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EUCE NEWS

• Slides now available for Professor Ilona Kickbusch's seminar, "Governance Challenges for Global Health"
• NPR's IRA Flatow interviews EUCE faculty member Professor Dominique Brossard, "Preserving Science News In An Online World."
• NEW SPRING 2013 COURSE! The Sociology of Citizenship/ Interdisciplinary Western European Area Studies Seminar (Chad Goldberg), Sociology 875, Section 002
• Workshop: Gender, Equity, and Higher Education
  April 19-20, 2013, The Pyle Center,702 Langdon St. (Closed Workshop)
  The focus of this workshop is on gender equality policies that are being developed and implemented in universies which aim to be excellent. By looking at a small set of gender equality policies being implemented in specific university systems, the workshop attempts to identify significant beliefs about what "gender equality" is, what it contributes to visions of modern entrepreneurial "exellence." and how the mixture of equality and inequality is to be accomplished in practice.
  
  
• EU Brussels Summer Program (Undergraduates)
  Early July-Mid-August
  This program offers participants the opportunity to study the emergence of a united Europe in its dynamic heart. During this six-week program, students take two courses plus an EU simulation for a total of six UW-Madison credits. This program features lectures and seminars by leading experts on the EU from both sides of the Atlantic, as well as site visits to major EU institutions and organizations involved in European integration. This program is designed for undergraduate students interested in the politics of the European Union and is particularly recommened to students who have already taken Political Science 338 (The European Union). For more information, please visit the study abroad website.
  
  
• Opinion piece by EUCE Director Myra Marx Ferree and Associate Director Elizabeth Covington available on EU Institute for Securities website.
  
  
• New European Integration Lesson Plan Available for Download
  A lesson plan entitled The Origins of European Economic Cooperation and Integration is now available for download. The lesson plan intended for Grades 9-12 was created by Jason Knoll, History teacher at Verona High School and a 2011 participant on the EU Brussels Study Trip.
  

• "Europe at the Crossroads: The Euro Crisis and the Future of European Integration" April 25, 2012, 4:00 pm, The Pyle Center, Alumni Lounge, 702 Langdon St.
  The European Union Center of Excellence held a seminar on the Eurozone Crisis featuring George Ross, ad personam Chaire Jean Monnet at the University of Montreal, Arthur Goldhammer, Senior Affiliate of the Center for European Studies, Harvard University; and Menzie D. Chinn, Professor of Public Affairs and Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For additional information about the event and the speakers please see the event description. Now the VIDEO is available online.

• K-12 Outreach News: EU Lesson Plans Available!
  The European Delegation to the United States has designed a modular series of 10 European Union lesson plans meant to support History and Social Studies curricula for grades 9-12 (but also adaptable to Middle School). Download the promotional flyer or visit the K-12 Resources Page for more information. Lesson plans are available at www.eurunion.org.
  
  For more information, contact the European Studies Alliance Assistant Director, Csanád Siklós, at siklos@wisc.edu or 265-4766.

• From Myra Marx Ferree, Professor of Sociology and the Director of the EUCE:
  
  "Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global Perspective." Available from the Stanford University Press, 2012.
• From Menzie Chinn, Professor of Public Affairs and Economics:
  
  with Jeffry A. Frieden (Harvard University), "Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery." Available from W. W. Norton and Company, 2011.

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