EUCE Special events

 

Events Celebrating the

Fiftieth Anniversary of the Signing of the Treaty of Rome
(March 25, 1957)

28 March 2007

4:00 - 6:30 p.m.
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St., Madison, WI

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Fifty Years of Transformation: the EU’s Triumphs and Future Challenges
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
 Videoconference
with the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's EU Center of Excellence

Presenters:

John Stephens
Professor of Political Science and EUCE Director, UNC-Chapel Hill
The European Social Model(s)

Liesbet Hooghe
Professor of Political Science, UNC-Chapel Hill
Europe's Blues? Soul-Searching after the rejection of the Constitution

Myra Marx Ferree
Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for German and European Studies, UW-Madison
Gender and Social Inclusion in an Expanded EU

Jonathan Zeitlin
Professor of Sociology, History and Public Policy and Director of the UW-Madison's EUCE and Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy
The New Architecture of EU Governance

European Research and Innovation: The Impact of Union
4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
EU/US Innovation Exchange Seminar

Moderator and Opening Comments:

Anne S. Miner
Executive Director, Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepeneneurship (INSITE); Co-PI, Study on Entrepreneurship and Institutions, WAGE; Ford Motor Company Distinguished Chair in Management & Human Resources, UW-Madison

Lorrie Keating Heinemann, CCM, MBA
Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions

European Presenters:

Mary Kavanagh, Ph.D.
Counsellor for Science Technology and Education, Delegation of the European Commission
From Rome to 2007: 50 years of Peace and Prosperity in the EU

Frank Moeschler
European Commission, DG Research
The Community Research Framework Programmes - A Historical Overview

Willem Zwalve
Senternovem Innovation Agency
The Knowledge Triangle Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen - An Example of Trans-National Cooperation in Research and Innovation

Jarmo Raittila
TEKES Innovation Agency
The Finnish Innovation Miracle: Myth or Reality?

Questions and Answers

Reception
5:30 p.m. (Alumni Lounge)
Celebrating Europe: Fifty Years of Peace, Prosperity and Partnership

Opening Words:

Gilles Bousquet
Dean of International Studies

Jonathan Zeitlin
Professor of Sociology, History and Public Policy and Director of the UW-Madison's EUCE and Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy