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September
Monday September 19, 2005
"The
Tragedy of Recent Holocaust Film Comedy"
David
Brenner
Professor of German and formerly director of the Center
for Jewish Studies at Kent State University
3:30 pm, 6191 Helen C. White
Co-sponsored
by the Department of English and the Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies September
22-24, 2005
Writing [In] Images / In Bilder Schreiben
Workshop
38th Wisconsin Workshop
Pyle Center
View program
here Wednesday,
September 28, 2005
"The French and Dutch NO to the
EU Constitution: The Future of Europe?"
Roundtable
on the Future of the European Union featuring UW Faculty
Gregory
Shaffer, Director of the EU Center of Excellence and Professor of Law; Jonathan
Zeitlin, Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History,
and Director of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE); Myra
Marx Ferree, Director of the Center for German and European Studies and Professor
of Sociology; Laird Boswell, Professor of History; Dominique Brossard,
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication; Elizabeth
Covington, Executive Director, European Studies Alliance
12:00 pm,
Lubar Commons (7200 Law School)
Co-sponsored by The EU Center of Excellence,
the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), and the International
Institute Governance Research Circle "Beyond
Eurocentrism: Globalization, 'Race,' and German Studies"
Sara
Lennox
Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Director
of the Social Thought and Political Economy Program
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
CGES Lecture Series, "Gender, Revolution, and Citizenship in Modern
Society"
2:00 pm, 206 Ingraham Hall
Co-sponsored
by the EU Center of Excellence, Global Legal Studies, Transnational Women &
Citizenship, and the Department of Sociology
Read
essays by Professor Lennox here: "Feminism
and German Studies in the United States," "Feminism
and Cultural Studies," and "Globalization,
Post-Eurocentrism, and the Future of Feminist Literary Studies"
Listen
to the lecture here
October
Monday,
October 3, 2005 ... a CGES Special Event
Open
Meeting about DAAD Funding Opportunities for Study, Travel, and Work in Germany
Ulrich
Grothus
Director of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)Exchange
Service)
3:00 - 4:30 pm, 336 Ingraham Hall for Undergraduate and
Graduate Students
4:30 - 5:00 pm, 336 Ingraham Hall for Faculty
Thursday,
October 6, 2005 ... a CGES Special Event
"The
Invention of German Music circa 1800"
John
Deathridge
King
Edward Professor of Music at King's College, London
12:00 pm, Morphy Hall (2330
Humanities Bldg)
Read about the lecture here
Co-sponsored
by the University Lecture Series and the School of Music Friday,
October 14, 2005
Environmental and Consumer Identity
Conference
CGES Research Collaborative Conference
10:00 am -
5:00 pm, 8417 Social Sciences Bldg
Read
more here
Co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies
and the European Union Center of Excellence
Wednesday,
October 19, 2005 ... a CGES Special Event
"Fundamental
Rights as Guidelines and Inspiration-German Constitutionalism in International
Perspective"
Brun-Otto Bryde
Judge
of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
3:45 pm, Godfrey & Kahn
Lecture Hall (2260 Law School)
Co-sponsored
by the International Institute and Global Legal Studies
"Turn
of the Tide? World War II in German Historiography"
Jörg
Echternkamp
Military History Research Office, Potsdam, Germany
4:00
pm, 336 Ingraham Hall Friday,
October 21, 2005
"The United States and Europe: Can
We Put the Trans-Atlantic Alliance Back Together Again?"
Ronald
Asmus
Executive Director of the Brussels Unit of the German Marshall
Fund
CANCELLED Monday,
October 31, 2005
"The Politics of Sexual Harassment:
A Comparative Study of the US, the European Union and Germany"
Kathrina
Zippel
Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University
CGES
Lecture Series, "Gender, Revolution, and Citizenship in Modern Society"
12:05
pm, 8417 Social Sciences Bldg
Co-sponsored
by the Law School
November
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
"Legal Aspects of Regulating Sexual Harassment: Comparing
German, US and EU Approaches"
Kathrina Zippel
Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University
12:00 pm, Lubar
Commons
Co-sponsored
by the EU Center of Excellence, Global Legal Studies, Transnational Women &
Citizenship, and the Department of Sociology Thursday,
November 3, 2005
"Dismantling a Dystopia: On the
Historiography of 'Nazi Music'"
Pamela Potter
Professor of Musicology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
CGES
Sandwich Seminar
12:00 pm, 336 Ingraham Hall Tuesday,
November 15, 2005 ...
