Activities


The Remarque Lectures

Disturbing the Peace
Intellectuals and Universities in an Illiberal Age


Lecture presented by Tony Judt
University Professor and Director, Remarque Institute at NYU

Monday, December 4, 2006
Six o'clock in the evening

Tishman Auditorium
NYU School of Law
Entrance on MacDougal Street
(between Washington Square South and West 3rd Street)
Reception to follow.

Kindly RVSP at http://www.nyu.edu/provost/university.professor/


November 2006:

    Mark Danner
    "THE POLITICS OF THE FOREVER WAR"

October 2004:

    DAVID HALBERSTAM
    "POLITICS AND PATRIOTISM IN AMERICA"

October 2002:

    ROBERT ALTER
    "THE EUROPEAN CITY AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE NOVEL"

March 2001:

    MARTHA NUSSBAUM
    "DISGUST, SHAME, AND THE ROOTS OF PREJUDICE"

October 1999:

    SAUL FRIEDLÄNDER
    "THE HOLOCAUST: OLD CONTROVERSIES, NEW DEBATES"
March 1998:

    MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
    "THE MORAL IMAGINATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY"


Workshops

"The Future of Europe's Past"
(organized by Tony Judt and Katherine Fleming, Remarque Institute), March 29- April 2, 2006, Kandersteg, Switzerland
Muriel Blaive, Humanities Faculty, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Holly Case, Department of History, Cornell University, USA
Herrick Chapman, Institute of French Studies, New York University, USA

Rita Chin, Department of History, University of Michigan, USA
Matthew Connelly, Department of History, Columbia University, USA
Justine Faure, Faculty of History, Universite' Robert Schuman, Strasbourg, France
Katherine Fleming, Department of History, New York University, USA
Eleonory Gilburd, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Peter Gordon, Department of History, Harvard University, USA
Jan T. Gross, Department of History, Princeton University, USA
Tony Judt, Remarque Institute, New York University, USA
Stathis Kalyvas, Department of Political Science, Yale University, USA
Charles King, Department of Government, Georgetown University, USA
Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
José Luis Ledesma, The European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Benjamin Martin, European Studies, Free University, Berlin + Columbia University
Mark Mazower, Department of History, Columbia University, USA
Ben Mercer, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Catherine Merridale, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK
Samuel Moyn, Department of History, Columbia University, USA
Jan-Werner Mueller, Department of Politics, Princeton University, USA
Clara Oberle, Department of History, Princeton University, USA
Andreas Roedder, Department of History, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz. Germany
Hans Ingvar Roth, Stockholm School of Education, Stockholm, Sweden
Timothy Snyder, Department of History, Yale University, USA
Kristina Spohr Readman, Dept of International History, London School of Economics, UK
Harald Wydra, Department of Politics, University of Cambridge, UK


Catalonia and Beyond: National and Regional Identities and the "New Europe"
(co-sponsored with the Institut Ramon Lllull, Barcelona), February 3, 2006, Remarque Institute, New York

Participants:
Montserrat Guibernau (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Charles King (Georgetown University)
Xavier Rubert de Ventós (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)
Mary Louise Pratt, Moderator (New York University)
Salvador Cardús (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Graziella Parati (Dartmouth University)
Joan Francesc Mira (Jaume Ist University)
Katherine Fleming (Remarque Institute)
Lluís Bonet (University of Barcelona)
Robert Lubar (New York University)
Mercè Viladrich (University of Barcelona)
Ulrich Baer (New York University)
Edward Sullivan (New York University)
Mary Nash (University of Barcelona)
Eleni Bastéa (University of New Mexico)
Salvador Giner (Institute for Catalan Studies, IEC)
Joan Ramon Resina (Cornell University)


"The French Left in the 21st Century"
(organized by Sudhir Hazareesingh, Institut d'Études Politiques, Paris and Balliol College, Oxford, Tony Judt, Remarque Institute, NYU), December 2nd- 3rd, 2005, Paris, France

Participants:
Bernard Pudal (Université de Paris-X)
Christophe Prochasson (EHESS, Paris)
Laird Boswell (University of Wisconsin)
Marc Sadoun (IEP, Paris)
Gilles Candar (Nantes)
Edward Berenson (New York University)
Avner Ben-Amos (Université de Tel Aviv)
Natalie Petiteau (Université d¡¦Avignon)
Olivier Ihl (IEP Grenoble)
Jeremy Jennings (Queen Mary College, University of London)
Anne-Marie Thiesse (EHESS, Paris)
Pierre Rosanvallon (EHESS, Paris)
Philippe Marlière (University College, London)
Gerard Grunberg (IEP, Paris)
Patrick Fridenson (EHESS, Paris)


"After Enlightenment"
a Symposium in honor of Jerrold Seigel
(organized by Edward Berenson, Herrick Chapman, Katherine Fleming and Tony Judt, New York University), Nice, April 22-25, 2004

Participants:
Michael Behrent, Department of History, NYU
Edward Berenson, Institute of French Studies, NYU
Herrick Chapman, Institute of French Studies, NYU
Robert Darnton, Department of History, Princeton University
John Fleming, Department of English, Princeton University
Katherine Fleming, Department of History, NYU
Tony Judt, Remarque Institute, NYU
Lester Little, American Academy in Rome
Phillip Nord, Department of History, Princeton University
Thomas Ort, Department of History, NYU
Jacques Revel. EHESS, Paris
Sophia Rosenfeld, Department of History, University of Virginia
Richard Sennett, Department of Sociology, NYU and
London School of Economics
Jerrold Seigel, Department of History, NYU
Debora Silverman, Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles
John Talbott, University of California at Santa Barbara
Isser Wolloch, Department of History, Columbia University
Richard Wolin, Department of History, CUNY Graduate Center


"Partisan Histories: the Use and Misuse of the Past in Modern Politics"
(Organized by Max Paul Friedman, Florida State University; Padraic Kenney, University of Colorado; and Tony Judt, Remarque Institute), October 24-25, 2003

Participants:
Subho Basu, Illinois State University
Andrew Beattie, University of Technology, Sydney
Ian Buruma, Bard College
Suranjan Das, University of Calcutta
Alexis Dudden, Connecticut College
Toyin Falola, University of Texas at Austin
Katherine Fleming, History Department, NYU
Patrick Hagopian, Lancaster University
Katherine Hite, Vassar College
Sunil Khilnani, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Washington D.C.
Charles King, Georgetown University
Mark Mazower, Birbeck College, University of London
Ilan Pappe, University of Haifa
Andrew Shennan, Wellesley College
Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Chicago


"Jedwabne: A Historical Workshop"
(organized by David Engel, Jan Gross and Tony Judt, New York University), October 5 - 6, 2001

Philippe Burrin, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Switzerland
Krzysztof Czyzewski, Borderland Foundation, Poland
Marta Kurkowska, Jagiellonian University, Poland
Mark Mazower, Birkbeck College, England
Andrzej Paczkowski, Polish Academy of Sciences
Antony Polonsky, Brandeis University
Alexander B. Rossino, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Dariusz Stola, Polish Academy of Sciences
Amir Weiner, Stanford University
Jolanta Zyndul, Warsaw University


"Birth of a Refugee Nation: Displaced Persons in Post-War Europe, 1945-1951"
(Co-organizers : Daniel Cohen, Remarque Institute and Atina Grossmann, Cooper Union), April 20-21, 2001
Yosef Grodzinsky, Tel Aviv University
Anna Jaroszynska-Kirchmann, Eastern Connecticut State University
Jan Gross, New York University
Margarete Myers Feinstein, University of Indiana South Bend
Miriam Isaacs, University of Maryland
Jan Gross, New York University
Abraham Peck, University of Southern Maine
Istvan Deak, Columbia University
Bella Brodzki, Sarah Lawrence College
Jeremy Varon, Drew University
Maria Hoehn, Vassar College
Anna Holian, University of Chicago
Mary Nolan, New York University
Marion Kaplan, Queens College, CUNY
Lynne Taylor, University of Waterloo
Ari Zolberg, New School for Social Research, New York
Marta Dyczok, University of Western Ontario
Idith Zertal, Hebrew University of Jerusalem



"German Ideologies since 1945: Defining the Political in a Divided Nation"
(organized by Remarque Institute senior visiting fellow, Dr. Jan Mueller, All Souls College, Oxford), April 30 - May 1, 1999. (Some papers available.)

