CES - Spring 02 Events

Feb 11
Christine Elder
U.S. State Department
“Careers in the Foreign Service”

Feb 18
Edward Miliband
Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the UK
“New Labour in Government After Five Years”

Feb 22
Dominique Decherf
French Consul General, Chicago
“Clash of Civilizations: A French View”

Feb 25
Ute Gerhard
University of Frankfurt and Carl Schurz Visiting Professor at the UW-Madison
“Illegitimate Daughters: On the Complicated Relationship between Feminism and Sociology”

Feb 26
Guy Neave, Professor and Director Scientific, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, University of Twente, the Netherlands; and Director of Research, International Association of Universities, Paris
“The Responsibilities of Higher Education in Europe and the United States: Changing Roles, Challenges and Opportunities”

Feb 28
Sophie Meunier, Researcher in Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Videoconference: “France in the Age of Globalization: The Case of Vivendi”

Mar 1
Karen Alter
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
“Resolving or Exacerbating Disputes? The WTO’s New Dispute Resolution System”

Mar 4
Ute Gerhard
University of Frankfurt and Carl Schurz Visiting Professor at the UW-Madison
“Gendered Citizenship: The German Case in European Perspective”

Mar 6
Anna Clark
University of Minnesota
“A Theory of Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution”

Mar 8
George Tsebelis
Professor of Political Science, UCLA
“Veto Players, Agenda Setting, and Politics”

Mar 13
Amelie Plume
Swiss novelist
“A Visit With Amelie Plume”

Mar 14
Gerhard Fischer
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
“The OECD's PISA Study: International Comparisons of School Outcomes”

Mar 14
Neill Nugent
Eric Stein Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan; Professor of Politics and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Manchester Metropolitan University
“The Implications of European Union Enlargement”

Mar 14
Film Screening:
- Sombre (Dir. Philippe Grandrieux, France, 1998. 35mm)
- I.D. / Pièces d’identités (Dir. Mweze Ngangura, Belgium, 1999. 35mm)
Mweze Ngangura will be present to discuss his film with the audience.

Mar 15
Mweze D. Ngangura
Lecture: “A New Film by Mweze D. Ngangura: The Governor's New Clothes”

Mar 15-16
Conference:
Europes and Contrary Tides: Filmmaking in the New Europe

Mar 18
Carol Hagemann-White
University of Osnabrück
“Gender Mainstreaming: Current German Debates on the New European Politics of Equality”

Mar 19
Carol Hagemann-White
University of Osnabrück
“Women's Health: Emerging Networks, Issues, and Research in Europe”

Mar 20
The Honorable David Aaron
Senior International Advisor, Dorsey & Whitney LLP; former U.S. Ambassador to the OECD and U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor
“Biotechnology and Transatlantic Relations”

Mar 22
Carol Hagemann-White
University of Osnabrück
“European and American Research Perspectives on Gender-Based Violence”

Apr 1
Milan Hauner
Naval War College
“Are Czech-German Relations so Heavily Marred (or Hurt) by History?”

Week of Apr 8
Marshall Monnet Scholar in Residence:
Barbara Hobson, Stockholm University

Apr 8
Sylvie Daviet
“La Politique régionale de l'Union Européenne, tendances globales et dynamiques locales: le cas de la Provence”

Apr 8
Karen Offen
Stanford University
“Everything You Wanted to Know About European Feminisms”

Apr 8
Andreas Andrianopoulos
Former minister and former member of parliament, Greece
“Southeastern Europe and EU Enlargement: How Necessary Is It? A Greek Perspective”

Apr 9
His Excellency Knut Vollebæk
Norwegian Ambassador to the United States
“Trans-Atlantic Relations: A Norwegian Perspective”

Apr 10
Sylvie Daviet
University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France

“American Apprenticeship, European Identity: One of the Semiconductors' Top Five”

Apr 10
Symposium on the Launch of the Euro: “What the New Currency Means for Europe, Transatlantic Trade, and Wisconsin”

Apr 11
Barbara Hobson
Stockholm University

and Marshall Monnet Scholar in Residence
“Economic Citizenship: Reflecting Gender through the European Union”

Apr 12
Workshop:
“Compensation for Carework? Perspectives from Europe and the United States”

Apr 15
Anton Pelinka
Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria; Director, Institute for Conflict Research, Vienna, Austria; Visiting Professor, University of Michigan
“Political Transformation in Central-Eastern Europe”

Apr 15
Sylvia Walby
University of Leeds
“Theorizing Gender in a Global Era”

Apr 15
António Nóvoa
Professor of Education, University of Lisbon, Portugal
“Comparative Research in Education: A Historical Inquiry or a Mode of Governance?”

Apr 18
Daniel M. Bodansky
Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law
“Global Climate Change Law and Policy: The Growing Split between U.S. and European Climate Change Policies”

Apr 22
Gráinne de Búrca
Professor of European Law, European University Institute, and Marshall Monnet Scholar in Residence
“Governance and the 'Definition of Competences' in the EU: Is the Open Method of Coordination Part of the Problem or Part of the Answer? ”

Apr 24
Film Screening:
Prisoners (Dir. Massimo Sani, Italy)

Apr 25
Massimo Sani
Vice President, National Association of Cinematographers, Italy
“Mass Media and Democracy in Italy and Europe Today”

Apr 25
His Excellency Wolfgang Ischinger
German Ambassador to the United States
[CANCELLED]

Apr 25
Massimo Sani
Vice President, National Association of Cinematographers, Italy
“Documentary Filmmaking and Public Opinion: Tools of the Trade”

Apr 25
Film Screening:
A Different World is Possible (Dir. Massimo Sani et al.)

Apr 26
Gráinne de Búrca
Professor of European Law, European University Institute, and Marshall Monnet Scholar in Residence
“ European Constitutionalism and the Charter of Fundamental Rights”

May 3
Mary Schranz
Department of Economics
“Water, Chocolate, and Plastic Bags: Is Latvia Ready for EU Accession?”

May 3-4
WIOC Conference

May 6
Martin Lawn
University of Birmingham, UK
“The ‘Usefulness’ of Learning: The Struggle Over Governance, Meaning, and the European Education Space”

May 7
“French Election Roundtable: Results and Reactions”

May 13
Cees Moons
Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment, The Netherlands
“The European Union and Environmental Governance: The Dutch Case”

May 23
Peter Claus Hartmann
University of Mainz
“The Holy Roman Empire 1648-1806: Region, State, and Supraterritorial Diversity”

June 17-18
OMCnet Meeting in Brussels: “The OMC: An Effective and Legitimate Governance Instrument for the EU? Theoretical Promise and Empirical Realities”

Spring 2002 Events