Center for European Studies, University of Texas at Austin

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Recent Events

	October 1, 2008 Poetry on the Plaza: Ballads and Balladeers The Harry Ransom Center presents the free Poetry on the Plaza event Ballads and Balladeers on Wednesday, October 1, at noon. Popularized by the Romantics, the ballad is a unique narrative form of poetry that conveys stories of love, heroes, and tragedies. Students from University of Texas at Austin professor Andrew Cooper's "Romantic Authorship" course read ballads by traditional English poets John Keats, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as modern and folk interpretations of the ballad form. Pick up a free Poetry on the Plaza poster and bookmark with the 2008-09 schedule at the visitors' desk in the Ransom Center lobby.
	September 30, 2008 German Film Series, Fall 2008 - Sexual Revolutions in German Cinema A Woman in Flames (Robert van Ackeren, 1983) A Woman in Flames (Robert van Ackeren, 1983) Eva, who has recently left her husband, decides to become a prostitute. She meets Yvonne, and together they start picking up johns. One night she goes home with Chris who she soon learns is a hustler. They move in together and have what at first looks like a good relationship. When Eva begins working as a dominatrix, though, and making more money than Chris, he gets envious and they begin fighting. In a dramatic turn before ending, the film questions the distribution of power in relationships between women and men, and violence as an expression of gender inequality.
	September 29, 2008 Symposium: Energy Policy and Technology in France and the EU Some Implications for the United States Download more information about the symposium (PDF, 250K)
	September 26, 2008 Fifth International Conference on Construction Grammar Conference Registration Purchase your conference registration now in our online webstore! Conference Webstore: http://utdirect.utexas.edu/txshop/list.WBX?component=0andapplication_name=GMGERMAN For general questions about ICCG-5 please write to: iccg5organization@gmail.com
	September 26, 2008 "Monuments We'd Like to Forget" Dr. Steven Hoelscher Steve Hoelscher Chair and Associate Professor, Department of American Studies - UT "For the past sixty years, the citizens of Vienna, Austria, have struggled with what to do with their city's most notorious monuments. In three centrally-located parks stand virtually all that remains from Vienna's Nazi past: six enormous flak towers -- windowless, indestructible, and water-tight -- that cast dark shadows over Vienna's fabled picturesque landscape. Built between 1942 and 1944 by the Third Reich's Armaments Ministry, the amorphous concrete giants that once served as anti-aircraft and radio towers today function as indestructible monuments in a city that strives to forget its least heralded past. Interrogating their contested presence on the landscape is the purpose of this lecture."
	September 26, 2008 Lecture by Professor Mary Pickering "Auguste Comte: Positivism, Politics, and the Religion of Humanity" Professor of History, San Jose State University Mary Pickering, who is completing Volume II of the first biography of Auguste Comte, will speak on his concepts of sociology and positivism, demonstrating their links to the social unrest of the nineteenth century. She will reveal her findings about his feminist proclivities, views of the emotions, Religion of Humanity, and epistemology. Having worked extensively in archives in France, England, and the United States for twenty-five years, she will also shed light on why his ideas attracted a wide following.
	September 25, 2008 Italian Film "Il Conformista" Il conformista (The Conformist, 1970) is a political film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. The screenplay was written by Bertolucci based on the novel The Conformist (1951) by Alberto Moravia. The film features Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, among others. The drama serves as an analysis of the Fascist mentality which explores a sexual motivation. Marcello Clerici is an Italian coward who spends his life accommodating others and joins the Italian Fascist party as a way of disappearing into the crowd so that he can "belong." Bertolucci makes use of the 1930s art and decor associated with the Fascist mentality and era: the middle-class drawing rooms and the huge halls of the ruling elite. from wikipedia
	September 24, 2008 CIA - Critical Language/Clandestine Information Session Open to All UT Students Attire: Business Casual. RSVP is required to attend this event. To RSVP for this event, please email Robert Vega at Liberal Arts Career Services by September 23 at 4:00pm at r.vega@austin.utexas.edu
	September 18, 2008 U.S. Department of State - Information Session Open to All UT Students Ambassador William Eaton Attire: Business Casual. Join UT's Diplomat in Residence Bill Eaton to learn more about a career working as a diplomat for the U.S. Department of State. Ambassador Eaton will also discuss the Foreign Service Written Exam, which is the first step to a Foreign Service Career. Regardless of your major, consider a career where you can be a part of making history while experiencing life in the world of diplomacy!
	April 10, 2008 European Studies Annual Conference Making Europe/Making Europeans: The Ethnographic and the Everyday For more information about our annual conference, please visit http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/european_studies/conferences/making-europe/index/ or go to our main page and follow the link on the right.
	April 2, 2008 "Adopting the Euro in New Member States" Talk by Thedore Pelagidis, Professor of Economic Analysis, University of Piraeur, Greece Dr. Theodore Pelagidis is a Professor of Economic Analysis at the University of Piraeus in Greece as well as a Senio Visiting Scholar for The Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. The talk is free and open to everyone.
	February 23, 2007 Social Models Conference A two day conference will feature speakers from the University of Texas as well as throughout the United States and Europe. Panels will feature comparisons between the U.S. and Europe on immigration and race, gender and economic issues. The keynote speaker on Friday afternoon will be Norman Birnbaum, Professor Emeritus at the Georgetown University Law Center and author most recently of "After Progress: American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century" (Oxford). For more information and registration, click the link below.
	March 28, 2008 German Studies Workshop Berlin, City Divided 1945-89