Participants:
Claus Leggewie, University of Giessen, Germany
Alfons Soellner, University of Chemnitz, Germany
Heinz Bude, Institute for Social Research, Hamburg
Jan-Werner Müller, All Souls College, Oxford
Mark Lilla, New York University
Dirk v. Laak, F.-Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Jerry Muller, Catholic University of America, Washington D.C
Bill Scheuerman, Pittsburgh University
Dagmar Herzog, Michigan State
Stephen Holmes, NYU Law School
Peter E. Quint, University of Maryland Law School
John P. McCormick, Yale University
Winfried Brugger, University of Heidelberg
Rainer Forst, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
William A. Barbieri, Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.
Jean Cohen, Columbia University, New York
Jeffrey Goldfarb, New School, New York
Richard Wolin, Rice University
Jacob Heilbrunn, The New Republic, Washington D.C
Hans-Peter Mueller, New York University
Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University



"Contemporary European History: Reflections of the Twentieth Century"
(co-sponsored with Contemporary European History, University of Nottingham, UK), April 8-11, 1999.

Participants:
Dick Geary, University of Notingham, UK
Gustav Schmidt, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Georges Soutou, University of Paris, France
Helge Pharo, University of Oslo, Norway
Carole Fink, Ohio State University
Youssef Cassis, University of Grenoble, France
Paul Ginsborg, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Marc Lazar, Paris, France
Karl Christian Lammers, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Jose Harris, St. Katherine's College, Oxford, UK.
Alan Milward, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
Mary Vincent, University of Sheffield, UK
Kathleen Burk, All Souls College, Oxford, UK
György Péteri Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway



"Religious Toleration and the Making of the Dutch Golden Age"
(Organized by Ronnie Po-chia Hsia,, History Department, New York University) April 2-3, 1999

Participants:
Henk van Nierop, University of Amsterdam
Christine Kooi, Louisiana State University
Peter van Rooden, University of Amsterdam
James Tracy, University of Minnesota
Joke Spaans, University of Amsterdam
Judith Pollmann, Oxford University
Maarten Prak, University Utrecht
Robert DuPlessis, Swarthmore College
Jonathan Israel, University of London
Benjamin Kaplan, University of Iowa
Wim Smit, Columbia University



"The Politics of Affirmative Action and the Development of a Multicultural Citizenship: Euro-US Perspectives"
(organized by senior Visiting Fellow, Remarque Institute, Marco Martiniello) (FNRS, University of Liège, Belgium), November 6, 1998.

Participants:
Christian Joppke, European University Institute, Florence
John Stone, George Mason University, Washington D.C.
Stephen Steinberg, Queens College/ Graduate Center, CUNY
Peter Skerry, Claremont McKenna College, California
Christian Joppke, European University Institute, Florence
Gwenaële Calvès, Université de Paris 2
Ian Law, University of Leeds
Marco Martiniello, FNRS, University of Liege (Belgium)



"The Politics of Language and the Construction of Modern Nations"
(organized by Denis Lacorne, CERI, Sciences-Politiques, Paris), Paris, October 1-2, 1998. (Some papers available.)

Participants:
Astrid von Busekist, Institut d'Etudies Politiques, Lille, France
Uli Windisch, University of Geneva
John Crowley, CERI, Paris
Geoffrey Nunberg, Xerox, Palo Alto Research Center and Stanford University
David Lopez, UCLA
Kenneth Mc Roberts, York University, Canada
Jacques Rupnik, CERI
Alain Dieckhoff, CERI
Daniel Beauvois, Université Paris-I
Paul Garde, Université d'Aix en Provence
Philippe Martel, CNRS, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
Alain Fenet, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne, France
Guy Hermet, CERI



"Devolution of Power to Regions and Cities: A Road to European Citizenship ?"
(organized by Remarque Institute Visiting Scholar Pasqual Maragall, former mayor of Barcelona ), May 8 - 9, 1998

Participants:
John Newhouse (Brookings Institution, USA)
Xavier Rubert de Ventós (Former Member European Parliament, Professor, Polytechnic University of Barcelona)
Richard Sennett (Council on Work, NYU)
Robert Leonardi (Director ISLG, London School of Economics)
Luis Rojas Marcos (President, NY Public Health and Hospital Corporation)
Xavier Vives (Harvard University)
Sally Powell, (Councillor, London Borough)
Ricard Pérez-Casado (Former EU Administrator, Mostar, Bosnia)
Pia Marconi, (Director General, Italian Ministry of Public Administration and Regional Affairs)



"Politics of the Petite Bourgeoisie in 20th century Europe"
(organized by Remarque Institute senior visiting Fellow Dr. Jonathan Morris), April 10 -12, 1998.

Participants:
Jonathan Morris (University College London, UK)
Bruno Maida (Turin University, Italy)
Montserrat Miller (Marshall University, USA)
John Perkins (U. of New South Wales, Australia)
Frank Domurad (Cambridge University, UK)
Frederick McKitrick (Monmouth University, USA)
Peter Heyrman (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
Steven Zdatny (University of West Virginia, USA)
Richard Vinen (Kings College London, UK)
Gunnar Trumbull (MIT, USA)


"Memory & National Identity in Contemporary Europe: The Legacies of Nazism and Communism"
(organized by Remarque Institute post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Siobhan Kattago), April 2-3, 1998. (Some papers available.)

Participants:
Claus Leggewie, Remarque Institute
Helmut Dubiel, Institut für Sozialforschung,
Sigrid Meuschel, University of Leipzig
Jeffrey Herf, Ohio University
Andrew Arato, New School for Social Research
Istvan Rev, Central European University, Budapest
Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland
Jeffrey Goldfarb, New School for Social Research
Gesine Schwan, Freie Universität-Berlin
Annette Wieviorka, CNRS, Paris
Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
John Czaplicka, Harvard University
James Young, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University


Upon occasion, The Remarque Institute will publish a series of working papers that were originally presented at the Institute. These working papers will be available for a modest sum. At this time "Working Papers No. 1" is available from the workshop that took place November 1998. Click here if you are interested in seeing the program. (link to workshop)


Conferences


"Open Wounds: Reflections on Nazism, Communism and the 20th Century"
(Organized with the Einstein Forum, Potsdam, Germany), April 14th¡V April 16th, 2005

Participants:

Susan Neiman, Einstein Forum
Tony Judt, Remarque Institute, New York University
Jonathan Glover, Centre for Medical Law and Ethics, King's College London
Robert Paxton, Mellon Professor emeritus of the Social Sciences, Columbia University
Eric Hobsbawm, Professor emeritus of Economic and Social History, Birkbeck College, London
Richard Taylor, University of Swansea
Omer Bartov, Brown University
Timothy Snyder, Yale University
Jan Gross, Princeton University
Hans Otto Brautigam, Former BRD Ambassador to the UN
Marcus Wolf, Head of foreign intelligence in the former GDR
Catherine Merridale, Queen Mary College, London
Istvan Rev, Open Society Archives, Central European University, Budapest
Martin Sabrow, Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam
Dariusz Stola, , Collegium Civitas, Warsaw
Malachi Hacohen, Duke University
Maria Loskutova, European University at St Petersburg
Norman Naimark, Stanford University
Norbert Frei, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat, Jena
Karl Schlogel, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder
Vladimir Tismaneanu, Center for the Studies of Post-Communist Societies, University of Maryland


"International Symposium on Military War Crimes: History and Memory"
(Co-sponsored with New School University and Cooper Union), December 3 - 6, 1999

