The Center for European Studies initiates, sponsors, and cosponsors a variety of multi-and-interdisciplinary conferences that address economic, social, political and cultural themes on contemporary Europe, European-American relations, and Europe's role in global affairs.
These conferences have several common objectives: they bring together leading national and international scholars; they enable faculty and graduate students from colleges and universities in the region and across the country to attend and benefit from such a leading scholarly event; they integrate social sciences, humanities and policy debates; they lead to publications that push forward the cutting-edge of scholarship; and, they include outreach elements that allow the broader community to enjoy education from nationally ranked university programs.
Upcoming Conferences and Workshops:
- June 9-14, 2013
HERMES Seminar 2013, New Worlds, New Literatures, New Critiques. Madison, WI. Deadline for application: March 1, 2013.
Past Conferences and Workshops:
- March 30, 2012
Spring 2012 Sawyer Seminar Series, Globalization and Women's Rights: Gender Relations and the End of the Cold War: Feminism and Socialism after the End of History
- February 24, 2012
Spring 2012 Sawyer Seminar Series, Globalization and Women's Rights: From Women's Suffrage to Women's Self-determination? Social Movements and the World Polity
- January 27, 2012
Spring 2012 Sawyer Seminar Series, Globalization and Women's Rights: What's New about Globalization? Putting Gender Politics in Historical Context
- January 17, 2012
Seminar, "The European Debt Crisis: Impact on Business?" featuring Mark Copelovitch and Scott Anderson
- November 21, 2011
Symposium: "The Role of Private Regulation in Detecting and Responding to Foodborne Disease Outbreaks"
- November 11, 2011
Sawyer Seminar: Framing Women's Rights Globalization and Political Discourse: "Discourses on Women and Political Representation"
- November 8-10, 2011
Workshop: "Closed Workshop for Health Practitioners: Developing Leadership for Population Health Improvement
- October 6-7, 2011
Workshop: "Reinventing the Industrial Heartland: Supply Chain Sustainability and the New Automotive Industry"
- June 20-24, 2011
Summer 2001 Teacher Workshop: "Europe and the Developing World: Development, Health and Aid"
- April 28, 2011
Long-Term Unemployment in Industrial Countries: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses - March 4-5, 2011
Communication, Consumers, and Citizens: Revisiting the Politics of Consumption - October 14-15, 2010
Riddarasögur Colloquium: Exploring French-Scandinavian Literary Relations in the Middle Ages - December 3-5, 2009
In a Few Wor(l)ds: A Conference on World Literature/s at UW-Madison - November 5-7, 2009
42nd Wisconsin Workshop: The Wall Came Down: on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall - October 9, 2009
Smart Regulation: Can New Types of Governance Improve Health? An Interdisciplinary Symposium - April 30-May 2, 2009
SASS CONFERENCE, UW-Madison - 26-29 April 2007
National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages - 12-14 April 2007
39th Wisconsin Workshop: The Making of Masculinities in Modern Germany - 6 November 2006
Colloquium on Linguistic Human Rights - 3-4 November 2006
Italy Ink. Italian Writing Today - 20-21 October 2006
The Politics of Consumption/The Consumption of Politics - 21-23 September 2006
Albert Camus, Precursor: Mediterranean of Yesterday and Today - 27-29 April 2006
National Conference of Title VI Outreach Coordinators - 27-30 April 2006
National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages - 14 October 2005
Consumerism and Environmentalism in a Globalizing Europe - 7-8 October 2005
Unconscious Dominions: Comparing Histories of Psychoanalysis, Empire, and Citizenship - 21-23 April 2005
The Other Nineteenth Century - 21-23 April 2005
Film Style in Question - 14-17 April 2005
The Year of Languages: Expanding the Presence of Less Commonly Taught Languages - 15 April 2005
Genetically Modified Crops/Foods: The Future of the World Agricultural Economy? - 8-9 April 2005
Constructing the European Higher Education Area - 4- 5 February 2005
Modernism's Multiple Media: Text, Image, Sound - 29-30 October 2004
Enlarging Social Europe: The Open Method of Coordination and the EU's New Member States - 25-27 March 2004
East and West: The Experience of Islam in an Expanding Europe - 1 May 2003
Europe in Transition: Integration or Fragmentation? - 25-26 April 2003
Italian Feminisms: Literature, Theory, Visual Arts - 3-5 April 2003
National Feminisms in a Transnational Arena: The European Union and Gender Politics - 4-5 October 2002
Landscape and Portrait: Agnès Varda's Cinematic Geographies - 12 April 2002
Compensation for Carework? Comparative Perspectives from Europe and the U.S. - 15-16 March 2002
Europes and Contrary Tides: Filmmaking in the New Europe - 15 November 2001
Toward a European Culture? National Traditions, Literature, and the Creation of a European Space - 20-23 September 2001
Fascism and its Legacy: The Re-emergence of the Extreme Right - 20-21 April 2001
Itineraries of European Integration - 15 November 2000
New Voices from the New Europe: Literature, Readings, and Dialogue with European Authors - 14-15 October 2000
Mainstreaming Gender in European Public Policy - 8 September 2000
Taste, Technology and Terroir: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Food As Culture