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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 »Michael Kaeding: Comparative Politics Colloquium
Michael Kaeding, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany) and UW-Madison Carl Schurz Professor Political Equality without Social Equality. How does employment status effect voting rates in Europe's capitals? Michael Kaeding is Professor for European Integration and European…
Find out more »February 2020
Benjamin Mier-Cruz, “Sweden’s New York Realness: To be Young, Queer, and Black in Swedish Women’s Filmmaking”
In this talk, Benjamin Mier-Cruz will compare Sweden’s social democratic ideal of the folkhemmet (the people’s home)—which regards society as a family unit—with the survivalist “house-building” of Black and Latinx youth in two documentary films,…
Find out more »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 »Liina-Ly Roos, “The Not-Quite Child: Invisible Structures of Memory and Proximate Migration in Nordic Imagination”
What does the displaced Finnish child in the postwar Swedish welfare state say about ethnicity, whiteness, transcultural memory, and national identity? By focusing on a Swedish-Finnish Elina: as if I wasn't there (Klaus Härö, 2002)…
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 »Adapting the EU-US Relationship to New Challenges: A Conversation with European Union Ambassador Stavros Lambrinidis
This event is sponsored by the Jean-Monnet European Union Center of Excellence. As the U.S. expands its own goals for growth and prosperity, continuing a productive relationship with partners around the world will be of…
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