Participants:
Judith Friedlander, New School University
Aryeh Neier, Open Society Institute, New York
Robert Rindler, The School of Art, Cooper Union
Gilles Peress, photo journalist
Jan Philipp Reemtsma, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Mary Nolan, New York University
Bernd Boll, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Atina Grossmann, Cooper Union
Jane Kramer, New Yorker Magazine
Klaus Naumann, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Walter Manoschek, University of Vienna
Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
Saul Friedländer, UCLA, Tel Aviv University.
Volker Berghahn, Columbia University
Omer Bartov, Rutgers University
Christopher Browning, University of North Carolina
Juergen Foerster, Militaergeschichtliches Forschungsamt
Hannes Heer, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
David Bankier, Hebrew University
Mark Mazower, Princeton University
Gudrun Schwarz, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Michael Wildt, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Frank Biess, Brown University
Ulrich Herbert, University of Freiburg
Robert Moeller, University of California, Irvine
John Dower, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amir Weiner, Stanford University
Edward Linenthal, University of Wisconsin
Vera Zolberg, New School University
Bernd Greiner, Hamburg Institute for Social Research
Marilyn Young, New York University
Istvan Deak, Columbia University
Michael Geyer, University of Chicago
Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker Magazine
Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University


50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICAN PUBLICATION OF 'ANTISEMITE AND JEW' by JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
(Co-sponsored with the Center for French Civilization and Culture), April 24-25, 1998

Participants:
Denis Hollier, French Department, NYU
Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania
Michel Rybalka, University of Washington, St. Louis
Robert Misrahi, Université de Paris I, Emeritus
Michel Contat, CNRS, Institut des Textes Modernes, Paris
Serge Doubrovsky, New York University
Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Emanuelle Saada, New York University
Enzo Traverso, Université d'Amiens)
Naomi Schor, Harvard University
Pierre Birnbaum, Université de Paris I
Frances Malino, Wellesley College
Thomas Bishop, New York University
Alain Finkielkraut, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Sandy Petrey, SUNY Stony Brook
Susan Suleiman, Harvard University


"REMEMBERING, ADAPTING, OVERCOMING: THE LEGACY OF WORLD WAR TWO IN EUROPE"
New York, April 24-27, 1997

Participants:
Hans Mommsen, University of Bochum, Germany
Molly Nolan, New York University
István Déak, Columbia University
Roderick Kedward, University of Sussex, England
Jan T. Gross, New York University
Michael R. Marrus, University of Toronto, Canada
Norman M. Naimark, Stanford University
Andrew Shennan, Wellesley College
Marija Obradovic, Institute for the Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade
Nicole A. Dombrowski, Princeton University
Paul Ginsborg, University of Florence
Richard Mitten, Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies, Vienna
Amir Weiner, Stanford University
Gabriella Etmektsoglou, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna
Drago Roksandic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Pieter Lagrou, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium
Jerzy Holzer, University of Warsaw, Poland
Christopher Harvie, University of Tübingen, Germany
Ivo Banac, Yale University
Christopher Browning, Pacific Lutheran University, Washington
Mark Mazower, University of Sussex, England
Alan Milward, London School of Economics
Peter Romijn, War Documentation Institute, Amsterdam
Luc Huyse, Catholic University, Leuven, Belgium
Jacques Rupnik, Center for International Studies and Research (CERI), Paris
Sarah Farmer, University of Iowa
Martin Conway, Balliol College, Oxford, England
Colin Nettelbeck, The University of Melbourne
Radmila Radic, Institute for the Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade
Brad Abrams, University of Copenhagen
Wolfgang Hoepken, University of Leipzig, Germany
Sonia Combe, University of Nanterre, France

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Remarque Institute Special Events


Disturbing the Peace
Intellectuals and Universities in an Illiberal Age


Lecture presented by Tony Judt
University Professor and Director, Remarque Institute at NYU

Monday, December 4, 2006
Six o'clock in the evening

Tishman Auditorium
NYU School of Law
Entrance on MacDougal Street
(between Washington Square South and West 3rd Street)
Reception to follow.

