1. “The European Origins of Abstract Art”. CODE Y1

Presentation
The workshop will introduce participants to the many inventions of abstract art in the European teens and twenties. Artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Hans Arp, Robert Delaunay, and Frantisek Kupka will be discussed in depth. We will try to answer what motivated these artists to "go abstract" and how their works come to mean in very different ways.

Instructor: Christine Mehring
Christine Mehring is Assistant Professor of the History of Art at Yale. She received her BA from the University of Lüneberg, Germany, an MA from SUNY-Stony Brook, and another MA and her PhD from Harvard. She works on 20th-century European art and photography, postwar American art, and contemporary art. She is completing a book on the German abstract painter Blinky Palermo, co-editing an anthology of postwar European art, and working on a study of abstraction and decoration in the 20th century. Other publications include studies of Hans Hartung, Konrad Klapheck, Dieter Roth, and Benjamin Buchloh, and she has curated an exhibition of photographs at the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University. Professor Mehring’s lecture courses at Yale include a survey of Western Art from the Renaissance to the Present, an Introduction to Postwar Art in Europe and the United States, and an Introduction to Modern European Art, 1837-1938. She has taught seminars on Writing Art Criticism, Abstraction, Abstract Art and Design, Minimalism, Postwar German Art, the German Sixties, and Methods of Art History.

3. "EU Expansion after the Referendum" . CODE Y3

Instructor: David R. Cameron
David Cameron is the Director of the Program in European Union Studies of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies and is a Professor in Yale’s Department of Political Science, where he also is currently Director of Undergraduate Studies. He received his BA from Williams College, an MBA from Dartmouth, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Politics, and his PhD from the University of Michigan. Professor Cameron has 36 publications in his resumé and another five in preparation, and has recently lectured at the University of Amsterdam, the World Affairs Forum, Harvard, Georgetown, McGill, the Université de Montréal, Columbia, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, in Köln. He has been a longtime supporter of university outreach to schools and community colleges.

4. "Applying the Common European Framework to Language Curriculum Construction in the US" . CODE Y4

Presentation
Encouraging reflection and communication about all aspects of language learning, teaching, and assessment, and putting forth a descriptive apparatus that can be adopted to most diverse language programs, the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEF) promotes one of the perhaps most fundamental areas of language teaching and learning: it fosters the development of students as responsible independent (language) learners both inside and outside of formal education. During this workshop, participants will be offered a detailed overview of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and learn how to interpret and work with its can-do-descriptions. Possibilities and limits for adapting the CEF to existing language curricula will be explored and benefits the framework can provide will be discussed. Participants will learn to compare CEF descriptions and tools to what they already do in their home institutions, and how using the CEF can build a common mode of communication across languages.

Instructor: Dr. Ute Maschke of the German Department of Cornell University
Ute Maschke is a senior lecturer at the Department of German Studies at Cornell University. She teaches introductory as well as advanced language courses and introductory cultural studies seminars, and supervises and assists graduate teaching assistants in course development, lesson planning, and assessment. She has developed various online language learning tools, which accentuate the intercultural dimension in foreign language learning and can be used across languages and language levels. She is co-directing a project to adopt the CEF to language study in the U.S. She is completing a study on “Teaching Berlin” and a project entitled Instabilities. Masculinities in 19th century German literature. She received her MA from Rostock University (Germany) and another MA and her PhD from Brown University.

Christine Mehring, Yale University

Christine Mehring is Assistant Professor of the History of Art at Yale. She received her BA from the University of Lüneberg, Germany, an MA from SUNY-Stony Brook, and another MA and her PhD from Harvard. She works on 20th-century European art and photography, postwar American art, and contemporary art. She is completing a book on the German abstract painter Blinky Palermo, co-editing an anthology of postwar European art, and working on a study of abstraction and decoration in the 20th century. Other publications include studies of Hans Hartung, Konrad Klapheck, Dieter Roth, and Benjamin Buchloh, and she has curated an exhibition of photographs at the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University. Professor Mehring’s lecture courses at Yale include a survey of Western Art from the Renaissance to the Present, an Introduction to Postwar Art in Europe and the United States, and an Introduction to Modern European Art, 1837-1938. She has taught seminars on Writing Art Criticism, Abstraction, Abstract Art and Design, Minimalism, Postwar German Art, the German Sixties, and Methods of Art History.

Jolyon Howorth, Yale University

Jolyon Howorth is Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at the University of Bath (UK). He is a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale (2002-2007). He has published extensively in the field of European politics and history, especially security and defense policy and transatlantic relations - thirteen books and over one hundred journal articles and chapters in books.

Note to Teachers:
I assume we shall deal with a number of EU-US comparisons during the panel discussion, as well as the broader issue of where Europe is currently heading. Issues that seem relevant are EU-US approaches to counter-terrorism; ongoing issues connected with the Iraq War and the Middle East more generally; the question of the Constitutional impasse and specifically where Turkey now stands.
I attach - in connection with my morning keynote speech - a piece I published in the Yale Journal of International Affairs (click here to read it). You should also look at the speech which the EU Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner gave in Boston last week on the state of the EU-US relationship. You can find it on:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/news/ferrero/2005/sp05_500.htm

Peter Oliver

Peter Oliver is Legal Advisor to the European Commission in Brussels and this year is the European Union Fellow and Lecturer at Yale. A specialist in anti-trust issues and external relations, he advises the EC on the air transport and media sectors and is currently engaged in more than 20 cases before the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance. He has a BA in law and a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a Licence spéciale en droit européen from the Université de Bruxelles, Belgium. During his year as EU Fellow at Yale, Dr. Oliver will conduct research on the rights of corporations.

KEYNOTE SPEECH + Q&A

Jolyon Howorth, Yale University

“The US and the EU after the Referendum”".
Jolyon Howorth is Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics at the University of Bath (UK). He is a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale (2002-2007). Previous appointments were at: University of Paris III-Sorbonne-Nouvelle, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Aston University (UK). He has held Visiting Professorships at Harvard University, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris), the University of Washington, Columbia and New York Universities. He has held a Senior Research Fellowship at the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies. He is a Senior Research Associate at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales (Paris), a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (UK), Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France), and Member of the Advisory Boards of the European Institute for Public Administration (Netherlands), and the Centre for the Study of Security and Diplomacy (UK).