Week 1

8.23. INTRODUCTION. ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS.

Week 2

09.23. ISRAEL: INTRODUCTION

MODERATOR: Mike Aronoff

Readings:

Aronoff, Myron

1991 Israeli Visions and Divisions: Cultural Change and Political Conflict. New Brunswick: Transaction Books. Introduction and Chapter 6.

Ezrahi, Yaron

1997 Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Introduction and Chapters 1 & 2.

Week 3

09.27. POST-COMMUNIST EASTERN EUROPE: INTRODUCTION

MODERATOR: Jan Kubik

Readings:

Ekiert, Grzegorz

1998 "Do Legacies Matter? Patterns of Postcommunist Transitions in Eastern Europe." Unpublished paper.

Ash, Timothy Garton

1999 "The Puzzle of Central Europe." The New York Review of Books March 18.

Week 4

10.04. CULTURE AND CULTURAL ANALYSIS

MODERATORS: Jan Kubik and Myron Aronoff

Readings:

Geertz, Clifford

1995 After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.     Chapters 3 and 4.

Bonnell, Victoria E. and Lynn Hunt

1999 "Introduction" in Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture. Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt editors. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Sewell, William H.

1999 "The Concept(s) of Culture" in Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture. Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt editors. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Week 5

10.11. COLLECTIVISM, INDIVIDUALISM, AND CITIZENSHIP

GUEST SPEAKER: Yaron Ezrahi

Readings:

Ezrahi, Yaron

1997 Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Chapters 5 & 11.

Week 6

10.18. GLOBALIZATIONS

PRESENTER: Mike Aronoff

Readings:

Aronoff, Myron

1999 "The Americanization of Israeli Politics and Realignment of the Party System." Unpublished paper..

Riggs, Fred W.

1999 "Globalization. Key Concepts" http://www2.hawai.edu/~fredr/glocon.htm

Appadurai, Arjun

1999 "Globalization and the Research Imagination." International Social Science Journal, Vol 160, June.

Week 7

10.25. CIVIL SOCIETY

PRESENTER: Jan Kubik

Readings:

Kubik, Jan

2000 "Between the State and Networks of 'Cousins': The Role of Civil Society and Non-Civil Association in the Democratization of Poland 1945-96." in Civil Society Before Democracy. Nancy Bermeo and Phil Nord, editors. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming.

Hann, Chris

1995 "Philosophers' Models on the Carpathian Lowlands," in Civil Society: Theory, History, Comparison. John A. Hall, editor. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Week 8

11.01. CHANGING CONCEPTIONS: THE SHIFT IN ISRAELI IDEAS OF THE RELATION BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE COLLECTIVE

PRESENTER: Gadi Taub

Readings:

Geertz, Clifford

1973 "Religion as a Cultural System" in The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basicbooks. pp. 87-125.

Taylor, Charles

1991 "Three Malaises" in The Ethics of Authenticity. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chapters pp. 1-12.

Taub, Gadi

1999 "Changing Conceptions: The Shift in Israeli Ideas of the Relations Between the Individual and the Collective." Unpublished paper.

Week 9

11.08. RELIGION AND DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL CULTURE

PRESENTER: Ezra Kopelowitz

Readings:

Diamond, Matthew and Kopelowitz, Ezra

"Religion that strengthens democracy: An analysis of religious political strategies in Israel" Theory and Society 27: 671-708.

Kopelowitz, Ezra

1999 "Work in Progress Toward a New Paradigm for the Study of Religion in Israel's Ethnic Democracy" Unpublished Paper.

Week 10

11.15. GENDER AND NATIONALISM

PRESENTER: Undarya Tumursukh

Readings:

Anthias, Floya and Yuval-Davis, Nira

1989 "Introduction" in Woman--Nation--State. New York: St. Martin's Press. pp. 1-15.

Scott, Joan W.

1988 Gender and the Politics of History. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 28-50.

Tumursukh, Undarya

1999 "Masculine Constructions of National Identity and Man-Made Images of the Mongolian Woman in Post-Socialist Mongolia."  Unpublished paper.