a CGES Special Event
Film:
"Sophie Scholl - The Final Days"
Marc
Rothemund
Film Director
Read more here
Co-sponsored
by the Center for Jewish Studies, the Max Kade Institute, and the German Department
Read
the Wisconsin Week
article about the event! Three
Events:
- Roundtable
discussion with the Director
"Civil
Courage: Resistance Remembered" (title tentative)
With
UW-Madison professors: Marc Silberman (German and Film Studies), Michael Bernard-Donals
(English and Jewish Studies), Simone Schweber (Curriculum and Instruction), and
Myra Marx Ferree (Sociology and Women's Studies)
3:00 pm, Pyle Center (702
Langdon Street)
- Pre-Release
Film Screening
7:00
pm, Orpheum Theatre (216 State Street)
Free-of-charge. No ticket required.
Seating available on a first come - first serve basis.
- Post-Screening
Q & A with the Director
9:00
pm, Orpheum Theatre (216 State Street
Tuesday,
November 22, 2005
"Gender, Citizenship, and the
Public Sphere in Post-Unification Germany"
Elizabeth
Mittman
Professor of German, Michigan State University
CGES
Lecture Series, "Gender, Revolution, and Citizenship in Modern Society"
3:00
pm , 206 Ingraham Hall
Co-sponsored
by the German Department, the EU Center of Excellence, Global Legal Studies, Transnational
Women & Citizenship, and the Department of Sociology
December
Thursday, December 1, 2005
"Shareholder
Democracy--The Real Thing, Or the History Behind the EU's Push for One Vote Per
Share"
Colleen Dunlavy
Professor
of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
CGES Sandwich Seminar
12:00
pm, 336 Ingraham Hall
Monday, December 5,
2005
"Raging Hormones, Regulated Love: Adolescent
Sexuality and the Constitution of the Modern Individual in the United
States and the Netherlands"
Amy Schalet
Ibis Social Science Fellow in Abortion and Reproductive Health, University
of California, San Francisco
CGES Lecture Series, "Gender, Revolution, and Citizenship in
Modern Society"
12:00 pm, 206 Ingraham Hall
Co-sponsored
by the EU Center of Excellence, Global Legal Studies, Transnational
Women & Citizenship, and the Department of Sociology
Read
Schalet's article "Must
We Fear Adolescent Sexuality?" published in Medscape General
Medicine in 2004
Lectures Monday
September 19, 2005
"The Tragedy of Recent Holocaust
Film Comedy"
David Brenner
Professor
of German and formerly Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Kent State
University
3:30 pm, 6191 Helen C. White
Co-sponsored by the Department of
English and the Mosse-Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies Wednesday,
September 28, 2005
"The French and Dutch NO to the
EU Constitution: The Future of Europe?"
Roundtable
on the Future of the European Union featuring UW Faculty
Gregory
Shaffer, Director of the EU Center of Excellence and Professor of Law; Jonathan
Zeitlin, Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History,
and Director of the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE); Myra
Marx Ferree, Director of the Center for German and European Studies and Professor
of Sociology; Laird Boswell, Professor of History; Dominique Brossard,
Assistant Professor, School of Journalism & Mass Communication; Elizabeth
Covington, Executive Director, European Studies Alliance
12:00 pm,
Lubar Commons (7200 Law School)
Co-sponsored by The EU Center of Excellence,
the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), and the International
Institute Governance Research Circle Wednesday,
October 19, 2005
"Turn of the Tide? World War II
in German Historiography"
Jörg Echternkamp
Military
History Research Office, Potsdam, Germany
4:00 pm, 336 Ingraham Hall
Friday,
October 21, 2005
Current Developments in US and German
Relations
Ron Asmus
Executive Director
of the Brussels Unit of the German Marshall Fund
CANCELLED Tuesday,
November 1, 2005
"Legal
Aspects of Regulating Sexual Harassment: Comparing German, US and EU Approaches"
Kathrina
Zippel
Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University
12:00
pm, Lubar Commons
Co-sponsored
by the Law School Thursday,
November 3, 2005
"Dismantling a Dystopia: On the
Historiography of 'Nazi Music'"
Pamela Potter
Professor of Musicology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
CGES
Sandwich Seminar
12:00 pm, 336 Ingraham Hall Thursday,
December 1, 2005
"Shareholder Democracy--The Real
Thing, Or the History Behind the EU's Push for One Vote Per Share"
Colleen
Dunlavy
Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
CGES
Sandwich Seminar
12:00 pm, 336 Ingraham Hall
Lectures
Series: "Gender, Genre and Political Transformations in Germany and the Transatlantic
World" Wednesday,
September 28, 2005
"Globalization, Gender, and German
Studies"
Sara Lennox
Professor
of Germanic Languages and Literature, Director of the Social Thought and Political
Economy Program
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2:00 pm, 206 Ingraham
Hall
Co-sponsored
by the EU Center of Excellence, Global Legal Studies, Transnational Women &
Citizenship, and the Department of Sociology
Read
essays by Professor Lennox here: "Feminism
and German Studies in the United States," "Feminism
and Cultural Studies," and "Globalization,
Post-Eurocentrism, and the Future of Feminist Literary Studies" Monday,
October 31, 2005
"The Politics of Sexual Harassment:
A Comparative Study of the US, the European Union and Germany"
Kathrina
Zippel
Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University
12:05
pm, 8417 Social Sciences Bldg
Co-sponsored
by the EU Center of Excellence, Global Legal Studies, Transnational Women &
Citizenship, and the Department of Sociology Tuesday,
November 22, 2005
"Gender, Citizenship, and the
Public Sphere in Post-Unification Germany"
Elizabeth
Mittman
Professor of German, Michigan State University
3:00
pm , 206 Ingraham Hall
Co-sponsored
by the German Department, the EU Center of Excellence, Global Legal Studies, Transnational
Women & Citizenship, and the Department of Sociology
Monday, December 5,
2005
"Raging Hormones, Regulated Love: Adolescent
Sexuality and the Constitution of the Modern Individual in the United
States and the Netherlands"
Amy Schalet
Ibis Social Science Fellow in Abortion and Reproductive Health, University
of California, San Francisco
12:00 pm, 206 Ingraham
Hall
Co-sponsored
by the EU Center of Excellence, Global Legal Studies, Transnational
Women & Citizenship, and the Department of Sociology
Read
Schalet's article "Must
We Fear Adolescent Sexuality?" published in Medscape General
Medicine in 2004
Conferences Friday,
October 14, 2005
Environmental and Consumer Identity
Conference
CGES Research Collaborative Conference
10:00 am -
5:00 pm, 8417 Social Sciences Bldg
Co-sponsored by the Center for European
Studies and the European Union Center of Excellence
Historically
consumerism and environmentalism have been alternative sites for exercising political
power: before women had the vote, they could exert influence through purchasing
choices; as of this writing (late September 2005) the German Green Party is being
courted to help bring about a majority in the German parliament after a stymied
election. This conference brings together scholars and public policy practitioners
who focus on European consumerism and environmentalism to discuss how these vital
political and cultural forces are changing due to European integration and enlargement.
Twentieth-century
nationalizing projects affected how Europeans viewed themselves as purchasers
and residents of the physical world. In specific national contexts, local and
regional groups effectively hindered, or enhanced, national identity depending
upon their own agendas. We will explore whether contemporary internationalizing
projects in the expanding European Union are creating new sites for conformity,
resistance and identification. For example, are modes of governance such as the
European Consumers’ Organisation (BEUC) becoming the means through which
consumers can expand their influence from single-action campaigns into broader
political movements? The BEUC is composed of voluntary consumers organizations
throughout most of the 25 EU member nations, which work as a unit to lobby decisions
made in the global economy. The BEUC functions as a global political actor, making
recommendations to the European Parliament and participating in the Transatlantic
Consumer Dialogue. And an environmental initiative, the Danube River project,
offers green Europeans in 14 countries a site of mutual concern and social action.
