Event Date: November 20, 2009 - 10:30 am
Location: Social Science Building, 120 University pvt, Room 4004

Dangerous Communities: Local Political Milieux and the Persecution of Jews in Occupied Poland.

A talk by Jeffrey Kopstein, University of Toronto.

Co-sponsor: Department of History.

Free. Registration is not required. This event will be in English.

Jeffrey S. Kopstein is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Toronto.  He has held fellowships at Harvard University, Princeton University, and has also been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow.  He has written extensively in the fields of European politics, transatlantic relations, and political economy. His publications include various books and edited volumes, including Growing Apart? America and Europe in the 21st Century (Cambridge, 2008), Comparative Politics: Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order (Cambridge, 2000, 2005, 2008), and The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, (Univ. of North Carolina Press Hill, 1997).  Recent scholarly articles have appeared in the Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, World Politics, Comparative Politics, Theory and Society, Political Theory, German Politics and Society, and The Washington Quarterly. In 2006 he was the recipient of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award.

This presentation will be based on Professor Kopstein’s working paper (pdf).