Week 11

11.22. MEMORY WORK AS A 'SHADOW WORK' OF DEMOCRACY: THE RIGHT OF PERSONAL MEMORY

PRESENTER: Darja Zavirsek

Readings:

Halbwachs, Maurice

1992 The Collective Memory. New York: Harper & Row. pp. 43-51.

Laub, Dori

1992 "An Event Without a Witness: Truth Testimony and Survival." In Shoshana Felman, Dori Laub, eds. Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis, and History. New York:Routledge. pp. 75-93.

Salecl, Renata

1998 "For the Love of the Nation: Ceausescu's Disneyland." in (Per)Versions of Love and Hate. London:Verso. pp. 79-103.

Zavirsek, Darja

1999 "Memory Work As a 'Shadow Work' of Democracy: The Right of Personal Memory" Unpublished paper.

Week 12

11.29. THE KINNUS PROJECT: WISSENSCHAFT DES JUDENTUMS AND THE FASHIONING OF A 'NATIONAL CULTURE' IN PALESTINE.

PRESENTER: Israel Bartal

Readings:

Bartal, Israel

1997 "The Ingathering of Traditions: Zionism's Anthology Projects" PROOFTEXTS 17 (1997):77-93.

1998 "Responses to Modernity: Haskalah, Orthodoxy, and Nationalism in Eastern Europe" in Shumel Almog, Jehuda Reinharz, and Anita Shapira eds. Zionism and Religion Hanover and London: Brandeis University Press. pp 13-24.

2000 "The Kinnus Project: Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Fashioning of a 'National Culture' in Palestine." Work in progress.

Week 13

12.6. WHAT WENT RIGHT, WHAT WENT WRONG: COMPARING POLAND'S AND YUGOSLAVIA'S TRANSITION FROM COMMUNISM.

GUEST SPEAKER: Konstanty Gebert

Week 14

12.13. DEMOCRACY AND THE NATIONALIZING STATE: ISRAEL AND OTHER CASES.

PRESENTER: Ilan Peleg

Readings:

Peleg, Ilan

1999 "Democracy and the Nationalizing State: Israel and Other Cases" Unpublished paper.

Smooha, Sammy

1997 "Ethnic Democracy: Israel as an Archetype" Israel Studies 2 (Fall 1997):198-241.

Week 15

1.30. RECAPITUALTION MEETING

Week 16

1.31. RACE, NATION AND EXCLUSION: THE BLACK PUBLIC SPHERE IN CUBA 1902-1990'S

PRESENTER: Ariel Fernandez

Readings:

Fernandez, Ariel

2000 "The Cultural Politics of the Development of The Black Public Sphere in Cuba 1902-1990s." Unpublished paper.

Omi, Michael and Winant, Howard

1994 Racial Formation in the United States From the 1960s to the 1990s London: Routledge. pp. 53-91

Wade, Peter

1997 Race and Ethnicity in Latin America London: Pluto Press. pp. 1-39.

Week 17

2.07. DECONSTRUCTING STIGMA: THE ROMA/GYPSIES IN POST-COMMUNIST CONTEXT

PRESENTER: Andrzej Mirga

Readings:

Mirga, Andrzej

2000 "Deconstructing Stigma: The Roma/Gypsies in Post-Communist Context" Unpublished paper. Project On Ethnic Relations

(Author unclear)

1997 "The Roma in the Twenty-First Century: A Policy Paper" Princeton: New Jersey.

Week 18

2.14. REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF A FAILED TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY: THE CASE OF SERBIA

GUEST SPEAKER: Voijn Rakic

Readings:

Diamond, Larry and Plattner, Marc F. (editors)

1994 Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Democracy. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Rakic, Voijn

1995 "Regional Implications of a Failed Transition to Democracy: The Case of Serbia" Unpublished paper.

Woodward, Susan L.

1995 Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution After the Cold War. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. Chapters 2.

Week 19

2.21. THE PROBLEM OF DEMOCRATIZATION AND EXCLUSION

PRESENTER: Louise Musliner

Readings:

Allport, Gordon

1979 The Nature of Prejudice. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. Chapter 9.

McGregor, Alan

"The Evolutionary Function of Prejudice" WWW.MANKIND.ORG-ARTICLES  http://mankind.org/Man5.Htm$mgiToken=CDA00E12D57917184.

Musliner, Louise

2000 "The Problem of Democratization and Exclusion" Unpublished paper.

