The Center for European Studies has collaborated with affiliated UW-Madison faculty to produce a unique virtual lecture series for the spring 2021 semester featuring scholars, experts, and authors from a broad variety of disciplines. This lecture series is funded by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI National Resource Center grant.
This webpage will be updated regularly to reflect changes in the schedule.
Lecture Program
Skadi Loist
Circulation in the Network: A Consideration of the Circulation Power of Film Festivals
January 28 @ 4 pm
Mette Buchardt
Northern European Schools, Nationalism and Migrations: Representations of Self and Others
February 8 @ 4 pm
Sverker Lindblad
In Education We Trust: On Handling Covid-19 Pandemic in the Swedish Welfare State
DATE CHANGE February 15 @ 4 pm
Tiffany Florvil
Borderless and Brazen: May Ayim's Internationalism
February 16 @ 2:30 pm
Inés Dussel
The Internationalization of Pedagogical Knowledge: The Case of Tactile Pedagogies 1920-1960
February 22 @ 4 pm
Adrienne Hagen
“From Sheep to Shawl”: Wool Working in Ancient Greece and Rome
February 25 @ 5 pm
Frode Helland
The Rhetoric of Racism in the Norwegian Public Sphere
March 3 @ 12:00 pm
Svend Åge Madsen
"See the Light of Day"
March 4 @ 11:00 am
Yves Citton
French Culture Wars around Laïcité : a Tale of Two Fundamentalisms?
March 4 @ 1 pm
Cécile Alduy
What The French Really Say About Laïcité
March 11 @ 1 pm
Romuald Normand
Following European Experts as an Embedded Researcher: Multiple Commitments, Contingencies, and Asymmetries Shaping the Academic Self
March 15 @ 4 pm
Gillian O’Brien
The Rise and Evolution of the Museum in Western Culture
March 17 @ 12 pm
Amara Lakhous
Writing Between Cultures: The Creative Adventure of Literary Writing in Italian
March 23 @2:30 pm
Alison DeSimone
‘Not Found Upon the Record’: Female Musical Entrepreneurship in Eighteenth-Century England
March 29 @ 3:30 pm
Miguel Pereyra
Flows of Academic Knowledge Transfer in Today's Spain: The Rise of the New Field of Educational Leadership
March 29 @ 4 pm
Clara Bosak-Schroeder
Women as a Natural Resource in Greek Literature and the Handmaid’s Tale
April 15 @ 5 pm
Anna María Pálsdóttir
Lessons Learned from the Alnarp Rehabilitation Garden Research: The Importance of Supportive Outdoor Environments for Human Well-Being
April 21 @ 2:30 pm
Jussi Adler-Olsen
The Department Q series
April 22 @ 11 am
