UW Center for German & European Studies
On Friday, February 9th, 2024, European Studies welcomed Michael Georg Link, Deputy Chairman of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) of the Federal Republic of Germany, who came from Germany to discuss bilateral relations with the United States and Germany. His knowledgeable talk extended to the broadest meaning of transatlantic relations, including the U.S. and European Union as a …
On December 1-2, 2023, scholars, students, and members of the public gathered for lectures on the “Cultures in Motion” theme to celebrate 25 years of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for German and European Studies (CGES), a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Center of Excellence funded by the German Federal Ministry. Randall Halle, Klaus W. …
Populists and the Pandemic: How Populists Around the World Responded to COVID-19 edited by Nils Ringe, a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence for Comparative Populism at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Lucio Renno, a Professor of Political Science at the Universidade de Brasilia, examines the responses …
On October 14th, Tanja Dückers presented on Ukrainian writers living in exile in Germany. Dückers, an award-winning writer-poet and a well-known journalist and activist who regularly writes for prestigious weekly and daily newspapers in Germany, is the Distinguished Max Kade Writer in Residence in the Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic+ this fall. A member of amnesty …