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

Spring/Summer 2005 ESA events are listed below.

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

July '04 | August | September | October | November | December | January '05 | February | March | April | May

Links to other calendars:

• Calendar of the International Institute
  


• ESA Calendars from prior academic years:
       2004-2005: Fall '04 |
       2003-2004: Fall '03 | Spring '04 | Summer '04
       2002-2003: Fall '02 | Spring '03 | Summer '03
       2001-2002: Fall '01 | Spring '02 | Summer '02

• 31 January
  Conference: "Environmental Policy: International Possibilities and Opportunities in Law"
  Monona Terrace Convention Center
  
  
• 4-5 February
  Conference: "Modernism's Multiple Media: Text, Image, Sound"
  Pyle Center
  
  
• 9 February
  Philip Gordon
  Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies and Director of the Brookings Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution
  "Allies at War: Will US-European Relations Get Better or Worse?"
  4:00 p.m., Lee Lounge, Pyle Center
  
  
• 10 February
  International Opportunities Month Event: "A World of Opportunities"
  10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Great Hall, Memorial Union
  
  
• 17 February
  Michael Hardt
  Associate Professor of Literature, Duke University
  "Empire and Multitude"
  4:00 p.m., Lee Lounge, Pyle Center
  
  
• 24 February
  B. Venkat Mani
  Assistant Professor of German, UW-Madison
  "Against a Multicultural Orthodoxy: Toward a New Agenda for German Studies and Minority Literatures"
  12:20 p.m., 336 Ingraham
  
  
• 28 February
  Robert Boyer
  Senior Researcher (Directeur de Recherche), National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris
  "European Integration and Institutional Reform: Reforming the Stability Pact?"
  12:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham
  
  
• 10 March
  Elizabeth Colwill
  Associate Professor of Women's Studies, San Diego State University
  "The 'Gift of Liberty': Marriage, Manhood, and Citizenship in Revolutionary Saint Domingue"
  4:00 p.m., Curti Lounge, 5243 Humanities Building
  
  
• 11-12 March
  Conference: "Education across Six Continents"
  Pyle Center
  
  
• 11 March
  Celia Applegate
  University of Rochester
  "The Musical Identity of Germans: Continuities and Disruptions in Cultural Citizenship"
  4:00 p.m., 1641 Humanities
  
  
• 30 March
  Erik Jones
  Resident Associate Professor of European Studies, SAIS Bologna
  "Building the World's Most Competitive Economy: Unpacking the Lisbon Agenda"
  12:00 p.m, 336 Ingraham
  
  
• 30 March
  Erik Jones
  Resident Associate Professor of European Studies, SAIS Bologna
  "Leadership, Legitimacy, and the New Transatlantic Relationship"
  4:00 p.m, 206 Ingraham
  
  
• 31 March - 3 April
  Wisconsin Film Festival, including the European Film Series:
  "Head On: European Cinema in Transition"
  
  
• 1 April
  Ute Frevert
  Yale University / Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
  "Good Europeans in the 20th Century"
  3:30 p.m., 206 Ingraham
  
  
• 6 April
  Pippa Norris
  Harvard University
  "Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Worldwide"
  12:00 p.m., 8417 Social Science
  
  
• 8-9 April
  Conference: "Constructing the European Higher Education Area"
  Grainger Hall, 975 University Avenue
  
  
• 8-9 April
  Symposium Commemorating the 200th Anniversary of Friedrich Schiller's Death: "Ansichten Schillers"
  Ingraham Hall and Pyle Center
  
  
• 9 April 2005
  K-12 Workshop: "Islam in France and Holland" and other "Stories Behind the Headlines (Part I).
  Part of a series of workshops to be held in April on "Islam in the World Today."
  8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., 206 Ingraham
  
  
• 11 April
  Kathleen McNamara
  Associate Professor, Department of Government and Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
  "Constructing Authority in the EU: Currency and Statebuilding in Historical Perspective"
  12:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham
  
  
• 11 April
  Kathleen McNamara
  Associate Professor, Department of Government and Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
  "Current Research on Governance in the European Union"
  (registration for this talk is required - please contact Professor Orfeo Fioretos for more information)
  
  
• 12 April
  Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat
  APCO Worldwide and former U.S. ambassador to the European Union
  "Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor and the Unfinished Business of World War II"
  1:30 p.m., Room 7200 (Lubar Commons), Law School
  
  
• 12 April
  Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat
  APCO Worldwide and former U.S. ambassador to the European Union
  "Transatlantic Relations in the Second Bush Term"
  3:00 p.m., Lee Lounge, Pyle Center (702 Langdon St.)
  
  
• 12 April
  "On the Road with Hans Christian Andersen"
  6:30 p.m., Monona Public Library
  
  
• 13 April
  Italian Day
  
  
• 14 April
  World Languages Day
  
  
• 14 April
  Andreas Huyssen
  Columbia University
  "Modernist Miniatures: Literary Snapshots of Urban Spaces"
  3:30, 1820 Van Hise
  
  
• 15 April
  Conference: "Genetically Modified Crops/Foods: The Future of the World Agricultural Economy?"
  9:30 a.m. - 3:15 p.m., 201 Fluno Center, 601 University Ave.
  
  
• 14-17 April
  Eighth National Conference of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages: "The Year of Languages: Expanding the Presence of Less Commonly Taught Languages"
  Double Tree/Howard Johnson Hotel, 525 W. Johnson St.
  
  
• 18 April
  Karen Alter
  Associate Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
  "International Courts in International Politics: Four Judicial Roles and Their Implications for State-IC Relations"
  12:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham
  
  
• 18 April
  Aram A. Yengoyan
  University of California-Davis
  "Simmel and Mann on the Tragedy of Modern Culture"
  12:00 p.m., 8417 Social Science
  
  
• 21 April
  Sheila Jasanoff
  Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  "Designs on Nature: The Politics of Biotechnology in Europe and the United States"
  4:00 p.m., 8417 Social Science
  
  
• 21-23 April
  Conference: "Film Style in Question"
  4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue
  
  
• 21-23 April
  Conference: "The Other Nineteenth Century"
  
  
• 22 April
  Transatlantic Citizen Marathon, with Franck Biancheri
  1:30 - 4:00 p.m., Room 16, Friedrick Center, 1950 Willow Drive
  
  
• 25 April
  Obrad Savic
  Author and Philosopher, Acting President of the Belgrade Circle
  "Foreigners at European Borders"
  The film "Forster Europa" will be shown in conjunction with this talk
  12:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham
  
  
• 26 April
  "On the Road with Hans Christian Andersen"
  7:00 p.m., Appleton Public Library
  
  
• 28 April
  Enrico Melchionda
  Universita' degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale"
  "La politica italiana verso la 'Seconda Repubblica'"
  12:00 p.m., 1418 Van Hise Hall
  A recording of this talk (which was given in Italian) is available - contact the CES outreach coordinator for more details.
  
  
• 28 April
  Andrea Albrecht
  University of California-Berkeley
  "European Cosmopolitanisms: Literary Sources of the Politics of Recognition"
  4:00 pm, 206 Ingraham
  
  
• 29 April
  Colette Fagan
  Reader in Sociology, University of Manchester, UK, and Spring 2005 Visiting Honorary Fellow, Department of Sociology, UW-Madison
  "Gender Mainstreaming in European Union Employment and Social Inclusion Policy Arenas - A Progress Review"
  12:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham
  
  
• 2 May
  Roland Koch
  Minister President (CDU), Hessen, Germany
  "Political and Legal Aspects of the New World Order"
  3:30 p.m., Pyle Center
  
  
• 12 May
  His Excellency Jean-David Levitte
  Ambassador of France to the United States
  "France and America: Common Challenges Ahead"
  4:30 p.m., Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center
  
  
• 14 May
  "On the Road with Hans Christian Andersen"
  1:00 p.m., Sister Bay Public Library
  
  
• 22 June
  Jim Cloos
  Foreign Policy Advisor to the Secretary General of the Council of the European Union
  "US-EU Relations and the Impact of the French and Dutch Referenda" (With discussant Gregory Shaffer Director of European Union Center and Professor of Law, UW-Madison)
  6:00 p.m. The Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel, 163 East Walton Place, Chicago
  Co-sponsored with the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations
  
  
• 20-24 June
  K-12 Workshop: "Environmental Problems and Politics in Europe and Asia"
  
  
• 24-29 July
  14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics