Speakers & Topics

Outreach to Collegues & Universities
Speakers and Topics Available for Guest Lectures (spring 2009)

Gerrit B.M. Dielissen
Topics:

• “Cultural Policies in the EU: Addressing Unity in Diversity”
• “Public Controversies in the Netherlands on Islam and Muslims since the Assassination of Pim Fortuyn”
• “Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe”
• “Black is Beautiful: Sociological Reflections Upon 700 Years' Representations of Black People in Dutch Paintings”

Dates, Places Available:
   Peabody Campus: February, 13, 2009
   U Texas at El Paso: February 14-17, 2009 (Scheduled)
   U of Kentucky: March 26-27, 2009(Scheduled)
   Belmont U: April 1 2009 (Scheduled)
   U of Mississippi: Under Discussion for March 2009
   Sewanee: U of South: Under Discussion for March 2009
   U of Alabama: Under Review
   Hendersonville High School: Under Discussion for March 2009

Justus Fetscher
Topics:

• “Re-imaging James Cook: Europe in Writings on the French and English Circumnavigations of the 1760’s and 1770’s”
• “Edges of the European World: Elias Canetti’s Anthropological and Autobiographical Explorations”

Dates, Places Available:
   U of Memphis: Under Review for March

Henning Grunwald
Topics:

• “The Europeanization of Research Policy: Transatlantic Challenges and Opportunities”
• “Why We Should All Brush Some Chips Off Our Shoulders: Transatlantic (Mis-) Understandings”

Places, Dates Available:
   U of Tennessee, Knoxville: Under Review
   U of Memphis: Under Review

John McCarthy
Topics:

• “The Idea of Europe”
• “Transculturalism and Cosmopolitanism: The Formation of European Identity”

Dates, Places Available:
   Peabody School of Education, Vanderbilt U: February, 13, 2009
   Belmont University: April 1, 2009 (scheduled)
   Greenville School District, Faculty Consultation and Classroom Presentations: March 1-3, 2009 (scheduled)

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