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Conferences and Workshops

A central objective for the conferences and workshops is participation by as many colleagues as possible from our EU partner universities and affiliates.

2006-2007

• 25-28 July 2007
  Conference: "New Governance, Regulation, and the Law"
  
  
• 19 June
  Workshop: "Innovative Environmental Governance and Regulation in the European Union: Any Lessons for US?"
  
  
• 20-21 April 2007
  Conference: "New Architecture of EU Governance"
  
  
• 16 April 2007
  Workshop: "'War on Cancer' and Accountability for Outcomes: A Transatlantic Dialogue on How and Why of Success"
  Presentations are available (streaming video) - see the conference website.
  
• 28 March 2007
  Videoconference: "50 years of Transformation: The EU's Triumphs and Future Challenges"
  (in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome)
  
  
• 5 March 2007
  Workshop: "Social Europe and the Future of the Welfare State"
  Presentations are available - see the conference website.
  
  
• 2 March 2007
  Workshop: "Regulation and Governance of Healthcare: Alternative Practices, Theories and Visions"
  
  
• 1-2 December 2006 Conference: "EU Governance: Towards a New Architecture?"
  
  

2005-2006

• 8-9 July 2006 Conference: "Governing Transnational Pressures on the Regulatory State"
  
  
• 19-20 May 2006 Graduate Student Workshop: "Governing Work and Welfare in an Enlarged Europe"
  
  
• 28-29 April 2006 Conference: "Current Account Sustainability In Major Advanced Economies"
  
  
• 24-25 April 2006 Workshop: "Public Health, Comparative Health Policy and Law in the European Union: A Transatlantic Dialogue"
  
  
• 21-22 April 2006 Workshop: "The Rise of New Governance and the Transformation of Law"
  
  
• 28 October 2005 Workshop: "EU Governance and the Future of Social Europe"
  
  
• 14 October 2005 Conference: "Consumerism and Environmentalism in a Globalizing Europe"

2004-2005

• 15 April 2005 Conference: "Genetically Modified Crops/Foods: The Future of the World Agricultural Economy?"
  
  
• 8-9 April 2005 Conference: "Constructing the European Higher Education Area"
  
  
• 31 January 2005 Conference: "Environmental Policy: International Possibilities and Opportunities in Law"
  
  
• 5-6 November 2004 Conference: "Responding to Violence against Women: Models from the European Union"
  
  
• 29-30 October 2004 Conference: "Enlarging Social Europe: The Open Method of Coordination and the EU's New Member States"

2003-2004

• 19-20 July 2004 Workshop: "New Governance and Constitutionalism in Europe and the US" (Part of a comparative project that looks at the emergence of "new governance" and its implications for constitutionalism and legal theory in Europe and the US.). Cambridge, UK
  
  
• 17-18 June 2004 "The New Transatlantic Agenda and the Future of Transatlantic Economic Governance" (A Joint Workshop of the European University Institute, The University of Wisconsin, and Johns Hopkins University at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute). Florence, Italy.
  
  
• 26-27 March 2004 International Conference: "East and West: The Experience of Islam in an Expanding Europe"
  
  
• 31 October 2003 OMC Network Conference: "New Approaches to Governance in EU Social Policy: Open Method of Coordination and the Future of Social Europe"

2002-2003

• 4-5 July 2003 Joint Saltsa, Observatoire social européen, University of Madison-Wisconsin Workshop: "Opening the Open Method of Co-ordination." Hosted by the Welfare State programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (Florence).
  
  
• 28 April 2003 Workshop (in collaboration with the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University): "The European Union's Open Method of Coordination: Rhetoric, Reality, and the Politics of Policy Reform"
  
  
• 3-5 April 2003 "National Feminisms in a Transnational Arena: The European Union and Gender Politics"

2001-2002

• 17-18 June 2002 OMCnet Meeting, Brussels, Belgium: "The OMC: An Effective and Legitimate Governance Instrument for the EU? Theoretical Promise and Empirical Realities."
  
  
• 12 April 2002 "Compensation for Carework? Comparative Perspectives from Europe and the U.S."
  
  
• 15 November 2001 "Toward a European Culture? National Traditions, Literature, and the Creation of a European Space"
  
  
• 12 October 2001 "Welfare Capitalisms: Europe in Comparative Perspective"

2000-2001

• 29-30 May 2001 A Workshop on Law and New Approaches to Governance in Europe (LANAGE)
  
  
• 10-12 May 2001 "Reconfiguring Work and Welfare in the New Economy: A Transatlantic Dialogue"
  
  
• 20-21 April 2001 "Itineraries of European Integration"
  
  
• 1 December 2000 "Unions, Workers, and Labor Rights in Europe and the U.S.: A Transatlantic Labor Dialogue Videoconference"
  
  
• 15 November 2000 "New Voices from the New Europe: Literature, Readings, and Dialogue with European Authors"
  
  
• 14-15 October 2000 "Mainstreaming Gender in European Public Policy"
  
  
• 8 September 2000 "Taste, Technology and Terroir: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Food As Culture"

1999-2000

• 14-15 April 2000 "Work, Welfare, and Governance in Europe and the United States: A Transatlantic Dialogue"