Events
Upcoming ICMEC Events
Between Host and Homeland: Europe and the Politicization of Second-Generation Diasporas.
FRIDAY, MAY 13
New School University
7th-Floor Conference Room
66 Fifth Avenue (Between 12 &
13th Street)
New York, NY 10003
9:00 – 9:30 a.m. Welcome
9:30 – 10:45 a.m: European Diasporas
in the United States: The Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy
Chair: Michele Wucker, Senior
Fellow, World Policy Institute
Speakers:
Rey Koslowski, Associate Professor
of Political Science, Rutgers University
Stacey Sullivan, Senior Editor, Institute
for War and Peace Reporting; Author “Be Not Afraid, for You Have
Sons in America."
John Kraljic, Former President, National
Federation of Croatian Americans
10:45 – 11:00 a.m. BREAK
11:00 – 12: 30 p.m.: Europe: Love It
or Leave It: Non-European Diasporas in Europe
Chair: Ian Cuthbertson,
Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute
Speakers:
Gunga Taveres, Culture and Information
Attaché for the Consulate of Cape Verde
Barbara John, Former Immigration Commissioner,
Berlin, Germany
Jocelyne Césari, Center for
Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
12:30 – 1:30 p.m. LUNCH
1:30 – 3:00 P.M.: The Question of Borders: Post-Communist Diasporas
Chair: Myra Waterbury, Coordinator, International Center for Migration, Ethnicity & Citizenship
Speakers:
Charles King, Ion Ratiu Associate
Professor, School of Foreign Service and
Department of Government, Georgetown
University
Susan Woodward, Professor of Political
Science, CUNY Graduate Center
Zsuzsa Csergo, Assistant Professor
of Political Science, The George Washington University
3:00 – 3:15 p.m. BREAK
3:15 – 4:45 p.m.: Being European: Diasporas,
Belonging, and the Challenges of Integration
Chair: Belinda Cooper, Senior
Fellow, World Policy Institute
Speakers:
Eva Ostergaard-Nielsen, Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona
Julien Cantegreil, Université
de Paris 1-Sorbonne, Centre d’Etudes des Politiques d’Immigration, d’Intégration
et de Citoyenneté
As seating will be limited, please
RSVP to CitizenshipSecurity@newschool.edu, or to
(212) 229-5808 ext. 4260.
ICMEC is contributing to a series of public seminars on issues related to immigrants and migration. This series is a collaborative venture by faculty at Baruch College, CUNY Graduate Center, Fordham University, New School University, Hunter College, and the Social Science Research Council. The intention is to organize seminars with at least two speakers, who may offer differing views and spark a lively discussion.
Recent ICMEC Events
The first seminar, held on September 23, 2004, was titled Mexican Americans: Doing Better in 2004?, and featured Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, The Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education and Co-Director, Harvard Immigration Projects, Harvard University and Richard D. Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, University at Albany as speakers.
The second seminar, held on October 21, 2004 was on New Immigrants, Political Participation and the Vote. Speakers included Ron Hayduk, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, Bryan Pu-Folks, New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) and John Mollenkopf, CUNY Graduate Center.
Other seminars in the Spring will be coordinated with a graduate course being offered by Nancy Foner. Information on speakers, dates, and locations will be available soon.
Requests to be added to the distribution list can be directed to Phil Kasinitz, PKasinitz@gc.cuny.edu.
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The Center for Urban Research and the Middle East and Middle East American Center of the CUNY Graduate Center hosted a presentation on November 3, 2004 on The Politicization of Islam in Europe by Dr. Riva Kastoryano of the Center for International Research, CNRS-National Foundation for Political Science, Paris, France. She is the author of the acclaimed book, Negotiating Identities: States and Immigrants in France and Germany (Princeton University Press).
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ICMEC and the New School Graduate Faculty Department of Political Science hosted a community briefing on post-9/11 civil rights and liberties in New York City. Entitled Restoring Our Rights, Rebuilding Our Communities, this event was attended by local immigration advocates and lawyers as well as members of several Muslim and South Asian community organizations.
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On June 14, 2004, ICMEC hosted a workshop entitled Resolving the European Asylum Crisis. The workshop was attended by immigration and asylum experts from the European Commission, Human Rights Watch, the International Peace Academy, as well as professors and graduate students from all over Europe and the United States. Funding for the workshop included grants from the European Union and the Title VI program for West European studies of the U.S. Department of Education.
CES BERLIN DIALOGUES
Harvard University, the Minda de Gunzburg
Center for European Studies and Buero Berlin
will host a conference on The Intersection
of Terrorism, Security and Immigration: Guarding the Nation vs. Protecting
Individual Rights on January 24, 2005 6-8pm at Wissenschaftszentrum
Berlin, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin, Germany.
The treatment of immigrants in the name of domestic security has become yet another issue dividing the United States and Europe. The debate on security is intense on both continents, but the values and concerns are different. This session will focus on civil rights, terrorism, threats to security, and potential harm to democracy. Special attention will be paid to the role of immigrants in Germany and in the United States. How have efforts to achieve 'homeland security' differed in the two countries?
Panelists include:
Dr. Richard Falkenrath, Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; formerly, Deputy Homeland Security Advisor and Deputy Assistant to the President, 2003-2004
Dr. Gerold Lehnguth, Head of the Department for Migration, Refugees, Integration, European Harmonization, Ministry of the Interior, Berlin
Professor Aristide Zolberg, Walter P. Eberstadt Professor of Political Science and Director of the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship, New School University
Chair and Commentator: Belinda Cooper, Senior Fellow and Program Leader, Program on Citizenship and Security, World Policy Institute, New School University
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For further information go to: www.fas.harvard.edu/~ces-ber/participants.html
For further information on the CES Berlin Dialogues: www.fas.harvard.edu/~ces-ber/
To register for this or other sessions: maychu@fas.harvard.edu
Supported by: the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies * the Draeger Foundation, Luebeck * Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin * Program on Citizenship and Security, World Policy Institute, New School University * Friends of the Dialogues