In
the course of the conference we will examine how these internationalizing projects
are offering national constituents—whether Czech, German, or Slovenian—new
ways of acting as distinctly European citizens. Are EU initiatives and directives
contributing, albeit in subtle fashion, to the creation of a distinctively European
identity? Or are national identities resurging under threats such as globalization
and imposed EU regulation? Conference participants have been chosen because of
their expertise on European public policy, the political history and the sociology
of consumption and the environment. Topics include attacks on cherished “national”
foodstuffs, rivers as sites of revitalized European identity and/or contention,
the persuasive hidden power of consumption under communist regimes, the creation
of “Europeanized” consumers and advocacy groups, and policies on land
and water rights, their use and ownership. Participants
include: Rasmus Kjeldahl, 2005 President of the BEUC and Director, Forbruger
Rädet (Danish Consumer’s Union) - Specialist on agriculture and GMOs;
Lucia Reisch, University of Hohenheim, Department of Consumption Theory
and Consumer Policy - Advisor to the German Federal Ministry for Consumer Affairs;
Bradley
F. Abrams,
Columbia University, Department of History - Specialist on Czechoslovakian consumption
patterns since 1968; Werner Wahliß, Bavarian State Ministry of the
Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection; Zsuzsa Gille, University
of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Department of Sociology - Sociology of Waste
Management in Eastern Europe, especially Hungary and Author of The Tale of
the Toxic Paprika: The Hungarian Taste of Euro-Globalization; Frederick
Peters, York University (Canada), Department of Political Science -
Specialist on the South Baltic as a site of political economy of EU expansion;
Harvey M. Jacobs, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Urban
and Regional Planning and Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies -
Author of "The 'Taking' of Europe: Globalizing the American Ideal of Private
Property?"; and Elizabeth
Covington, University of Wisconsin-Madison European Studies Alliance - Moderator.
Workshops September
22-24, 2005
Writing [In] Images / In Bilder Schreiben
Workshop
38th Wisconsin Workshop
Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street
View
program here The
relationship (or rather, the extensive range of relationships) between image and
text has a long, varied, and not infrequently contentious history, as documented
by its investigation within a range of rhetorical, literary, cultural, semiotic,
art-historical, media-oriented, philosophical, anthropological, and historical
paradigms. The September 2005 Wisconsin Workshop will focus attention on two specific
aspects of the intersection of images and texts: images as a subcategory of writing,
and forms of writing that appear as, in, or as part of images. The Workshop brings
together distinguished scholars from the US, Germany, and Switzerland for an exchange
in the field of text-image-relations, including literature, philosophy, art history,
cultural history, literary theory, iconography, emblem studies, and cartography
in its social and historic context: David
Wellbery (LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor at the
University of Chicago), the keynote speaker, has worked and published extensively
on semiotics and aesthetics of the 18th century. Gottfried Boehm (Professor of
Art History at the University of Basel, Switzerland) is an internationally recognized
art historian and theorist of the image. Rüdiger Campe (Professor of German
at Johns Hopkins University) has worked and published extensively on theory and
history of rhetoric and literary knowledge. Ulrike Landfester's (Professor of
German at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland) research focuses on the history
of the relationship of body, image, and writing. Her work explores the superimposition
of picture and writing in the tattoo. Stefanie Ohnesorg (Associate Professor of
German at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville) whose research includes travel
literature, colonial, and post-colonial studies, holds advanced degrees in both
German and Geography. Monika Schmitz-Emans (Professor of Comparative Literature
at the University of Bochum, Germany) has made major contributions to the discussion
about intertextuality and ekphrasis from the 18th to the 20th century. Sabine
Mödersheim, a leading junior scholar in the field of emblem studies, and
Marc Silberman, a senior scholar in the area of German film (both University of
Wisconsin, Madison), will examine emblems, photography, and film and their textual
components. While
drawing partly or mainly on German source material (linguistically and culturally),
presentations cross historical boundaries. Individual presentations as well as
the workshop as a whole are strongly interdisciplinary. They fall broadly into
two categories that are intended to complement and cross-fertilize each other:
Wellbery, Boehm, and Campe will offer broader theoretical investigations that
also include selected examples. The other presentations will explore specific
media (mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries, but also reaching back to medieval
and early modern traditions) that illustrate (and embody) particular forms of
images-as-writing and writing-in-images, including such well-established forms
as the silent film and the emblem, as well as the (familiar but under-represented
in literary and semiotic studies) medium of cartography, but also tattoos and
the laterna magica.
Special
Events Monday,
October 3, 2005
Open Meeting about DAAD Funding Opportunities
for Study, Travel, and Work in Germany
Ulrich
Grothus
Director of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)Exchange
Service)
3:00 - 4:30 pm, 336 Ingraham Hall for Undergraduate and
Graduate Students
4:30 - 5:00 pm, 336 Ingraham Hall for Faculty Thursday,
October 6, 2005
"The Invention of German Music circa
1800"
John Deathridge
King
Edward Professor of Music at King's College, London
12:00 pm, Morphy Hall (2330
Humanities Bldg)
Co-sponsored by the University Lecture Series and the School
of Music About
the lecture:
Arnold Schoenberg once spoke famously in the early 1920s about
dodecaphony ("composition with twelve notes only related to each other")
as an invention that would ensure the world authority of German music for another
hundred years. Schoenberg understood the label "German music" to mean
principally the music of J.S. Bach together with the masters of so-called Viennese
classicism (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven) and everything that followed from it in
the nineteenth century. The construction of a musical culture that fuses together
German and Austrian traditions as if they were the same thing can itself be seen
as an invention that began around 1800 and subsequently developed an amition to
conquer the world in the wake of the French Revolution and its German romantic
aftermath. But how did it come abbout that the generally inclusive practice of
German composers in the eighteenth century, who thought nothing of adopting musical
styles from any number of countries into their own work, turned into a tradition
of an exclusive "German music"? And who were the actual inventors of
this tradition?
