OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

New York Consortium for European Studies


  • Sixteen-Part Series on European Union Studies (9/11/2007 - 7/9/2008)
  • University Seminar Series on European Studies (9/11/2007 - 5/13/2008)
  • Eight-Part Series on European Business and Business Culture (9/20/2007 - 4/17/2008)
  • Twenty-nine-Part Series on European Domestic and Global Challenges (9/20/2007 - 5/1/2008)
  • Reading and Conversation: Women's Words Without Borders - Adrienne Rich and Montserrat Abello (9/27/2007)
  • Symposium: Pere Portabella: A Catalan Filmaker in New York (9/27/2007 - 9/28/2007)
  • Gender in Transition workshop: Jasmina Lukic, Visiting Associate Professor, Dept. of Gender Studies, Central European Univeristy, Budapest, "Gender, War, and Postwar Trauma: Women's Writing in the Balkans in the 1990's (9/28/2007)
  • European History workshop: Brigid O'Keefe, Doctoral candidate, NYU Dept. of History; "Lessons in Backwardness: Educating Roma in the early Soviet Union" (10/1/2007)
  • Colloquium: Katherine Verdery, Department of Anthropology, CUNY Grad Center; " The Propertied person in a socialist state: Romanian collectivation in the 1950's" (10/11/2007)
  • Presentation: Stefaan De Rynck, Strategy and Communications, Commission of the European Union; "From the EU Constitution to the Reform Treaty: Changes and Consequences" (10/22/2007)
  • Gender in Transition Workshop: Emily Schuckman, Adjunct Instructor, Dept. of Modern Languages and Literature, Montclair State University; "'Doubly Other': The Prostitution as Lesbian: Representations of Prostitution in Contemporary Russian Literature and Film" (10/26/2007)
  • European History workshop: Ben Kafka, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU; "Equal Parts Nature and Government: the History of 'Bureaucracy' in France" (11/5/2007)
  • Film Screening: Pau i el seu germa, by Marc Recha (11/8/2007)
  • Presentation: Katja Weber, Associate Professor adn Co-Director of EU Center, George Institute of Technology; "Governing Europe's Neighbourhood: Partners or Periphery" (11/9/2007)
  • Teacher Training Workshop: Teach Europe Seminar (11/9/2007)
  • Gender in Transition workshop: Wanda Nowicka, Founder and Executive Director, Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning; "Poland, More Catholic that the Pope"? An update on recent changes in reproductive rights, the October 21 election, and the country's role in the EU" (11/16/2007)
  • Eurasian Connections workshop: Nikolai Ssorsin-Chaikov, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University and Ol'ga Sosnina, Kremlin Museum, Moscow; The Making of a Post-Soviet Public: Exhibiting Gifts to Soviet Leaders at the Kremlin Museum (11/19/2007)
  • Translating Jacint Verdaguer into Words and Music with Ronald Puppo and Antoni Piza (11/27/2007)
  • Roundtable: Martin Schain,NYU; Simon Reich, University of Pitt; Michael Minkenberg, NYU; and Sylvia Maier, NYU; "Immigration, Integration, and Security: Transatlantic Perspectives" (12/3/2007)
  • Dialogue on Art and Memory: Dark Rooms of Memory: Visions of Trauma in the Works of Francesc Torres with Francesc Torres adn Arthur Danto (12/6/2007)
  • Gender in Transition workshop: Voichita Nachescu, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Rice University; The Visible Woman: Interwar Romanian Women Writers, Modernity, and the Public/Private Divide" (12/7/2007)
  • European History workshop: George R. Trumbull IV, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow, Institute of French Studies, NYU; "Science Taken for Wonders: The Ethnography of Popular Religion adn the Fashioning of Algerian Primitivism" (12/10/2007)
  • Conference: "Utopia, Human Rights and Gender in 20th Century Europe" (12/13/2007 - 12/16/2007)
  • Gender in Transition workshop: Rasa Erentaite, NGO New Generation of Women's Initiatives (Vilnius) and Coordinator of Intergenerational Feminist Dialogue Group of the European Feminist Forum; Renata Blumberg, PhD student, Department of Geography, University of Minnesota; Arnoldas Blumberg, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, CLA, University of Minnesota; "Feminism, Fun and Generations: Young Feminist Movements in Lithuania and the Region (1/18/2008)
  • Eurasian Connections workshop: Paul Werth, Associate Professor of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; "Faith in Empire: Religious Conversion and International Debates on Imperial Russia's Caucasian Frontier (2/6/2008)
  • Presentation: Paul Hockenos, journalist and political analyst, author of Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkan Wars and Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe and most recently Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany; "Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic (2/8/2008)
  • Max Weber Salon: Michael Minkenberg, Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies, NYU; "E Pluribus Unum in Australia? Notes from a Research Visit Down Under (2/14/2008)
  • Max Weber Lecture Series: Michael Minkenberg, Max Weber Chair for German and European Studies, NYU; "New Capitals in New Nations: Comparative Perspectives (2/21/2008)
  • Max Weber Lecture Series: Kenneth Bowling, Co-Editor, The First Federal Congress Project, George Washington University; "'Bundesdorf or Bundesstadt?' States' Rights versus Federal Power in the Creation and Evolution of Washington, D.C (2/28/2008)
  • Gender in Transition workshop: Sonja Lokar, Coordinator of the CEE Network for Gender Issues and Chair of the Stability Pact Gender Task Force; "Gender Empowerment Strategies in the Balkans, Georgia, Armenia, and Western Russia (2/29/2008)
  • Symposium: "A Mind for the Ages: Ramon Llull, Doctor Illuminatus" (3/6/2008 - 3/7/2008)
  • European History workshop: Laura Lee Downs, Directrice d'?tudes, EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales); "'Each and every one of you must become a chef.' Toward a social politics of working-class childhood on the extreme right in 1930s France (3/10/2008)
  • Max Weber Salon: Riva Kastoryano, Research Director, CERI/SciencesPo, Paris; "Turkey and Europe (3/10/2008)
  • Max Weber Lecture Series: J?rgen Neyer, Viadrina University; "Images of Power: The European Union and its Architecture (3/13/2008)
  • Language Acquisition Assessment workshop: Lyle F. Bachman, Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESL at the University of California, Los Angeles;"Justifying the Use of Language Assessments (3/26/2008)
  • European History workshop: Kathleen Canning, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan; "Sexual Crisis, Citizenship and the State of Emergency in Germany, 1916-1920 (3/31/2008)
  • Mediterranean Studies symposium: Isabelle Rohr and Lidia Santarelli, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, NYU: "Mediterranean Fascisms and the Jews: A Discussion of Franco's Spain and Mussolini's Italy" (3/31/2008)
  • Max Weber Lecture Series: Christoph Asendorf, Viadrina University; "Berlin: Three Centuries as a Capital (4/3/2008)
  • Gender in Transition workshop: Marian Rubchak, Professor at Valparaiso University; "Collective Memory in Ukraine and Women's Identity (4/4/2008)
  • Eurasian Connections workshop: Alexander Knysh, Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Michigan; " Islam and Empire in the Northern Caucasus (4/9/2008)
  • Max Weber Lecture Series: Jean Louis-Cohen, New York University; "Paris and the French State: Representation and Control (4/17/2008)
  • Gender in Transition workshop: Anna Wilkowska, Human Rights Lawyer; "Gender Equality Legislation in the CEE and CIS. Enforcement mechanisms and strategies: Do they really work (4/18/2008)
  • Max Weber Conference: "The Radical Right in post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: The Role of Legacies" (4/24/2008 - 4/26/2008)
  • Max Weber Lecture Series: Klaus von Beyme, Universit?t Heidelberg; "Capital Building in Post-War Germany (5/2/2008)
  • Max Weber Lecture Series: Terry Kirk, American University of Rome; "Building Fascist Bodies: The Foro Mussolini in Rome, Metaphysics and Homoeroticism (5/8/2008)
  • Conference: "Europe in the Late Middle Ages: Patterns of Economic Growth and Crisis" (5/10/2008 - 5/12/2008)
  • Gender in Transition workshop: Selma Leydesdorff, Professor of Oral History and Culture, Department of Arts, Religion and Culture, Amsterdam; "When your Friends and Neighbors become Enemies. Listening to the Tales of Survivors of Srebrenica (5/16/2008)
  • Gender in Transition workshop: Magda Grabowska, A.B.D., Women's and Gender Studies Department, Rutgers University; "Catholicism and Religion in Polish Feminism (6/6/2008)
  • Six-part Series on Europe and the Middle East (6/23/2008 - 5/5/2009)
  • Eight-part Series on Business and Economics in the European Union (6/26/2008 - 12/8/2008)
  • K-12 outreach: training institute for NYC public school teachers (7/14/2008 - 7/18/2008)
  • Six-part Baltic Series (9/5/2008 - 3/9/2009)
  • University Seminar Series on Europe (9/9/2008 - 5/19/2009)
  • Symposium The New Mediterranean (9/21/2008 - 9/22/2008)
  • Five-part Series on Climate Change and Energy Policy in Europe (9/22/2008 - 4/22/2009)
  • European History Workshop Sovereignty and Empire 19th-century Europe and its Near Abroad (9/24/2008)
  • Gender in Transition workshop Strange Bedfellows Feminist, Sexological and Criminological Discourses on Pornography (9/26/2008)
  • Nine-part Series on Transatlantic Relations (9/29/2008 - 4/29/2009)
  • Four-part Series on Europe and the Mediterranean (10/1/2008 - 2/19/2009)
  • Language Assessment workshop The Power of Tests Misuses, Impacts and Some Constructive Responses (10/7/2008)
  • Conference From Africa to the Balkans New Perspectives on Colonialism and Material Culture in Fascist Italy (10/16/2008)
  • Gender in Transition workshop Spheres of Influence in Postwar Bosnia The Contribution of Women in the Arts to the History of War, Reconciliation, and Recovery (10/17/2008)
  • Leo Lucassen --Why is Religion more Salient than Race? Immigration, Decolonization, and Intermarriage in post-war Western Europe (10/21/2008)
  • European History workshop Text and Language at the Cistercian Abbey of Rievaulx (10/22/2008)
  • Conference --Sixth Annual Teach Europe Seminar (10/24/2008)
  • Presentation Feminism and its Other Female Autonomy in an Age of Difference (10/24/2008)
  • Two-part European Film Series (10/30/2008 - 11/6/2008)
  • Max Weber Roundtable Discussion The U.S. Elections - Transatlantic Perspectives (11/7/2008)
  • Six-part Series on the European the Unions Legal Order (11/10/2008 - 4/22/2009)
  • European History workshop Is Revolutionary Violence Genocidal? The Case of the French Revolution (11/12/2008)
  • Dominic C. Boyer, Jane Kramer, Nicholas Lemann --European Journalism in the Era of Digital Information (12/4/2008)
  • Max Weber Roundtable Discussion Das Schloss? - The Reconstruction of the Berlin Royal Palace (12/4/2008)
  • Symposium The Five-Day War Historical Perspectives on the Russia-Georgia Conflict (12/4/2008)
  • Gender and Transformation workshop Teens, Sex, and Reproductive Rights in Croatia, Romania, and Poland (12/5/2008)
  • Timothy Snyder, Jan T. Gross, Mark Mazower --Bloodlands Europe Between Stalin and Hitler (1/22/2009)
  • Symposium Barcelona and Dublin, Destination Cities? Tourism, Immigration, and Urban Transformations (2/6/2009 - 2/7/2009)
  • Mediterranean Studies Research Group screening and discussion On Translation Miedo/Jauf (2/11/2009)
  • European History workshop Credit and the Death Penalty The Philosophy of Trust and the Threat of Counterfeiting (2/20/2009)
  • Max Weber Salon Film Eat the Rich (2/23/2009)
  • Max Weber Lecture Series Capital Architecture and National Identity (2/26/2009)
  • Gender and Transformation workshop Gender Violence in Russia The Politics of Feminist Intervention (2/27/2009)
  • European History workshop Taxes, Trade, and Tobacco The Debate over Tobacco Importation during the Reign of James I (3/4/2009)
  • Catalan Tertuila Jazz Musician (3/24/2009)
  • Four-part lecture series by Alfred Gusenbauer, Former Chancellor of Austria (3/25/2009 - 4/20/2009)
  • Max Weber Salon 12 Cartoons that Shook the World Political Imagination and Freedom of Speech (3/25/2009)
  • Max Weber Salon The French Riots 2005-08. Race Riots or Social Upsurge? (3/26/2009)
  • Symposium Historical Regions and Historical Legacies Between Europe and the Near East (3/26/2009)
  • Conference --Claiming the World Universalisms as Doctrine and in Action (3/27/2009)
  • Gender and Transformation workshop Roma Women Beyond Rights vs. Culture (3/27/2009)
  • Film Screening and Discussion Memoria Negra (3/31/2009)
  • Max Weber Conference The Boundaries of Europe. Religious Identities, State-Church-Party Relations, and the European Project (4/2/2009 - 4/4/2009)
  • Conference --Republic and Empire Rethinking the Categories (4/3/2009)
  • Catalan Tertlia Multimedia Artist (4/7/2009)
  • Max Weber Lecture Series Remaking Warsaw Architecture and Memory in the Polish Capital, 1943-2009 (4/9/2009)
  • Catalan Tertlia (4/14/2009)
  • Annual Barra Donnabhin Memorial Lecture on the Irish language Pdhraic Ciardha of TG4 on Irish language broadcasting (4/16/2009)
  • Gender and Transformation workshop We were not Westerners giving gifts, but we did give books. The Network of East West Women as an example of East-West Feminist Cooperation in the Early 1990s (4/17/2009)
  • Catalan Tertlia (4/21/2009)
  • Max Weber Lecture Series State and Nation-Building as an Urban Experience The Making of Ankara (4/23/2009)
  • European History workshop The Devaluation of Transparency in Mid-Twentieth Century French Thought (4/29/2009)
  • Max Weber Lecture Series Red Vienna Architecture and Spatial Politics between the World Wars (5/7/2009)
  • Gender and Transformation workshop Legal Reform on Violence Against Women Successes and Lessons Learned (5/8/2009)
  • A Celebration of Catalan Music Song of the Stars (5/21/2009)
  • 8-part Irish Studies Seminar Series (9/11/2009 - 5/7/2010)
  • 5-part Modern British History Seminar (9/14/2009 - 5/3/2010)
  • 8-part Seminar Series Eighteenth-Century European Culture (9/17/2009 - 4/29/2010)
  • The Ethics of Military Intervention What Can We Learn from the Modern European Classics? (9/18/2009 - 9/19/2009)
  • Opening of Exhibit on 100 Years of Womens Voices and Action in Finland (9/21/2009)
  • Exhibit Opening, The Last Days of Print Culture Raffone in Naples (9/24/2009)
  • Max Weber Lecture Divergent Paths? Conceptualizing German Culture in America during the late 19th and 20th centuries (9/24/2009)
  • 6-part series on The Renaissance (9/25/2009 - 4/25/2010)
  • 7-part series on Shakespeare (9/25/2009 - 4/25/2010)
  • Conference Cities and the New Wars (9/25/2009 - 9/26/2009)
  • Gender and Transformation in Europe workshop - 7 sessions monthly throughout the academic year (9/25/2009 - 5/21/2010)
  • Max Weber Film Series Night on Earth (10/1/2009)
  • Symposium Europe The State of the Union (10/2/2009)
  • 7-part Seminar on Studies in Modern Italy (10/9/2009 - 4/9/2010)
  • Catalan Book Series Jazz Age in Barcelona (10/9/2009)
  • Max Weber Lecture Max Weber and the Study of Europe (10/20/2009)
  • European History workshop The Typicalities of the English W.W. Rostow, Modernization Theory, and the Example of English History (10/21/2009)
  • 6-part Seminar on Modern Europe (10/22/2009 - 3/10/2010)
  • The Western World Economy of the Twentieth Century An Historical Overview (10/27/2009)
  • Conference The Dynamics of European Borderlands (10/29/2009 - 10/31/2009)
  • Blinken Lecture on Global Challenges for the US and Europe, by Ambassador Nicholas Burns (11/4/2009)
  • European History workshop Keeping Track of it All How Early Modern English and British North American People Situated Themselves in Time (11/4/2009)
  • Global Challenges for the U.S. and Europe (11/4/2009)
  • Max Weber Roundtable Discussion Walls in Berlin, Europe and Beyond the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall (11/10/2009)
  • Conference Immigration, Education, and Language A Spain/USA Perspective (11/12/2009 - 11/13/2009)
  • Cities in Revolt The Dutch-American Atlantic, ca 1650-1815 (11/13/2009 - 11/14/2009)
  • Symposium on 1989 - Year of miracles Austria and the End of the Cold War (11/16/2009)
  • European History workshop The Order of the Prophets the Concept of Series in Early French Socialism (11/17/2009)
  • Mediterranean Studies Symposium Braudels Mediterranean, 60 Years Later (11/19/2009)
  • Language Assessment workshop ELLs, Academic Language, and Mathematics and Science Testing Theoretical and Practical Issues (11/24/2009)
  • Max Weber Lecture Europe as a Political Actor in the World (12/1/2009)
  • Panel discussion Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall Reflections on the Collapse of the Communist System in Central and Eastern Europe and its Aftermath (12/1/2009)
  • Catalan Book Series Immigration and Self-Government of Minority Nations (12/4/2009)
  • Catalan Dialogues 30 Years of Autonomy? The Catalan Statutes of Autonomy, 1979 and 2006 (12/10/2009)
  • Max Weber Lecture Threesome -- always delicate Germany, France and Poland in the Weimar Triangle (12/10/2009)
  • NYCatalonia Emerging Filmmakers Xavi Marrades, The Strangers Land (2/2/2010)
  • Symposium A Historians Homage to Claude Levi-Strauss (2/12/2010)
  • European History workshop Makescarce Bread Laws Aid to Ireland in the British Provinces (2/19/2010)
  • Teacher training seminar Immigration to New York City Then and Now (2/20/2010)
  • Catalan book series Jaume Cabre, Winter Journey (2/22/2010)
  • Little Night Music A Composers Salon with Benet Casablancas (2/24/2010)
  • CEMS Symposium From European Anti-Americanism to European Obamamania Compatible Contexts, Congruent Constructs (2/25/2010)
  • Symposium Fans, the Arts and the Public Sphere in Europe and America (2/26/2010)
  • Max Weber Lecture French Secularism and Islam From Headscarf to Burka and National Identity (3/2/2010)
  • Lecture Jordi Pujol, former President of the Government of Catalonia Europe and the United States in Todays World (3/3/2010)
  • European History workshop A Patriotic Emotion Shame and the Risorgimento (4/2/2010)
  • NYCatalonia Emerging Filmmakers Xavi Menos, El Heroe (4/6/2010)
  • Revenge, Restitution, and Rights Jewish Survivors in Postwar Germany (4/16/2010)
  • Symposium Dali Today (4/22/2010 - 4/23/2010)
  • European History workshop The Working Mens College A Victorian Meeting of Christian Socialism, Liberal Agnosticism, and Science (4/23/2010)
  • Max Weber Roundtable Alpine Populism The Radical Right in Southern German and Northern Italy, in Austria and Switzerland (4/23/2010)
  • Max Weber Lecture European and East Asian Religions as Global Civilizational Politics (4/27/2010)
  • Lecture Daughters of Sarah, Mothers of Israel Jewish Women of Medieval Girona (4/28/2010)
  • Lecture How German are They? Citizenship and the Cosmopolitan Challenge of Turks, Jews, and Russian-Germans (4/28/2010)
  • Traces of Esther The Jewish Presence in Contemporary Catalan Literature (5/4/2010)
  • Symposium Funding the Arts in Europe and the U.S. Today (5/6/2010 - 5/7/2010)
  • Conference on Macedonia Matters Conflict, Coexistence and Euro-Atlantic Integration in the Southern Balkans (10/15/2010)
  • Teach Europe Seminar The Lisbon Treaty What it Means for the EU, the USA, and the World (12/7/2010)
  • Conference Europe Beyond the States The Role of Southern European Sub-States in Immigration and Other Public Policies (1/27/2011 - 1/28/2011)

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