The Center for European Studies has collaborated with affiliated UW-Madison faculty to produce a unique virtual lecture series for the 2021-2022 academic year 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
Emanuele Coccia
The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture
February 3rd @ 11 AM
Robert Braun
Comparative Politics Colloquium: Bloodlines: National Border Crossings and Antisemitism in Weimar Germany
February 17th @ 12 PM
Emily Greble
Muslims and the Making of Europe
February 17th @ 4 PM
Mart Laar
Cold War Leadership: The Estonian Experience
February 18th @ 12 PM
Anne Applebaum
The Cold War Leadership of Pope John Paul II
February 23rd @ 7 PM
David Harrisville
The Virtuous Wehrmacht Book Launch
February 24 @ 2 PM
Christian Odendahl
European Economic Policy
March 2nd @ 12 PM
Symposium: “Post-Fascist Politics in Germany and Japan”
“Post-Fascist Politics in Germany and Japan”
March 4 @ 1 PM
Yannick Tagand
French Presidency of the Counsel of the European Union
March 10 @ 4 PM
Middle East Studies Program International Conference
Who is Afraid of Democracy? : New Wave of Transformations in the Middle East and North Africa
March 25- March 26
The Futures of Education 2022 Education Policy Studies Conference
The Futures of Education 2022 Education Policy Studies Conference
March 25 @ 7 AM
“Mission Ulja Funk” World Cinema Day 2022
“Mission Ulja Funk” World Cinema Day 2022
April 8 @ 11 AM
Kiley Kost, Dan Nolan & Seth Peabody
“Teaching Environments: German Ecological Thought in the Classroom”
April 11 @ 4 PM
Rebecca Donner
Mildred Harnack: An American Graduate Student at the Center of Berlin’s Underground Resistance to Hitler
April 13 @ 4 PM
Tracy Sharpley-Whiting
“The Variegated Life of Josephine Baker”
April 27 @12 PM
“Dante After Dante” International Symposium
"Dante After Dante" International Symposium
April 29-April 30
La Follette Forum
American Power, Prosperity, and Democracy
May 4 @ 9 AM
