Hyperdivers(c)ities across the Atlantic - The Importance of Interchange
Lecture | March 20 | 4-5 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Speaker: Benjamin Dalle, Minister of Brussels, Youth, Media & Poverty Reduction in the Flemish government of Belgium
Moderator: Jeroen Dewulf, Director, Institute of European Studies
Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, BENELUX Studies Program, UC Berkeley Dutch Studies Program, IES Center of Excellence in French and Francophone Studies, Flanders in the USA
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As a student of Law in Ghent, Benjamin Dalle spent ample time endlessly discussing political issues at the pub. He spent his last academic year as an Erasmus student in Paris, at the René Descartes University. After Ghent and Paris, Benjamin wished to make his American dream come true. Through different scholarships (BAEF, Fulbright, Hugo Grotius scholarship), he was able to study one year at NYU (New York University) School of Law, one of the most prestigious centers of international law. He focused mainly on (international) public law, human rights and environmental law. In New York, he obtained his “LL.M. in International Legal Studies”, topped by the Jerome Lipper Prize for excellence in the LL.M. programme. After the US, Benjamin went to Switzerland to intern at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva. He worked for the "human rights liaison" that established the link between UNHCR and the various human rights institutions of the United Nations. Once back in Belgium, Benjamin started as an attorney at an international law firm and became an academic assistant at the Catholic University of Leuven. He was an assistant until 2009 and is still connected to the Institute for Constitutional Law as a volunteering researcher. After the elections of 2014, Benjamin participated in the negotiations on the government formation of the federal coalition. He became deputy chief of staff to the minister of Justice. In January 2019, he was appointed as a senator. Since October 2019, he is the minister of Brussels, Youth, Media & Poverty Reduction in the Flemish government.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we strongly recommend everyone in attendance to wear a mask at all times. Please arrive on-time to ensure you will have a seat. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice
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Repertoires of Slavery: Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection, 1770-1810
Lecture | April 4 | 11 a.m.-12 p.m. | 201 Moses Hall
Speaker: Sarah J. Adams, Postdoctoral Researcher, Ghent and Antwerp University
Moderator: Jeroen Dewulf, Director, Institute of European Studies
Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, BENELUX Studies Program
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Sarah J. Adams will present her forthcoming book Repertoires of Slavery: Dutch Theater Between Abolitionism and Colonial Subjection, 1770-1810 (Amsterdam University Press, Spring 2023). Through the lens of a hitherto unstudied repertoire of Dutch abolitionist theater productions, the study prises open the conflicting ideological functions of antislavery discourse within and outside the walls of the theater and examines the ways in which abolitionist protesters wielded the strife-ridden question of slavery to negotiate the meanings of human rights, subjecthood, and subjection. The book explores how dramatic visions of antislavery provided a site for (re)mediating a white metropolitan—and at times a specifically Dutch—identity. It offers insight into the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century theatrical modes, tropes, and scenarios of racialized subjection and considers them as materials of the “Dutch cultural archive,” or the Dutch “reservoir” of sentiments, knowledge, fantasies, and beliefs about race and slavery that have shaped the dominant sense of the Dutch self up to the present day.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we strongly recommend everyone in attendance to wear a mask at all times. Please arrive on-time to ensure you will have a seat. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding.
If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) or information about campus mobility access features in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ray Savord at rsavord@berkeley.edu or (510) 642-4555 with as much advance notice
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The Dutch Republic as a ‘Modern’ Society
Lecture | April 6 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 101 Moffitt Undergraduate Library
Speaker: Maarten Prak, Utrecht University
Moderator: Jeroen Dewulf, UC Berkeley
Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, BENELUX Studies Program
Dutch historian Maarten Prak presents the new edition of his book The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century (2022).
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