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The Jews and the State

Conference on Monday, December 10 at 13:30 – 16:30 at the International Center for Business and Politics, CBS organized in cooperation with the French Embassy, Copenhagen.
Program
13:30
Welcome
13:40
Jews between state and democracy: the example of the integration of the French Jews in the French state.
By Pierre Birnbaum, professor of political sociology, Retired University of Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne
15:00
Break
15:15
Jews as citizens: the case of the Danish Jews
By Uffe Østergaard, professor of Danish and European history, International Center for Business and Politics, CBS
Moderator: Associate Professor Magali Gravier, International Center for Business and Politics, CBS.
Pierre Birnbaum is the current visiting professor in Jewish studies at the Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University. He recently retired from his position as professor of political sociology at the Sorbonne, where he taught for many years. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books on Jewish history, political science, and sociology, and is one of the world's leading experts on French Jewish society as well as on theories of the state. At Columbia he teaches in both the Department of History and the Department of Political Science.
Uffe Østergaard is professor in Danish and European History, International Center for Business and Politics, CBS. Uffe Østergård was head of European Studies, Center for Cultural Research, Århus University 1993-99; from 1996 Jean Monnet Professor in European Civilization; 2000-2002 Director for the Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and 2002-2006 Head of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Danish Institute for International Studies. He has published intensively for decades on Danish and European History.
Registration
Participation is free but registration compulsory to: Lonnie Nielsen, phone 3815 3585 or ln.cbp@cbs.dk.

Time: 10.12 13.30 -16.30


Place: CBP, Steen Blichersvej 22, Frederiksberg


Room: CBP Conference room




Last updated by Anje Schmidt 20/12/2007