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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 2009 Events

• 28 January
  Dr. Claus Wendt
  Senior Research Fellow, MZES (Mannheim University)
  "Challenges and Reform Options in Health Care Systems: What Can America Learn from Health Reform Processes?"
  1:00 p.m., Health Sciences Learning Center, 750 Highland Ave.
  
  
• 5 February
  Holger Nehring
  Lecturer in Contemporary European History, University of Sheffield
  "Life Against Death: West European Peace Movements and the Cold War"
  4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
  
  
  
• 4 March
  Piers Ludlow
  Senior Lecturer in International History, London School of Economics; Visiting Fellow, Princeton University
  "The End of Symbiosis: The Nixon Era and the Collapse of Comfortable Co-Existence Between European and Atlantic Integration"
  4:00 p.m., 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
  
  
• 5 March
  László Bruszt
  Professor of Sociology and Political Science, European University Institute, Florence
  "European Regional Development and the New Member States"
  4:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
  
  
• 6-7 March
  Workshop: "Exporting Experimentalist Governance: From the European Union to the World?"
  Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive
  
  
• 9 March
  Anne Corbett
  Visiting Fellow, European Institute; London School of Economics
  "Rules Everyone Can Live With? Why a European Higher Education Area Is Being Constructed through the Bologna Process"
  9:00 a.m., 336 Ingraham, 1155 Observatory Drive
  
  
• 10 March
  Geir Lundestad, Marshall-Monnet Scholar-in-Residence
  Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute
  "The Past and Future of US-European Relations"
  4:00 p.m., Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
  
  
• 11 March
  Geir Lundestad, Marshall-Monnet Scholar-in-Residence
  Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute
  "The History and Politics of the Nobel Peace Prize"
  5:30 - 7:30 p.m., Rigadoon Room, Edgewater Hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue
  
  
• 12 March
  Ali Iiker Gumuseli
  Professor and Chair, Educational Sciences and Educational Administration and Supervision, Yildiz Technical University School of Education, Istanbul
  "Globalization and Conflict Management in Schools"
  12:00 p.m., Educational Sciences Building, Rm. 259
  
  
• 24 March
  Anna M. Jaroń
  Law Department, European University Institute, Florence
  "Change or Continuity? Social Rights in Post-Transformation Constitutions of Poland and the Czech Republic"
  12:00 p.m., 7200 Law School (Lubar Commons)
  
  
• 25 March
  Ivan Grdesic
  Former Ambassador of Croatia to the United States
  "Croatia: Catching Up With Europe"
  8417 Social Sciences, 1188 Observatory
  
  
• 25 March
  Jeremi Suri
  Professor of History and Director of the European Union Center of Excellence, UW-Madison
  "The Future of U.S.-European Relations in the Shadow of the Iraq War "
  6:30 p.m., Brown County Library Auditorium, 515 Pine Street, Green Bay
  
  
• 26 March
  Seminar with Ivan Grdesic
  Former Ambassador of Croatia to the United States
  9:00 a.m., 336 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Dr
  
  
• 27 March
  Richard Buxbaum
  J.D. Program and Jackson H. Ralston Professor of International Law, UC-Berkeley
  "What's the Difference Between Corporation Law and Securities Regulation? A U.S.-E.U. Comparative Perspective"
  12:00 p.m., 7200 Law School (Lubar Commons)
  
  
• 31 March
  Jeremi Suri
  Professor of History and Director of the European Union Center of Excellence, UW-Madison
  "The Past and the Future of American International Leadership"
  7:00 p.m., Madison Museum of Contemporary Art Lecture Hall, 227 State St
  
  
• 1 April
  Conference: " Beyond the Hemicycle: The EU Legislative Process in Wider Perspective"
  206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Dr
  
  
• 2-5 April
  Wisconsin Film Festival
  
  
• 6 April
  Jan Martin Witte
  Associate Director of Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin
  "Back to the Future or Forward to the Past? Strengthening Markets and Rules for Effective Global Energy Governance"
  3:30 - 5:30 p.m., Tong Auditorium, Engineering Centers Building, 1550 Engineering Dr
  
  
• 30 April
  Catherine Barnard
  Fellow, Trinity College; Jean Monnet Chair of EU Law, University of Cambridge
  "Has 'Social Dumping' Arrived in the EU? The Cases of Viking and Laval"
  4:00 p.m., 336 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Dr
  
  
• 6 May
  Maria Pia Belloni Mignatti
  Visiting Scholar, New York University Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
  "In Search of a Gendered Approach to European Immigration Policy"
  12:00 p.m., 7200 Law (Lubar Commons)
  
  
• 8 May
  Jess Clayton
  Department of Political Science, UW-Madison
  "Persuasion Versus Coercion: Human Rights Compliance Within the Context of the Lome and Cotonous Agreements"
  1:30 p.m., Ogg Room, 110 North Hall, 1050 Bascom Mall
  
  
• 15 May
  Susan Robertson
  Professor of Sociology of Education, Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol
  "Globalising the Bologna Process"
  8:00 - 10:00 a.m., The Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St
  A link to presentation is available at the Worldwide Universities Network website.
  
  
• 15-16 May
  Conference: "The Transcultural Atlantic: Constructing Communities in a Global Context"
  University of Heidelberg, Germany
  Participant List and Conference Agenda available here
  
  
• 26-27 May
  Conference: "Food Import Safety: Systems and Infrastructure"
  Tong Auditorium, Engineering Centers Building, 1550 Engineering Dr
  Participant List and Conference Agenda available here
  
  
• 22-26 June
  Summer Teacher Workshop: "Looking Forward, Looking Back: Causes and Consequences of the Fall of the Berlin Wall"
  Concourse Hotel, Madison
  
  
• 27-28 August
  Conference: "Fighting Cancer Through Improved Governance: Lessons from the United States and European Union "
  Microbial Sciences Building, 1550 Linden Dr