Stanford University

Austria and Central Europe Since 1989: Legacies and Future Prospects

This conference on Austria and Central Europe Since 1989: Legacies and Future Prospects is the third in the series of biannual international conferences to study the political and cultural landscape of Austria and Central Europe since 1945. Our previous conferences focused on Central Europe during the period of the post-war up to 1989. This year’s conference gathers leading scholars and public figures to discuss the exciting developments of our contemporary era and to offer comments on future prospects for the region.

The conference panels will offer multi-disciplinary views of Central Europe today. Addressing topics from the area stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans, speakers will focus on Austria as well as Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, and the counties of former Yugoslavia. Presentations will explore political, economic, social, and cultural facets of the region’s larger dynamic. Among the milestone changes during this period which will be highlighted will be Austria’s (and other Central European countries’) ascendance to the European Union, the disintegration and reconfiguration of Balkan nations, the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, and the great mobility of goods and labor through the region and new forms of social and cultural interaction.

The two-day conference will be held at Stanford University on March 5 and 6, 2009. The conference panels will be conducted in workshop format. Papers will be pre-circulated to facilitate round table discussion among participants. Faculty, students, and the interested public are encouraged to attend.

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Austria in the Postwar World

Societies in Transition: Adjusting to Changing Global Environments

In 1998/99, thirty key organizations and foundations involved in transatlantic cultural, scientific and media relations, including DAAD, met at a "Round Table USA" to discuss ways in which to improve the harmonization of their activities and possible areas of synergy. One of the outcomes was the joint decision to stage a German-American Conference every two years to bring together promising young academics and professionals to examine subjects that will be of crucial importance for future German-American cooperation.

The 4th Alumni Conference of the Round Table USA will be:
"Societies in Transition – Adjusting to Changing Global Environments"
Stanford, California – June 26-28, 2008

The conference aims to offer a fresh look at the challenges which the ongoing process of globalization imposes on various areas of life such as
• Global Change and Civil Societies
• Pluralist Societies and a Common Cannon of Values – A Contradiction?
• The Role of Religious Convictions in Our Societies and Their Futures
• How Do Mobility and Migration Change Our Societies?
• Transnational Politics and Global Responsibility

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Bechtel Conference Center

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Does South Asia Exist? Prospects for Regionalism in South Asia

Shorenstein APARC, in collaboration with India's Observer Research Foundation, will hold a conference on regionalism and regional integration in South Asia at Stanford University. This is the third in a series of academic conferences on regionalism organized by Shorenstein APARC, following earlier conferences on regionalism in Northeast and Southeast Asia. The conferences have yielded important edited volumes, published in association with The Brookings Institution press. The conference papers from this conference as well will be issued as an edited volume in that same series.

Globally, the trend towards regional integration and the rise of regional institutions as actors in the international system has been on the rise. The paradigm for transnational regionalism is the European Union but we have also seen a growing role for regional organizations in Latin America, in Central Asia and even in North America. In Asia, there is increasing interest in the creation of an East Asian Community, driven in large part by the rise of intra-Asian trade and investment, propelled by China. Regionalism has been on the agenda in South Asia since the establishment of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in 1985. Yet the progress toward regional cooperation and integration in South Asia has been very slow. However the dynamic growth of the Indian economy may be giving a new impetus to regionalism, driven by forces of business and the market.

This conference will examine the prospects for regionalism in South Asia, looking at the factors that drive greater regional integration and the obstacles to regionalism. It will place South Asia in the comparative framework, examining how South Asia compares to other experiences globally, including in Asia and Europe. The conference will explore the different perspectives on regionalism from within South Asia. It will focus on the role of India, as the largest power in the region and look at how much India drives or blocks greater regionalism. And finally, the participants will examine the interests of other powers in South Asian regionalism.

Funding for this conference was provided by the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, The Observer Research Foundation, Jet Airways, Mr. Kanwal Rekhi, insure1234.com, and G1G.com.

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Bechtel Conference Center

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South Asia Initiative

Transatlantic Academy project on 'Turkey and Its Neighbors: Prospects for the Transatlantic Relationship'

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The Transatlantic Academy is seeking candidates to serve as resident fellows. A joint project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and the Harry and Lynde Bradley Foundation, the Transatlantic Academy is located at the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Washington DC. The Academy brings together scholars from Europe and North America to work on a single set of issues facing the transatlantic community. It is an interdisciplinary institution which is open to all social science disciplines. Fellows will be resident for ten months beginning in October 2009. The Academy welcomes applications from scholars working on the theme of 'Turkey and Its Neighbors: Implications for the Transatlantic Relationship.'

