UW Center for German & European Studies
On Monday, August 25, the Center for German & European Studies and the Universities of Wisconsin Administration hosted a special celebration recognizing the visit of Hessen State Minister of Science and Research, Arts and Culture, Timon Gremmels, and the signing of a Letter of Intent to strengthen scientific collaboration between the universities of the State of …
By Elizabeth Covington As part of an international celebration of its one-hundredth anniversary, the German Academic Exchange Service or DAAD (head office Bonn, Germany) invited members of its nineteen-funded centers around the world to Porto Alegre, Brazil for a week-long conference. The DAAD is a publically-funded independent organization sponsored by the German government, which has …
By Andrea Lamarche May 1-2, 2025 Jean Monnet Chair and Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs Mark Copelovitch brought together a distinguished group of scholars from the U.S. and Europe for the annual symposium of the Jean Monnet European Union Center for Excellence on Populism and the Global Economy. The May event focused on …
Johannes von Moltke is Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, as well as Film, Television, and Media, at the University of Michigan. In his series of talks at UW–Madison (February 25-27, 2025), Professor von Moltke examined how the New Right mobilizes arts and ideas in the contemporary culture wars. He explored their use of media strategies, …