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Undergraduate Program in European Studies
The interdisciplinary European Studies Program offers students a broad background in the languages, politics, history, literatures, and cultures of Europe. European culture has been enormously influential in shaping today's global civilization. Europe is by far the largest trading bloc in the world, the site of the largest amount of foreign investment by the United States, and the largest international investor in the United States.
By studying with KU faculty members in business, humanities, law, the social sciences, languages, literatures, and linguistics students gain a deeper understanding of Europe's past, present, and future impact on the world.
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Coming Soon
News:
German academic agency names KU senior a 2010 Young Ambassador:
"Brandy Nichole Groff, majoring in Germanic languages and literatures with
co-majors in international studies and European studies, is among students who
studied or interned in Germany in the previous academic year who will serve as
liasions for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in the United States
and Canada."
Fall 2011
European Debt Crisis
Roundtable Discussion
Thursday, November 17
3:30 - 4:30 P.M.
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
Panelists:
John Keating, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, KU
Stephanie Kelton, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Robert Rohrschneider, Sir Robert Worcester Distinguished
Professor in Public Opinion and Survey Research, Department of Political
Science, KU
Victor Bailey, Charles W. Battey Distinguished Professor of Modern British History, Department of History, and Director, Hall Center for the Humanities
Co-sponsors: European Studies Program; Center for Global & International Studies; Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies; Hall Center for the Humanities; and the Departments of Classics, French & Italian, Germanic Languages & Literatures, Slavic Languages & Literatures, and Spanish & Portuguese.
Past Events:
Spring 2011
Lecture: “The Global Mindset---What is it, Why you need it, and How you get it” Manfred Stinnes, Visiting Scholar in Global and International Studies and European Studies Program
Monday, May 9 12:30 P.M. over lunch and 5:00 P.M. over dinner
International Visitors Council of Greater Kansas City
Union Station of Kansas City
30 West Pershing Road Suite 405
Kansas City, MO 64108
Irish Photographer Alen Mcweeney at the Spencer Museum
Thursday, May 5 and Sunday, May 7Film Screening and Discussion, SMA Auditorium
Co-sponsored by the Center for Global & International Studies, The KU European Studies Program and the Spencer Museum of Art.
SMA owns 31 art works by Alen
MacWeeney. Ten of these are currently on display as part of Conversation X: That
Invisible Dance, on view until May 29, 2011. All of the SMA-owned work can be
seen here.
You will find all of Alen MacWeeney’s
work here.
On Thursday, May 5, 2011 at 6:00 PM in the SMA auditorium, MacWeeney will screen his film titled Irish Travellers: Tinkers No More with a slide-show of images from Ireland from his 1965-1969 period. Both the film and the slideshow relate directly to the ten artworks currently on exhibit at the Museum. MacWeeney will also lead a tour through Conversation X: That Invisible Dance and will discuss his photographs in relation to Irish art and literature in general.
On May 7, 2011 at 2:00 PM, MacWeeney will participate in SMA’s annual Art & Culture Festival with a repeat presentation of his slideshow and tour.
Current publications and Reviews of MacWeeney’s work on Irish Travellers:
The Smithsonian
The Berkeshire Review: An International Journal for the Arts
Yankee Magazine
Milky Blacks
Vermont Center for Photography
Gail Parker, former President of Bennington College
Circa 1976, gelatin silver print, Gift of Esquire, Inc., Spencer Museum of Art
Little Tinker Child, Ireland
1965, gelatin silver print, Gift of Frederick M. Myers and Elizabeth Myers, Spencer Museum of Art
Click on image to view and download press release.
Lecture: Professor Katherine Conley: "Surrealistic Collections and Reconcilliations from the Trocadero to the Quai Branly Museum"
Monday, May 2
4:00-5:30 P.M.
Pine Room, Kansas Union
Co-Sponsored by the Department of French and Italian, The Center for Global & International Studies and the European Studies Program.
Professor Katharine Conley, Edward Tuck Professor of French Language and Literature (and Associate Dean) at Dartmouth College, will present the third public lecture in the Identities-Cultures-Nations series.
Professor Conley is a distinguished and internationally well-known scholar who has published extensively on Surrealism, in particular women Surrealists, the major Surrealist poet Robert Desnos, ghostliness, and ethics ofreconciliation in a cultural context. I quote from her Dartmouth website: "Professor Conley’s research and teaching focuses on surrealism as the premier avant-garde movement of the twentieth century. She has published books and articles on women and the surrealist movement, on the poet 
Robert Desnos as the founding figure upon whom surrealist practice was founded—a poet whose surrealist idealism helped him in his work on the radio in the 1930s and in the French Resistance up through his deportation and death in a newly liberated concentration camp in 1945—and on the links between surrealist poetry and painting and surrealism and outsider art. She is also the author of essays in museum exhibition catalogues. She teaches courses in the Department of French and Italian and in the Comparative Literature and Women’s and Gender Studies Programs on surrealism, women in surrealism, modernism and anthropology, primitivism and outsider art, and on surrealism and photography. Her current research project explores ghostliness in surrealist thought, film, photography, painting, sculpture, and writing."
Peace & Conflict Studies Lecture: Commerce and Complicity:
Corporate Responsibilty for Human Rights Abuses as a Legacy of Nuremberg
Wednesday, March 3
8:00 P.M.
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
Reception to follow in the English Room
Elizabeth Borgwardt
Associate Professor of History
Washington University in St. Louis
Distinguished Lecturer, Organization of American Historians
Cosponsored by the Center for Global & International Studies, Hall Center for the Humanities, Department of History, Center for European Studies
Brownbag Lecture: Social Inequality in Germany since 1989: East v. West
Manfred Stinnes, Visiting Scholar in Global and International Studies and European Studies Program
Tuesday, April 26
12:00-1:00 P.M.
706 McCluggage, 7th Floor, Fraser Hall
Presented by the Department of Sociology, the Center for Global & International Studies and the European Studies Program.
International Focus Film: World Migration Series Special Event
Friday, April 29
3:00 P.M.
Spencer Museum Auditorium
Screening of "Delfina's Story"
Documentary in German and English with English subtitles.
Followed by question and answer session with the film's director, Annelie Runge.
Sponsored by the Center for Global and International Studies, European Studies Program, Department of Film & Media Studies, and the Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.
This film explores the life of Delfina, a Filipino woman who has moved to Germany to work as a housekeeper in order to support her aging parents, siblings, and even some extended family. She struggles internally with events in her past, elements of her faith and the two very different lives she has led in Europe and her home country. She is employed illegally but is much beloved by her employers. She faces the tough decision of whether to try to remain in Germany so she can continue to offer financial support or to return home, which would be a bittersweet choice for both her and her family.
Fall 2010
European Studies Faculty Mixer
For Students
For Faculty
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