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Jihadism in the two worlds: Europe versus the Middle East

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Farhad Khosrokhavar is Professor of Sociology at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Rockefeller Fellow and Visiting Professor at Yale. He is the author of a forthcoming book: Jihadism worldwide, that will be published by Paradigm Publishers in Yale Sociological Series in November 2008. He has extensively published on Muslims in European prisons (with James Beckford and Danièle Joly, Muslims in Prison, Challenge and Change in Britain and France, 2005, Palgrave Macmillan Publishers) and radical Islam (Quand Al Qaeda parle, Grasset Publishers, Paris, 2006). His book Suicide Bombers, the new martyrs of Allah (2005, Pluto Press, London) has been translated into ten languages.

Encina Ground Floor Conference Room

Farhad Khosrokhavar Professor Speaker École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Rockefeller Fellow and Visiting Professor at Yale
Seminars

Can We Globalize Markets and Safeguard Social Welfare? Seeking answers in Flexicurity and a New European Left

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Having dominated Danish politics for over a decade, as Prime Minister and leader of the Danish Social Democrat Party, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen was elected President of the Party of European Socialists (PES) in April 2004. As President of the PES, he leads 34 national socialist and social democrat parties in government and in opposition, in their common efforts at European level.

Member of the Danish Parliament since 1988, Poul took over the chairmanship of the Danish Social Democrats and its Parliamentary Group in 1992. In under a year he was elected Prime Minister, a post which he kept until 2001. Since then, Poul has concentrated his political engagement at the European level. From 2002 onwards, Poul has been a leading figure in the development of new policy ideas and initiatives for European social democrats, as chair of the PES High Level Group on globalisation and chair of the PES Lisbon Network.

Poul has also been chairman of the Global Progressive Forum from 2004 to 2007, a globalisation initiative involving a wide range of NGOs, and a Member of the European Parliament, having led the Danish Social Democrats to a stunning victory in the June 2004 European elections.

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Oksenberg Conference Room

Poul Nyrup Rasmussen Member of the European Parliament; President of the Party of European Socialists; Former Prime Minister of Denmark Speaker
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The Puzzle of Slovenia and Estonia in the Post-Communist Era: How Deliberated Nationalism Explains Reform and Consensus-Driven Transition

Semantic Information Systems and Visualization

Business Informatics

In today’s businesses information technology plays a central role. It is not only tightly knit into most enterprises’ core business processes but can also be a major source of innovation. For a considerable time the research in computer science has been concerned both with developing solutions that enable or facilitate particular business activities as well as with the provision of an infrastructure that is capable of providing the necessary data and computing capacity to these applications.

Transatlantic Information Law Symposium

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In the twelve years since the publication of the paper “Law and Borders – The Rise of Law in Cyberspace” by David G. Post and David Johnson, law makers and courts in the US and EU have had to address numerous new questions arising from new information technologies and online activities. What have we learned applying existing legal principles to new Internet phenomena? What new principles have been established and what new concepts underlie these principles? What role will new regulatory models and regimes play in the future.

The Transatlantic Technology Law Forum (TTLF) [http://ttlf.stanford.edu] and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) [http://fsi.stanford.edu] will host the first Transatlantic Information Law Symposium on June 14, 2008 at Stanford Law School. The goal of the symposium is to bring together the leading experts from the US and EU to discuss current issues in information law and to promote mutual understanding of the different approaches.

The symposium will address the following topics:

Constitutional Rights and IT in the EU

The Right to Privacy in IT Systems in EU Law

The Right to Privacy in IT Systems in US Law

Freedom of Speech and the Internet in US Law

Network Neutrality in US Law

Property vs. Contract to Govern Online Behavior under US Law

Property vs. Contract to Govern Online Behavior under EU Law

The Future of Regulating Cyberspace - Open Discussion

This event is free and open to the public. For more information and registration, please click here.

 

Stanford Law School

Susan Freiwald Professor Speaker University of San Francisco School of Law
Paul Goldstein Professor Speaker Stanford Law School
Mark Lemley Professor Speaker Stanford Law School
Axel Metzger Professor Speaker University of Hannover, Germany
Radim Polcak Professor Speaker Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
Gerald Spindler Professor Speaker University of Goettingen, Germany
Molly Van Houweling Professor Speaker University of California at Berkeley
Barbara van Schewick Professor Speaker Stanford Law School

Andreas Wiebe

Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Department of Information Technology Law and Intellectual Property Law
Althanstrasse 39-45
1090 Wien

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Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor, 2007-2008
Visiting Professor, Stanford Law School
Head of the Deparment of Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
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Andreas Wiebe, LL.M., is Head of the Deparment of Information Technology and Intellectual Property Law at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. From January through June 2008, Professor Wiebe served as Distinguished Visiting Austrian Chair Professor at the Forum on Contemporary Europe, during which time he taught courses in e-commerce law and intellectual property law at the Stanford Law School. Professor Wiebe co-organized the June 14 "Transatlantic Information Law Symposium," held at the Stanford Law School and presented by the Transatlantic Technology Law Forum and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

Andreas Wiebe Professor Speaker Stanford University; Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria
Paul de Hert Professor Speaker Free University Brussels; University of Tilburg
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