Upcoming Events and Conferences

Jenny White, "Women's Rights and Opportunities in Contemporary Turkey"
February 21, 2012, 4pm, The Pyle Center Room 309, 702 Langdon Street

German and Dutch Graduate Student Association, "Manifestations of (Im)Mobility"
March 2-3rd, 2012

John Hirsch, "Memory and History: Reflections on Nuremberg and Other Places"
March 8th, 2012, 4pm, Location TBA

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News and Announcements

• On December 1st, 2011, the Polish diplomat, Maciej Pisarski, visited the UW-Madison campus. This brief article by Jackson Janes (AICGS in Washington, DC) provides an insight on the discussion:
  http://www.aicgs.org/analysis/at-issue/aissue111111.aspx
  
  
• On October 6-7, 2011, the American Council on Germany and the UW Center for German and European Studies hosted a conference "Reinventing the Industrial Heartland: Supply Chain Sustainability and the New Automotive Industry," followed by a roundtable to further explore the issues about urban mobility and the automobile of the future. For summary and reports, the videos to presentations and details please click here.
  

• New book publications from CGES faculty:
  
  Myra Marx Ferree
  Varieties of Feminism German Gender Politics in Global Perspective
  Click here for reviews on the book and a table of contents
  (Stanford University Press 2012)
  
  Jeremi Suri
  A Nation-Building People: The Past and Future of American Politics at Home and Abroad (New York: Free Press/Simon and Schuster 2011)
  
  Marc Silberman (ed.)
  The German Wall: Fallout in Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)

Marc Silberman and Paul Cooke (eds.)
Screening War: Perspectives on German Suffering
(Camden House, 2010)

• Madison Magazine article "Built to Last" on Madison-Freiburg sister-city sustainability projects
  
  
• Article "Violence Against Women: A New Direction?" on blog Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates
  
  
• Funding and Program Opportunities
  
  

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Recent Conferences and Workshops

Devin Pendas, "Transitional Justice or Just Transitions? The German Case, 1945-1950"
December 5th, 2011, 12pm, 7200 Lubar Commons, UW Law School, 975 Bascom Mall

Dr. Frank Uekoetter, "Cultivating the One and Only Plant. Perspectives of a Global History of Monoculture"
December 9th, 2011, 3pm, 984 Memorial Library, 728 State Street

Wisconsin's Nazi Resistance: The Mildred Fish-Harnack Story
November 3rd, 2011, 7pm, UW Hillel, 611 Langdon Street

Research Roundtable: "Urban Mobility and the Automobile of the Future"
October 7th, 2011, 8:30-11am, La Follette School of Public Affairs, 1225 Observatory Drive

Reinventing the Industrial Heartland: Supply Chain Sustainability and the New Automotive Industry
October 6th, 2011, 7am-4pm,221 Fluno Center, 601 University Avenue

44th Wisconsin Workshop: "Aisthesis and Noesis--Sinn und Verstand"
September 15-18, 2011, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon Street

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