The Center for European Studies initiates, sponsors, and cosponsors a variety of multi-and-interdisciplinary conferences that address economic, social, political and cultural themes on contemporary Europe, European-American relations, and Europe's role in global affairs.

These conferences have several common objectives: they bring together leading national and international scholars; they enable faculty and graduate students from colleges and universities in the region and across the country to attend and benefit from such a leading scholarly event; they integrate social sciences, humanities and policy debates; they lead to publications that push forward the cutting-edge of scholarship; and, they include outreach elements that allow the broader community to enjoy education from nationally ranked university programs.

Upcoming CES Conferences and Workshops include:

Past Conferences and Workshops

• December 3-5, 2009
  In a Few Wor(l)ds: A Conference on World Literature/s at UW-Madison

• November 5-7, 2009
  42nd Wisconsin Workshop: The Wall Came Down: on the Twentieth Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

• October 9, 2009
  Smart Regulation: Can New Types of Governance Improve Health?  An Interdisciplinary Symposium

• April 30-May 2, 2009
  SASS CONFERENCE, UW-Madison
• 26-29 April 2007
  "National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages"

• 12-14 April 2007
  39th Wisconsin Workshop: The Making of Masculinities in Modern Germany

• 6 November 2006
  Colloquium on Linguistic Human Rights

• 3-4 November 2006
  Italy Ink. Italian Writing Today

• 20-21 October 2006
  The Politics of Consumption/The Consumption of Politics

• 21-23 September
  2006
  Albert Camus, Precursor: Mediterranean of Yesterday and Today

• 27-29 April 2006
  National Conference of Title VI Outreach Coordinators

• 27-30 April 2006
  National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages

• 14 October 2005
  Consumerism and Environmentalism in a Globalizing Europe

• 7-8 October 2005
  Unconscious
  Dominions: Comparing Histories of Psychoanalysis, Empire, and Citizenship

• 21-23 April 2005
  The Other Nineteenth Century

• 21-23 April 2005
  Film Style in Question

• 14-17 April 2005
  The Year of Languages: Expanding the Presence of Less Commonly Taught Languages

• 15 April 2005
  Genetically
  Modified Crops/Foods: The Future of the World Agricultural Economy?

• 8-9 April 2005
  Constructing the European Higher Education Area

• 4- 5 February 2005
  Modernism's Multiple Media: Text, Image, Sound

• 29-30 October 2004
  Enlarging Social Europe: The Open Method of Coordination and the EU's New Member States

• 25-27
  March 2004
  East and West: The Experience of Islam in an Expanding Europe

• 1 May
  2003
  Europe in Transition: Integration or Fragmentation?

• 25-26 April
  2003
  Italian Feminisms: Literature, Theory, Visual Arts

• 3-5 April
  2003
  National Feminisms in a Transnational Arena: The European Union and Gender Politics

• 4-5 October
  2002
  Landscape and Portrait: Agnès Varda's Cinematic Geographies

• 12 April 2002
  Compensation for Carework? Comparative Perspectives from Europe and the U.S.

• 15-16
  March 2002
  Europes and Contrary Tides: Filmmaking in the New Europe

• 15 November
  2001
  Toward a European Culture? National Traditions, Literature, and the Creation
  of a European Space

• 20-23 September
  2001
  Fascism and its Legacy: The Re-emergence of the Extreme Right

• 20-21 April
  2001
  Itineraries of European Integration

• 15 November
  2000
  New Voices from the New Europe: Literature, Readings, and Dialogue with European
  Authors

• 14-15 October
  2000
  Mainstreaming Gender in European Public Policy

• 8 September
  2000
  Taste, Technology and Terroir: A Transatlantic Dialogue on Food As Culture