Activities January-July 2010

In the programme below all activities of the Max Weber Programme are announced. Please refer to the different EUI Department's websites for an overview of their activities. Italian courses are not announced in the programme below, but will be communicated by the EUI Language Centre.

January 2010

11 January, Monday	Start of Winter Term
12 January, Tuesday 9.15-10.45 ACS, VF, Sala A & B	SPS & ECO Writers Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
12 January, Tuesday 11.00-12.30 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
13 January, Wednesday 10.00-12.00 APW, VF, SR	How to Structure a Lecture - and the use of Power Point Neil McLean, LSE / Fiesole Group
13 January, Wednesday 13.00-15.00 APW, VF, SR	Small-group Teaching Preparation for Micro-teaching Mandatory for Fellows going on teaching exchange Neil McLean, LSE / Fiesole Group
13 January, Wednesday 15.15-16.45 VF, Sala B	Reading Group on the Financial Crisis in preparation for MW Conference "Causes, Mechanisms, and Consequences of the Recent Financial Crisis" Contact: Fang Xu , MW Visiting Fellow
13 January, Wednesday 17.15-18.30 VF, Seminar Room	ECO 'Macro Reading Group' Contact: Alessandro Mennuni , MW Fellow
15 January, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
18 January, Monday 12.00	Deadline Research Proposal For more information go to Moodle
18-19 January, Mon-Tues 09.00-18.00 Mon-Tue APW, VF, Sala A & B	Micro-Teaching 10 minutes per person
19 January, Tuesday 9.15-10.45 ACS, VF, Sala A & B	HEC Writers Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
19 January, Tuesday 11.00-12.30 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
20 January, Wednesday 11.15 MWL, VF, CR	Special Max Weber Lecture "The Great Moderation, the Great Panic and the Great Contraction" Charles Richard Bean, Deputy Governor, Bank of England Introduction: Giancarlo Corsetti , EUI Chair: Yang Lu, MW Fellow Jointly organized by the Max Weber Programme, ECO Department and Pierre Werner Chair Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre, EUI
20 January, Wednesday 14.00-15.30 VF, Sala A	Reading Group on Inequality "Inequalities in political participation" Organized by Christian Schemmel and Holger Döring , MWP Fellows
20 January, Wednesday 14.00 APG, VF	Academic Practice Groups
20 January, Wednesday 17.00 MWL, VF, CR	Max Weber Lecture The Financial Crisis: Can History Help Us Understand the Future? Harold James, Princeton University / HEC Department, EUI Introduction: Bartolomé Yun Casalilla, EUI Chair: Gergely Baics, MW Fellow
22 January, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
26 January, Tuesday 9.15-10.45 ACS, VF, Sala A & B	LAW Writers Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
26 January, Tuesday 11.00-12.30 ACW, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
27 January, Wednesday 10.30-12.30 APW, VF, CR	Academic Practice Workshop The Intellectual and the Public: In and Out of the Ivory Tower - A round table discussion about the role of academia in the real world. How and why academics should confront the public, if they have a role as intellectuals in the society. Tito Boeri, Bocconi University Organized by Giunia Gatta and Alexia Katsanidou , MWP Fellows
29 January, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes

February 2010

2 February, Tuesday 9.15-10.45 ACS, VF, Sala B	SPS Writers Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
2 February, Tuesday 11.00-12.30 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
2 February, Tuesday 15.00-16.00 Common session 16.00-18.00 Tutorials APW, VF, CF & Sala A	Writing a Book Proposal for CUP/OUP: Academic Publishing in the 21st Century Individual tutorials on book proposals Richard Fisher, Executive Director CUP
3 February, Wednesday 09.00-15.00 Tutorials APW, VF, Sala A	Writing a Book Proposal for CUP/OUP Individual Tutorials on book proposals Richard Fisher, Executive Director CUP
3 February, Wednesday 15.30-18.00 MRW, VF, CR	Multidisciplinary Research Workshop Judges and Historians: A Comparative Perspective Carlo Ginzburg, Scuola Normale di Pisa and Iris Agmon , Ben Gurion University Organized by the HEC Fellows Practice Group
5 February, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
9 February, Tuesday 9.15-10.45 ACS, VF, Sala A & B	HEC Writers Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
9 February, Tuesday 11.00-12.30 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
10 February, Wednesday 09.00-18.00 APW, VF, CR	Time Management Workshop Dr. Sarah Shephard, University of Zurich
10 February, Wednesday 17.15-18.30 VF, Seminar Room	ECO 'Macro Reading Group' Contact: Alessandro Mennuni , MW Fellow
12 February, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
16 February, Tuesday 9.15-10.45 ACS, VF, Sala B	LAW & ECO Writers Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
16 February, Tuesday 11.00-12.30 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
17 February, Wednesday 11.30 Reading Group, VF, Sala A	Reading Group on the Financial Crisis Organized by Antonio Miralles , Valentina Calderai and Sara Konoe , MWP Fellows
17 February, Wednesday 14.00-15.30 Reading Group, VF, Sala A	Reading Group on Inequality "Urban Studies: Of life and the City: The Provision of Urban Basic needs" Organized by Christian Schemmel and Holger Döring , MWP Fellows
17 February, Wednesday 14.00 APG, VF	Academic Practice Groups
17 February, Wednesday 17.00 MWL, VF, CR	Max Weber Lecture "Natural Law and Social Science: Some Historical Considerations" Knud Haakonssen, University of Sussex Introduction: Dennis Patterson , EUI Chair: Merilin Kiviorg , MW Fellow
19 February, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
22-26 February Mon-Fri	UPF Barcelona Teaching Exchange
22-26 February Mon-Fri	MWP Second-Term Activity free Week

March 2010

2 March, Tuesday 9.15-10.45 ACS, VF, Sala A	ECO Writers Group EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
2 March, Tuesday 09.30-11.00 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
2 March, Tuesday 11.15-12.45 ACS, VF, Sala A & B	LAW and SPS (A2) Writers Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
2 March, Tuesday 14.00-16.00 Reading Group, VF, Sala B	Reading Group on Human Rights Organized by Giunia Gatta and Ayça Çubukçu , MW Fellows
3 March, Wednesday 11.00-13.00 MRW, VF, CR	Multidisciplinary Research Workshop Social Networks "Economic credit in Renaissance Florence" by John Padgett , University of Chicago "On criminal networks" by Federico Varese , University of Oxford Chair: Autumn Lockwood Payton, MW Fellow Discussants: Paolo Pin , University of Siena, and Claudia Gazzini , MW Fellow Organized by SPS Fellows Practice Group
3 March, Wednesday 14.15-15.30 Q&A, VF, CR	Q&As beyond research ... "The Future of European Institutions" Josep Borrell, President EUI and Miguel Maduro, LAW Department/RSCAS, EUI Chair: Elaine Fahey , MW Fellow
3 March, Wednesday 16.00-17.00 Reading Group	Reading Group on War Change and Continuity in Practice of War Organized by Colin Fleming, MW Fellow
5 March, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
8 - 12 March Mon-Fri	LSE Teaching Exchange
9 March, Tuesday 9.15-10.45 ACS, VF, Sala A & B	HEC and SPS (A1) Writers Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
9 March, Tuesday 11.00-12.30 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
10 March, Wednesday 15.00-18.00 MRW, VF, CR	Multidisciplinary Research Workshop "Between Inclusion and Exclusion: The End(s) of Human Rights" Eric Weitz , University of Minnesota Martin Scheinin, EUI Chair: Autumn Lockwood Payton , MW Fellow Organized by Giunia Gatta, Ayça Çubukçu and Autumn Lockwood Payton, MW Fellows
10 March, Wednesday	ECO 'Macro Reading Group' Contact: Alessandro Mennuni , MW Fellow
11-12 March, Thur- Fri Conference, VF, CR	Conference on Migration “Understanding the Dynamics of Migration: Family, Generations and Inequalities” Organized by Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences together with Max Weber Programme and Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, Department of Political and Social Sciences, EUI
12 March, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
16 March, Tuesday 10.00-13.00 APW, VF, SR	Academic Practice Workshop The Performing Professor Patricia Bower, New York University Stern School of Business
16 March, Tuesday 11.00-12.30 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
17 March, Wednesday 14.00-15.30 VF, Sala A	Reading Group on Inequality "Economic Measures of Inequality" Organized by Christian Schemmel and Holger Döring, MWP Fellows
17 March, Wednesday 14.00 APG, VF	Academic Practice Groups
17 March, Wednesday 17.00 MWL, VF, CR	Max Weber Lecture Is a Contract Law Necessary? Alan Schwartz, Yale University Introduction: Fabrizio Cafaggi, EUI Chair: Laura Magi, MW Fellow
19 March, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
23 March, Tuesday 09.15-10.45 ACS, VF, Sala A	HEC Writers Group EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
23 March, Tuesday 09.30-11.00 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
23 March, Tuesday 11.15-12.45 ACS, VF, Sala A & B	LAW and SPS (A2) Writers Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
24-25 March, Wed-Thur 09.00-11.00 (common session) 11.30-16.00 (indiv. feedback) 09.30-12.10 (indiv. feedback) Thursday APW, VF, Sala A	Academic Practice Workshop Micro-Teaching Feedback Common session followed by 20 min. individual feedback sessions. Time table Angela O'Neill, College d'Europe / Fiesole Group
24 March, Wednesday 12.00-13.00 APG, VF, SR	Academic Practice Group - HEC Written Assessments Steve Smith, EUI
24 March, Wednesday 17.15-18.30 VF, Seminar Room	ECO 'Macro Reading Group' Contact: Alessandro Mennuni, MW Fellow
26 March, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
30 March, Tuesday 9.15-10.45 ACS, VF, Sala A	ECO Writers Group EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
30 March, Tuesday 11.00-12.30 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
31 March, Wednesday 11.00-12.00 Discipline bound 12.00-13.00 Common session APW, VF, CR	Academic Practice Workshop Written assessments
31 March, Wednesday 12.00	DEADLINE, MWP Working Papers
31 March, Wednesday	DEADLINE Abstracts for MWP Fellows Conference
31 March, Wednesday 13.00	Collective Lunch & Easter Egg Hunt

April 2010

1-6 April	Easter Holiday EUI Closed. The Institute reopens Wednesday 7th April
5-9 April Mon-Fri	MWP Third-Term Activity free Week
13 April, Tuesday 9.30-11.00 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
13 April, Tuesday 11.15-12.45 ACS, VF, Sala A	SPS (A1) Writers Group EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
14 April, Wednesday 11.30-13.00 MRW, VF, CR	Multidisciplinary Research Workshop "Polanyi in Brussels" - the European Court of Justice's rulings on free movement of abor and its implications for social regulation Abstract & Paper Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University Chair: Armen Hakhverdian, MW Fellow Discussants: Nai Rui Chng and Elaine Fahey, MW Fellows
15 April, Thursday 09.00-18.00 MRW, VF, CR	Conference on the Financial Crisis The 2007-10 Financial and Economic Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses Organized by Nadia Steiber and Sara Konoe, MW Fellows, and others.
16 April, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
20 April, Tuesday 9.30-11.00 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
20 April, Tuesday 11.15-12.45 ACS, VF, Sala A	LAW Writers Group EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
21 April, Wednesday 10.00-12.00 APW, VF, CR	Academic Practice Workshop Academic Ethics Giovanni Sartor, LAW Department, EUI Martin Van Gelderen, HEC, EUI Ramon Marimon, MWP and ECO, EUI Organized by Jernej Letnar Cernic and Guido Ruta, MW Fellows
21 April, Wednesday 14.00-15.30 VF, Sala A	Reading Group on Inequality "Social stratification and progress" Organized by Christian Schemmel and Holger Döring , MWP Fellows
21 April, Wednesday 14.00 APG, VF	Academic Practice Groups
21 April, Wednesday 17.00 MWL, VF, CR	Max Weber Lecture Justice, Truth, Peace Jon Elster, Columbia University Introduction: Adrienne Héritier, EUI Chair: Alexia Katsanidou, MW Fellow
23 April, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
27 April, Tuesday 9.15-10.45 ACS, VF, Sala A & B	Writers Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
27 April, Tuesday 11.00-12.30 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
28 April, Wednesday 11.00-16.00 MRW, VF, CR	Multidisciplinary Research Workshop "Change and Continuity in the Practice of War: an Institutional Perspective" Organized by Colin Fleming and Valentina Calderai, MW Fellows and others.
28 April, Wednesday 17.15-18.30 VF, Seminar Room	ECO 'Macro Reading Group' Contact: Alessandro Mennuni, MW Fellow
30 April, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes

May 2010

3 May, Monday 14.30-16.30 ACS, VF, Sala A	SPS (A1) Writers Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
4 May, Tuesday 09.30-11.00 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
5 May, Wednesday 12.00	DEADLINE, Course Curriculum Development
5-6 May , Wed-Thurs Conference, VF, CR	Conference on Inequality "Contemporary Approaches to Inequality in the Social Sciences" Organized by Christian Schemmel and Holger Döring, MWP Fellows, and others
7 May, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
11 May, Tuesday 9.30-11.00 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
11 May, Tuesday 11.15-12.45 ACS, VF, Sala A & B	Writers Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
12 May, Wednesday 11.00-13.00 MRW, VF, CR	Multidisciplinary Research Workshop "Democracy and Development: New Insights from Graphic Analysis" Chair: Nai Rui Chng, MW Fellow Discussant: Donatella Della Porta, EUI Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason University
12 May, Wednesday 17.15-18.30 VF, Seminar Room	ECO 'Macro Reading Group' Contact: Alessandro Mennuni , MW Fellow
14 May, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
18 May, Tuesday 9.30-11.00 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
18 May, Tuesday 11.15-12.45 ACS, VF, Sala A & B	Writers Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
19 May, Wednesday 17.00 MWL, VF, CR	Max Weber Lecture Dignity, Rights, and Responsibilities Jeremy Waldron, New York University Introduction: Giovanni Sartor, EUI Chair: Irit Samet, MW Fellow
20 May, Thursday	Deadline June Conference Papers - to be circulated to discussants
21 May, Friday 9.00-17.30 Conference, VF, CR	Conference on Neil MacCormick Legal reasoning and European Laws: the perspective of Neil MacCormick Jointly organized by Max Weber Programme, LAW Department, Global Governance Programme (RSCAS), The Legal and Political Theory working Group, EUI
25 May, Tuesday 9.30-11.00 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
25 May, Tuesday 11.15-12.45 ACS, VF, Sala A	Writers Group EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
26 May, Wednesday 10.00-13.00 / 15.00-17.00 APW, VF, Sala A & B	Curriculum and Course Assessment with EUI Faculty SPS Fellows 10.00-13.00 (Sala A), Pepper Culpepper, SPS Department, EUI LAW Fellows 11.00-13.00 (Sala B) Giovanni Sartor, LAW Department, EUI ECO Fellows 15.00-17.00 (Sala B) Salvador Ortigueira and Fernando Vega-Redondo, ECO Department, EUI
28 May, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
28 May - 4 June Fri-Fri	Humboldt Teaching Exchange
31 May, Monday 14.00-16.00 APW, VF, Sala A	Curriculum and Course Assessment with EUI Faculty HEC Fellows, 14.00-16.00 (Sala A) Philipp Ther, HEC Department

