Outside guest speakers on campus:

January
• Lecture: Dominik Wichmann
  "The State as Prey: Why the Common Good Is Being Sold Down the River in Europe"
  Tuesday, January 16, 4:00 p.m.
  IMU Oak Room

Dominik Wichmann, editor-in-chief of Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, is one of the most remarkable young journalists working in Germany today. Winner of numerous prizes, he is poised to becoming one of the youngest chief editors of the Süddeutsche, one of the two most respected daily papers in Germany.

According to Wichmann, many European states are engaged in a process that has already been completed in the United States, or rather that in this form has never taken place, namely the undoing of the state. Many features of the state, once recognized and prized as part of the common good, are being eliminated. However, unlike in Anglo-Saxon cultures, many of the Continental cultures, Wichmann argues, do not have a citizenry with a keenly developed sense of civic duty. Thus the gaps left by the state remain unfilled. He would like to demonstrate this development in several spheres, such as language, education, politics, and others.

March
• Lecture: Professor Barry Eichengreen
  "Coordinated Capitalism: The Past and Future of the European Model"
  Thursday, March 1, 4:30 p.m.
  Ballantine Hall 006

Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is also Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, England). In 1997-98 he was Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (class of 1997). He is the convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials. He has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo Alto) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin).

Professor Eichengreen has published widely on the history and current operation of the international monetary and financial system. His books include The European Economy Since 1945 (Princeton University Press, 2006), Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods (MIT Press, 2006) and Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 (Oxford University Press, 1992). He was awarded the Economic History Association's Jonathan R.T. Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2002 and the University of California at Berkeley Social Science Division's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004. He is also the recipient of a doctor honoris causa from the American University in Paris.

April
• Lecture: Maritta Soininen
  "Immigration and Employment  Policies in The European Union:  New Policy Tools and Approaches – Does Greater Participation Guarantee a Democratic Policy Process?"
  Monday, April 2, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
  Institute for Developmental Strategies conference room, SPEA

Maritta Soininen is an Associate Professor at the University of Stockholm. Her research interests are public policy, policy implementation, and political participation in the field of migration and ethnic relations.

The abstract for Professor Soininen's lecture can be downloaded here [PDF].

• Talk: Maritta Soininen
  "Sweden and the EU Facing a MultiEthnic Future: What It Means for Countries and Companies"
  Tuesday, April 3, 9:30 a.m.
  Indiana Historic Landmarks Foundation Building
  340 W. Michigan St. Indianapolis 46202

Maritta Soininen is an Associate Professor at the University of Stockholm. Her research interests are public policy, policy implementation, and political participation in the field of migration and ethnic relations. She is currently program leader responsible for ‘Diversity Practice and Policy’, a multidisciplinary research programme (2000-2006), at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life.

For more information, please visit: http://2.john.clark.googlepages.com/april3%3Amarittasoininen

• Lecture: Nicolas Jabko
  "The Social Construction of Strategy: How European Elites Agreed on a Market, a Currency, and a Constitution"
  Wesnesday, April 11, 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
  Woodburn Hall 218

Nicolas Jabko is a Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), Paris. He has held research positions at Princeton University's Center of International Studies, at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI), and at the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE).  He has also worked as an instructor in the Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley, and as a policy analyst on the Policy Planning Staff of the French Foreign Ministry.

Professor Jabko's research interests include the politics of economic reforms and policies; democracy and accountability in the European Union; and institutions, market-building, and change. He has authored Les Deux Visages de l'Union Européenne (Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2007), forthcoming; Playing the Market : A Political Strategy for Uniting Europe, 1985-2005, Ithaca, Cornell University press (Cornell Studies in Political Economy), 2006; and With US or Against US ? European Trends in American Perspective (co-edited with Craig Parsons), Oxford, Oxford University Press, (The State of the European Union, vol. 7), 2005.

A draft of Professor Jabko's lecture paper may be downloaded here [PDF].

• Lecture: Milada Vachudova
  "EU Enlargement and Democracy Promotion in the Western Balkans"
  Monday, April 16, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
  Woodburn Hall 101

Milada Anna Vachudova, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, specializes in the democratization of post-communist Europe and the impact of international institutions on domestic politics. She previously held fellowships and research grants from the European University Institute, National Science Foundation, the Center for International Studies at Princeton University, the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, and the European Union Center of New York City at Columbia University. She also taught at the Central European University and at Charles University in Prague. As a British Marshall Scholar, she completed a D.Phil. in the Faculty of Politics at the University of Oxford in 1997. Her book Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage, and Integration After Communism was published by Oxford University Press in 2005.

May
• Workshop for Social Studies Teachers
  "The European Union and Why It Matters to Indiana"[flyer PDF]
  Friday, May 11
  9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
  Indiana University campus
  Bloomington, IN
  Contact Jeff Pennington japennin@indiana.edu with questions.