Spring 2004 Events

Spring 2004 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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January '04 | February | March | April | May | June

• 17 February
  Michael Bernard-Donals
  Professor of English and Jewish Studies, UW-Madison
  "The War over Memory: Genocide and 9/11"
  Stoughton Public Library, 304 S. 4th Street, Stoughton
  
  
• 25 February
  Peter Baldwin
  Professor of History, UCLA
  "Can There Be a Democratic Public Health: Fighting AIDS in Europe"
  
  
• 27 February
  Laird Boswell
  Associate Professor of History and Director, Center for European Studies, UW-Madison
  "Right Wing Extremism in Frontier Regions: The French National Front and the Crisis of Alsatian Identity"
  Contribution to the Symposium: "New European Frontiers"
  Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  
  
• 1 March
  Ingrid Miethe
  Professor, Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, Evangelische Fachhochschule Darmstadt, Germany
  "Feminism and Postsocialism in Germany: Experiences and Perspectives
  from East Germany"
  
  
• 1 March
  Daniel Troehler
  Pestalozzianum, University of Zürich, Switzerland
  "History and Language of Education. The Challenges and Distinctions of the German And American Traditions"
  
  
• 1 March
  Marc Abélès
  Directeur du Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Institutions et des Organisations Sociales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
  "Identity and Borders: An Anthropological Approach to the European Union's Institutions"
  
  
• 2 March
  Ingrid Miethe
  Professor of General Education, Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, Evangelische Fachhochschule Darmstadt, Germany
  "The Eastward Enlargement of the European Union: Opportunity or Obstacle for European Women's Movements?"
  
  
• 3 March
  Hélène Clark Dageville
  European Commission Directorate General for Employment and Social Affairs, and European Union Fellow in Residence at the University of Washington
  "Toward More and Better Jobs for All: A Realistic Agenda for the European Union?"
  
  
• 4 March
  Rebecca Rogers
  Maitre de Conférences in History, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France
  "Women's Voices From the Margins: The Colonial Civilizing Mission in Early 19th Century France"
  
  
• 5-6 March
  Annual Symposium of the University of Wisconsin International Law Journal: "Speaking Law to Power: International Law and Foreign Policy"
  
  
• 8 March
  Serguei Oushakine
  Associate Professor of World and Russian Culture, Altai State Technical University, Barnaul, Siberia, Russia
  "Replacing a Loss: Memories in Books and Stone"
  
  
• 9 March
  Kim Scheppele
  Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
  "Other People's PATRIOT Acts: The EU and European Nations Respond to 9/11"
  
  
• 10 March
  Ulrike Liebert
  Director of the Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies and Professor of Political Science, University of Bremen, Germany
  "Widening without Deepening? Predicaments and Prospects in the European Constitutional Experiment"
  
  
• 10 March
  Daniel Wincott
  Senior Lecturer in Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, and Managing Editor of the Journal of Common Market Studies
  "The Role of Law in the Creation of the European Market: Choice, Fate or Chance?"
  
  
• 11 March
  Berel Lang [CANCELLED!]
  Professor of Humanities, Trinity College
  "Undoing Certain Mischievous Questions about the Holocaust"
  
  
• 11-13 March
  "Improving the Effectiveness and Legitimacy of EU Governance?"
  Roundtable chaired by Jonathan Zeitlin at the Council for European Studies' 14th International Conference of Europeanists, "Europe and the World: Integration, Interdependence, Exceptionalism?"
  Palmer House, Chicago, IL
  
  
• 12-13 March
  2004 International Education Conference: Education Across Six Continents: "Teaching and Curriculum for a Global Society"
  
  
• 21-23 March
  K-12 Outreach Event: Strengthening Democracy: The Case for the Social Studies
  Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies Conference, Madison Marriott West
  
  
• 22 March
  Elisabeth Schemla
  French journalist and author
  "Confronting Islam: School, State, Society, and the Struggle over Secularism in France"
  
  
• 24 March
  Vivian Cook
  Department of Language and Linguistics, University of Essex
  "The Common European Framework, the Second Language User and the Goals of Language Teaching"
  
  
• 25 March
  Marcia Meyers
  Associate Professor, School of Social Work and Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington
  "Families that Work: Policies for Reconciling Parenthood and Employment"
  
  
• 25 March
  Olivier Roy
  Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris
  "Religious Revivalism among European Muslims: Indigenous or Middle East Import?"
  Keynote address for the International Conference: "East and West: The Experience of Islam in an Expanding Europe"
  
  
• 26-27 March
  International Conference: "East and West: The Experience of Islam in an Expanding Europe"
  
  
• 26 March
  Robert Harvey
  Professor of French, Comparative Literature and Philosophy, SUNY-Stony Brook
  "'Touching Bottom' and Becoming Witness"
  
  
• 26 March
  Friedrich Christian Delius
  German Author
  Readings and discussion
  
  
• 1-4 April
  Wisconsin Film Festival
  Including European film series: “Near and Far: Films From the New Europe”
  and “Danish Cinema Beyond Dogme”
  
  
• 1-2 April
  Workshop and Conference on Genetically Modified Crops/Foods, The World Trade Organization, and the Future of the World Agricultural Economy
  (Rescheduled to December 2004)
  
  
• 2-3 April
  Conference of the UW-Madison's German and Dutch Graduate Student Association:
  "German-American Connections"
  
  
• 5 April
  Joshua Cole
  Associate Professor of History, University of Georgia
  "Colonial Violence and the Borders of French History"
  
  
• 8 April
  Timothy Malchow
  Professor of German, Valparaiso University
  "'Geistesmenschen' and 'Staatskinder': Thomas Bernhard and Austrian National Identity"
  
  
• 13 April
  World Languages Day at the UW-Madison
  
  
• 13 April
  Camille Hamidi
  Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines (France)
  "Voluntary Associations and Politics: The Case of Young North African Immigrants in France"
  
  
• 22 April
  Ambassador John Richardson
  European Union Ambassador to the United Nations
  "Why the U.S. and Europe Need a Strong United Nations"
  
  
• 28 April
  John Keeler
  Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for European Studies and the European Union Center at the University of Washington
  "Mapping EU Studies"
  
  
• 28 April
  Andreas Glaeser
  Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
  "Emotive Governmentality: Making Political Subjects in Former East Germany"
  
  
• 29 April
  Jeanne Sulzer
  International Justice Director, International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH)
  "The Role of Civil Society in the Fight Against Impunity for the Most Heinous Crimes: The Example of the FIDH, a Network of 142 National Organizations"
  
  
• 29 April
  Catherine Kudlick
  Professor of History, University of California, Davis
  "Should Blind Girls Marry? Reflections on Gender and Disability in Modern France and America"
  
  
• 29 April
  Jesus Palacios
  "El Ataque Terrorista sobre Espana: Desbandada de los Espanoles o Guerra contra el Terrorismo?"
  
  
• 29-30 April
  Conference: "Out of Europe: History, Memory and Exile after 1945"
  
  
• 29 April - 2 May
  7th annual conference of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages (NCOLCTL)
  
  
• 30 April
  Peter Paret
  Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities Emeritus, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
  "A German Tragedy: Ernst Barlach's Drawings on the Nibelungenlied"
  
  
• 3-4 May
  Turkish Festival