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Ashoka Mody, “EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts”
Ashoka Mody, a leading expert on international finance and financial crises, will discuss his recent book, EuroTragedy: A Drama in Nine Acts, on Wednesday, October 17 at Grainger Hall on the UW-Madison campus. Mody will…
Find out more »The Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Media Fellow, Stephanie Zakrisson, will speak on current affairs and foreign policy
Stephanie Zakrisson: Producer and reporter at Sveriges Radio, Sweden’s public broadcaster. Produced in-depth international affairs show “Konflikt” since 2017. Reported extensively from the United Kingdom on Brexit, the future of the Northern Irish Peace Agreement,…
Find out more »Gary Herrigel, “Is Global Interdependence Sustainable?”
Global political economic interdependence is a fact, and sustainability of developed domestic political economies hinges on sustainability of this interdependence. Reversal of current global interdependence would involve deep and enduring adjustment pressures on all states…
Find out more »The French House Centennial Gala
Friday, October 19, 2018 Memorial Union Great Hall 6 pm cocktail hour featuring the Wilder Deitz Trio 7 pm dinner Join the French House Friday night of Homecoming Weekend to celebrate their 100th Anniversary as they honor the people,…
Find out more »Germaine Bree Lecture~ History, Memory & Identity: A French Debate
Enzo Traverso is a historian of modern and contemporary Europe; his research focuses on the intellectual history and the political ideas of the twentieth century. He was born in Italy, studied history at the University…
Find out more »Kim Lane Scheppele, “In the Ruins of Constitutional Government”
Midwest Law and Society Retreat Keynote Address Around the world, democratic citizenries are electing leaders who proceed to dismantle previously existing constitutional constraints on the power of the executive. From Hungary and Poland, to Venezuela…
Find out more »“(Re)Imagining Empire” Workshop
This program is a part of the Borghesi Mellon Interdisciplinary Workshops in the Humanities, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at UW-Madison, with support from Nancy and David Borghesi and the Andrew W. Mellon…
Find out more »Beth Simmons, “Border Orientation in a Globalizing World: Concept and Measurement”
Simmons is the Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, she was the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University, Associate Professor of Political Science at…
Find out more »Week of Italian Cuisine
Prof Marino Niola (Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples, Italy): “Gastronomia e Democrazia: Pizza, Pasta e altri Italian Food” / “Gastronomy, Pizza, Pasta, and Other Italian Food.” (Talk will be in Italian but there will be…
Find out more »Theresa Kelly, “Reading for the Future”
For many thinkers, including Romantics themselves, their era was an age of prophecy—of revolution, radical change, new beginnings, perhaps even new worlds. Yet the Romantic writing that we identify as prophecy is strangely unable to…
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