. Katie Trumpener

This session grows out of an interest in how popular culture in general and film culture specifically was experienced in the pre-Wall divided Berlin of the 1950s. With open borders and competing film offerings from West Germany and the U.S. in West Berlin and DEFA and the Soviet Union in the East, how were Berliners uniquely positioned within the early Cold War? How did filmmaking and film-going practices defy political alliances and allow for ideological transgressions? What opportunities existed for East-West narratives and co-productions? To what extent can we claim that these films and Berlin’s unique cultural political landscape contributed to a sense of German national unity?

 

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Chair: Thorsten Benner

Ricardo Soares de Oliveira

Michael Peel

 

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Leszek Balcerowicz, former chairman of the National Bank of Poland

 

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