The UW-Madison's EU Center pursues a broad range of activities to make the European Union more comprehensible and thus accessible for students, scholars, the business community, journalists, politicians and all citizens of Wisconsin, the Midwest, and in the United States.

We would welcome any questions you might have about planned events, and we would be especially pleased to hear about your ideas for possible events in the future.

• 2000-2001
• 2001-02: Fall 2001 and Spring 2002
• 2002-03: Fall 2002 and Spring 2003
• 2003-04: Fall 2003 and Spring 2004
• 2004-05: Fall 2004
  
  
• A more extensive calendar of Europe-related events on the UW-Madison campus is available on the website of the European Studies Alliance

• 31 January
  Conference: "Environmental Policy: International Possibilities and Opportunities in Law"
  
  
• 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?"
  
  
• 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?"
  (Robert Boyer will also speak at an Economic Sociology brownbag - click here for more information)
  
  
• 30 March
  Erik Jones
  Associate Professor, SAIS Bologna
  "Building the World's Most Competitive Economy: Unpacking the Lisbon Agenda"
  
  
• 30 March
  Erik Jones
  Associate Professor, SAIS Bologna
  "Leadership, Legitimacy, and the New Transatlantic Relationship"
  
  
• 8-9 April
  Conference: "Constructing the European Higher Education Area"
  
  
• 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"
  
  
• 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 EU" (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"
  
  
• 12 April
  Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat
  APCO Worldwide and former U.S. ambassador to the European Union
  "Transatlantic Relations in the Second Bush Term"
  
  
• 15 April
  Conference: "Genetically Modified Crops/Foods: The Future of the World Agricultural Economy?"
  
  
• 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"
  Karen Alter will also participate in a seminar following her public talk. To register, contact Professor Orfeo Fioretos.
  
  
• 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"
  
  
• 22 April
  Transatlantic Citizen Marathon, with Franck Biancheri
  
  
• 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"
  
  
• 2 May
  Roland Koch
  Minister President (CDU), Hessen, Germany
  "Political and Legal Aspects of the New World Order"
  
  
• 12 May
  His Excellency Jean-David Levitte
  Ambassador of France to the United States
  "France and America: Common Challenges Ahead"
  
  
• 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"