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CGES Spring 2009 Events
New! Spring 2009 Event Photos
April 1, 2009
German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth visits the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
March 20, 2009
Listen to WPR interview with David Assmann, director of "Football Under Cover."
Wednesday, January 28
“Challenges and Reform Options in Health Care Systems: What Can America Learn From Health Reform Processes?”
Claus Wendt
Senior Research Fellow, Mannheim University
Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies with the American Council on Germany, the European Union Center of Excellence, the La Follete School of Public Affairs, and the Evidence-Based Health Policy Project.
Tuesday, February 24
“Holocaust and Resistance in Vilnius: Rescuers in Wehrmacht Uniforms”
Karl-Heinz Schoeps
Professor Emeritus Department of German Language and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, the Center for European Studies and the Department of German.
Mar 6-7
Workshop: Exporting Experimentalist Governance: From the European Union to the World?
Sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and the European Union Center of Excellence.
Monday, March 9
“Rules everyone can live with? Why a European Higher Education Area is Being Constructed through the Bologna Process”
Anne Corbett
Visiting Fellow, European Institute at the London School of Economics
Sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, the Center for European Studies, and the European Union Center of Excellence.
Tuesday, March 10
“The Past and Future of US-European Relations”
Geir Lundestad
Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and 2008-09 Marshall-Monnet Scholar in Residence
Sponsored by the European Union Center of Excellence and the Center for World Affairs and Global Economy (WAGE).
March 27-28
11th annual GDGSA conference (German and Dutch Grad Student Association): Regionalism and Borders
Randall Halle,“Regional, National, Transnational: The European Interzone” (Keynote address)
Klaus W. Jonas Professor of German Film and Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Sponsored by the Department of German.
Wednesday, April 1
“The Transatlantic Agenda - A German Perspective”
German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth
Sponsored by the American Council on Germany, the International Institute, the Max Kade Institute, the Department of German and the Center for German and European Studies.
Wednesday, April 1
Conference: Beyond the Hemicycle: The EU Legislative Process in Wider Perspective
Sponsored by the European Union Center of Excellence, Center for European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, and the Department of Political Science.
Apr 1-3, 2009
“Excursions in German-American Studies: Celebrating 25 Years at the Max Kade Institute”
International Symposium
Co-sponsored by the Federal Republic of Germany, Consulate General Chicago, Max Kade Foundation, New York, University of Wisconsin, Anonymous Fund, Friends of the Max Kade Institute, Department of German, UW–Madison and the Center for German and European Studies.
Friday, April 3
Wisconsin Film Festival: World Cinema Day
Screening: “Football Under Cover” with director David Assmann
Sponsored by the UW-Madison Language Institute and Wisconsin Film Festival, with support from the Madison Arts Commission, Wisconsin Arts Board, and UW-Madison Center for European Studies, Center for German and European Studies, Global Studies and Middle East Studies Program.
Wednesday, April 15
“Integration of Turks in Germany: Is Integration a one way street?”
Özcan Mutlu
Spokesperson for Education and European Policies for the Green Party in the Berlin House of Representatives (Berliner Abgeordnetenhaus)
Sponsored by the American Council on Germany and the Center for German and European Studies.
Tuesday, April 21
Literaturlenz: Reading by German author Jan Böttcher with guest Rüdiger van den Boom (Director, GI Chicago)
Co-sponsored by the Department of German and the Goethe Institute, Chicago.
June 22-26, 2009
Looking Forward, Looking Back: Causes and Consequences of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
K-12 Teacher Workshop
Sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia.
Wednesday, September 2
“Constructing a European Education Space and Education Policy”
Roger Dale, Professor of Education, University of Bristol Graduate School of Education
Co-sponsored by CES, EUCE, CGES, Global Studies Higher Education Initiative, Worldwide Universities Network, Dept Geography, WISCAPE.
Wednesday, September 2
“Europe, Emerging Regionalisms and New Modes of Higher Education Governance”
Susan Robertson, Professor, Sociology of Education, University of Bristol
Co-sponsored by CES, EUCE, CGES, Global Studies Higher Education Initiative, Worldwide Universities Network, Dept Geography, WISCAPE.
Wednesday, September 2
“The Evolution of French and European Higher Education”
Bernard Belloc, Advisor to French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Higher Education and Research
Sponsored by the Division of International Studies, Global Studies, and the Department of Educational Policy Studies. Co-sponsored by the Worldwide Universities Network, the Center for European Studies, the European Union Center of Excellence, and Center for French Interdisciplinary Studies.
Thursday, September 3
“New French Policy for Higher Education and Research”
Bernard Belloc, Advisor to French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Higher Education and Research
Sponsored by the Division of International Studies, Global Studies, and the Department of Educational Policy Studies. Co-sponsored by the Worldwide Universities Network, the Center for European Studies, the European Union Center of Excellence, and Center for French Interdisciplinary Studies.
Wednesday, September 16
Brownbag on the European Parliament with Nils Ringe
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the European Studies Alliance, the European Union Center of Excellence, and the Center for German and European Studies.
Tuesday, September 22
“Gender Dimensions of the Global Financial Crisis: High Income Countries”
Diane Elson, Professor of Sociology, University of Essex (UK)
Co-sponsored by the Gender and International Policy Research Circle, Transnational Applied Research in Gender Equity Training and Global Studies.
Tuesday, September 29
Workshop: “Colonialism, Orientalism, and the German 19th Century”
Kamakshi P. Murti, Professor of German, Middlebury College
Sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, the Center for European Studies, and the German Department.
Thursday, October 1
“Darwinism and Literary Modernism in Germany”
Peter Sprengel of Philosophy and Humanities, Freie Universität Berlin
Co-sponsored by the Department of German, the Department of the History of Science, and the Center for the Humanities.
Monday October 19
“The Future of Transatlantic Relations after the German Federal Election”
Constanze Stelzenmüller, Senior Transatlantic Fellow and Director of the German Marshall Fund of the United States in Berlin
Sponsored by the American Council on Germany (ACG) and co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and the Department of German.
Thursday, October 22
“Women on the Line: Revisited. Changes and Continuities in Women's Work.”
Miriam A. Glucksmann, Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex
Sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, the European Union Center for Excellence, Femsem (Sociology of Gender), and WAGE.
October 22-25
Workshop: Extending Experimentalist Governance
Co-sponsored by the European Union Center of Excellence, the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) and the Center for German and European Studies.
Wednesday October 28
“Passivhaus Technique and Sustainable Neighborhood Design in the Vauban district of Madison's Sister City Freiburg”
Meinhard Hansen, Architekturbüro Meinhard Hansen in Freiburg
Sponsored by the Madison Freiburg Sister City Committee, Department of German, UW Architecture, Morgridge Center for Public Service, Center for German and European Studies, the Center for European Studies, Common Future Fund, and RF Social Finance.
Thursday October 29
“Equality for Some: Gender, Class and Social Policy in Comparative Perspective”
Lynn Prince Cooke, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy & Sociology, Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Kent.
Sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies, in conjunction with FemSem, the European Union Center of Excellence, the Center for European Studies, LaFollette School of Public Affairs and the Havens Center.
Tuesday, November 3
“Krass, geil und alles easy? Sprache im Jugendalter”
Peter Schlobinski, Professor of German Linguistics, Universität Hannover|
Sponsored by the Department of German.
Thursday, November 5
Keynote lecture: “1989: A New Type of Revolution?”
Konrad Jarausch
Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, Department of History, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill
Sponsored by the Anonymous Fund (Letters and Sciences), the Center for German and European Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia, the Center for the Humanities, the Department of German, the Department of History, the Global Studies Institute for Research in the Humanities, and the German Consulate (Chicago).
Nov 5-7, 2009
Conference: 42nd Wisconsin Workshop: The Wall Came Down: On the Twentieth Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Sponsored by the Anonymous Fund (Letters and Sciences), the Center for German and European Studies, the Center for European Studies, the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia, the Center for the Humanities, the Department of German, the Department of History, the Global Studies Institute for Research in the Humanities, and the German Consulate (Chicago).
Saturday, November 14
Workshop: After the Violence: Crimes, Prosecution and What Then?
Sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School.
Monday, November 16
“Making the Case for Women Judges”
Sally Kenney
Professor, Department of Law and Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Director, Center on Women and Public Policy
Sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and the European Union Center of Excellence. Co-sponsored by the TARGET Research Circle and Fem Sem (Sociology of Gender).
Thursday, November 19
“Every Citizen Must Be Challenged: Civil Courage in Nazi Germany”
Anne Nelson
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Sponsored by the American Council on Germany; co-sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies and the Department of German at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
December 3-5, 2009
Conference: In a Few Wor(l)ds: A Conference on World Literature/s at UW-Madison
Sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the Center for German and European Studies, Global Studies, the Division of International Studies, the Institute for Research in the Humanities, the International Institute, the Department of German, and the Center for the Humanities.
Tuesday, December 15
Lecture: “Family Disruption in Sweden: New Possibilities and Results from
Administrative Registers”
Betty Thomson
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sponsored by the Departments of Sociology and Demography & Ecology.
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