Category: News

Summer 2022 Online Courses in Norwegian and Swedish Open

Co-funded by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Center for European Studies (CES), a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center, with the Department of German, Nordic & Slavic+,  new summer online courses will provide a foundation in Norwegian and Swedish languages. The virtual modality of the courses expands their accessibility. These summer courses are …

Language(s) of Politics – new book by Jean Monnet EU Center of Excellence for Comparative Populism Director, Nils Ringe

By Heather VanderWielen Nils Ringe, Director of the Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence for Comparative Populism and Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has a new book, The Language(s) of Politics: Multilingual Policy-Making in the European Union, published by the University of Michigan Press. This highly praised book focuses on …

European Studies Hosts Author of “All the Frequent Troubles of our Days,” Rebecca Donner

By: Eleanor Conrad European Studies was honored to host author Rebecca Donner in October of 2021 to discuss her most recent book, All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler. The American woman at the center of her book is Milwaukeean …

Mildred Fish-Harnack Sculpture Dedication to Take Place September 15th

By: Megan Shaw The reproduction of John Burbow’s sculpture Mildred, located in Marshall Park, will be installed at Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany on September 15th. The dedication ceremony will take place on September 15, 2021 at 10am CDT. The sculpture will honor UW–Madison alumna and World War II resistance fighter, Mildred Fish-Harnack. Fish-Harnack …