A talk by influential senior scholar Valerie Traub of the University of Michigan entitled "Shakespeare's Sex" on Wednesday, November 16 at 3:00 in CL 332. Traub is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of *The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England*. Other books include *Desire & Anxiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama* (1992) and two co-edited collections: *Feminist Readings of Early Modern Culture: Emerging Subjects* (1996) and *Gay Shame* (2009).

Historian Elina Gertsman will present a lecture entitled "Holy Anatomy, Animate Substance: the Shrine Madonna as a Performing Object" on October 27, 2011. Elina's work combines more traditional methods of art historical scholarship with an interest in performance studies and cognitive science (or "embodied cognition"). She is the author of *The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance* (2010) and has also published several articles and edited the collection, *Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts* (2008).

As a former Legal Counsellor at the Council of the European Union in Brussels, Dr BErnaard Schloh brings relevant perspective and insight to the current state of the European Union. Until his retirement in 1994, Dr. Schloh was also a faculty member of the School of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He has also been a visiting faculty member at the University of Georgia, Saint Louis University, Washington and Lee University, Santa Clara University, and Tulane University.

Rachel Epstein is associate professor of international political economy and European politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. She has PhD from the Department of Government at Cornell and an AB in International Relations from Stanford University.
Sponsored by: European Union Center of Excellence/European Studies Center, Russian and East European Studies Center (REES), Department of Political Science

Foreign Visiting Professor Dr. Bernhard Schloh will present the first of this year’s two annual Jean Monnet lectures on European Union Law. The lecture is titled “The Present Situation of the European Union: Legal and Political Reflections.” Professor Dr. Bernhard Schloh is a former member of the Legal Service of the Council of Ministers of the European Union and is Professor Emeritus at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.

In his remarkable career as a journalist, Werner Sonne has reported on some of the most significant changes in our world. As radio and TV correspondent for the German channel ARD, he covered German chancellors Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schroder and Angela Merkel.

Students will learn about international studies and study abroad opportunities and internationally oriented careers.

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Helmut Berghoff, CEO of the German Historical Institute, will present a lecture entitled "Persistence or Demise of the Classic 'Mittlestand'? Small and Medium-sized Family Firms in the Federal Republic of Germany" on September 21, 2011 at 12pm in 101 Mervis Hall.