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Vol. 5, No. 1 - October 7, 2005
| Greenberg Middle East Series Continues This fall's series of Greenberg Middle East academic events continues Monday, Oct. 17, with a talk titled "New Thinking on the Creation of the Palestinian Refugee Problem," by Benny Morris, Ben-Gurion University scholar and author of The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (2004, Cambridge University Press). The lecture begins at 8 p.m. in Gannett Auditorium. Well-known as the leading "new historian" in Israel for his research into the period surrounding Israeli independence in 1948, and in particular the origins of the Palestinian refugee problem, Morris has produced scholarly work and public discourse that have brought him acclaim as well as acrimony. Initially embraced by the Israeli left and excoriated from the right for his illusion-shattering work on the founding of the State of Israel, his reception has in many venues since reversed itself, his work becoming a touchstone for many about the character of the state of Israel. His research has been praised for its thoroughness, sophistication, and appreciation of nuance, and for the avoidance of easy or angry attribution of moral responsibility even while it brings into question the various myths cherished by Israelis and Arabs alike. A professor of history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev since 1997, Morris received a B.A. degree in European history and philosophy from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a Ph.D. degree in modern European history from Cambridge University. Currently a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland, Morris has written a number of books, including The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (1988, Cambridge UP); 1948 and After (1990, Oxford UP); Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956 (1993, Oxford UP); Righteous Victims, a History of the Arab-Zionist Conflict (1999, Knopf); The Road to Jerusalem (2002, Tauris); and numerous articles in scholarly journals as well as other journals, magazines and newspapers. European-American Relations to Be Topic
Müller-Kraenner is director for Europe and North America at the Heinrich Böll Foundation, as well as head of the foundation's program on foreign and security policy. From 1998 to 2002 he was director of the foundation's office in Washington, D.C. The Heinrich Böll Foundation is associated with the political party Alliance 90/The Greens in Germany. He is also one of the founders of and a senior adviser to Ecologic, the non-profit Center for International and European Environmental Policy in Berlin. Müller-Kraenner serves on the advisory board of the Humboldt Institution on Transatlantic Issues and the board of the European Movement Germany, and is a member of the Working Group on Global Issues of the German Council on Foreign Relations, the German Society for the United Nations, Birdlife Germany, as well as the Indo-German Forum on International Environmental Governance. From 1991 to 1998 Müller-Kraenner was director for international affairs of the Deutscher Naturschutzring, the umbrella organization of Germany's environmental NGOs. Before that he served as chief of staff of Kornelia Müller, a Green member of the State Parliament of Saxony. He has received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Prince of Wales' Business and the Environment Programme, and most recently was named a World Fellow at Yale University. Müller-Kraenner has published extensively on international relations, European integration, and environmental diplomacy and the United Nation's climate-change treaty. Sociology Visiting Professor Paula England on Campus this Month
At 7 p.m. Oct. 18, England will participate in a panel discussion titled "Hooking-Up: An Open Forum on College Relationships Today." Dean of Student Affairs Pat Oles and Annie McGlynn '06, a Skidmore sociology major, also will be panelists at the event, which is free and open to the public. The discussion will include research gathered at Skidmore by McGlynn. The findings and their importance to Skidmore will be among the topics of discussion. England's research and teaching deal with gender, households and families, and labor markets. She is interested in integrating sociological, economic, and feminist perspectives. She is the author of Households, Employment, and Gender: A Social, Economic, and Demographic View (1986, with George Farkas) and Comparable Worth: Theories and Evidence (1992). Her current research projects include a quantitative analysis of what causes women versus men to initiate divorces (with Liana Sayer and Paul Allison), and a qualitative analysis of conflicts among cohabiting unmarried parents (with Kathryn Edin). A former editor of the American Sociological Review, England is the 1999 winner of the American Sociological Association's Jessie Bernard Award for career contributions to the study of gender. |
International scholar Sascha Müller-Kraener will discuss "Issues in European-American Relations: How Real Is Anti-Americanism in Europe?" in a public lecture Tuesday, Oct. 18. Scheduled in Bolton Hall, room 382, the lecture will begin at 8 p.m.
Stanford University Professor Paula England will visit Skidmore Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 17 and 18, as the College's Sociology Visiting Professor this fall. She will give a public lecture titled "Gender Inequality: What's Changing? What's Not?" at 7 p.m. Oct. 17 in Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall.