events

March 10, 2008, 3:30 - 5:00 ~ Wilkins Room, 215 Humphrey Center

Oliver Rathkolb, Professor of History at the University of Vienna, "Reflections on the Anschluss of Austria with Nazi Germany."

March 26-29, 2008

Capstone Conference 2008: "Social Policy in the New Europe: The Experience of Austria and the Smaller EU States." Organized with the Center for Austrian Studies.

April 4, 2008, 2:30 - 5:00 ~ Nicholson 275

Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam and Yale University, "Terror and Trauma: On the Violence of the Past in Germany."

April 8-10, 2008

Noni Benegas, lesbian feminist poet, translator, and essayist will visit the Univeristy of Minnesota.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008 ~ 4:00 PM Nolte Library ~ Public Conversation with Jill Robbins, University of Texas

Thursday, April 10, 2008 ~ 7:00 PM The Loft Literary Center (1011 Wash. Ave S, Mpls.) ~ Public Poetry Reading from her first collection of poetry translated to English Buring Cartography.

April 10 -11, 2008 ~ 215 Humphrey Center (Wilkins Room)

"Conversations about Identities, Disciplinarity, and the Study of the European Union."

Workshop and conversations are open to faculty and students. Detailed information to come.

April 17, 2008, 3:00 - 4:30 ~ 120 Andersen Library

Paul Wilson, the "official" translator of Vaclav Havel's work, "My Literary Life with Vaclav Havel."

April 24, 2008, 3:15 - 5:00 PM ~ 710 Social Science Building (Ford Room)

Mary Louise Roberts, Professor of Gender and Women's History at University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Rape Hysteria and the Sexual Economy of Race: French Accusations of Sexual Assault against African-American GIs, 1944-46."

April 25, 2008, 12:15 - 1:30 ~ 710 Social Science Building (Ford Room)

Elizabeth Colwill, Associate Professor of History at San Diego State University, "Gendered Narratives of Slave Emancipation: Saint Domingue, 1793."