June 2010

1 June, Tuesday 9.30-11.00 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
1 June, Tuesday 11.00-12.30 ACS, VF, Sala A & B	Writers Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
2 June, Wednesday	Festa della Repubblica Italiana EUI closed.
4 June, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
7 June, Monday 09.00-18.00 Conference, VF, CR	3rd JMU/MWP Graduate Symposium "The Future of Europeanization: European Policies in the Making" Co-organized by MWP and JMU
8 June, Tuesday 9.30-11.00 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
8 June, Tuesday 11.15-12.45 ACS, VF, Sala A & B	Writers Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
9 June, Wednesday 10.30-16.30 Conference, VF, CR	4th Classics Revisited Max Weber Conference "Competition and Knowledge: Hayek's Perspective" Organized by Naomi Beck, MW Fellow and others
15-16 June, Tues-Wed 09.00-18.00 Tuesday 09.00-15.00 Wednesday Conference, VF, CR	Max Weber Fellows June Conference Organizing committee: Karin Tilmans, MWP Coordinator, Luminita Gatejel, Jernej Letnar Cernic, Alexia Katsanidou, Gonul Sengul MW Fellows
16 June, Wednesday 17.00 MWL, VF, CR	Max Weber Lecture "The Lure of Authority" Ernst Fehr, University of Zurich Introduction: Luigi Guiso, EUI Chair: Raphael Levy, MW Fellow
17 June, Thursday 12.30-13.30 Lunch Time Debate, VF, CR	Lunch Time Debate "The role of citation databases: the RePEc experience in economics" Christian Zimmermann, University of Connecticut
18 June, Friday 10.00-13.00 Tutorials, VF	Individual Tutorials Tutorials with David Barnes
22 June, Tuesday 9.30-11.00 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
22 June, Tuesday 11.00-12.30 APG, VF, Sala A	Group Evaluation with MWP Steering Committee Member HEC Fellows Steve Smith, HEC EUI
22 June, Tuesday 11.15-12.45 ACS, VF, Sala B & SR	Writers' Groups EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
22 June, Tuesday 14.00-16.00 APW, VF, Sala A	Building a Personal Website Jens Hoffmeister, Web collaborator
23 June Wednesday 12.00	DEADLINE of individual page for Annual MWP Report
23 June, Wednesday 10.30-13.00 10.30-12.00 Group Sessions 12.00-13.00 Collective Session VF, CR, Sala A & B, SR	APG Presentations, Evaluation, Self-Assessment Group Evaluations with MWP Steering Committee Members followed by Collective MWP Evaluation ECO Fellows (Sala A) Piero Gottardi, ECO, EUI LAW Fellows (Sala B) Giovanni Sartor, LAW, EUI SPS Fellows (SR) Alexander Trechsel, SPS, EUI
30 June, Wednesday 9.30-11.00 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group

July 2010

7 July, Wednesday 9.30-11.00 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
14 July, Wednesday 9.30-11.00 ACS, VF, SR	Individual Tutorials EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group
14 July, Wednesday 13.00	Last Collective Lunch of the Year

7 July, Wednesday
9.30-11.00

ACS, VF, SR

Individual Tutorials

EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group

14 July, Wednesday

9.30-11.00

ACS, VF, SR

Individual Tutorials

EUI Language Centre / Fiesole Group

14 July, Wednesday

13.00

Last Collective Lunch of the Year

Workshops & Lectures:

ACW: Academic Writing

APW: Academic Practice Workshop

APG: Academic Practice Groups

MRW: Multidisciplinary Research Workshop

MWL: Max Weber Lecture

Place & Rooms:

CR: Conference Room

SA: Sala A

SB: Sala B

SR: Seminar Room

VF: Villa La Fonte

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