On March 25-26, the Max Kade Institute in collaboration with the University of Leeds/UK will host an international conference: Representing and Experiencing Transnationalism: Germanic Languages and Cultures in Global Perspective.
The event is supported by the World Universities Network Fund for International Research Collaborations. All parts of the program will be held at the Memorial Union.
The conference is preceded by a special workshop for UW graduate students on March 24 at 4pm at the Memorial Union. All graduate students are invited to attend.
The capstone event is a public lecture by Jane Wilkinson and Kristine Horner (both from the University of Leeds) on Shifting Borders in a Changing Europe on March 25, to be held from 6:00 - 7:30pm at the Memorial Union.
This lecture will explore the construction of nation-state borderland areas as ‘European’ spaces, focusing on two geographical case studies of ‘old’ and ‘new’ European Union borderlands: 1) the Luxembourg town Schengen, bordering on German and France, and 2) the towns of Görlitz (Germany) and Zgorzelec (Poland).
For program details see: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/german/WUN_conference.htm or please contact Antje Petty: apetty@wisc.edu