Fall 2003 Events

Fall 2003 CES events are listed below.

Alternatively, click on a month to see a more extensive calendar of Europe-related events on the UW-Madison campus:

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• August 25
  Daniel Speckhard
  NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs, Brussels
  "Security and the Future of the Transatlantic Alliance"



• September 3
  Bernd Dugall
  Director of the University of Frankfurt (Germany) Library
  "Changes in German Academic Libraries"



• September 12-13
  Mosse Workshop: "Roots of Anti-Semitism"

(Link to the press release about this workshop)


• September 18
  Tyler Stovall
  Professor of History, University of California Berkeley
  "Black to France: Immigration, Imperial Citizenship, and the French Caribbean"



• September 25
  Panel Discussion: "Left-Wing Politics in Germany: The Dilemmas of the PDS" RESCHEDULED - see October 27th!



• September 29
  Hans Danelius
  Former member of the Swedish Supreme Court
  "The Effect of the European Human Rights Convention on Family Law in Europe: Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights"



• October 6
  Konstanze Plett
  University of Bremen, Germany
  "Essentialization of Gender by Law: Treatment of Intersexuality in Germany"



• October 10
  Rodolphe Gasché
  SUNY Buffalo
  "Self-Responsibility, Universality, Apodicticity" ("Europe": The Very Idea Lecture Series)



• October 14
  Italian poets Elio Pagliarani and Luigi Ballerini
  Bilingual poetry reading (Italian/English) followed by discussion
  11:00 a.m., 112 Animal Science Hall
  Bilingual poetry reading
  4:00 p.m., Canterbury Booksellers, 315 West Gorham Street



• October 15
  Gunther Teubner
  Professor of Private Law and Legal Sociology, University of Frankfurt, and Visiting Centennial Professor, London School of Economics
  "Civil Constitutions in a Global Society"



• October 15
  Maurice Tubul
  Chargé de mission pour les affaires européennes auprès du Préfet de la région Aquitaine
  "Requalifications urbaines et interventions communautaires en Aquitaine"



• October 16
  Italian poet Elio Pagliarani
  Poetry reading



• October 17
  Kelley Conway
  Assistant Professor of Communication Arts, UW-Madison
  "Josephine Baker in Paris: Transnational Constructions of Femininity and Race"



• October 20
  Amie Kreppel
  Assistant Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for European Studies at the University of Florida
  "The Environmental Determinants of Legislative Structure: A Comparison of the U.S. House of Representatives and the European Parliament"



• October 23-25
  Wisconsin Workshop: "Elective Affinities: Between German Music and Philosophy"



• October 27
  Panel Discussion: "Left-Wing Politics in Germany: The Dilemmas of the PDS"



• October 30
  Symposium: "Promoting Active Welfare States: A Transatlantic Dialogue."
  Featuring a public lecture by Frank Vandenbroucke
  Minister of Employment and Pensions, Belgium
  "Promoting Active Welfare States in the European Union"
  NOTE: This presentation is now available online!



• October 31
  OMC Network Conference: "New Approaches to Governance in EU Social Policy: Open Method of Coordination and the Future of Social Europe"



• October 31 - November 1
  Symposium: "Words from Abroad -- Wörter aus der Fremde: T.W. Adorno"
  
  The symposium will begin with a lecture by
  Alexander García Düttmann
  University of Middlesex (London)
  "Getting it Right Or Just About"



• October 31 - November 1
  Conference: "The Nordic Storyteller"
  
  The conference will begin with a lecture by:
  Harald Gaski
  University of Tromsø
  "The Sámi Storyteller: The Purposes of Stories"



• November 6
  William Hitchcock
  Associate Professor of History, Wellesley College
  "Struggling with Europe: Writing the History of Post-1945 Europe"



• November 14
  Angelika Bammer
  Associate Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Emory University
  "Freud's Wager"



• November 18
  Thomas Keenan
  Bard College
  "Mobilizing Shame: A Wave in Mijalic" ("Europe": The Very Idea Lecture Series)



• November 18
  Ruth Wodak
  University of Vienna
  "'Old' and 'New' Anti-Semitism in the European Union?"



• November 19
  Dr. Dominque Decherf, French Consul General
  Dr. Alexander Petri, German Consul General
  "Whither the Transatlantic Dialogue? Views from France and Germany on Current U.S.-European Relations"



• November 20
  Ivan Ermakoff
  Assistant Professor, UW-Madison Department of Sociology
  "The Abdication of Democracy: Germany 1933, France 1940"



• November 25
  Michael Naas
  DePaul University
  "Kurios George and the State of Sovereignty" ("Europe": The Very Idea Lecture Series)



• December 9
  Lynne Haney
  Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, New York University
  "Disintegration or Integration? The Transnational and Local Politics of Welfare in Hungary"