| Conferences & Lectures |
| Spring Semester 2008 Lecture Series ~ Black Europe: The African Diaspora in Europe |
| "Gendered Narratives of Slave Emancipation: Saint Domingue, 1793." A lecture by Elizabeth Colwill, Associate Professor of History at San Diego State University. ~ April 25, 2008 |
| "Rape Hysteria and the Sexual Economy of Race: French Accusations of Sexual Assault against African-American GIs, 1944-46." A lecture by Mary Louise Roberts, Professor of Gender and Women's History at University of Wisconsin, Madison. ~ April 24, 2008 |
| "My Literary Life with Vaclav Havel."A lecture by, Paul Wilson, the officila translator of Vaclav Havel's Work. ~ April 17, 2008 |
| Workshop: "Conversations about Identities, Disciplinarity, and the Study of the European Union." April 10 - 11, 2008 |
| Noni Benegas, Poet. Public reading and conversation. April 8 - 10, 2008. |
| "Terror and Trauma: On the Violence of the Past in Germany." A lecture by Thomas Elsaesser, University of Amsterdam and Yale University. ~ April 4, 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. March 26-28, 2008 |
| "Reflections on the Anschluss of Austria with Nazi Germany." A lecture by Oliver Rathkolb, Professor of History at the University of Vienna. ~ March 10, 2008. |
| "The Birth of the Human Rights Movement," a lecture by Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University ~ November 30, 2007 |
| "Breaking with Dutch WWII Taboos, or Reinforcing Cliches? Verhoeven's Blackbook and its Critical Audience Reception in the Netherlands and the U.S," a lecture by Pascale Bos, University of Texas, Austin ~ November 15, 2007 |
| "The Europeanization of Memories: Nightmares or Daydreams?" a lecture by Konrad Jarausch, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina ~ October 25, 2007 |
| Building Transnational Civil Liberties: Transgovernmental Entrepreneurs and the European Data Privacy Directive, lecture by Abe Newman ~ October 15, 2007 |
| Anselm Hollo, Poet and Translator ~ Friday, March 30, 2007 |
| Being Jewish in the New Germany ~ Tuesday, March 20, 2007 |
| See you at Mao; French intellectuals and the Chinese Cultural Revolution ~ Friday, February 16, 2007 |
| Ahmed Zitouni lecture series - November 13-17, 2006 |
| Charles Frazee Lecture "The Challenges of the Eastern Orthodox Church in the Eastern Mediterranean: Contemporary Problems in Historical Perspective" - November 10, 2006 |
| Days of Glory (Indigènes):Film Screening Friday October 27, 2006 |
| Spaces of War: France and the Francophone World: October 26 - October 28, 2006 |
| Picture, Place, and Power: An Interdisciplinary Symposium, September 23 ~ 24, 2005 |
| Boundary Crossings: Temporal Dialogues in Finnish Landscape Photography, August 30 ~ October 6, 2005 |
| Borderlands Symposium ~ September 30 - October 3, 2004 |
| Finn Forum VII - Cultural Encounters: Migration, Ethnicity, and Identities ~ October 28-30, 2004 |
| Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies ~ June 3-6, 2004 |
| Urban Decay/Industrial Ruins ~ April 15-16, 2004 |
| Contested Urban Futures ~ November 6-9, 2003 |
| Embodiments of Power: Building Baroque Cities in Austria and Europe ~ September 18-20, 2003 |