The European Studies Alliance calendar comprises all events sponsored by its member centers: the European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE), the Center for European Studies (CES), the Center for German and European Studies (CGES), and the Center for Interdisciplinary French Studies (CIFS).

Fall 2006 ESA events are listed below.

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

| September | October | November | December |

Links to other calendars:

• Calendar of the International Institute
  
  
• ESA Calendars from prior semesters:
       2005-2006: Fall '05 | Spring/Summer '06
       2004-2005: Fall '04 | Spring/Summer '05
       2003-2004: Fall '03 | Spring '04 | Summer '04
       2002-2003: Fall '02 | Spring '03 | Summer '03
       2001-2002: Fall '01 | Spring '02 | Summer '02
  

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• Friday, September 8
  Godard Film Series: Breathless (À bout de souffle)
  (France, 1959, 90 min., 35mm)
  7:30 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 15 September
  Godard Film Series: A Woman is a Woman (Une Femme est une femme)
  (France, 1961, 84 min., 35mm)
  7:30 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 15 September
  Godard Film Series: My Life to Live (Vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux)
  (France, 1962, 83 min., 35mm)
  9:00 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 16 September
  Transatlantic Outreach Program for K-12 Teachers:
  Train the Trainers Leadership Workshop
  UW-Milwaukee
  
  
• 20 September
  Soner Cagaptay
  Director of the Turkish Research Program, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
  "Turkey's EU Path: How Long is the Journey?"
  4:00 p.m, 206 Ingraham Hall
  
  
• 20-22 September
  International J.G. Herder Conference: "J.G. Herder as Challenge"
  Including the Roundtable on 20 September:
  "Enlightenment as a Challenge for the 21st Century"
  5:00 p.m., Pyle Center
  
  
• 21-23 September
  Conference: "Albert Camus, Precursor: Mediterranean of Yesterday and Today"
  French House, 633 North Frances St, and Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.
  
  
• 22 September
  Godard Film Series: Le Petit soldat
  (France, 1963, 88 min., 35mm)
  7:30 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 22 September
  Godard Film Series: Les Carabiniers
  (France, 1963, 80 min., 35mm)
  9:00 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 28-30 September
  Conference: "The German Language and Immigration in International Perspective"
  
  
• 29 September
  Sir David Manning
  British Ambassador to the United States
  "Britain's Perspectives on Climate Change"
  1:30 p.m., Great Hall, Memorial Union
  Tickets Required - Seating is Limited. FREE tickets available beginning Wednesday, Sept. 20 at the Union Theater Box Office
  
  
• 29 September
  Godard Film Series: Contempt (Le Mépris)
  (France, 1963, 110 min., 35mm)
  7:30 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 29 September
  Godard Film Series: Opération béton (Switzerland, 1954, 20 min., 35mm)
  and Une Histroire d’eau (France, 1958, 20 min., 35mm)
  9:20 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 5 October
  Campbell Craig
  Professor of History, University of Southampton
  "The Nuclear Revolution in the History and Practice of US Foreign Policy"
  12:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham Hall
  
  AND
  
  "The Atomic Bombing of Japan: Ending World War II or Beginning the Cold War?"
  7:00 p.m., Wisconsin Veterans Museum, 2nd floor auditorium
  (30 W. Mifflin St.)
  
  
• 6 October
  Esther Dischereit
  German Poet and Writer
  "Übungen - Übungen jüdisch zu sein, Prosa, Lyrik, Essays [Lessons in Being Jewish: Prose, Verse, Essays]"
  12:30 p.m., 336 Ingraham
  
  
• 6 October
  Karsten Voigt
  Coordinator for German-American Cooperation, Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany
  "The United States and Germany: Working Together to Meet the Challenges in the Greater Middle East"
  3:00 p.m., 1100 Grainger Hall (Morgridge Auditorium), 975 University Avenue
  
  
• 6 October
  K-12 Teacher Colloquium: Dante's Inferno in Wisconsin
  
  
• 6 October
  Godard Film Series: Band of Outsiders (Bande à part)
  (France, 1964, 95 min., 35mm)
  7:30 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 6 October
  Godard Film Series: Alphaville (Alphaville: une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution)
  (France,1965, 99 min., 35mm)
  9:10 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 9 October
  Ulf Olsson and Kenneth Petersson
  Stockholm Institute of Education and Linköping University, Sweden
  "Nostalgia, Future and the Past as Pedagogical Technologies"
  2:30 p.m., Room 220, Teacher Education Building
  
  
• 10 October
  David Hirsh
  Sociology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London
  "On Anti-Racist Anti-Zionism"
  12:30 p.m., 340 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Dr.
  AND
  "Summer 2006: Antisemitism Goes Mainstream"
  7:30 p.m., Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
  
  
• 11 October
  Nancy Cochrane
  Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
  "European Union Enlargement: Implications for the New Member Countries, the United States, and World Trade"
  12:00 p.m., 8411 Social Sciences
  Part of the CGES Lecture Series: "Eastern Europe in Transition: Property Relations and Society"
  
  
• 11 October
  Rafael Crecente Maseda
  University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  "New Solutions to Old Problems? Integrated Regional Approaches for Sustainable Development (The European Union FARLAND Project)"
  12:30 p.m., 208 Old Music Hall
  
  
• 13 October
  Åse Gornitzka
  Lecturer in Political Science and Senior Researcher, ARENA Center for European Studies, University of Oslo
  "The Open Method of Coordination in European Education and Research Policy: Animating a Label"
  3:30 p.m., 206 Ingraham Hall
  
  
• 13 October
  Godard Film Series: Pierrot le fou
  (France, 1965, 112 min., 35mm)
  7:30 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 16 October
  Sverker Lindblad and Rita Foss
  University of Gothenburg, Sweden
  "Restructuring Systems of Expertise in Teaching and Nursing in Europe"
  2:30 p.m., Room 220, Teacher Education Building
  
  
• 18 October
  "World Cultures Day Middle School Extravaganza"
  9 a.m. - 2 p.m., Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St.
  
  
• 20-21 October
  Conference: "The Politics of Consumption/The Consumption of Politics"
  Parliamentary Room, Vilas Hall
  
  
• 20-22 October
  Irish Language and Culture Weekend
  DoubleTree Hotel, 525 W. Johnson Street
  
  
• 24 October
  Third Poetry Day Readings
  Emmanuel Laugier (French Poet)
  and Robert Dickson (Canadian Poet)
  4:00 p.m., French House, 633 North Frances Street
  
  
  
• 2 November
  Katrina Schwartz
  Department of Political Science, University of Florida
  "Retreat from Europe? Illiberal Populism and Homophobia in Latvia"
  4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham Hall
  Part of the CGES Lecture Series: "Eastern Europe in Transition: Property Relations and Society"
  
  
• 3-4 November
  Symposium: "Italy Ink. Italian Writing Today"
  French House and Pyle Center
  
  
• 3 November
  Godard Film Series: Masculin Féminin
  (France, 1966, 110 min., 35mm)
  7:30 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 3 November
  Godard Film Series: La Chinoise
  (France, 1967, 90 min., 35mm)
  9:20 p.m., Cinematheque
  
  
• 6 November
  Robert Phillipson
  Copenhagen Business School
  "English: a lingua franca or an Anglo-American Frankenstein?"
  12:00 p.m., On Wisconsin Room, Red Gym
  Part of the Colloquium on Linguistic Human Rights
  
  
• 6 November
  Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
  University of Roskilde, Denmark; Åbo Akademi University, Vasa, Finland
  "Prerequisites for Linguistic Human Rights: Intellectual Games versus Respect for Language Identities"
  4:00 p.m., On Wisconsin Room, Red Gym
  Part of the Colloquium on Linguistic Human Rights
  
  
• 9 November
  Cynthia Enloe
  Professor of International Development (IDCE) and
  Women's Studies, Clark University
  "Where are the Women in the US War in Iraq? Why Does it Matter?"
  12:00 p.m., On Wisconsin Room, Red Gym
  
  
• 10-11 November
  CGES Collaborative Conference: "Gender, Revolutions and Citizenship in Modern Societies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives"
  University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
  
  
• 18 November
  Celebration of International Children's Literature
  Tripp Commons, Memorial Union
  
  
• 20 November
  Giovanni Contini
  Director of Audiovisual Archives for the Region of Tuscany, Italy
  "Memories from the Italian Civil War: Partisans, Fascists, Survivors of Nazi Massacres and the Shoah"
  4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham Hall
  
  
• 28 November
  Julian Lindley-French
  Senior Scholar, Center for Applied Policy, University of Munich
  "Why America needs Europe"
  Lunchtime talk for the Madison Committee on Foreign Relations
  
  
• 28 November
  Julian Lindley-French
  Senior Scholar, Center for Applied Policy, University of Munich
  "The Transatlantic Partnership
  and the Wider World"
  4:00 p.m., Pyle Center
  
  
• 1-2 December
  Conference: "EU Governance: Towards a New Architecture?"
  (Conference held in New York City)
  
  
• 8 December
  Godard Film Series: Week-end
  (France, 1967, 95 min., 35mm)
  7:30 p.m., Cinematheque