International Colloquia INTERNATIONAL STUDIES COLLOQUIUM Now in its third year, the monthly International Studies Faculty Colloquium enables Middlebury faculty to share their current research with colleagues and advanced students. International Studies Faculty Colloquium 1999-2000 October: Su Lian Tan, Associate Professor of Music, and David Castronuovo, Assistant Professor of Italian, “Music East and West: Collaborative Teaching and the Possibilities of Collaborative Research”
NATIONALISM COLLOQUIUM Meeting on a monthly basis, the Nationalism Colloquium provides an interdisciplinary forum for faculty to discuss the complex subject of nationalism. Led by Walker Connor, Visiting Professor of Political Science and Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence and faciliated by Michael Kraus, Frederick C. Dirks Professor of Political Science, the 19992000 Nationalism Colloquium centered on the following works. Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding by Walker Connor
November: Tatiana Smorodinskaya, Assistant Professor of Russian, “Sons in Search of Fathers: The Case of Contemporary Russian Cinema”
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson
December: David Stahl, Assistant Professor of Japanese, “The Burdens of Survival: Ooka Shohei’s Pacific War Memoirs”
Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
February: Saadia Pekkanen, Assistant Professor of Political Science, “Playing by the Rules: The WTO and Japan’s New Foreign Trade Strategy”
Buddhism Betrayed?: Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka by Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Lal Jayawardena
March: Marc Garcelon, Assistant Professor of Sociology/ Anthropology, “Autocracy by Plebiscite: Vladimir Putin and the Future of Russian Democracy” May: Cynthia Atherton, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, “Time’s Baby: What To Do With An Extra Month in the Hindu Calendar”
Explaining Northern Ireland: Broken Images by John McGarry, Brendan O’Leary “The Clash of Civilizations?” by Samuel P. Huntington in Foreign Affairs, 1993
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