Kindly RVSP at http://www.nyu.edu/provost/university.professor/

Religion and the Limits of Tolerance
Dutch multiculturalism in question

A discussion, October 10, 2006

Participants:

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Dutch political activitist and Parliamentarian
Frits Bolkestein,  former President of the Liberal Party in the Dutch Parliament and European Commissioner
Bas Heijne, Dutch journalist and author of Hollandse toestanden (The State of the Netherlands)
Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, NYU


"What happens now? Israel and the Palestinians After Gaza, Sharon, and Hamas"

A discussion, March 9, 2006
(co-sponsored with the Israel Forum)

Participants
Christopher Hitchens, independent author and journalist
Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, NYU
Elias Khouri, Middle Eastern Studies, NYU
Gidon Levy, editorialist and commentator for Ha'aretz, Israel


"WHAT IS TO BE DONE?: AMERICA, EUROPE & THE WEST TODAY"

A discussion. November 29, 2004

Participants:
Professor Michael Mandelbaum
, Christian A. Herter Professor of American Foreign Policy, Director of the American Foreign Policy Program, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies
Professor Andrew Moravcsik, Professor of Politics, Director, European Union Program,Princeton University
Ambassador Peter van Walsum, Former Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the United Nations

Moderator:
Professor Tony Judt
, Director, Remarque Institute, New York University


"Does The Jewish State Have a Future? Debating Israel in America"

A discussion, April 20, 2004
(co-sponsored by Columbia University, the Israel Forum and the Remarque Institute, NYU)

Participants:
Alan Brinkley, professor of American history and Provost of Columbia University
Amos Elon, noted Israeli author and historian
Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, NYU
Raef Zreik, a Palestinian-Israeli civil rights lawyer and political activist


"What now? A debate on America in the world"

Date: Saturday, May 10, 2003


America and the world since 9/11

Moderator: Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute, NYU
Speakers:
Azyumardi Azra
Rector, Syarif Hidayatullah State Institute for Islamic Studies Jakarta, Indonesia
Christoph Bertram
Director, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Dean, The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Nikolai Zlobin
Senior Fellow,The Center for Defense Information, Washington D.C.


America and the Middle East

Moderator: Michael Gilsenan, Chair, Middle Eastern Studies, NYU
Speakers:
Shlomo Ben-Ami
Former Foreign Minister of Israel, Elias Sourasky Professor, Tel Aviv University
Anatol Lieven
Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington D.C.
Robert Malley
Middle East Program Director,The International Crisis Group, The Council on Foreign Relations, Washington D.C.
Salim Tamari
Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Institute of Jerusalem Studies, Birzeit University


What is to be done?

Moderator: Paul Boghossian, Chair, Philosophy Department, NYU Speakers:
Joshua Cohen
Professor and Chair, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dominique Moïsi
Deputy Director, Institut français des relations internationales (IFRI), Paris
Samantha Power
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Edward W. Saïd
University Professor of English and Comparative Literature Columbia University


Israelis and Palestinians: Tragic dilemmas and Mortal dangers
by Amos D. Elon
November 22, 2002

Remarque Senior Visiting Fellow, independent writer and journalist. Author: The Pity of It All: A History of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933; A blood-dimmed tide: Dispatches from the Middle East; Jerusalem, Battleground of Memory; Theodor Herzl: A biography and The Israelis: Founders and Sons.


"America and the Age of Genocide"

a conversation, April 2,2002

Samantha Power, (Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University), Tony Judt - given upon the occasion of the publication of her book (Basic Books)

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide


THE POPES AGAINST THE JEWS: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism
(co-sponsored with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.)

Chair: Leon Wieseltier, The New Republic
Discussants:

  • Paul Baumann (Commonweal)
  • Istvan Deak (Columbia University)
  • Jack Miles (God: A Biography) and
  • David Kertzer, author of The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican's Role in the Rise of Modem Anti-Semitism
Introduction by Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute


REMARQUE INSTITUTE FACULTY-GRADUATE OPEN SEMINAR

The nature of European and American influences on Japan Ian Buruma, Fall semester 2000


"The Spectre of Haider: Austria's Past or Europe's Future?"
Panel discussion, February 29, 2000

Participants:
Tony Judt, Director, Remarque Institute
Anson Rabinbach, Department of History, Princeton University
Andrei S. Markovits, Professor of Politics, The University of Michigan
Richard Mitten, Professor of History, Central European University, Budapest

No reservations required. Free and open to the Public. For further information, telephone 212-998-3660.