Wednesday,
October 19, 2005
"Fundamental Rights as Guidelines
and Inspiration-German Constitutionalism in International Perspective"
Brun-Otto
Bryde
Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
3:45
pm, Godfrey & Kahn Lecture Hall (2260 Law School)
Co-sponsored
by the International Institute and Global Legal Studies Tuesday,
November 15, 2005
Film:
"Sophie Scholl - The Final Days" - Pre-Release Events
Marc
Rothemund
Film Director
Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish
Studies, the Max Kade Institute, and the German Department
Read the Wisconsin
Week article about the
event! Three
Events:
- Roundtable
discussion with the Director
"Civil
Courage: Resistance Remembered" (title tentative)
With
UW-Madison professors: Marc Silberman (German and Film Studies), Michael Bernard-Donals
(English and Jewish Studies), Simone Schweber (Curriculum and Instruction), and
Myra Marx Ferree (Sociology and Women's Studies)
3:00 pm, Pyle Center (702
Langdon Street)
- Pre-Release
Film Screening
7:00
pm, Orpheum Theatre (216 State Street)
Free-of-charge. No ticket required.
Seating available on a first come - first serve basis.
- Post-Screening
Q & A with the Director
9:00
pm, Orpheum Theatre (216 State Street)
Film
Synopsis:
The true story of Germany’s most
famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the multi-award winning
drama SOPHIE SCHOLL—THE FINAL DAYS. Germany’s official Foreign Language
Film selection for the 2005 Academy Awards, SOPHIE SCHOLL—THE FINAL DAYS
stars Julia Jentsch (The Edukators) in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearless
activist. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, director
Marc Rothemund expertly re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholl’s life:
a heart-stopping journey from arrest to interrogation, trial and sentence.
In
1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students
mount an underground resistance movement in Munich. Dedicated expressly to the
downfall of the monolithic Third Reich war machine, they call themselves the White
Rose. Its sole female member, Sophie Scholl is captured during a dangerous mission
to distribute pamphlets on campus with her brother Hans. Unwavering in her convictions
and loyalty to the White Rose, her crossexamination by the Gestapo quickly escalates
into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and
personal responsibility that is both haunting and timeless.
SOPHIE
SCHOLL—THE FINAL DAYS received three Lolas (German Oscars) including the
Audience Award and Best Actress Award to Jentsch for her brilliant characterization
of the title role. The film also won two Silver Bears for Best Director and Best
Actress at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival. About
the Director:
Marc
Rothemund (born in 1968) began his professional career as assistant director to
Helmut Dietl (for ROSSINI), Bernd Eichinger (for ‘Das Mädchen Rosemarie’),
Dominik Graf (for ‘Sperling’) and Gérard Corbiau (for FARINELLI).
In 1998 he obtained the Bavarian Film Prize as best young director for his first
feature film DAS MERKWÜRDIGE VERHALTEN GESCHLECHTSREIFER GROSSSTÄDTER
ZUR PAARUNGSZEIT (‘Love Scenes from Planet Earth’). With 1.7 million
spectators, his second feature HARTE JUNGS (‘Just the Two of Us’) was
one of the most successful films of 1999. His TV thriller ‘Das Duo –
Der Liebhaber’ won the VFF TV Movie Award in 2003.
With
SOPHIE SCHOLL – THE FINAL DAYS, Marc Rothemund continues his successful collaboration
with screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer, which was launched in 1997 with two episodes
of the ZDF thriller series ‘Anwalt Abel’ (both awarded the Telestar)
and reached a high point with the TV movie ‘Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt’
(2002). This gripping drama about the fateful bullying of a policewoman obtained
many awards, including the Golden Camera and the Grimme Prize in Gold.
For
SOPHIE SCHOLL – THE FINAL DAYS Marc Rothemund is also serving as producer
with screenwriter Fred Breinersdorfer for Broth Film.
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