Week 20

2.28. RAPE AND RAPE AVOIDANCE IN ETHNO-NATIONAL CONFLICTS

GUEST SPEAKER: Robert Hayden

Readings:

Hayden, Robert

1980 "Rape and Rape Avoidance in Ethno-National Conflicts" forthcoming in American Anthropolotist (March 

1981 "Schindler's Fate: Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and Population Transfers" Slavic Review 55, no. 4 (Winter 1996)

1996 "Reply" Slavic Review 55, no. 4 (Winter 1996) Wallace, Paul

        Wallace, Paul

        1996 "The Costs of Partition in Europe: A South Asian Perspective" Slavic Review 55, no. 4 (Winter 1996)

        Woodward, Susan L.

1996 "Genocide or Partition: Two Faces of the Same Coin" Slavic Review 55, no. 4 (Winter 1996)

Week 21

3.6. SPECIAL SESSION: REFLECTIONS ON THE FALL OF COMMUNISM AND THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF POSTCOMMUNIST TRANSFORMATIONS.

GUEST SPEAKER: The Honorable Lech Walesa

Week 22

3.13. SPRING BREAK

Week 23

3.20 THE ROLE OF LEADERS' EXPECTATIONS IN THE POLITICAL DECISIONS PRECEDING ETHNIC WARS.

PRESENTER: Olya Gayazova

Readings:

Gayazova, Olya

2000 "Expectations - The Yeast of Violence? The Role of Leaders' Expectations in the Political Decisions Preceding Ethnic Wars. Cases of Tatarstan and Chechnya." Unpublished paper.

Week 24

3.27. REGIONAL ELECTORAL PATTERNS IN PRE-COMMUNIST AND POST COMMUNIST ROMANIA

PRESENTER: Ionas A. Rus

Readings:

Rus, Ionas

1998 "The Electoral Patterns of the Romanian right in the Interwar Years" Arhivele Totalitarismului 4/1998. No. 21.

1982 "The Regional Electoral Patterns in Pre-Communist and Post-Communist Romania: A Comparison." Unpublished paper.

 

Stokes, Gail

1989 "The Social Origins of East European Politics" in Daniel Chirot (ed.) The Origins of Backwardness of Eastern Europe: Economics and Politics from the Middle Ages Until the Early Twentieth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Week 25

3.3. SEMIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF COLLECTIVE REPRESENTATIONS

PRESENTER: Alena Kralikova

Readings:

Kralikova, Alena

2000 "A History on Display: An Attempt at a Semiological and Sociological Analysis of Collective Representations" Unpublished paper.

Todorova, Maria

1997 Imagining the Balkans New York: Oxford University Press. Chapter 6

Week 26

4.10. GLOBALIZATION AND LOCAL DEMOCRACY

PRESENTER: Marian Kempny

Readings:

Bauman, Zygmunt

1999 "Democracy On Two Battlefronts" published in German in Die Zeit (July 1999)

Held, David

1999 "The Transformations of political community: rethinking democracy in the context of globalization." From Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hecker (eds.) Democracy's Edges. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kempny,Marian

1999 "Globalization of Democracy and Conditions for Democratic Community in the Glocalized World" Unpublished paper.

Week 27

4.17. MOVING AWAY FROM WEBER'S CONCEPTION OF THE STATE

GUEST SPEAKER: Joel Migdal

Readings:

Migdal, Joel S.

1997 "Studying the State" in Mark I. Lichbach and Alan S. Zuckerman (eds.) Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture and Structure. New York: Cambridge University Press.

1998 "Why Do So Many States Stay Intact?" Unpublished paper

Week 28

4.24. HUNGARIAN JEWS AND THE 'CIVIC RELIGION OF NATIONALISM

PRESENTER: Kati Voros

Readings:

Said, Edward W.

1993 Culture and Imperialism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. pp. 1-61

Voros, Kati

2000 "Ambivalent Images: The Poltics of Assimilation and the Liberal Satirical Press in Nineteenth Century Hungary" Unpublished paper

Week 29

5.1. NATIONALISM IN CZECH AND SLOVAK REPUBLICS AFTER 1989

PRESENTER: Filip Lasut

Readings:

Lasut, Filip

2000 "Phenomenon of Nationalism in Czech and Slovak Republics After 1989". Unpublished paper.

Week 29

 

5.1. SUMMATION/CONCLUSION

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