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January 2020
FLAS Information Session
Learn more about the application process and requirements for the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships. The Summer 2020 and Academic Year 2020-2021 applications are now live, and the deadline is February 10, 2020. For…
Find out more »Michael Kaeding: Undergraduate Lunch and Career Workshop
Register now for the Spring Undergraduate Lunch and Career Workshop with guest Michael Kaeding. Have you ever considered a profession in the European Union, ever wondered what it would take to become a diplomat? Come…
Find out more »Michael Kaeding
Michael Kaeding, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) and UW-Madison Carl Schurz Professor Lecture specifics to come. Michael Kaeding is Professor for European Integration and European Union Politics at the Department of Political Science of the University…
Find out more »February 2020
Carsten Jensen, “Populism in Europe”
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for European Studies and the Nordic branch of the Department of German, Nordic and Slavic. A leading literary figure in his native Denmark, Carsten Jensen is the author…
Find out more »Film Screening, “Varda by Agnès”
Sponsored by UW Cinematheque The final film from the late, beloved Agnès Varda is a characteristically playful, profound, and personal summation of the director’s own brilliant career. At once impish and wise, she acts as…
Find out more »Amy Liu, Comparative Politics Colloquium
Amy Liu, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin Co-sponsored by the Erasmus + Jean Monnet Projects and the Comparative Politics Colloquium of the Department of Political Science Amy Liu focuses on the…
Find out more »Daniel Morat, “More than Looted Art: The Humboldt Forum and Germany’s Colonial Legacy”
Sponsored by the Center for German and European Studies In the fall of 2020, the Humboldt Forum will open in the partly reconstructed city palace of Berlin. But already prior to its opening, the Humboldt…
Find out more »Fracturing Democracy: The Erosion of Civil Society in a Shifting Communication Ecology
Conference on Comparative Populism Sponsored by the Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence for Comparative Populism and the School of Journalism and Mass Communications
Find out more »March 2020
Daniel Sack, “Real Tears, Fake Tears: The Strange Act of Crying in the Theatre”
Daniel Sack, Professor of English at University of Massachusetts-Amherst Co-sponsored by Center for German and European Studies and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies Daniel Sack holds a joint appointment in the Commonwealth Honors College and the English…
Find out more »Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, “Ultimate Questions, Incomplete Answers: Or, the Hunger for the Unknowable in the 20th-Century”
Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison In his final essay before he died in 1903, Herbert Spencer allowed himself, age 83, to ask “ultimate questions” about the source and meaning of life. The famed materialist…
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