The UW-Madison's EU Center of Excellence 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.
Spring 2007 Events
(For more Europe-related events at the UW-Madison,
see the
European Studies Alliance calendar).
- 5 February
Karen Hagemann
Professor of History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
"A West-German Sonderweg? Women, Work and the 'Time Politics' of Child Care and Education"
12:00 p.m., 8417 Social Sciences
Part of the CGES Lecture Series: "Gender, Genre and Political Transformations in Germany and the Transatlantic World"
- 13 February
Haknoh Kim
EUCE Marshall-Monnet Scholar-in-Residence and Director, National Unification Research Institute, Department of Political Science and Diplomacy, Yeungnam University, Korea
"Regional Innovation Policy of South Korea, Compared With, and Learning From the European Union"
(Rescheduled to 24 April)
- 19 February
Claudia Koonz
Department of History, Duke University
"The Right to Remain Hidden: The Headscarf Wars in Germany, France,
and England"
12:05 p.m., 8417 Social Sciences
Part of the CGES Lecture Series: "Gender, Genre and Political Transformations in Germany and the Transatlantic World"
- 27 February
Elizabeth Covington
Executive Director, European Studies Alliance
"Migration in EU/US Contexts"
7:00 p.m., Fond du Lac Public Library
- 28 February
Alan Charlton
Deputy British Ambassador to the United States
"EU/US Transatlantic Relations"
4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham
- 1 March
Étienne Balibar
Université de Paris-X Nanterre and University of California, Irvine
Strangers as Enemies.
Further Reflections on the Aporias of Transnational Citizenship
12:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham
Part of the CGES Lecture Series: "War, Peace and the Emergence of the Idea of a United Europe, 1648-2003"
- 2 March
Workshop: "Regulation and Governance of Healthcare: Alternative Practices, Theories and Visions"
Fluno Center, 601 University Avenue
- 5 March
Workshop: "Social Europe and the Future of the Welfare State"
12:00 - 4:30 p.m., 206 Ingraham
Presentations are available - see the conference website.
- 28 March
Videoconference: "50 years of Transformation:
The EU's Triumphs and Future Challenges"
(in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome)
4:00 p.m., The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
- 11 April
Jan-Werner Müller
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics at Princeton University
"European Constitutional Patriotism? The Case Restated"
12:00 p.m., 7200 Law School (Lubar Commons)
- 16 April
Workshop: "'War on Cancer' and Accountability for Outcomes:
A Transatlantic Dialogue on How and Why of Success"
Health Sciences Learning Center, 750 Highland Avenue Auditorium (Room 1325)
Links to presentations (streaming video) from this workshop are available at the workshop website.
- 16 April
Marek Skolil
Czech Consul General (Chicago)
"New or Old Europe? The Czech Republic in an Enlarged EU"
7:00 p.m., The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
- 17 April
Susan Robertson
Professor of Sociology of Education, and Coordinator of the Centre for Globalisation Education and Societies, University of Bristol, UK
"Stirring the Lions: Strategy and Tactic in the Global Higher Education Wars"
12:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
- 18 April
David Coen
School of Public Policy, University College London
"Lobbying the EU"
4:00 p.m., 8411 Social Science Building
Background papers are available: Paper#1 and Paper#2
Slides from the presentation are also available.
- 20-21 April
Conference: "New Architecture of EU Governance"
206 Ingraham
- 23 April
Emanuela Lombardo
Politics and Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid Pozuelo de Alarcón
"Gender Mainstreaming: Theory and Practice in the European Context"
12:00 p.m., 8417 Social Sciences
- 24 April
Haknoh Kim
EUCE Marshall-Monnet Scholar-in-Residence and Director, National Unification Research Institute, Department of Political Science and Diplomacy, Yeungnam University, Korea
"Regional Innovation Policy of South Korea, Compared With, and Learning From the European Union" (Rescheduled from 13 February)
12:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham
Click here to download a related paper (pdf)
- 19 June
Workshop: "Innovative Environmental Governance and Regulation in the European Union: Any Lessons for US?"
Registration is required - see the website for more information
- 25-28 July
Workshop: "New Governance, Regulation, and the Law"
Berlin, Germany