Spring 2003 events are listed below,
or click on the name of a month to see a calendar:

| February | March | April |

• February 2-7
  Yakin Ertürk
  Marshall Monnet Scholar in Residence



• February 3
  Yakin Ertürk
  Sociology and Gender & Women’s Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and Marshall Monnet Scholar in Residence
  “Identity Politics: Secularist and Islamist Discourses”
  12:00 p.m., 8417 Social Science



• February 5
  Yakin Ertürk
  Sociology and Gender & Women’s Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and Marshall Monnet Scholar in Residence
  “Can International Regimes Help Transcend Dichotomies? The United Nations and the Candidacy to The European Union”
  3:30 p.m., 8417 Social Science



• February 10
  Michel Maffesoli
  Professor of Sociology, Sorbonne, Paris
  "Du bon usage du mal"
  12:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham



• February 10
  Dick Ringler
  Scandinavian Studies
  “Bard of Iceland: Jónas Hallgrímsson, Poet and Scientist”
  5:00 p.m., 126 Memorial Library



• February 13
  William Davey
  Edwin M. Adams Professor of Law, University of Illinois College of Law
  "Resolving U.S. - European Disputes Through Law: Is WTO Law Effective?"
  12:00 p.m., 7200 - Lubar Commons, Law School
  Lecture #1 in the Spring 2003 Transatlantic Speakers Series



• February 20
  Daniel Sherman
  Department of History and Director, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Trouble in Paradise: France and the Beginnings of Mass Tourism in Tahiti"
  4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham



• February 22
  Martin Goldsmith
  Musicologist and former NPR commentator
  "The Inextinguishable Symphony - A True Story of Music and Love in Nazi Germany"
  7:00 p.m., Pyle Center Auditorium



• February 24
  Michael Rühle
  Head of the Policy Planning and Speech Writing Section of the Political Affairs Division at NATO
  "Continental Drift? Is Europe Permanently Separating Itself from the US in Global Affairs"
  11:30 a.m., 206 Ingraham



• February 25
  Philippe Pochet
  EU Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence
  "Employment and Social Policy Since Maastricht: Standing up to the European Monetary Union"
  4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham



• February 26
  Cem Özdemir
  German Marshall Fund Fellow and former member of the German Bundestag (BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN)
  "Turkey in Europe"
  4:00 p.m., Pyle Center



• February 27
  Cem Özdemir
  German Marshall Fund Fellow and former member of the German Bundestag (BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN)
  "From Foreigners to Citizens: Immigrants in Germany"
  12:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham



• March 1
  Wisconsin International Law Journal Symposium:
  "The Newly Established International Criminal Court: Challenges and Opportunities that Lie Ahead in its First Year"
  1:00 - 5:30 p.m., 2260 Law School



• March 5
  Robert Fenstermacher
  Executive Director, CDS International
  "Internships and International Careers: Building the Professional Bridge to Europe"
  4:00 p.m., Capitol Conference Room, Grainger Hall



• March 6
  Kemal Saiki
  International Marketing and Corporate Communications Consultant
  "Aborder les relations publiques et la communication institutionnelle en milieu francophone"
  9:30 a.m., Bascom Hall 58



• March 6
  Alfred Defago
  Visiting International Institute Professor and Former Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States
  Brown Bag Lunch: "Swissification" of Europe? Multicultural Switzerland as a case study for EU integration"
  12:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham



• March 10
  Joseph H.H. Weiler
  Joseph Straus Professor and European Union Jean Monnet Chair, NYU School of Law
  "Governance without Government: The Normative Challenge to International Law"
  12:30 p.m., 2260 Law School
  Lecture #2 in the Spring 2003 Transatlantic Speakers Series



• March 13
  Myra Marx Ferree
  Department of Sociology, UW-Madison
  "Debating Abortion: Germany and the U.S."
  7:00 p.m., Borders West (3750 University Avenue )



• March 14
  Symposium: "Pinocchio's Adventures: Marionettes, Automata and Mechanized Life in Literature and the Visual Arts"
  2:30 p.m., 254 Van Hise



• March 18
  Panel Discussion: "Immigration and Integration: Post-9/11 Developments in Germany and the United States"
  4:00 p.m., Pyle Center



• March 21-23
  Conference: Education Across Six Continents: Teaching and Curriculum for a Global Society
  Pyle Center



• March 24
  Julia Szalai
  Marshall Monnet Scholar-in-Residence and Professor of Social Policy, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary
  "Conflicts of Class, Gender and Race in Hungary's Post-1990 Welfare Policy"
  12:00 p.m., 8417 Social Science
  See also a related paper by Julia Szalai.



• March 24-26
  Julia Szalai
  Marshall Monnet Scholar in Residence



• March 25
  Emmanuel Désveaux
  Maître de conférence, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
  "Le musee et l’anthropologie dans l’ère post-coloniale"
  12:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham Hall



• March 25
  Paddy Woodworth
  Irish journalist and author
  "Using Terror Against Terrorists: The Consequences of a Dirty War for Spanish Democracy"
  4:00 p.m., Pyle Center



• March 26
  Julia Szalai
  Marshall Monnet Scholar-in-Residence and Professor of Social Policy, ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary
  "Hungary's EU-Accession from a Gender Perspective: Will Women's Post-1990 Gains Wither Away?"
  3:30 p.m., 8417 Social Science
  An audio version of this talk is available! See also a related paper by Julia Szalai.



• March 26
  Philippe Massé
  Research Consultant to Oxfam-Québec
  "Oxfam-Québec: L’être humain au coeur du développement" (in French)
  4:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham Hall



• March 27
  Philippe Massé
  Research Consultant to Oxfam-Québec
  "Oxfam-Québec: The human being at the heart of development" (in English)
  12:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham Hall



• March 27
  Markus Dirk Dubber
  Professor of Law & Director of the Buffalo Criminal Law Center SUNY at Buffalo School of Law
  "The Police Power and the Foundations of Criminal Law"
  3:30 p.m., Lubar Commons (7200 Law)



• March 27-30
  WI Film Festival -
  Includes the Series: "Journeys: Films from the New Europe"



• March 28
  Conference: "Best Practices in Teaching Global Languages and Cultures"
  8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham
  Keynote address: "Internet-Mediated Intercultural Learning: Accounts from France, Germany, and the U.S." (Julie Belz and Steven Thorne, Pennsylvania State University), 1:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham



• April 3
  Alexander Petri
  Consul General (Chicago) of the Federal Republic of Germany
  "Trans-Atlantic Relations Between Germany and the U.S."
  2:30 p.m., 206 Ingraham



• April 3-5
  Conference: "National Feminisms in a Transnational Arena: The European Union and Gender Politics"



• April 7
  Ambassador Hugo Paemen
  Former EU Ambassador to the United States, Special Advisor to the President of the European Commission, and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University
  "Conflicting U.S. and European Approaches to the New World Order: Economic Relations and Security"
  2:30 p.m., Room 5240, Law School
  Lecture #3 in the Spring 2003 Transatlantic Speakers Series



• April 10
  Rüdiger van den Boom - CANCELLED
  Director, Goethe Institute-Chicago
  CGES Brownbag Lecture: Informational Talk about the Goethe Institute in Chicago
  2:30 p.m., 336 Ingraham



• April 10
  Judith Walkowitz
  Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
  "Schleppers and Shoppers: Jews, Street Markets, and Ready-to-Wear Fashion in Interwar London"
  4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham



• April 15
  Steven Beller
  Independent scholar
  "The Future of a Past: Austrians and Jews in Austrian History"
  4:00 p.m., Memorial Union



• April 21
  Aline Tauzin
  Chercheur au CNRS / Université de Picardie
  "La langue française à la frontière entre l’Afrique sub-saharienne et le Maghreb" (in French)
  4:00 p.m., La Maison Française, 663 N. Frances St.



• April 22
  Aline Tauzin
  Senior Researcher in anthropology at the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Picardy, and Professor at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris
  "Women in Western Sahara: Between Constraint and Avoidance" (in English)
  12:20 p.m., 260 Bascom Hall



• April 24
  Nurhan Atasoy
  Professor Emeritus, Istanbul University
  (2003 Ruth Ketterer Harris Memorial Lecture, presented by The Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection)
  "Imperial Ottoman Tents: Mobile Palaces"
  5:30 p.m., Elvehjem Museum of Art, Room L160 (800 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin)



• April 24
  Victoria de Grazia
  Professor of History, Columbia University
  "Consumer Culture in Cold War Europe: Reflections on the Exercise of Soft Power"
  4:00 p.m., Pyle Center



• April 24
  François Rubio
  "20 Years After: Médecins du Monde Fighting Against All Illness. Even Injustice" (in English)
  4:00 p.m., 260 Bascom



• April 25
  François Rubio
  "Existe-t-il une exception des ONG françaises" (in French)
  12:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham



• April 25
  Panel discussion: "New Directions in the History of European Consumerism"
  11:30 a.m., Pyle Center



• April 25-26
  Conference: "Italian Feminisms: Literature, Theory, Visual Arts"



• April 28
  Ulrike Guérot
  Head of the EU-Unit at the Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin
  "The European Convention, Franco-German Relations, and the Construction of a New Europe"
  2:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham



• May 1
  2003 Wisconsin World Affairs Geographic Conference (in collaboration with the Institute of World Affairs, UW-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education): "Europe in Transition: Integration or Fragmentation?"
  8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., UW-Milwaukee Union